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Joan as Police Woman: Singing saved my life

21.01.11
Joan as Police Woman, aka Joan Wasser, has emerged from the shadows of tragedy with an upbeat new album that's her best yet ... more

Sound Check: Welcome to the weird world of Baby Dee

06.08.10
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

Wild Beasts come up trumps

05.03.10
Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe will never be everyone’s idea of a great singer, but right now more and more people are crooning along.... more

Best of British for Mercury Prize

10.07.09
As it's nearly time for the annual UK album contest that is the Mercury Prize, David Smyth names his 12 favourites of the year.... more

Yoko Ono steps out of John Lennon's shadow

15.06.09
Yoko Ono's music mesmerised a crowd including Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes and ex-Smith Johnny Marr. ... more

Sound check: Sounding a free horn

05.06.09
Jazz legend Ornette Coleman has assembled a line-up of eclectic excellence for next week's Meltdown.... more

Little mags, big ideas

11.05.09
A niche journal by Francis Ford Coppola is spearheading a new genre of intelligent reading, says Jenny Wilhide... more

Grieving and seduction from Antony & Florence

25.03.09
Florence & The Machine were a head-turning delight and Antony Hegarty seemed at one with his surroundings at the Teenage Cancer gig at the Royal Albert Hall.... more

CDs of the week

16.01.09
Secret Machines carry on rocking with their third album, Joshua Redman reaches his prime and Jordi Savall's musical vision is powerful.... more

Best CDs of 2008

19.12.08
From funk to fado, our critics round up the albums of the year.... more

Antony out of the shadows for breathtaking sound

31.10.08
Antony & The Johnsons' pure, quivering, utterly unique sound made the elaborate musical backdrop of the LSO seem almost drab in comparison.... more

Who will win the Mercury?

22.07.08
The shortlist for this year's Mercury Music Prize for the best British album will be revealed later today. But who will make the cut?.... more

Barbican looks east to boost Olympics arts programme

25.06.08
The Barbican is looking east to forge new links with the thriving cultural scene on its doorstep... more

Unique style for Hercules And Love Affair

04.06.08
New York dance collective Hercules And Love Affair lost the rulebook and concentrated on having fun at Soho Revue Bar.... more

Uplifting Björk is surely out of this world

15.04.08
Björk has never seemed quite human but at her Hammersmith Apollo gig it appeared the Icelandic musician really could do magic.... more

CDs of the week

07.03.08
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

CDs of the week

01.06.07
Ex-Sugababe Mutya Buena, the third album from Dizzee Rascal and the return of Marc Almond are among the week's musical highlights.... more

Off the record: David Smyth

23.03.07
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

Critic's choice: Best weekend gigs

03.11.06
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


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