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musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2022 (Lists)

A slightly foggy Christmas from Charpentier and Les Arts Florissants (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Two choral masterpieces put the LSO Chorus through their paces at the Barbican (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Magic Flute: Two stars shine in the Royal Opera’s revival of Mozart’s classic tale of Enlightenment conflict (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Little Simz – No Thank You (Album Reviews)

Solomon’s Knot present Kuhnau’s Christmas Cantatas at Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ex Cathedra wish everyone a Merry Christmas in a stylish concert tour (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Keeping Christmas in its heart: Benedict Sheehan’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tosca: Romaniw & de Tommaso set the Covent Garden stage alight with thrilling singing (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

SZA – SOS (Album Reviews)

Inspiring Bach: Spiritato with The Marian Consort – Music both divine and martial (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

‘A Renaissance Christmas’: Stile Antico’s sublime sounds at London’s newest music venue (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Small and agile may be one way forward for opera companies: The Opera Story’s The Yellow Wallpaper (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Sinfonia of London review: John Wilson’s hand-picked orchestra excels in a superb evening of music with a Gallic flavour (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Christmas Albums 2022: Neil Diamond, Louis Armstrong, Debbie Gibson get festive (Music Features, Spotlights)

Manchester Camerata and Jess Gillam bring magic and class to Nevill Holt Opera’s winter festival (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Leftfield – This Is What We Do (Album Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: Low, Neil Young, Arthur Russell, Bryan Ferry (Music Features, Spotlights)

It’s A Wonderful Life review: ENO serves up a festive helping of Americana (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Terence Fixmer – Shifting Signals (Album Reviews)

LPO celebrates its 90th anniversary with Vaughan Williams and Tippett (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Stereolab @ Concorde 2, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (Album Reviews)

s t a r g a z e – One (Album Reviews)

Leif Ove Andsnes presents a model recital at the Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Elias String Quartet brings a feeling of perfection to the Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Das Rheingold begins Regents Opera’s new Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Freemasons’ Hall  (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Bach Choir and the Philharmonia celebrate Vaughan Williams’ 150th with three early works (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Rape of Lucretia review: The Royal Opera’s devastating staging features a faultless cast of young singers (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bis – Systems Music For Home Defence (Album Reviews)

Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Album Reviews)

Caitlin Rose – Cazimi (Album Reviews)

Matthias Goerne is made a new Knight in Paris (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

TV Priest @ Green Door Store, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Richard Dawson – The Ruby Cord (Album Reviews)

Saint Etienne @ Old Market, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Royal Opera’s new staging of Alcina beguiles, delights and is fabulously well sung (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The RCO, under Harding’s expert baton, delivers a Mahler 9 for the ages (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tyondai Braxton – Telekinesis (Album Reviews)

Nas – King’s Disease III (Album Reviews)

Gold Panda – The Work (Album Reviews)

ACE funding: Is ‘levelling up’ in classical music and opera robbing Peter to pay Paul? (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Christine And The Queens – Redcar les adorables etoiles (prologue) (Album Reviews)

Bruce Springsteen – Only The Strong Survive: Covers Vol 1 (Album Reviews)

The Yeomen of the Guard: Tries to lift spirits at threatened Opera House (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Brahms and Beethoven from the Royal Concertgebouw (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mount Kimbie – MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning (Album Reviews)

Big Joanie – Back Home (Album Reviews)

Phoenix – Alpha Zulu (Album Reviews)

First Aid Kit – Palomino (Album Reviews)

Daniel Avery – Ultra Truth (Album Reviews)

Reissues Roundup – The Human League, Ride, The Cure, Leonard Cohen (Music Features, Spotlights)

Verdi: Requiem – Grand enough to fill York Minster (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tristan und Isolde from The London Opera Company at St John’s, Smith Square (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Damned @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Decius – Decius Vol 1 (Album Reviews)

An Anatomy of Melancholy: An hour of mixed media contemplation on melancholy and depression (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La Bohème: The Royal Opera’s multicast revival warms the cockles of your heart (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Dorian Concept – What We Do For Others (Album Reviews)

Grandbrothers @ Islington Assembly Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Fred again.. – Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) (Album Reviews)

Caterina Barbieri @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Les Arts Florissants delight a Wigmore Hall audience with the music of the court of Louis XIII (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Blue – Heart & Soul (Album Reviews)

Gilla Band + Mandy, Indiana @ Chalk, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam present a morning of Russian music at the Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

James Gilchrist & Joseph Middleton rediscover lieder at Leeds Conservatoire (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Franz Ferdinand @ Alexandra Palace, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxymore (Album Reviews)

Simple Minds – Direction Of The Heart (Album Reviews)

“I send my soul through time and space”: Wigmore Hall’s final concert of Ludlow English Song Day (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Black Marble @ Patterns, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Nevill Holt Opera’s 2022 winter festival promises candlelit magic (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Taylor Swift – Midnights (Album Reviews)

a-ha – True North (Album Reviews)

Loyle Carner – Hugo (Album Reviews)

Arctic Monkeys – The Car (Album Reviews)

Carly Rae Jepsen – The Loneliest Time (Album Reviews)

Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (Album Reviews)

The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Album Reviews)

Lightning Seeds – See You In The Stars (Album Reviews)

Tove Lo – Dirt Femme (Album Reviews)

Orpheus: Opera North crosses the cultural River Styx (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Serenade to Music: Nash Ensemble wish Ralph Vaughan Williams a happy birthday at Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tosca: ENO’s firing on all cylinders with its new production (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Monteverdi’s Orfeo in contrasting productions from Garsington and Opera North (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Iestyn Davies interview – On An Anatomy of Melancholy, exploring Dowland, depression and Denmark (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The 1975 – Being Funny In A Foreign Language (Album Reviews)

Bill Callahan – YTI⅃AƎЯ (Album Reviews)

Brian Eno – FOREVER AND EVER NO MORE (Album Reviews)

Alter Bridge – Pawns & Kings (Album Reviews)

Alela Diane – Looking Glass (Album Reviews)

Skullcrusher – Quiet The Room (Album Reviews)

Willow – Coping Mechanism (Album Reviews)

Last Days: An hallucinatory reimagining of Gus Van Sant’s seminal film (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Orielles – Tableau (Album Reviews)

Flohio – Out Of Heart (Album Reviews)

Only An Octave Apart: Cabaret and opera meet head-on with electrifying results (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bush – The Art Of Survival (Album Reviews)

Anaïs Mitchell interview – “Bonny Light Horseman songs are collective musical exploration, part archaeological and part psychedelic” (Music Interviews)

Daphni – Cherry (Album Reviews)

Alvvays – Blue Rev (Album Reviews)

Gilla Band – Most Normal (Album Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: The Beatles, Garbage, Queens Of The Stone Age (Music Features, Spotlights)

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott – N.K. Pop (Album Reviews)

Just pure Haydn: John Butt and OAE at Kings Place (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La traviata: Opera North keeps it simple with focus on singing (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Björk – Fossora (Album Reviews)

The Big Pink – The Love That’s Ours (Album Reviews)

Fujiya & Miyagi – Slight Variations (Album Reviews)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (Album Reviews)

Lambchop – The Bible (Album Reviews)

The Royal Opera’s new Aida is big on pageant, short on drama (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Schönberg’s mighty Gurrelieder opens the LPO season with thrilling results (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Editors – EBM (Album Reviews)

Beth Orton – Weather Alive (Album Reviews)

Tim Burgess – Typical Music (Album Reviews)

Michelle Branch – The Trouble With Fever (Album Reviews)

The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta (Album Reviews)

Turin Brakes – Wide-Eyed Nowhere (Album Reviews)

Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Album Reviews)

Suede – Autofiction (Album Reviews)

The Divine Comedy review, Barbican, London – Thirty Years Of The Divine Comedy (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Rina Sawayama – Hold The Girl (Album Reviews)

a-ha’s True North movie is a letter from their dramatic homeland, with a serious message (Music Features, Spotlights)

In The Royal Opera’s revival of Don Giovanni, hell is a state of mind (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field (Album Reviews)

Cosey Fanni Tutti – Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes (Album Reviews)

KT Tunstall – Nut (Album Reviews)

The Royal Opera’s Salome is a heady mix of decadence and depravity (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Oliver Sim – Hideous Bastard (Album Reviews)

Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Album Reviews)

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – When The Lights Go (Album Reviews)

Sampa The Great – As Above, So Below (Album Reviews)

Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B (Album Reviews)

Santigold – Spirituals (Album Reviews)

Robbie Williams – XXV (Album Reviews)

Prom 69: Thrilling Beethoven from Gardiner and his period forces (BBC Proms reviews)

Gabe Gurnsey – Diablo (Album Reviews)

Jeremy Warmsley – American Daydream (Album Reviews)

Prom 65: Daniel Harding leads the Berlin Philharmonic in Schnittke and Bruckner (BBC Proms reviews)

Ruby Gill – I’m Gonna Die With This Frown On My Face (Album Reviews)

Prom 64: András Schiff’s Beethoven piano sonatas keep the audience transfixed throughout (BBC Proms reviews)

Prom 62: Mahler’s often neglected symphony given a star performance by Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic (BBC Proms reviews)

Proms and the ENO at Printworks London: Glass Handel (BBC Proms reviews)

Nina Nesbitt – Älskar (Album Reviews)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2022: Reflections on the first full-scale summer season in three years (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Prom 59: Elgar, Gardner and the LPO: Angels and Demons (but much better than Dan Brown) (BBC Proms reviews)

Surprise Chef @ Patterns, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: ABBA, Olivia Newton John, Marianne Faithfull (Music Features, Spotlights)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds review, All Points East, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Why I Started… End Of The Road Festival (Why I Started...)

