The Surge review – a wild and haunting wake for Sinéad O’Connor
The late singer gets a thrilling tribute from a cast of 10 dancers in Sonya Tayeh’s heartfelt show
Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil review – ceremonial drumming remixed for the dancefloor
A treasure trove of field recordings are reshaped into pulsating floor-fillers and sparse baile funk by a range of producers
Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory
Coinciding with a fallow year for the festival, these scenes filmed in 1993 record a youth culture innocent of camera phones and low on corporate hype
Downtown Boys: Public Luxury review – a joyful blast of bilingual political punk
The Rhode Island five-piece return with a ferocious rallying call to fight for your beliefs, with bouncing basslines, muted house chords and stomping drums
‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield
Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising the roundabout and why she hates cover versions of her songs
Jonathan Kuo: Java Dreams album review – young pianist brings unflashy exuberance to complex works
The Indonesian musician impresses in his debut solo recording of Godowsky’s Java Suite and Stravinsky’s piano arrangement of Petrushka
‘Elon Musk is dangerous and crazy. And I kind of used to like him’: Interpol on their political awakening – and making their masterpiece
They were a big 00s buzz band – but looked in danger of fading out. Empowered by fatherhood and anger at war and AI, the New Yorkers explain why they ‘really showed up’ again
Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Boys review – ghosts, guns and guileless youth on generational songwriter’s return
The US singer took years away from public life after her silvery balladry reshaped pop. Her return is an ornate reinvention
Brahms’ Last Concert review – OAE and Emelyanychev take audience back to 1897
This recreation of the final concert that the composer attended – only weeks before his death aged 63 – featured his fourth symphony, Dvorak’s Cello Concerto and Haydn’s symphony no 73.
Anna Netrebko review – high camp and bel canto brilliance as star soprano shows she’s still the real deal
In this London recital the Russian singer moved from Rachmaninov to Mozart and Strauss to Charpentier, showcasing in all her voice’s full range of plush, dark beauty and endless legato
David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies aged 84
The Canadian musician, who achieved major hits such as Spinning Wheel and You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, died peacefully at a Toronto hospital
‘Our characters like to be naughty’: the makers of the Nirvanna mockumentary on illegal skydiving, taboo-breaking and time travel
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol’s (non-Cobain affiliated) movie feels like Jackass via Back to the Future. They talk about how the supreme silliness was stressful to film, and how times have changed since their ‘tasteless’ 2007 web series
‘Delivery jobs are not for the weak!’ How British singer Kwn went from Amazon driver to global R&B star
After being dropped by her label, the vocalist became a courier to make ends meet. Now she’s back – with millions of fans of her pheromone-rich songwriting
Muse: The Wow! Signal review – stupendous space-rock silliness … yet somehow surprisingly subtle?
From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial life
Whitney Houston estate denies Oprah’s ‘inaccurate and unfair’ claim singer fell off stage due to drug use
Late singer ‘absolutely not high’ when she fell on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009, says estate after Winfrey claimed she had relapsed