The most intriguing date in the Southbank Centre's month-long Ether festival promises to be Oliver Coates's Harmonic Series, featuring James Blake... more
Everything in the life of transsexual singer Baby Dee has been extraordinary — so a candlelit gig with the Elysian Quartet in a Spitalfields Church is par for the course... more
Baby Dee is a fiftysomething transsexual with a penchant for bucolic torch songs Angus & Julia Stone are very possibly the world’s favourite Australian indie-folk brother/sister duo.... more
Shows in concrete bunkers, unicorn shoes and Casiraghis dancing by candlelight; the world of haute couture is changing. Today the clients are younger and the designs sexier, but fantasy and decadence still reign... more
Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets and Adele were today all nominated for this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize. Also up for the gong are Elbow, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Neon Neon.... more
Transsexual former tree surgeon Baby Dee's bizarre vocal performance was too strident. Maybe the extravagant singer should have stuck to her day job as harp player in Antony and the Johnsons.... more
Elbow take things too seriously on their new album, Hercules and Love Affair offer some of the sounds of the year and frisky pop from Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.... more
David Smyth discusses the new series of Later ... with Jools Holland, a family reunion, rock star Iggy Pop's possible appearance at the Chelsea Flower Show and the latest on the internet. ... more
David Smyth ponders the Arctic Monkeys' unlikely move into the world of fashion, extortionate ticket prices for gigs and Bjork's latest out-of-this-world album in his weekly column.... more
David Smyth discusses the threat to the Astoria, albums with excessively long track lists and buying songs direct from radio stations in his regular column.... more
Antony Hegarty unites his rich tones with live filmmaking by video artist Charles Atlas, The Feeling play the Hammersmith Apollo and Badly Drawn Boy heads for the Bloomsbury Ballroom.... more
Despite the intense emotions in her music, New Yorker Joan Wasser was actually a lot of fun at her South Bank gig and she certainly needed her good humour to cope with this new venue... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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