Thirsk Hall Festival 2022: It’s not just All Creatures Great and Small (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Prom 52: Larks, swans and seascapes: fantasies framed with Finnish flair (BBC Proms reviews)

Fleet Foxes @ Islington Assembly Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Cola @ Prince Albert, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Sir John in Love brings British Youth Opera to Opera Holland Park (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Embrace – How To Be A Person Like Other People (Album Reviews)

Prom 49: No need for Resurrection – still very much alive and kicking: Rattle, LSO and Mahler 2 (BBC Proms reviews)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Let’s Turn It Into Sound (Album Reviews)

Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure (Album Reviews)

Ezra Furman – All Of Us Flames (Album Reviews)

Muse – Will Of The People (Album Reviews)

Bruce Hornsby: “Most people in the pop world want to live a white note life. I’m interested in a little more adventure” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Stella Donnelly – Flood (Album Reviews)

Aitch – Close To Home (Album Streams)

Winterreise: Desolate music in beautiful surroundings (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Demi Lovato – Holy Fvck (Album Reviews)

Phoebe Green – Lucky Me (Album Reviews)

The North York Moors Chamber Music Festival begins with two superb performances (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (Album Reviews)

Hudson Mohawke – Cry Sugar (Album Reviews)

Prom 34: Moody introspection and menace from the BBC Philharmonic in an evening of Elgar, Sibelius and Thorvaldsdottir (BBC Proms reviews)

Megan Thee Stallion – Traumazine (Album Reviews)

HMS Pinafore sets sail at Opera Holland Park (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kasabian – The Alchemist’s Euphoria (Album Reviews)

Calvin Harris – Funk Wav Bounces Vol 2 (Album Reviews)

Siegfried & Götterdämmerung: We saw the world end… in Hackney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 32: Westron wynde when wyll thow blow: Tredegar Band takes the Proms by storm (BBC Proms reviews)

La Voix humaine and Les Mamelles de Tirésias create a varied and fascinating double bill at Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 25: BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds present an evening of orchestral textures by Aho, Saariaho and Shostakovich (BBC Proms reviews)

Festival Review: WOMAD 2022 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Spell Book and La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina create an enchanting double bill at Longborough Festival Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Maggie Rogers – Surrender (Album Reviews)

Prom 21: From 8-bit to Infinity – gaming music comes to the Proms (BBC Proms reviews)

Beyoncé – Renaissance (Album Reviews)

L’elisir d’amore is just the tonic at West Green House Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: George Michael, Madonna, Oasis (Music Features, Spotlights)

Prom 19: Three watery tales on a dry summer’s evening from Mark Elder and Hallé (BBC Proms reviews)

Little Women the opera makes its UK debut at Opera Holland Park (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 17: BBC Scottish SO serves a menu of fine dining and party food from Brahms and Walshe (BBC Proms reviews)

King Princess – Hold On Baby (Album Reviews)

Prom 13: Glyndebourne’s The Wreckers moves inland to the Albert Hall (BBC Proms reviews)

Le nozze di Figaro takes West Green House Opera to the next level (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jamie T – The Theory Of Whatever (Album Reviews)

Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive (Album Reviews)

Prom 10: Roll up! Roll up! A Jubilee lucky dip from Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra (BBC Proms reviews)

Margot la Rouge and Le Villi make a compelling double bill at Opera Holland Park (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nina Nastasia – Riderless Horse (Album Reviews)

Joey Bada$$ – 2000 (Album Reviews)

Prom 7: A memorable Dido and Aeneas from La Nuova Musica (BBC Proms reviews)

Alex The Astronaut – How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater (Album Reviews)

Prom 6: Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic provide the perfect antidote to a sweltering day (BBC Proms reviews)

Beabadoobee – Beatopia (Album Reviews)

Mabel – About Last Night… (Album Reviews)

Black Midi – Hellfire (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Kew The Music 2022 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

BBC Proms: Verdi’s Requiem features on the first night at the Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms reviews)

Superorganism – World Wide Pop (Album Reviews)

Pye Corner Audio – Let’s Emerge! (Album Reviews)

Ne-Yo – Self Explanatory (Album Reviews)

Kristin Hersh: “I wanted it to sound like you’re waking up on someone’s floor. That’s something I’ve done a lot” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Pretoria comes to London: TUKS Camerata and VOCES8 present the closing concert at 2022’s Spitalfields Festival (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Otello: The devil has all the best tunes in The Royal Opera’s revival of Verdi’s masterpiece (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Interpol – The Other Side Of Make-Believe (Album Reviews)

Carmen proves unstoppable at Longborough Festival Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci: A sultry evening of lust, jealousy and revenge (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Katy J Pearson – Sound Of The Morning (Album Reviews)

Metric – Formentera (Album Reviews)

Laura Veirs – Found Light (Album Reviews)

Viagra Boys – Cave World (Album Reviews)

The Turn of the Screw is pitch perfect at Garsington Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Rolling Stones @ BST Hyde Park, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Yeomen of the Guard brings the Tower of London to The Grange Festival (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jack White @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Parsifal makes a thrilling return to London after an absence of nine years (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Laura Veirs @ Union Chapel, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: The Chemical Brothers, Liza Minnelli, Liars (Music Features, Spotlights)

Gwenno – Tresor (Album Reviews)

Stealing Sheep – Wow Machine (Album Reviews)

Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (Album Reviews)

Elton John @ BST Hyde Park, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Martin Courtney – Magic Sign (Album Reviews)

Joan Shelley – The Spur (Album Reviews)

Tamerlano: A spiked cocktail of love, lust and power (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Zola Jesus – Arkhon (Album Reviews)

The Barber of Seville is razor sharp at Nevill Holt Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Rusalka: Drown your sorrows in this lily pond (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Caleb Nichols – Ramon (Album Reviews)

Elvis Costello & The Imposters @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bob Mould @ Riverside, Newcastle (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees (Album Reviews)

Die tote Stadt packs a punch at Longborough Festival Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sharon Van Etten @ Institute, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Madama Butterfly: How do you solve a problem like Cio-Cio San? (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Otello: The green-eyed monster lives in West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

John Grant @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Newly resurrected 16th century polyphony from the newly formed Chineke! Voices makes a lasting impression (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Excursions of Mr Brouček: Brace yourselves – Così fan tutte it isn’t (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

A rare concert work from a Hollywood composer gets a superb performance by LSO, Simovic and Rattle (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Theodora: the show must go on (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Harkin – Honeymoon Suite (Album Reviews)

Hercules And Love Affair – In Amber (Album Reviews)

William Basinski & London Contemporary Orchestra @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Foals – Life Is Yours (Album Reviews)

MELTS – Maelstrom (Album Reviews)

Parquet Courts @ Chalk, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Philharmonia/Rouvali: A rousing Mahler 2 delivers celestial delights (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: We Love Green 2022 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Nick Mulvey – New Mythology (Album Reviews)

La bohème on a small scale but with a big heart at Nevill Holt Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Neneh Cherry – The Versions (Album Reviews)

µ-Ziq – Magic Pony Ride (Album Reviews)

Bruce Hornsby – ‘Flicted (Album Reviews)

Vieux Farka Touré – Les Racines (Album Reviews)

Elektra: The House of Atreus is at war in the Staatsoper Berlin’s revival of Cheréau’s staging (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Carmen: An innovative and refreshing take on a classic at Opera Holland Park (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Four evenings of jubilant music making in Berlin (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Eugene Onegin opens Opera Holland Park’s 2022 Season in tremendous style  (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Post Malone – Twelve Carat Toothache (Album Reviews)

Così fan tutte: A winning gamble at Garsington Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Orfeo at Garsington Opera? Hell Yes! (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Siegfried is Another Triumph in Longborough Festival Opera’s Ring Cycle (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jessie Ware @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Arcangelo bring touches of Salzburg and Eisenstadt for their final residency concert (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Andrew Bird – Inside Problems (Album Reviews)

Hair today, gone tomorrow – The Royal Opera’s triumphant new staging of Samson et Dalila is a knockout (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: Prince, Diamanda Galás, Cabaret Voltaire (Music Features, Spotlights)

Poliça – Madness (Album Reviews)

Angel Olsen – Big Time (Album Reviews)

Handel’s Messiah: The Dales are alive with the sound of music (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Gabrielis add relish to some rare Bach at their latest Wigmore Hall ‘Feast Day’ (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Philharmonia/Blomstedt: This incandescent concert of Bruckner and Mozart proves that age is just a number (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Yard Act @ Academy, Leicester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know (Album Reviews)

Matthew Bourne – Irrealis (Album Reviews)

Stars – From Capelton Hill (Album Reviews)

Calexico’s Joey Burns: “This album represents the things I love most, a mix of cultures, languages and musical genres” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Everything Everything – Raw Data Feel (Album Reviews)

Stutzmann and the BBC Symphony Orchestra cook up a piquantly emotional soup of Brahms and Tchaikovsky (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

