William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69
Musician’s projects included Madonna’s Ray of Light, Blur’s 13 and All Saints’ chart-topping singles Pure Shores and Black Coffee
Grieg Lyric Pieces album review – Feltsman brings a probing flexibility that transforms this music
Feltsman’s comprehensive survey of the Lyric Pieces is revelatory and authoritative
Add to playlist: the anxiety-ridden sugar rush of Tiffany Day and the week’s best new tracks
Day’s latest album Halo is all high-energy exhaustion, injected with a crushing electroclash chaos that illuminates her insecurities in bright neon
Strange Loops: Clarinet Quintets album review – drama, imagination and sonic flair
Clarinettist Mark Von de Wiel performs music by Anna Clyne, Ruth Gipps and Weber
Flo: Therapy at the Club review – skirting the dancefloor and overly sweating the small stuff
The British R&B girl group’s follow up to 2024’s Access All Areas is lyrically spicy and musically diverse but somewhat slow paced and lacking the euphoria and hedonism the title suggests
Arun Sood and Angeline Morrison: Donn/Dubh review – British folk giants startlingly transform sacred histories
(Real World)Leaning on their Hebridean heritage, the duo meld 10th-century Celtic cantos with distortion, dream-pop and post-rock, with shades of Twin Peaks and Boards of Canada
‘There is an alternative to capitalism’: after addiction and losing a home to LA wildfires, indie rockers Diiv start again
No stranger to rebuilding after disaster, the US band’s frontman Zachary Cole Smith now sees the entire capitalist project as ripe for reinvention, on a surprisingly upbeat new AG Cook-produced album
‘We crafted it from our hearts’: the Womack Sisters on continuing a great soul music dynasty
Their parents were Womack & Womack, Uncle Bobby was a superstar and so was their grandfather, Sam Cooke. The trio explain how, after driving Ubers and being told soul was dead, they joined the family business
Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh: ‘I was compelled to make music after cracking my skull open’
The alt-rock veteran answers your questions on Buddhist time travel techniques, duetting with Michael Stipe, and her autobiographical new album
Arlene Smith obituary
Singer with one of the first ‘girl groups’, the Chantels, whose 1950s hit Maybe sold more than a million copies
Feisty, funny and for real – how new opera the Galloping Cure puts drama at its heart
Missy Mazzoli’s bold new work is about the opioid crisis. The director of its world premiere staging tells of bringing it to life, from tragic arias to blood rehearsals – and a flock of singing sheep
Ravyn Lenae: Blue Island review – from Suicide to Squarepusher, grunge to Janet, a pop one-off plots her unique path
Evoking everyone from Janet Jackson to Squarepusher, the US singer follows up her huge hit Love Me Not with stylistic diversity – and lyrics that defy her doubters
Blue Note to bring world-famous jazz club to London
Grammy-winning pianist Robert Glasper will headline opening of club’s first UK venue in Covent Garden next month
Demise of the monoculture: why so many have never heard UK’s record-breaking No 1 single
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In is longest-running No 1 single in UK chart history, and yet it seems to have passed many people by
‘If you yell at everything, no one’s gonna listen’: Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich on the Australian musicians rewriting the rules
In a new book ‘for every artist who felt pushed away, or talked over’, the Camp Cope bassist has interviewed the likes of Amy Taylor, Marcia Hines and Courtney Barnett about motherhood, abuse and respect