Music

Will Self on the new, colour-conscious Madama Butterfly

The electronic music pioneer on Brexit, rave, streaming and re-imagining the band's hits three decades on

A new recording of a Bob Dylan classic takes our columnist back to a bathetic night in Wisconsin

Hip hop and rap are holding a mirror up to a changing Latvia, its problems and its obsessions

The return of the band who made a continent cool

You can’t win the fight against ageing. But, it’s part of the human condition to try

Salem is the King of Manele – the Middle Eastern-flavoured Romanian pop music descended from Roma folk music. But, some of his material divides audiences

If Angela Rayner’s trip to the lawns of Glyndebourne put a different social spin to opera, music bosses will surely be buying her champagne

Heilung's ancient-sounding music has slotted neatly into pop culture’s current enthusiasm for a bloody and merciless northern European past

Musical instruments are becoming investment vehicles and collectables for hedge funds, keeping them beyond the reach of those who want to play them

A record label representing talented musicians with experience of going through the criminal justice system is helping them to make a career out of music

A new edition of the closest we got to a David Bowie autobiography lifts a little of the on-stage mask

Miss Ross is still the boss, and always will be

Quartiers nord is Marseille rapper Alonzo's most affectionate tribute to his hometown yet

Fifty years ago, with a couple of vans, children and dogs in tow, Paul McCartney set off to Europe with a new band to realise a dream

Jeton Neziraj’s new play explores the lesser-known side of Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke

A new boxed set provides a rare insight into the life and mind of one of the most popular cultural icons of the 20th century during what were to be his final days

Despite the preconception that maths and science are cold and logical while music is all emotion, there’s clearly much interplay between music and the STEM curriculum

The frontman of the Armenian-American metal band had a sour reaction to the Eurovision results, calling for Armenia to leave the song contest behind in the future

The metal band's frontman talks chartism, race and the curse of Goldie Lookin Chain

The frontman of one of Norway's most notorious death metal bands has now turned his hand to Riesling

She may have been at least as gifted, if not more so than her illustrious brother but Fanny was a woman, making any kind of career in music off limits

Dutch-Turkish rapper Murda is not the first artist from Turkey’s contemporary rap scene to face the censure of the authorities

A supposedly tongue-in-cheek advert for a luxury SUV caused a backlash among classical music lovers

Last year, Sir Elton John warned of a “looming catastrophe” for touring British musicians after we left the EU. His prediction came true for one London band

This year's Tallinn Music Week has been a showcase for some of the besieged country's most defiant music acts

If the kings of the Neue Deutsche Härte are calling it a day Germany will lose one of its most paradoxically valuable assets

Two young musicians are demonstrating that classical music is perfectly able to have contemporary appeal among the young

New album Hair of the Dog captures something of our primitive selves who looked for expression of our hopes, desires and search for new beginnings through the sound of a beat

Deprived of the opportunity of having collaborators in the studio, the Danish experimental electronic chamber pop band have self-produced their new album

A new museum dedicated to the Swedish dance star has more in common with its earnest predecessors than at first seems the case