A star is born in Pierrot Lunaire at Covent Garden (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

European Music Festivals 2022 Preview: continental summer music moments (Previews)

Man On Man @ Green Door Store, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Harry Styles – Harry’s House (Album Reviews)

Jordana – Face The Wall (Album Reviews)

Lykke Li – EyEye (Album Reviews)

Uffie – Sunshine Factory (Album Reviews)

Subjective – The Start Of No Regret (Album Reviews)

Preview: It’s Summer Festival time 2022! ‘The Four Gs’ – Glyndebourne, Garsington, Grange Festival and Grange Park (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida in Schubert and Beethoven at the Wigmore Hall  (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kae Tempest @ Academy, Leicester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Porridge Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky (Album Reviews)

The Jubilee String Quartet performs Schubert on a Sunday morning (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Flume – Palaces (Album Reviews)

Matmos – Regards / Ukłony Dla Bogusław Schaeffer (Album Reviews)

Florence And The Machine – Dance Fever (Album Reviews)

Moderat – MORE D4TA (Album Reviews)

Luke Steele – Listen To The Water (Album Reviews)

Every Doge has his day: A Venetian Coronation 1595 (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Obongjayar – Some Nights I Dream Of Doors (Album Reviews)

Kendrick Lamar – Mr Morale & The Big Steppers (Album Reviews)

London Music Festivals 2022 Preview: 11 essential summer capital picks (Previews)

The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention (Album Reviews)

UK Festivals 2022 Preview: 10 music extravaganzas not to be missed (Previews)

Don Pasquale: The Royal Opera revives its bittersweet staging with a fine cast (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Warpaint – Radiate Like This (Album Reviews)

Oklahoma! but not as we know it at the Young Vic (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Dubstar – Two (Album Reviews)

C Duncan – Alluvium (Album Reviews)

Fader – Quartz (Album Reviews)

Sigrid – How To Let Go (Album Reviews)

Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong (Album Reviews)

Soccer96 – Inner Worlds (Album Reviews)

Emeli Sandé – Let’s Say For Instance (Album Reviews)

Portishead @ Academy, Bristol (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Tindersticks @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Soft Cell – Happiness Not Included (Album Reviews)

Belle and Sebastian – A Bit Of Previous (Album Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Daft Punk, ABBA (Music Features, Spotlights)

Leeds Lieder Festival 2022: The pick of a Wigmore Hall song season, in a single weekend (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ride @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Arcade Fire – WE (Album Reviews)

Low @ St George’s Church, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Rammstein – Zeit (Album Reviews)

Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries (Album Reviews)

Girlpool – Forgiveness (Album Reviews)

Let’s Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons (Album Reviews)

Bloc Party – Alpha Games (Album Reviews)

Lohengrin: The Royal Opera’s first post-Covid Wagner staging thrills on every level (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms 2022 Preview: back to normal? (BBC Proms reviews)

Protomartyr @ Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Charles Watson – Yes (Album Reviews)

Scalping – Void (Album Reviews)

Wet Leg @ Institute2, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Spotlight: New premieres from composer Luke Styles (Opera + Classical Music Features)

James Heather – Invisible Forces (Album Reviews)

Roger Eno – The Turning Year (Album Reviews)

jennylee – Heart Tax (Album Reviews)

La resurrezione makes Easter Monday complete at St Martin-in-the-Fields  (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kathryn Joseph – for you who are the wronged (Album Reviews)

Patrick Watson – Better In The Shade (Album Reviews)

Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful (Album Reviews)

Harrison Birtwistle: A Reflection (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Reissues Roundup: Record Store Day 2022 (Music Features, Spotlights)

Fontaines DC – Skinty Fia (Album Reviews)

Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Album Reviews)

Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn (Album Reviews)

Horace Andy – Midnight Rocker (Album Reviews)

Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Album Reviews)

Joyce DiDonato: EDEN is a heavenly garden of musical delights (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: Yorkshire Spring and Summer Festivals 2022 – Part 2 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Preview: The Royal Opera announces their eclectic and exciting 2022/23 season (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Orville Peck – Bronco (Album Reviews)

Fernando, re di Castiglia is complete once more (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La Traviata: Pretty Yende and Angel Blue are heartbreaking at the Royal Opera House (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kae Tempest – The Line Is A Curve (Album Reviews)

Calexico – El Mirador (Album Reviews)

Banks – Serpentina (Album Reviews)

Preview: Yorkshire Spring and Summer Festivals 2022 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Daniel Rossen – You Belong There (Album Reviews)

Opera Holland Park’s 2022 Season promises riches in abundance (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Oberto: A mystery that the Chelsea Opera Group delights in revealing (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Vashti Bunyan @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Edward Gardner and the LPO deliver a robust ‘German Requiem’ (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Father John Misty – Chloë And The Next 20th Century (Album Reviews)

Confidence Man – Tilt (Album Reviews)

Warmduscher – At The Hotspot (Album Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: T Rex, Rufus Wainwright, Suzi Quatro, Sparks (Music Features, Spotlights)

Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra – The Unfolding (Album Reviews)

Parsifal: A feast for the musical senses in Berlin (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Walt Disco – Unlearning (Album Reviews)

Iberian Roots: The Sixteen in a programme of poignant polyphony at Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Peter Grimes: The Royal Opera presents ‘a lost lone man’ in seedy squalor (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Cate Le Bon @ Mill, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (Album Reviews)

Loop – Sonancy (Album Reviews)

Placebo – Never Let Me Go (Album Reviews)

The Hanging Stars – Hollow Heart (Album Reviews)

Max Cooper – Unspoken Words (Album Reviews)

Three mezzos excel in Mahler at the Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Destroyer – Labyrinthitis (Album Reviews)

Sea Girls – Homesick (Album Reviews)

Charli XCX – Crash (Album Reviews)

Little Boots – Tomorrow’s Yesterdays (Album Reviews)

Midlake’s Eric Pulido: “We had a desire to embrace the gift of each other, and of making music” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Midlake – For The Sake Of Bethel Woods (Album Reviews)

A breath of Bohemian spring from the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato proves a Handel rarity that should be far better known  (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Longborough Festival Opera’s 2022 Season isn’t just about Wagner (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Cypress Hill – Back In Black (Album Reviews)

John Tejada – Sleepwalker (Album Reviews)

Mattiel – Georgia Gothic (Album Reviews)

Imarhan @ Green Door Store, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Mysterines – Reeling (Album Reviews)

Yīn Yīn @ Hope & Ruin, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

A new-created world: Haydn’s Creation sparkles with life thanks to the LSO and Christophers (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Widowspeak – The Jacket (Album Reviews)

The Golden Cockerel begins its ‘English Tour’ at the Hackney Empire (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark (Album Reviews)

Wolfgang Flür – Magazine 1 (Album Reviews)

Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (Album Reviews)

Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (Album Reviews)

CMAT – If My Wife New I’d Be Dead (Album Reviews)

Diplo – Diplo (Album Reviews)

Sergei Babayan and Martha Argerich in works by Prokofiev and Mozart at the Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Weather Station – How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (Album Reviews)

Zoltán Fejérvári brings an hour of sheer bliss to the Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: Franz Ferdinand, Goldfrapp, Suicide, Kraftwerk (Music Features, Spotlights)

Stereophonics – Oochya! (Album Reviews)

Los Bitchos @ Patterns, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Patrick Watson, Jules Buckley & BBC Symphony Orchestra @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Rigoletto: Royal Opera’s thrilling revival showcases three exceptional Italians (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Keeley Forsyth – Limbs (Album Reviews)

Dry Cleaning @ Mill, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

West Green House Opera’s 2022 season takes place on a lake (Opera + Classical Music Features)

audiobooks @ Komedia Studio, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

caroline – caroline (Album Reviews)

Avril Lavigne – Luv Sux (Album Reviews)

Roedelius & Tim Story – 4 Hands (Album Reviews)

ADULT. – Becoming Undone (Album Reviews)

Mark Lanegan: In Remembrance (Music Features, Spotlights)

The Cunning Little Vixen: Janáček’s paean to nature returns to the ENO after a 20 year gap (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Gidon Kremer’s 75th Birthday Concert at the Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point (Album Reviews)

Hurray For The Riff Raff – Life On Earth (Album Reviews)

Nicholas Lanier’s Grand Tour revisited by Academy of Ancient Music (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Suzanne Vega @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Metronomy – Small World (Album Reviews)

Sea Power – Everything Was Forever (Album Reviews)

Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Album Reviews)

Trentemøller – Memoria (Album Reviews)

(Not so) Deep Time from Theatre of Voices (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Sea Power (This Music Made Me)

alt-J – The Dream (Album Reviews)

Orliński gives Fux (along with Almeida, Lotti, Vivaldi and others) (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Delines – The Sea Drift (Album Reviews)

Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (Album Reviews)

Nevill Holt Opera’s 2022 season has something for everyone (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Lintu / Power / LPO: Mahler is back at the Royal Festival Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tosca: Gheorghiu channels Puccini’s temperamental diva to mark the 30th anniversary of her Royal Opera debut (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Shamir – Heterosexuality (Album Reviews)

Jane Weaver @ Chalk, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

A Place To Bury Strangers – See Through You (Album Reviews)

