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
‘I felt my humanity was bastardised’: Cynthia Erivo says reaction to Ariana Grande red carpet incident rooted in racism
Wicked co-star said reactions to the incident, which included suggestions she was Grande’s ‘bodyguard’, reflect an insidious view of Black women
Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter review – Danish punks ace sixth stellar album on the trot
The quintet add shoegaze, country and 50s rock’n’roll to their core indie-punk sound, resulting in songs that offset lyrical bleakness with gleeful, uplifting music
Escaping Babylon by Jesse Bernard review – an intimate history of Black British music
A personal exploration of the sounds that defined a community, from Soul II Soul to Dizzee Rascal
‘We’re waiting for the plan to find us’: Mouse on Mars on working with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and 30 years of oblique adventures in sound
The German duo are returning with the results of their whirlwind session with the late dub legend, best heard in a ‘spatial audio’ installation. They explain why such an unexpected move is par for their artistic course
AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red
I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existence
Raves, Brecht and re-enacting Diana’s funeral: the White Hotel bows out as the north’s bravest music venue
After 10 years of avant-garde mayhem, the rough-diamond Salford venue is set to close. Its founders look back on their artistic free-for-all and explain how its spirit will continue
La Fanciulla del West review – insightful staging reveals the power of Puccini’s maverick masterpiece
Martin Lloyd-Evans’s credible production roots the action in time and place. Amanda Echalaz is a richly drawn and touching Minnie and conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren adds colour and drama
Risk-taking, rigour and radicalism – Daniel Harding is an exciting prospect for Los Angeles
Also, happy 125th to the Wigmore Hall, and, the vivid soundworld of 16th-century Spain
Power Ballad review – Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd star in terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal
Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstar
‘The UK is a hostile environment to do art’: Tara Clerkin Trio on their bold, bright music – and the fight working class artists face
The British band’s breezy, collagist sound has charmed underground music fans – though it belies the family and financial strife that went into their beautiful second LP
Australian BTS fans blast Ticketmaster’s ‘predatory’ tactic of hiding price until tickets go on sale
Consumer think-tank says K-pop fans should know the prices before being sent into a ‘high-pressure sales funnel’
Magic, mastery and magisterial power: 10 of Sonny Rollins’ greatest recordings
After his death aged 95, we look back at a remarkable catalogue of work that stretches from vivacious mid-50s sets to his evocative performance after 9/11
‘I’ve rebranded as a stoic. It’s my ting now!’ The crime and punishment of Pozer, UK rap’s fastest, fiercest talent
In a chaotic London childhood, Isaiah Sampson got drawn into drug dealing and worse before hauling himself into the charts. He opens up about his psychological scars and trust issues
125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths
The veteran chamber music venue kicked off a celebratory two-week festival with a starry lineup of performers playing works that had featured on the first ever programme