Lil’ Kim review – formidable rap legend delivers mostly vibes, but the crowd is here for it
Fifteen years since her last Australian show, the seminal hip hop artist was met by a mood of giddy nostalgia that forgave her short set of truncated hits
Geoffrey Keating obituary
Other lives: Schools music director who had a chart hit with teaching colleagues in the mid-1960s
Spin city: Melbourne loves records – but is it really the vinyl capital of the world?
From a vinyl-focused music exhibition to beloved record stores, ‘listening bars’ and clubs, the Victorian capital’s fondness for wax reverberates in every corner of the city
If CMAT is an affront to the male gaze and Olivia Rodrigo is indulging it, how exactly should women dress?
The loud online hate aimed at two pop stars with polar-opposite styles suggests a shrinking realm of acceptability in which women can exist. That is, you suspect, the point
Hampson and Sidorova review – style over substance with a whiff of the cruise ship
The US singer Thomas Hampson paired with accordionist Ksenija Sidorova to perform highlights from Schubert’s Winterreise alongside Weill and Piazzolla. Alas much of this disappointing evening felt like a vanity project
Musical acts back out of performing at Trump-affiliated concert series
Morris Day, Young MC and others balk at appearing at US’s 250th anniversary events organized by administration
Add to playlist: the whimsy and warped electronics of duo Ear and the week’s best new tracks
There’s nostalgia to the New York/London duo’s lo-fi laptop sound, but their second album pushes them into vivid, weirder new territory
Matías Aguayo: Anenoa review – the funkiest, freest singer in the business hits the dancefloor
The Chilean-German producer’s shapeshifting vocals stir Latin rhythms, ghetto house, trance and more into a playful party
Violet Grohl: Be Sweet to Me review – alt-rock arriviste aces the part
The daughter of Foo Fighters’ Dave does a serviceable line in 90s throwback sounds, though the nostalgia is too reverent
Dvořák: Symphony No 9 album review – Shani brings a natural freshness to a familiar work
The conductor, soon to finish an eight-year tenure at the helm of the Dutch orchestra, leaves the orchestra in good shape
CMAT shares ‘deep sadness’ over body-shaming after BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend performance
The Irish singer-songwriter says her rise has been increasingly ‘tarnished by the fact that I would be allowed to enjoy it so much more if I was thin’
‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new album
At 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s given him ‘every hope that we’ll get through’
Olivia Rodrigo responds to babydoll dress criticism: ‘It shows how we normalize pedophilia in our culture’
The pop singer said that suggestions that a recent outfit was ‘childlike’ were rooted in sexist attitudes toward women
La Traviata review – gripping and genuinely moving staging opens Garsington’s summer season
Louisa Muller’s richly detailed production of Verdi’s tragedy is elevated by Madison Leonard’s magnetic Violetta and Douglas Boyd’s musical direction that reinvigorates the familiar score
Colin Matthews: Seascapes album review – the songs teem with detail
Soprano Claire Booth and baritone Marcus Farnsworth celebrate the influential British composer’s kaleidoscopic soundworld with this collection of four song cycles