Alcina: Opera North’s production low on magic but high on sustainability (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (Album Reviews)

Modern Nature – Island Of Noise (Album Reviews)

Fontaines DC @ Dome, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Animal Collective – Time Skiffs (Album Reviews)

Mitski – Laurel Hell (Album Reviews)

MØ – Motordrome (Album Reviews)

The KVB @ The Hope & Ruin, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bastille – Give Me The Future (Album Reviews)

Theodora: Katie Mitchell scores an unqualified success with Royal Opera’s revisionist Handel (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Yeule – Glitch Princess (Album Reviews)

Klein @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Summer At Land’s End (Album Reviews)

Günther Groissböck & Malcolm Martineau deserve six stars (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: The Divine Comedy, Felt, Silver Apples, Jenny Lewis (Music Features, Spotlights)

Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There (Album Reviews)

Amber Mark – Three Dimensions Deep (Album Reviews)

Elena Setién – Unfamiliar Minds (Album Reviews)

Anaïs Mitchell – Anaïs Mitchell (Album Reviews)

Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (Album Reviews)

Josephine Foster – Godmother (Album Reviews)

Rigoletto: Opera North once again leads the way with a striking new production (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Canellakis / LPO: Unbridled ecstasy and abandonment in equal measure (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Canellakis / Tetzlaff / LPO: From Russia with Love (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Logan Lynn – New Money (Album Reviews)

Years & Years – Night Call (Album Reviews)

Aurora – The Gods We Can Touch (Album Reviews)

Michael Rother and Vittoria Maccabruni – As Long As The Light (Album Reviews)

Yard Act – The Overload (Album Reviews)

Orlando Weeks – Hop Up (Album Reviews)

The Wombats – Fix Yourself, Not The World (Album Reviews)

Elvis Costello & The Imposters – A Boy Named If (Album Reviews)

Blood Red Shoes – Ghosts On Tape (Album Reviews)

Grace Cummings – Storm Queen (Album Reviews)

Cat Power – Covers (Album Reviews)

Bonobo – Fragments (Album Reviews)

The Marriage of Figaro: youthful cast brings Mediterranean warmth to the Royal Opera (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Aloa Input – Devil’s Diamond Mercury Collection (Album Reviews)

Gianni Schicchi: Grange Park Opera’s production is made in Chelsea (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Weeknd – Dawn FM (Album Reviews)

Twin Atlantic – Transparency (Album Reviews)

The English Concert dazzle with Handel at the Wigmore Hall (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Reissues Roundup: Saint Etienne, Aretha Franklin, Bernard Butler (Music Features, Spotlights)

Nabucco @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – La Panthère Des Neiges OST (Album Reviews)

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2021 (Lists)

Messiah @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tosca @ Royal Opera House, London (second cast) (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

MONSTA X – The Dreaming (Album Reviews)

Gerhaher / Huber @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Chiaroscuro Quartet @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Gilchrist / Wadsworth @ National Centre for Early Music, York (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tosca @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Madmess – Rebirth (Album Reviews)

In Winter’s House: The Gesualdo Six @ National Centre for Early Music, York (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Barton / Heggie @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn (Album Reviews)

James + Happy Mondays @ Wembley Arena, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

A Baroque Christmas: Eboracum Baroque @ York Mansion House, York (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Christmas Tales: BBCSO / Oramo @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

LPO / Canellakis @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Rival Consoles – Overflow (Album Reviews)

Reissues Round-up: Gorillaz, Fela Kuti, The Communards, Can (Music Features, Spotlights)

Nils Frahm – Old Friends New Friends (Album Reviews)

Elijah @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Stephen Sondheim: A Reflection (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Nell & The Flaming Lips – Where The Viaduct Looms (Album Reviews)

Fantasie Nègre: The piano music of Florence Price @ Milton Court, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The KVB – Unity (Album Reviews)

New Christmas Albums 2021 Round-up (Music Features, Spotlights)

Riki – Gold (Album Reviews)

Adele – 30 (Album Reviews)

Aimee Mann: “There’s something in the zeitgeist where people are ready to talk about mental illness” – Interview (Music Interviews)

The Valkyrie @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Piazzolla x 100 @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ladyhawke – Time Flies (Album Reviews)

Sting – The Bridge (Album Reviews)

Seth Lakeman – Make Your Mark (Album Reviews)

OMD @ Brighton Centre, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Macbeth @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Houeida Hedfi – Fleuves De L’Âme (Album Reviews)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raise The Roof (Album Reviews)

Shame @ Chalk, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Ladyhawke: “Everyone’s having to navigate this together at the same time. There was some comfort in that” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Elbow – Flying Dream 1 (Album Reviews)

Katy B @ Village Underground, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Youth – Spinning Wheel (Album Reviews)

Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Imposter (Album Reviews)

Tony Allen: A Retrospective @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: Mutations Brighton 2021 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Little Mix – Between Us (Album Reviews)

Snapped Ankles @ Chalk, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Black Monument Ensemble’s Damon Locks: “I’m ravenously looking for inspiration while trying to generate some positivity” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time (Album Reviews)

Idles – Crawler (Album Reviews)

Jon Hopkins – Music For Psychedelic Therapy (Album Reviews)

The Bear @ Opera Holland Park, London (online) (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Damon Albarn – The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (Album Reviews)

In Bluebeard’s Castle @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Penelope Isles – Which Way To Happy (Album Reviews)

Gnod – La Mort Du Sens (Album Reviews)

Aimee Mann – Queens Of The Summer Hotel (Album Reviews)

Joan As Police Woman x Tony Allen x Dave Okumu – The Solution Is Restless (Album Reviews)

Portico Quartet – Monument (Album Reviews)

ABBA – Voyage (Album Reviews)

Roberto Devereux @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine Of Hell (Album Reviews)

Diana Ross – Thank You (Album Reviews)

Mira Calix – Absent Origin (Album Reviews)

Choir of King’s College Cambridge – In The Bleak Midwinter (Album Reviews)

Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (Album Reviews)

La traviata – Three Sopranos’ Views (Opera + Classical Music Features)

La traviata @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Billy Bragg – The Million Things That Never Happened (Album Reviews)

Reissues Round-up: David Bowie, Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Fela Kuti (Music Features, Spotlights)

Lotic – Water (Album Reviews)

The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Album Reviews)

Marissa Nadler – The Path Of The Clouds (Album Reviews)

Maya Jane Coles – Night Creature (Album Reviews)

Ed Sheeran – = (Album Reviews)

Lone – Always Inside Your Head (Album Reviews)

The Parrots – Dos (Album Reviews)

Public Service Broadcasting @ Dome, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Teleman @ Chalk, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

La Nuova Musica / Bates @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tori Amos – Ocean To Ocean (Album Reviews)

Bernard Haitink: An appreciation (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Elton John – The Lockdown Sessions (Album Reviews)

Biffy Clyro – The Myth Of The Happily Ever After (Album Reviews)

Ross From Friends – Tread (Album Reviews)

Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life (Album Reviews)

Grouper – Shade (Album Reviews)

Jarvis Cocker – Chansons d’Ennui Tip-Top (Album Reviews)

Duran Duran – Future Past (Album Reviews)

My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket (Album Reviews)

La Luz: “I want all of our albums to feel like you are going on a journey” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Circuit des Yeux ­- -io (Album Reviews)

Clinic – Fantasy Island (Album Reviews)

Herbert – Musca (Album Reviews)

Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure (Album Reviews)

Hayden Thorpe – Moondust For My Diamond (Album Reviews)

Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres (Album Reviews)

Samson @ St George’s, Hanover Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekkou (Album Reviews)

Damrau / Pikulski @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

JOHN – Nocturnal Manoeuvres (Album Reviews)

Maxïmo Park @ EartH, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bode / Lepper – Die schöne Müllerin & Connolly / Drake – Summer Nights @ Saint John the Evangelist, Oxford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Project Ring @ Linbury Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Ane Brun @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under (Album Reviews)

James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart (Album Reviews)

Roxanne de Bastion: “Music is the best tool for empathy. It’s such a good way to feel things” – Interview (Music Interviews)

The Vaccines @ Concorde 2, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oramo @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

LPO / Gardner @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Pond – 9 (Album Reviews)

Tirzah – Colourgrade (Album Reviews)

Reissues Round-up: James Bond, Judas Priest, Kylie Minogue, R.E.M. (Music Features, Spotlights)

Spector – Now Or Whenever (Album Reviews)

Do Nothing @ The Hope & Ruin, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Jenůfa @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Specials – Protest Songs (1924-2012) (Album Reviews)

Blancmange – Commercial Break (Album Reviews)

Vangelis – Juno To Jupiter (Album Reviews)

LPO / Gardner @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nao – And Then Life Was Beautiful (Album Reviews)

Mac McCaughan – The Sound Of Yourself (Album Reviews)

Boys Noize – +/- (Album Reviews)

The Lathums – How Beautiful Life Can Be (Album Reviews)

Damon Albarn @ Shakespeare’s Globe, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Natalie Imbruglia – Firebird (Album Reviews)

MONO – Pilgrimage Of The Soul (Album Reviews)

Róisín Murphy @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Magic Flute @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lindsey Buckingham – Lindsey Buckingham (Album Reviews)

Alexis Taylor – Silence (Album Reviews)

Baby Keem – The Melodic Blue (Album Reviews)

