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  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    The Life of a Song
    Live and Let Die — Paul McCartney’s song helped take Bond into a new era

    His track for the 1973 film was unusually structured, including a section written by Linda McCartney, and gave rise to a memorable cover version

    A woman and two men wearing headphones stand in a recording studio singing into microphones
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    HTSI
    The sweet cacophony of the bar

    It’s about shake, rattle and soul...

    Boadas Cocktails in Barcelona
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: the art of sound

    This spring special brings you Burna Boy, Lankum, La Marche Bleue, Samara Joy and Michael Stipe. For starters...

    Members of Léo Walk’s dance company, La Marche Bleue, in Paris
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    HTSI
    The Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more

    An HTSI series celebrating creatives who strike a chord

    Burna Boy photographed in the house of artist Kehinde Wiley
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Isabel Berwick
    When classical music is a ‘foreign language’

    It can be scary to move out of your cultural comfort zone

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    HTSI
    How to look like a maestro

    24 buys that channel virtuoso style

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
    The thrilling intensity of Lankum

    The Dublin band talk uilleann pipes, punk and politics 

    From left: Cormac Mac Diarmada, Radie Peat, Daragh Lynch and Ian Lynch in their rehearsal space in Dublin
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    How To Spend It In...
    Martha Wainwright’s Montreal

    The singer-songwriter explores the mountains and music of her hometown

    Martha Wainwright outside her music venue and café, Ursa
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
    Peter Blake: ‘I have mixed feelings about Sgt Pepper’

    The legendary pop artist opens his black book of style

    Peter Blake photographed at home in Chiswick, with a drawing by Ben Nicholson to his left and two by David Hockney above him
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Interview
    Composer Héloïse Werner: ‘I like when the audience isn’t sure who is performing’

    Her work blurs the boundaries between voice and instrument with both intent and playfulness

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    HTSI
    Why the song and dance over musical memorabilia?

    There’s an ever rousing market for programmes, T-shirts and props

    Rocky Horror Picture Show fans attend a screening in 1983
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
    Samara Joy is bringing jazz to Gen Z

    The 24-year-old Grammy winner has reinvented a genre for a new generation

    Samara Joy wears Chloé wool/silk knit dress with cutouts, £2,131. Kloto gold and silver Ray earrings, £1,964. On left hand, from top, Kloto gold and diamond Eve ring, £2,051, gold and silver Geo ring, £1,704. On right hand, from top, Kloto gold and diamond Cosmic ring, £2,524, and gold and diamond Mia ring, £7,258
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    James Max
    Rich People’s Problems: Should I throw away my old hifi?

    I could spend tens of thousands on new set-ups, but I’ve got a better solution

  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Can: Live in Paris 1973 — vivid tribute to one of rock’s best improvisational groups

    Bootleg recordings find the German band stretching out across mesmerising long jams

    The five members of Can pictured wearing leather jackets and standing next to a boat
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Erika de Casier: Still — softly sung R&B that holds centre stage

    The Danish singer-songwriter’s murmurous tone in her third record demands close listening

    A woman with curly hair in a turtle neck jumper
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Neave Trio: A Room of Her Own — piano trio works brought vividly to life

    Pieces written around the turn of the last century by four women composers range from the dark to the ebullient

    A man in a suit pictured between a blond and a brunette woman from the shoulders up with trees in the background
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Aziza Brahim: Mawja — yearning and poetic

    The singer-songwriter blends references to her Western Saharan homeland with Cuban, rock and reggae influences

    A woman wearing a black headscarf and dress and silver and beaded jewelry smiles as she holds up the bottom of her scarf up with her thumbs
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    The Life of a SongFrom Dolly Parton to Motörhead: the very best of The Life of a Song
    From Judy Garland to Adele, the stories behind 20 songs from musicals and films
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    The Life of a SongFrom Dolly Parton to Motörhead: the very best of The Life of a Song
    The history of rock’n’roll, as told in the songs of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and others
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Architecture
    Bristol Beacon: a stonkingly expensive restoration saga

    The £132mn music venue is a story of architectural choices ranging from wonderful to woeful

    An orchestra of young white-clad musicians performs on stage in a packed concert hall
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
    Burna Boy is an ‘African Giant’. He wants to be even bigger

    The Afrobeats sensation has transformed the musical landscape. What’s next?

    Burna Boy wears Versace silk shirt, £1,020, and Ami Paris wool trousers, £575. Artwork by Collins Obijiaku
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Interview
    Pulitzer-winning composer Raven Chacon on ‘noise’ music and Indigenous histories

    The Navajo artist and musician writes scores to be played on foghorns and guns or screamed out of a window

    A middle-aged Diné man with long dark greying hair
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Review
    Pianist Gwilym Simcock brings an unusual, uplifting trio to Kings Place — review

    Built on fusion jazz foundations and featuring piano, accordion and harmonica, the performance delivered melancholy and joy

    A man plays grand piano on stage; alongside him a man plays an accordion and a woman plays a harmonica into a microphone. All are seated
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Review
    New works for piano and orchestra pull in the crowds at London’s Southbank Centre — review

    Pieces by Francisco Coll and Bryce Dessner were the focus of programmes from the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras

    A woman conducts an orchestra; behind her sit members of the audience
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Review
    Róisín Murphy brings meticulously conceived extravaganza to Alexandra Palace — review

    The singer plundered the dressing-up box and threw herself around with abandon at this London show

    A female singer wearing a top hat sings into a hand-held microphone while pointing with her other hand
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