Music

Honey is an antidote to the norms of pop music today; a salve for the increasingly quick-hitting hooks of the streaming era

The Throbbing Gristle member and multimedia artist discusses a beloved instrument which has become a lifelong companion

Children from lower income families half as likely to learn a musical instrument as their richer counterparts

Many of the streaming giant's curated playlists complicate Western obsessions with ‘world’ and ‘exotic’ music

Frieze Music artist Anaïs on her performance philosophy

The Long Island house’s basement studio will be transformed into an ‘interactive and creative space’

Jenn Nkiru will direct the fourth film, on Detroit and Berlin techno culture, to premiere at Frieze Los Angeles

If Macron and his administration do not control the public narrative of Muslims in France, someone else will

To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant's collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell pays homage to the pop group 

The artist reflects on the sounds that have shaped their thinking

To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant’s collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell reflects on one of the great synth-pop groups 

For the sixth and final film in the Design Matters series with Bang & Olufsen, Berlin-based musician Laurel Halo talks about drawing inspiration from different musical lineages, reacting to the materiality of Berlin and using texture as a challenge

Xenophobia has escalated to ‘emergency’ levels but the most watched music video on Italian YouTube is by a Tunisian-Italian artist

Found first in the pages of NME, an homage to the critic who brought an antic traduction of high French theory to the study of contemporary pop

The beloved angst-ridden musician makes a lively turn with her new album, Be the Cowboy

In the unashamedly populist ‘Rip It Up’ at the National Museum of Scotland, the joy of fandom resounds but questions about the future are avoided

Knussen’s music laid out each component as ‘precarious, vulnerable, exposed’ – and his conducting similarly worked from the inside out

Previously unheard music on Both Directions At Once includes blues as imposing as the saxophonist would ever record

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO bring Stockhausen’s Gruppen für drei Orchester to the Tate’s cavernous space, 50 years after its London debut

An art historian explains what the Carters’s takeover of the Paris museum says about art, race and power