Haiku Salut – The Hill, The Light, The Ghost (Album Reviews)

Lil Nas X – Montero (Album Reviews)

LoneLady @ Hope & Ruin, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Rigoletto @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sleigh Bells – Texis (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Metallica – Metallica (The Black Album) 30th Anniversary + The Metallica Blacklist (Music Features, Spotlights)

We Were Promised Jetpacks – Enjoy The View (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms: The Last Night of the Proms 2021 @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

The Stranglers – Dark Matters (Album Reviews)

The Sisters Of Mercy @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

BBC Proms: Bach’s St Matthew Passion @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Kacey Musgraves – Star-Crossed (Album Reviews)

Sonic Boom @ Green Door Store, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Andrew WK – God Is Partying (Album Reviews)

Low – Hey What (Album Reviews)

Yann Tiersen: “I became more about seeing what’s around me, living stuff and organic stuff” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Bicep @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Common – A Beautiful Revolution Pt 2 (Album Reviews)

Matthew E White – K Bay (Album Reviews)

Steps – What The Future Holds Pt 2 (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms: Hallé Orchestra / Elder @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

This Music Made Me: Matthew E White (This Music Made Me)

Saint Etienne – I’ve Been Trying To Tell You (Album Reviews)

Drake – Certified Lover Boy (Album Reviews)

Roxanne de Bastion – You & Me, We Are The Same (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms 39: Sinfonia of London / Wilson @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

BBC Proms: Organ Recital / Holder @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Iron Maiden – Senjutsu (Album Reviews)

ABBA voyage back after 40 years with new album and digital arena show (Music Features, Spotlights)

Reissues Round-up: Primal Scream, Buena Vista Social Club, Robbie Williams (Music Features, Spotlights)

Manic Street Preachers – The Ultra Vivid Lament (Album Reviews)

Kanye West – Donda (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms: English Baroque Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / Gardiner @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

BBC Proms: Tristan und Isolde @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

BBC Proms: The Kanneh-Masons and friends / Family Prom @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Arab Strap: “Our music’s intimate points have changed from being about dirty bed sheets to children’s films” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Yann Tiersen – Kerber (Album Reviews)

The Bug – Fire (Album Reviews)

Nite Jewel – No Sun (Album Reviews)

Goat – Headsoup (Album Reviews)

Orla Gartland – Woman On The Internet (Album Reviews)

Chvrches – Screen Violence (Album Reviews)

Lorde – Solar Power (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms: Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Bell @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

BBC Proms: Chineke! / Kanneh-Mason / Bovell @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

The Joy Formidable – Into The Blue (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms: Giunta / Shibe / Walker @ Cadogan Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

BBC Proms: London Symphony Orchestra / Rattle @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Don Giovanni @ Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

BBC Proms: BBC Singers / Feshareki / Jeannin @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Villagers – Fever Dreams (Album Reviews)

Martha Wainwright – Love Will Be Reborn (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms: Manchester Collective / Singh @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic / Glassberg @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

The Killers – Pressure Machine (Album Reviews)

Reissues Round-up: The Beach Boys, Kim Wilde, Habibi Funk, LCD Soundsystem (Music Features, Spotlights)

BBC Proms: Marian Consort / McCleery @ Cadogan Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

George Harrison – All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary: Spotlight (Album Reviews)

Anything Goes @ Barbican Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La traviata @ Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Liars – The Apple Drop (Album Reviews)

Will Young – Crying On The Bathroom Floor (Album Reviews)

Prince – Welcome 2 America (Album Reviews)

The Cunning Little Vixen @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

LUMP – Animal (Album Reviews)

Torres – Thirstier (Album Reviews)

Bleachers – Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night (Album Reviews)

Yola – Stand For Myself (Album Reviews)

Eugene Onegin @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

BBC Proms: Organ Recital / Baker @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

BBC Proms: ‘The Golden Age of Broadway’ – BBC Concert Orchestra / Balcombe @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Gigi in Concert @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever (Album Reviews)

BBC Proms: BBC SO / Stasevska @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Anne-Marie – Therapy (Album Reviews)

Los Lobos – Native Sons (Album Reviews)

L’amico Fritz @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La rondine @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Teenage Fanclub: “We’ve always resisted becoming a heritage band” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Howard Goodall’s Invictus: A Passion @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Dave – We’re All Alone In This Together (Album Reviews)

Clairo – Sling (Album Reviews)

Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Inhaler – It Won’t Always Be Like This (Album Reviews)

Fryars – God Melodies (Album Reviews)

Chet Faker – Hotel Surrender (Album Reviews)

The Cunning Little Vixen @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Don Giovanni @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Vince Staples – Vince Staples (Album Reviews)

Les Filles de Illighadad – At Pioneer Works (Album Reviews)

The Mountain Goats – Dark in Here (Album Reviews)

Così fan tutte @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Eugene Onegin @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Snapped Ankles – Forest Of Your Problems (Album Reviews)

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (Album Reviews)

La Cenerentola @ The Grange Festival, Northington (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

LoneLady – Former Things (Album Reviews)

Ivan the Terrible @ Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lucy Dacus – Home Video (Album Reviews)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Grange Festival, Northington (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Daniel Avery – Together In Static (Album Reviews)

Der Rosenkavalier @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Amadigi @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lucy Gooch: “I wanted to make something more experimental with a dissonance and eeriness to it” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Spellling – The Turning Wheel (Album Reviews)

Throwing Snow – Dragons (Album Reviews)

La Bohème @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Matthew Dear – Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Album Reviews)

John Grant – Boy From Michigan (Album Reviews)

Gaspard Augé – Escapades (Album Reviews)

Gilchrist / Tilbrook – Leeds Lieder Festival @ Victoria Hall, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Max Bloom – Pedestrian (Album Reviews)

Britten, The Five Canticles – Leeds Lieder Festival @ Victoria Hall, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Joan Armatrading – Consequences (Album Reviews)

Coote / Blackshaw – Leeds Lieder Festival @ Victoria Hall, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Marriage of Figaro @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kings Of Convenience – Peace Or Love (Album Reviews)

Ruth B – Moments In Between (Album Reviews)

Marina – Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land (Album Reviews)

La traviata @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Roddy Woomble: “I’ve spent 20 years making guitar music, but this new album involved a different approach” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Chloe Foy – Where Shall We Begin (Album Reviews)

Alessandro Cortini – Scuro Chiaro (Album Reviews)

Garbage – No Gods No Masters (Album Reviews)

Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real – A Few Stars Apart (Album Reviews)

Liz Phair – Soberish (Album Reviews)

Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Album Reviews)

London Sinfonietta / Mark Padmore @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (Album Reviews)

Marina Allen – Candlepower (Album Reviews)

Greentea Peng – Man Made (Album Reviews)

Crowded House – Dreamers Are Waiting (Album Reviews)

Stubborn Heart – Made Of Static (Album Reviews)

Die Walküre @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

James – All The Colours Of You (Album Reviews)

Part Chimp – Drool (Album Reviews)

Preview: Edinburgh International Festival 2021 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Blackberry Smoke – You Hear Georgia (Album Reviews)

Q&A: Bruno Ravella on Garsington Opera’s Der Rosenkavalier (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Q&A: Alexander Chance on Grange Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Lou Hayter – Private Sunshine (Album Reviews)

Preview: BBC Proms 2021 (BBC Proms reviews)

Moby – Reprise (Album Reviews)

Gus Gus – Mobile Home (Album Reviews)

Lou Barlow – Reason To Live (Album Reviews)

Winterreise: Padmore / Kolesnikov @ The Ragged Music Festival, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La corona @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Loscil – Clara (Album Reviews)

Synchron Stage Orchestra / Johannes Vogel: Brahms @ On Air (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: English National Opera 2021-22 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Jorja Chalmers – Midnight Train (Album Reviews)

Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods (Album Reviews)

Gary Numan – Intruder (Album Reviews)

Only Sun – Tangled Mind (Album Reviews)

Lord Huron – Long Lost (Album Reviews)

Lambchop – Showtunes (Album Reviews)

BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (Album Reviews)

Sunroof – Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 1 (Album Reviews)

FACS – Present Tense (Album Reviews)

Murcof – The Alias Sessions (Album Reviews)

Fly Pan Am – Frontera (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: George Michael – Older (Music Features, Spotlights)

Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner: “I was looking for something less structured, something I hadn’t done before” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Album Reviews)

One For Keeps: Paul and Linda McCartney – Ram (One For Keeps)

Colleen – The Tunnel And The Clearing (Album Reviews)

Murcof: “I feel attracted to music and sounds that evoke a sense of mystery or otherworldliness” – Q&A (Music Interviews)

Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future (Album Reviews)

The Individual Heart: London Symphony Orchestra / Reynolds @ LSO St Luke’s, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Black Keys – Delta Kream (Album Reviews)

Tony Allen – There Is No End (Album Reviews)

David Gray – Skellig (Album Reviews)

The Chills – Scatterbrain (Album Reviews)

Stile Antico: Spotlights (Ramsey, Lobo, Taverner, Palestrina) (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Paul Weller – Fat Pop (Volume 1) (Album Reviews)

St Vincent – Daddy’s Home (Album Reviews)

London Symphony Orchestra / Noseda @ LSO St Luke’s, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Iceage – Seek Shelter (Album Reviews)

