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  • Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
    Bill Frisell — the standout gig of this year’s London Jazz Festival

    The guitarist will bring his mastery of melancholy, joy and menace to Cadogan Hall later this month

    Bill Frisell plays an electric guitar while seated on stage at The Downtown Dinner 2022 in New York City.
  • Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
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    Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels — her personal story of her life and loves

    The singer-songwriter wisely builds her memoir around her creative 1970s in New York — but other periods get weighed down in detail

    A black-and-white photograph of a young Patti Smith with shaggy black hair, wearing a black shirt and looking pensive on the balcony of a building overlooking a street in New York.
  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    The Life of a SongFrom Dolly Parton to Motörhead: the very best of The Life of a Song
    Fascinating tales behind country and folk classics by Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and more
  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
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    Davóne Tines and Sonnambula revive Masque of Blackness, a paean to racial purification

    The singer was magnetic in a performance at New York’s Frick Collection of a Jacobean relic with a cringeworthy storyline

  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
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    Is David Solomon’s DJ-ing career getting scratched out?

    Dark night of D-Sol

  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
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    Dead Man Walking — a devastating, five-star production of Jake Heggie’s opera

    English National Opera’s staging of the 2020 work about a nun’s visits to a man on death row delivers a knockout punch

  • Sunday, 2 November, 2025
    The Life of a SongFascinating tales behind country and folk classics by Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and more
    Jack-A-Roe — a story of love and cross-dressing on the high seas

    Traditional ballad first appeared in print around 1818 and went on to be performed by folk legends and The Grateful Dead

  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    Sexual misconduct allegations
    Michael Jackson estate paid $2.5mn in bid to settle sexual abuse claims

    Dispute threatens to cast shadow over $155mn Hollywood biopic of late star set for release next year

    Michael Jackson gestures with his hand while testifying in court, seated behind a microphone.
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    ReviewAlbums
    Chamber Works by Ernest Kanitz — dreamy music from an Austrian émigré

    ARC Ensemble deliver premiere recordings of five works by the composer, who fled Vienna for the US in the 1930s

    Five musicians perform on stage, playing violin, viola, cello, and piano, with music stands in front of them.
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    ReviewAlbums
    Noura Mint Seymali: Yenbett — smouldering Mauritanian griot music

    Traditional textures are given an injection of Tuareg energy and fiery electric guitar

    Noura Mint Seymali and three band members stand together on sand dunes, with Noura holding a traditional string instrument.
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    Spotify and Netflix perfected the business of distraction — and now we’re paying the price

    Music and film open us up to new ways of seeing the world — but the streaming giants offer lonely visions of culture

    Two blurred figures pass by a bus stop where a young woman sits wearing a wireless earbud and looking down at her smartphone.
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    Film
    How film scores became stadium-fillers

    As Hans Zimmer sells out arenas, even cult movie composers are taking their soundtracks centre stage

    Hans Zimmer performs on stage with an orchestra and choir, with a backdrop of animal silhouettes illuminated in red and yellow.
  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    Onset Financial: the rap sheet

    Sound of da pro lease

  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Jon Bon Jovi: ‘Fame is a liar and a thief’

    The rock legend on making peace with the critics, the business of running a band — and his history with Donald Trump

    A watercolour illustration of a grinning Jon Bon Jovi wearing a brown jacket and seated in a restaurant.
  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    Review
    The Railway Children opera review — children’s classic becomes a spy mystery

    Mark-Anthony Turnage’s adaptation, premiered at Glyndebourne, updates the novel to the 1980s cold war

    Henna Mun as Phyllis, Jessica Cale as Bobbie, and Matthew McKinney as Peter stand behind a wooden fence, looking excitedly into the distance.
  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    ReviewAlbums
    Florence + The Machine turn up the intensity on Everybody Scream

    Florence Welch impresses once again with her sweeping vocal range and lyrical vitality

    Florence Welch crouches beside a painted wall, wearing a flowing, vintage-style dress with long, wavy red hair.
  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    Lily Allen’s masterstroke? Making gossip her weapon

    In her comeback album ‘West End Girl’, the singer offers a feast of revenge and scandal

    Lily Allen poses in a cream-coloured, jewelled dress with a large bow at her album launch dinner, resting her hand on a wooden post
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    Review
    Composer Julius Eastman’s questing spirit is showcased at the Barbican

    Bass-baritone Davóne Tines, a champion of Eastman’s work, led an evening of music, dance and multimedia elements

    Davóne Tines sings on stage wearing a sleeveless lace top
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    ReviewAlbums
    Dave’s The Boy Who Played the Harp — a five-star offering from the pinnacle of UK rap

    The Londoner’s 10 tracks combine vivid lyricism, powerful storytelling and involving music

    A man sits beside a harp, pointing at the strings, with a serious expression against a plain background.
  • Monday, 27 October, 2025
    ReviewTheatre
    Wretch 32 brings a rap epic to the National Theatre

    The rapper’s London staging of his album ‘HOME?’ was a first for the Olivier — and a statement of intent for the theatre

  • Sunday, 26 October, 2025
    The Life of a Song
    Proud Mary — Creedence Clearwater Revival’s celebration of a mythic South

    John Fogerty’s 1969 song made the band America’s favourite — then Tina Turner put her stamp on it

    John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival sings and plays electric guitar at centre stage, with Doug Clifford on drums and Stu Cook and Tom Fogerty in the background.
  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    The Weekend Essay
    How fan power is reshaping pop

    Amplified by social media, fanbases now feel closer than ever to their idols — for good and for ill

    A montage of four images shows: a close-up of tasselled Beyoncé-style boots; a hand holding an Oasis album; a Taylor Swift fan’s wrist with multiple beaded bracelets; a keyring with a picture of girl-band Blackpink
  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    ReviewAlbums
    Makaya McCraven: Off the Record — studio-quality live jazz sets

    The drummer/producer edits improvised performances into a taut double album

    Makaya McCraven stands on a sandy beach with grasses, looking at the camera, with the ocean in the background.
  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    ReviewVisual Arts
    The key to Kandinsky? Listen to his paintings

    The Centre Pompidou and the Philharmonie de Paris join forces to pair the pioneer of abstract art with the music that inspired him

  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    ReviewAlbums
    Lang Lang: Piano Book 2 album review — a sequel for the Christmas stocking

    This follow-up to the pianist’s hit 2019 record features a diverse set ranging from Mozart and Chopin to themes from films and video games

    Lang Lang sits at a piano with eyes closed, appearing absorbed in music, his reflection visible on the piano’s surface.
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