Author: Sophia

A regular reader picks from your best live version suggestions – Songhoy Blues, Grateful Dead and Neil Young among the performers selected Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked
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This article is more than 6 years old With Karen’s silky-smooth, heartfelt vocals and Richard’s genius as a songwriter and arranger, the brother-and-sister duo pioneered melodic, melancholic pop The Carpenter
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This article is more than 6 years old Featuring everything from politics to physics, the 90s hip-hop act sold millions with The Score and brought Lauryn Hill to much deserved
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From reformation to revolution, oratorios to orientalism and the electrifying and the epic, here’s the concerts not to miss in this year’s BBC Proms season, which begins on 14 July
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Big headline acts drew the Scottish festival crowds to Glasgow, where they found a city-break vibe replacing their usual country camping getaway. And the delighted promoter’s verdict was to stage
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Sofia Coppola’s La Traviata was slated on its Rome premiere. But will a cinema audience have an entirely different perspective? Stuart Jeffries wonders whether an outsider’s eye is an advantage
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This article is more than 6 years old Can a concert that throws out all the things about the classical experience that puts many people off succeed in attracting a
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This article is more than 6 years old Catriona Morison is the first British winner of the prestigious competition in a year in which homegrown talent shone brightly There were
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Taking pictures at gigs is harder than it looks. Jono White, who’s shot the likes of Wolf Alice from the middle of a moshpit, has some simple tips for success
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The no-frills cable show captured 80s and 90s bands at their most bonkers – from Napalm Death’s growling mayhem to New Order calling U2’s singer ‘that bongo guy’. Co-founder Pete
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