Buffet Lunch – The Power Of Rocks (Album Reviews)

Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum – Thanks For Coming (Album Reviews)

Luke Haines – In… Setting The Dogs On The Post Punk Postman (Album Reviews)

Jas Shaw – Sollbruchstelle (Album Reviews)

Man On Man – Man On Man (Album Reviews)

TEKE::TEKE – Shirushi (Album Reviews)

Rag’n’Bone Man – Life By Misadventure (Album Reviews)

Man On Man: “Take away all the venues and queers would still find a way to get together” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Rosie Tucker – Sucker Supreme (Album Reviews)

Gary Moore – How Blue Can You Get (Album Reviews)

Conrad Clipper – Heron’s Book Of Dreams (Album Reviews)

The Coral – Coral Island (Album Reviews)

Growing – Diptych (Album Reviews)

Leon Vynehall – Rare, Forever (Album Reviews)

Peggy Seeger: “Humans are a warlike species. The world is being run on a male dynamic” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis – She Walks In Beauty (Album Reviews)

Girl In Red – If I Can Make It Go Quiet (Album Reviews)

Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade (Album Reviews)

Tom Jones: “I make the songs my own, and it’s as if I wrote them” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Preview: Bampton Classical Opera 2021 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Preview: English Touring Opera Returns to ‘Live’ Performance (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Field Music – Flat White Moon (Album Reviews)

Cabaret Voltaire – Dekadrone / BN9Drone (Album Reviews)

Tom Jones – Surrounded By Time (Album Reviews)

Porter Robinson – Nurture (Album Reviews)

Art d’Ecco – In Standard Definition (Album Reviews)

Maxwell Sterling – Turn Of Phrase (Album Reviews)

Big | Brave – Vital (Album Reviews)

Alan Vega – Mutator (Album Reviews)

Dinosaur Jr – Sweep It Into Space (Album Reviews)

Apparat – Soundtracks (Album Reviews)

Paul McCartney – McCartney III Imagined (Album Reviews)

Preview: Opera Holland Park presents Vaughan Williams’ Song Cycle ‘The House of Life’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Peggy Seeger – First Farewell (Album Reviews)

Benjamin Grosvenor @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Requin Chagrin – Bye Bye Baby (Album Reviews)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Uncommon Weather (Album Reviews)

Ballaké Sissoko – Djourou (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Fleetwood Mac – Live (Super Deluxe Edition) (Album Reviews)

Saccades – Flowing Fades (Album Reviews)

Thomas Fehlmann – Böser Herbst (Album Reviews)

OBS Easter Festival: St John Passion & Easter Oratorio @ Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Messiah Reimagined @ St George’s Hanover Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Music for Holy Week: Easter Sunday – Eisler’s ‘Ostersonntag’ from the Hollywood Songbook (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Music for Holy Week: Black Saturday – Grechaninov’s ‘Passion Week’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Stile Antico @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Demi Lovato – Dancing With The Devil… The Art of Starting Over (Album Reviews)

Bryan Ferry – Royal Albert Hall 2020 (Album Reviews)

Oddfellow’s Casino – The Cult Of Water (Album Reviews)

The Natvral – Tethers (Album Reviews)

Music for Holy Week: Good Friday – Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

La Femme – Paradigmes (Album Reviews)

The Lucid Dream – The Deep End (Album Reviews)

Flock Of Dimes: “Music is the only way I know to process my feelings fully” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! (Album Reviews)

Music for Holy Week: Maundy Thursday – Bach’s ‘St Matthew Passion’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Iglooghost – Lei Line Eon (Album Reviews)

Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (Album Reviews)

Flock Of Dimes – Head Of Roses (Album Reviews)

Du Blonde – Homecoming (Album Reviews)

Hannah Peel: “This is what I want, an emergence in nature being born” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Music for Holy Week: Spy Wednesday – Handel’s ‘Brockes-Passion’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

‘Into the Hands of Sinners’ @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Music for Holy Week: Holy Tuesday – Haydn’s ‘The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Preview: The Royal Opera 2021-22 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Music for Holy Week: Holy Monday – Penderecki’s ‘St Luke Passion’ (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers (Album Reviews)

Music for Holy Week: Palm Sunday – Buxtehude’s ‘Membra Jesu Nostri’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Ben Howard – Collections From The Whiteout (Album Reviews)

Taylor Deupree – Mur (Album Reviews)

Fyfe Dangerfield: “I’ve stockpiled so much music over the last decade” – Q&A and This Music Made Me (This Music Made Me)

Hannah Peel – Fir Wave (Album Reviews)

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Album Reviews)

For Those I Love – For Those I Love (Album Reviews)

Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske – Untitled (Album Reviews)

Cathal Coughlan – Song Of Co-Aklan (Album Reviews)

El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Album Reviews)

Elegiac – Elegiac (Album Reviews)

Clark – Playground In A Lake (Album Reviews)

Tune-Yards – Sketchy (Album Reviews)

serpentwithfeet – DEACON (Album Reviews)

Loney Dear – A Lantern And A Bell (Album Reviews)

Dntel – The Seas Trees See (Album Reviews)

Xiu Xiu – Oh No (Album Reviews)

The Antlers – Green To Gold (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Loney Dear (This Music Made Me)

Der Rosenkavalier @ Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Gazelle Twin & NYX – Deep England (Album Reviews)

A.A. Williams – Songs From Isolation (Album Reviews)

New Age Steppers: Stepping Into A New Age – Spotlight (Music Features, Spotlights)

Mint Julep – In A Dark & Dreamless Sleep (Album Reviews)

Tynan / Tritschler / Baillieu @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: Purcell & a Pint – Eboracum Baroque (Opera + Classical Music Features)

William Doyle – Great Spans Of Muddy Time (Album Reviews)

Deniz Cuylan – No Such Thing As Free Will (Album Reviews)

Rudge / Glynn @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nitin Sawhney – Immigrants (Album Reviews)

Preview: Opera Holland Park 2021 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Underground Youth – The Falling (Album Reviews)

Danny Driver @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tiggs Da Author – Blame It On The Youts (Album Reviews)

The Anchoress – The Art Of Losing (Album Reviews)

Zara Larsson – Poster Girl (Album Reviews)

Louis Andriessen – The Only One (Album Reviews)

Japan – Quiet Life (Deluxe Edition) (Album Reviews)

Kings Of Leon – When You See Yourself (Album Reviews)

Painted Shrines – Heaven And Holy (Album Reviews)

Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (Album Reviews)

Jane Weaver – Flock (Album Reviews)

Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Album Reviews)

Barbarossa – Love Here Listen (Album Reviews)

Plankton Wat – Future Times (Album Reviews)

Pinegrove – Amperland, NY (Album Reviews)

Visionist – A Call To Arms (Album Reviews)

Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains – Banane Bleue (Album Reviews)

Cheval Sombre – Time Waits For No One (Album Reviews)

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage (Album Reviews)

Julien Baker – Little Oblivions (Album Reviews)

Roosevelt – Polydans (Album Reviews)

Smerz – Believer (Album Reviews)

Lost Horizons’ Simon Raymonde: “I wanted to try to broaden this album out to something more soulful” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 – Mas (Album Reviews)

Vapour Theories – Celestial Scuzz (Album Reviews)

Stereolab – Electrically Possessed (Switched On Vol Four) (Album Reviews)

Alice Cooper – Detroit Stories (Album Reviews)

A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Invisible Cities (Album Reviews)

Seth Lakeman: “The stories seemed to really connect with people” – Q&A (Music Interviews)

Mouse On Mars – AAI (Album Reviews)

John Tejada – Year Of The Living Dead (Album Reviews)

Altın Gün – Yol (Album Reviews)

Maxïmo Park – Nature Always Wins (Album Reviews)

Preview: Longborough Festival Opera 2021 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Blanck Mass – In Furneaux (Album Reviews)

Lost Horizons – In Quiet Moments (Album Reviews)

Preview: West Green House Opera 2021 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

SG Lewis – times (Album Reviews)

Slowthai – TYRON (Album Reviews)

White Ring – Show Me Heaven (Album Reviews)

Wild Pink – A Billion Little Lights (Album Reviews)

Smith & Burrows – Only Smith & Burrows Is Good Enough (Album Reviews)

XIXA – Genesis (Album Reviews)

Psymon Spine – Charismatic Megafauna (Album Reviews)

Tindersticks – Distractions (Album Reviews)

Stretch Panic – Glitter & Gore (Album Reviews)

The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy (Album Reviews)

Pauline Anna Strom – Angel Tears In Sunlight (Album Reviews)

Mogwai – As The Love Continues (Album Reviews)

Preview: Nevill Holt Opera 2021 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Sia – Music: Songs From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (Album Reviews)

Tindersticks’ Stuart Staples: “I needed to be in a place I hadn’t been before” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Sarah Mary Chadwick – Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby (Album Reviews)

Dead Poet Society – -!- (Album Reviews)

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Paterson @ Henry Wood Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kìzis – Turn (Album Reviews)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – New Fragility (Album Reviews)

Mush – Lines Redacted (Album Reviews)

Django Django – Glowing In The Dark (Album Reviews)

Virginia Wing – Private Life (Album Reviews)

Femi Kuti and Made Kuti – Legacy+ (Album Reviews)

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound (Album Reviews)

The Staves – Good Woman (Album Reviews)

Coma World – Coma World (Album Reviews)

Black Country, New Road – For The First Time (Album Reviews)

Foo Fighters – Medicine At Midnight (Album Reviews)

The Weather Station – Ignorance (Album Reviews)

TV Priest – Uppers (Album Reviews)

John Carpenter – Lost Themes III: Alive After Death (Album Reviews)

Ani DiFranco – Revolutionary Love (Album Reviews)

Weezer – OK Human (Album Reviews)

Opera Holland Park Launches Free Online Music Lessons (Opera + Classical Music Features)

SOPHIE, visionary innovator who sculpted thrillingly uncompromising sound worlds (Music Features, Spotlights)

The Body – I’ve Seen All I Need To See (Album Reviews)

Tribulation – Where The Gloom Becomes Sound (Album Reviews)

Goat Girl – On All Fours (Album Reviews)

Black Honey – Written & Directed (Album Reviews)

Rats On Rafts – Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths (Album Reviews)

Albertine Sarges – The Sticky Fingers (Album Reviews)

Tamar Aphek – All Bets Are Off (Album Reviews)

Celeste – Not Your Muse (Album Reviews)

Anna B Savage – A Common Turn (Album Reviews)

Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams (Album Reviews)

Fairest Isle: Music from 17th and 18th Century England – Eboracum Baroque @ King’s Ely Recital Hall, Ely (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: Grange Park Opera’s Ivan the Terrible in Partnership with The Romanoff Foundation   (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Jim Ghedi – In The Furrows Of Common Place (Album Reviews)

Hilang Child: “I write uplifting music to represent the feelings I want to be having” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Palberta – Palberta5000 (Album Reviews)

Yung – Ongoing Dispute (Album Reviews)

Bicep – Isles (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Maxïmo Park (This Music Made Me)

Daniel Knox – Won’t You Take Me With You (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Grandbrothers (This Music Made Me)

Beautify Junkyards – Cosmorama (Album Reviews)

Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs (Album Reviews)

Shame – Drunk Tank Pink (Album Reviews)

Grandbrothers – All The Unknown (Album Reviews)

Skyway Man – World Only Ends When You Die (Album Reviews)

Barry Gibb – Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol 1 (Album Reviews)

Hilang Child – Every Mover (Album Reviews)

Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz (Album Reviews)

Sunday Service Choir / Kanye West – Emmanuel (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

One For Keeps: Neil Young – After The Gold Rush (One For Keeps)

musicOMH’s 2020 Advent Calendar Day 25:
Wagner’s ‘Siegfried Idyll’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 24:
Adam’s ‘O Holy Night’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Advent Calendar Day 23:
Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Christmas Eve’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Advent Calendar Day 22:
Puccini’s ‘La bohème’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 21:
Brooks’ ‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 20:
Anderson’s ‘Sleigh Ride’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Paul McCartney – McCartney III (Album Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 19:
Leontovych’s ‘Carol of the Bells’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Fine Young Cannibals – The Raw & The Cooked / Fine Young Cannibals (Music Features, Spotlights)

All Creation Waits: The Marian Consort @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 18:
Hely-Hutchinson’s ‘Carol Symphony’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 17:
Finnish National Opera and Ballet’s ‘Covid fan tutte’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2020 (Lists)

The Cosmos: BBC SO / Stasevska / Cox @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 16:
Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Orwell – Parcelle Brillante (Album Reviews)

Fidelio @ Opera North at Town Hall, Leeds (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 15:
‘Gaudete’ (Shreds) (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 14:
Prokofiev’s ‘Troika’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Spotlight: The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One (Music Features, Spotlights)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 13:
Handel’s ‘The Trumpet shall sound’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Nils Frahm – Tripping With Nils Frahm (Album Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 12:
Waldteufel’s ‘Les Patineurs Valse’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Taylor Swift – Evermore (Album Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 11:
Berlioz’ ‘The Shepherds’ Farewell’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Ancient Plastix – Ancient Plastix (Album Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 10:
Messiaen’s ‘La Nativité du Seigneur’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Live Skull – Dangerous Visions (Album Reviews)

Paul Guinery – Dicky Bird Hop (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 9:
Mozart’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor’ (3rd movement) (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Hamrahlíð Choir – Come And Be Joyful (Album Reviews)

Why I Love… Christmas music (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 8:
Sibelius’ ‘Christmas Carol ‘En etsi valtaa loistoa” (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Moses Boyd – Dark Matter (Album Reviews)

Spiritato – The Taste Of This Nation (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 7:
Chris de Burgh’s ‘A Spaceman Came Travelling’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 6:
Vaughan Williams’ ‘Hodie’ (Epilogue) (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 5:
Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Sigur Rós – Odin’s Raven Magic (Album Reviews)

Soho Rezanejad – Perform And Surrender (Album Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 4:
Britten’s ‘A Ceremony of Carols (Op. 28): There Is No Rose’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Golden Age Of Steam – Tomato Brain (Album Reviews)

Half Japanese – Crazy Hearts (Album Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 3:
Poulenc’s ‘Un Soir de Neige’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Son Lux – Tomorrows II (Album Reviews)

Calexico – Seasonal Shift (Album Reviews)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 2:
Humperdinck’s ‘Hänsel und Gretel’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s 2020 Classical Advent Calendar Day 1:
Clarke’s ‘Prince of Denmark’s March’ (Opera + Classical Music Features)

musicOMH’s Classical Advent Calendar 2020 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Smashing Pumpkins – CYR (Album Reviews)

Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth (40th Anniversary Edition) (Album Reviews)

Ane Brun – How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow (Album Reviews)

Steps – What The Future Holds (Album Reviews)

Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: EFG London Jazz Festival 2020 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Adhelm – Yasam Rose (Album Reviews)

Cabane: “It was a serious consideration to think about only releasing one single physical copy” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Cabaret Voltaire – Shadow Of Fear (Album Reviews)

Preview: Longborough Festival Opera’s Pagliacci (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Neil Diamond with the London Symphony Orchestra – Classic Diamonds (Album Reviews)

Megan Thee Stallion – Good News (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Amy Winehouse – The Collection (Music Features, Spotlights)

The Cribs – Night Network (Album Reviews)

Ana Roxanne – Because Of A Flower (Album Reviews)

Luke Abbott – Translate (Album Reviews)

Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas – III (Album Reviews)

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – K.G. (Album Reviews)

Preview: Opera North looks to the future and provides sustenance for the present (Opera + Classical Music Features)

AC/DC – Power Up (Album Reviews)

Benee – Hey U X (Album Reviews)

Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Songs From The Kitchen Disco (Album Reviews)

Molchat Doma – Monument (Album Reviews)

Swans – Children Of God (Album Reviews)

Faten Kanaan – A Mythology Of Circles (Album Reviews)

Camila Fuchs – Kids Talk Sun (Album Reviews)

Marika Hackman – Covers (Album Reviews)

Beyries – Encounter (Album Reviews)

Seamus Fogarty – A Bag Of Eyes (Album Reviews)

Dire Straits: brothers in AOR (Music Features, Spotlights)

Alice Coote / Christian Blackshaw @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tunng – Tunng presents… Dead Club (Album Reviews)

Eels – Earth To Dora (Album Reviews)

Mort Garson: unearthing electronica’s unexplained pioneer (Music Features, Spotlights)

Ólafur Arnalds – Some Kind Of Peace (Album Reviews)

Amy Macdonald – The Human Demands (Album Reviews)

Kylie Minogue – Disco (Album Reviews)

Little Mix – Confetti (Album Reviews)

Tiña – Positive Mental Health Music (Album Reviews)

Adulkt Life – Book Of Curses (Album Reviews)

Shirley Bassey – I Owe It All To You (Album Reviews)

Dizzee Rascal – E3 AF (Album Reviews)

Bostridge / Connolly / Drake / Carducci Quartet @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ariana Grande – Positions (Album Reviews)

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full (Album Reviews)

Elvis Costello – Hey Clockface (Album Reviews)

Siobhan Stagg / Jonathan Ware @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sam Smith – Love Goes (Album Reviews)

Motörhead – Ace Of Spades (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Album Reviews)

The Style Council’s Mick Talbot: “It was a very liberating thing” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Michael Rother – Solo II (Album Reviews)

The Style Council – Long Hot Summers: The Story Of The Style Council (Album Reviews)

Ane Brun – After The Great Storm (Album Reviews)

Ultraflex – Visions Of Ultraflex (Album Reviews)

Mourn – Self Worth (Album Reviews)

Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Album Reviews)

Richard Dawson @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Damrau / Calleja @ The Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy (online) (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ty Dolla $ign – Featuring Ty Dolla $ign (Album Reviews)

Melody Gardot – Sunset In The Blue (Album Reviews)

Adrianne Lenker – Songs & Instrumentals (Album Reviews)

Keaton Henson – Monument (Album Reviews)

Actress – Karma & Desire (Album Reviews)

Major Lazer – Music Is The Weapon (Album Reviews)

The Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives (Album Reviews)

Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Album Reviews)

Juanita Stein – Snapshot (Album Reviews)

Sam Amidon – Sam Amidon (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Juanita Stein (This Music Made Me)

Laura Veirs – My Echo (Album Reviews)

William Basinski: “These are my lamentations about the shit that’s been going on forever” – Interview (Music Interviews)

This Is The Kit – Off Off On (Album Reviews)

Faithless – All Blessed (Album Reviews)

Mahan Esfahani @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Lemonheads – Lovey (30th Anniversary Edition) (Album Reviews)

William Basinski – Lamentations (Album Reviews)

Palace Winter – …Keep Dreaming, Buddy (Album Reviews)

Nothing But Thieves – Moral Panic (Album Reviews)

Riches / Kynoch & Williams / Glynn @ Holywell Music Room, Oxford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: This Is The Kit (This Music Made Me)

Songhoy Blues – Optimisme (Album Reviews)

Do It Any Way You Wanna: An Introduction to Patrick Cowley (Music Features, Spotlights)

Bostridge / Giorgini & Appl / Kynoch @ Merton College Chapel & Holywell Music Room, Oxford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers (Album Reviews)

Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler – In Memory Of My Feelings (Album Reviews)

Tom Petty – Wildflowers & All The Rest (Album Reviews)

Kevin Morby – Sundowner (Album Reviews)

Fretwork / Elizabeth Kenny @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Autechre – Sign (Album Reviews)

Katie Melua – Album No 8 (Album Reviews)

Annie – Dark Hearts (Album Reviews)

Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (Album Reviews)

Erland Cooper @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Louise Alder / Roger Vignoles @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Spotlight: Spoon – Slay On Cue (Music Features, Spotlights)

Emmy The Great – April/月音 (Album Reviews)

Machinedrum – A View Of U (Album Reviews)

The Divine Comedy – Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time (Album Reviews)

Future Islands – As Long As You Are (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Ultravox – Vienna (Music Features, Spotlights)

Ustad Saami – Pakistan Is For The Peaceful (Album Reviews)

Sir Bryn Terfel / Britten Sinfonia @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sir András Schiff @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders (Album Reviews)

Slow Pulp – Moveys (Album Reviews)

Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies (Music Features, Spotlights)

Frazey Ford @ Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver (online) (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Transmissions (Album Reviews)

Orchestra Baobab – Specialist In All Styles (Album Reviews)

Groove Armada – Edge Of The Horizon (Album Reviews)

Melanie C – Melanie C (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Stile Antico’s The Journey of the Mayflower (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Q&A: Kutiman (Music Interviews)

Elvis Perkins – Creation Myths (Album Reviews)

Dagny – Strangers / Lovers (Album Reviews)

Jónsi – Shiver (Album Reviews)

Death Valley Girls – Under The Spell Of Joy (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: A Certain Ratio (This Music Made Me)

Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine (Album Reviews)

Deftones – Ohms (Album Reviews)

Anna von Hausswolff – All Thoughts Fly (Album Reviews)

Bob Mould – Blue Hearts (Album Reviews)

Nana Adjoa – Big Dreaming Ants (Album Reviews)

Mint Field – Sentimiento Mundial (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Kylie Minogue – Light Years (Music Features, Spotlights)

Thurston Moore – By The Fire (Album Reviews)

Idles – Ultra Mono (Album Reviews)

Richard Skelton – These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound (Album Reviews)

Cabbage – Amanita Pantherina (Album Reviews)

A Certain Ratio – ACR Loco (Album Reviews)

Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension (Album Reviews)

Fleet Foxes – Shore (Album Reviews)

Alicia Keys – Alicia (Album Reviews)

Konstantin Krimmel / Malcolm Martineau @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Into It. Over It. – Figure (Album Reviews)

El Ten Eleven – Tautology (Album Reviews)

MJ Guider – Sour Cherry Bell (Album Reviews)

A. G. Cook – Apple (Album Reviews)

Asian Dub Foundation – Access Denied (Album Reviews)

AMMAR 808 – Global Control / Invisible Invasion (Album Reviews)

Bright Light Bright Light – Fun City (Album Reviews)

Paul Epworth – Voyager (Album Reviews)

AMMAR 808: “I’m always looking for intense rhythms, I’ve always been into intense music” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Gerhaher / Huber @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Proms 2020 Live: The Last Night of the Proms @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Uniform – Shame (Album Reviews)

Everything Everything – Re-Animator (Album Reviews)

Roachford – Twice In A Lifetime (Album Reviews)

Haiku Hands – Haiku Hands (Album Reviews)

Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos (Album Reviews)

Proms 2020 Live: Aurora Orchestra / Collon @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

This Music Made Me: Suzanne Vega (This Music Made Me)

Suzanne Vega – An Evening Of New York Songs And Stories (Album Reviews)

Doves – The Universal Want (Album Reviews)

The Flaming Lips – American Head (Album Reviews)

Tricky – Fall To Pieces (Album Reviews)

Krononaut – Krononaut (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Everything Everything (This Music Made Me)

7 Deaths of Maria Callas @ Bavarian State Opera, Munich (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Die Zauberflöte @ Bavarian State Opera, Munich (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Where there’s a will… How the Bavarian State Opera is coping during the pandemic (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Saint Saviour – Tomorrow Again (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Saint Saviour (This Music Made Me)

Billy Ocean – One World (Album Reviews)

Afel Bocoum – Lindé (Album Reviews)

Bill Callahan – Gold Record (Album Reviews)

Throwing Muses – Sun Racket (Album Reviews)

The Pineapple Thief – Versions Of The Truth (Album Reviews)

Hurts – Faith (Album Reviews)

All Them Witches – Nothing As The Ideal (Album Reviews)

Young Knives – Barbarians (Album Reviews)

Declan McKenna – Zeros (Album Reviews)

Disclosure – Energy (Album Reviews)

Proms 2020 Live: LSO / Uchida / Rattle @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Proms 2020 Live: The Symphonic Organ @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Samia – The Baby (Album Reviews)

Toni Braxton – Spell My Name (Album Reviews)

Sophie Hunger – Halluzinationen (Album Reviews)

Yello – Point (Album Reviews)

Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess (Album Reviews)

Katy Perry – Smile (Album Reviews)

PVRIS – Use Me (Album Reviews)

Toots And The Maytals – Got To Be Tough (Album Reviews)

Ulver – Flowers Of Evil (Album Reviews)

Widowspeak – Plum (Album Reviews)

Private World – Aleph (Album Reviews)

Glass Animals – Dreamland (Album Reviews)

The Magic Gang – Death Of The Party (Album Reviews)

Alex The Astronaut – The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing (Album Reviews)

Bright Eyes – Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (Album Reviews)

Why I Love… Ariadne auf Naxos (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Lemon Twigs – Songs For The General Public (Album Reviews)

The Front Bottoms – In Sickness & In Flames (Album Reviews)

The Waterboys – Good Luck, Seeker (Album Reviews)

HC McEntire – Eno Axis (Album Reviews)

Dan Croll – Grand Plan (Album Reviews)

Erasure – The Neon (Album Reviews)

Cut Copy – Freeze, Melt (Album Reviews)

Matmos – The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form (Album Reviews)

I LIKE TRAINS – KOMPROMAT (Album Reviews)

Bebel Gilberto – Agora (Album Reviews)

The Killers – Imploding The Mirage (Album Reviews)

Girl Friday – Androgynous Mary (Album Reviews)

Whitney – Candid (Album Reviews)

Emma Swift – Blonde On The Tracks (Album Reviews)

Burna Boy – Twice As Tall (Album Reviews)

Bruce Hornsby – Non-Secure Connection (Album Reviews)

Pavel Kolesnikov / Samson Tsoy @ Bold Tendencies, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Album Reviews)

Sea Girls – Open Up Your Head (Album Reviews)

Levellers – Peace (Album Reviews)

James Dean Bradfield – Even In Exile (Album Reviews)

Marsicans – Ursa Major (Album Reviews)

Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings (Album Reviews)

Washed Out – Purple Noon (Album Reviews)

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LSO / Rattle @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

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Luisa Miller @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

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Lise Davidsen @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

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EFG London Jazz Festival 2019 @ Various Venues, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

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Sleaford Mods @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

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A Winged Victory For The Sullen: “There should be space to be inside the music, with thoughts and emotions” – Interview (Music Interviews)

William Doyle – Your Wilderness Revisited (Album Reviews)

Weyes Blood @ Electric Brixton, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

A Winged Victory For The Sullen – The Undivided Five (Album Reviews)

Bambara @ Green Door Store, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Michael Kiwanuka – KIWANUKA (Album Reviews)

Sudan Archives – Athena (Album Reviews)

Kanye West – Jesus Is King (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: William Doyle (This Music Made Me)

Sean O’Hagan: “I thought, if Tyler, The Creator’s doing it, I’ll do it!” – Interview (Music Interviews)

The Apostles @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Keaton Henson – Six Lethargies (Album Reviews)

Anna Meredith – FIBS (Album Reviews)

Swans – Leaving Meaning (Album Reviews)

Fader – In Shadow (Album Reviews)

Teebs – Anicca (Album Reviews)

Sunn O))) – Pyroclasts (Album Reviews)

Sean O’Hagan – Radum Calls, Radum Calls (Album Reviews)

La bohème @ Opera North at Grand Theatre, Leeds (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Cult @ O2 Academy, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Gabriel @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Jurowski @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Mask of Orpheus @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Acid Arab – Jdid (Album Reviews)

Floating Points – Crush (Album Reviews)

Holly Herndon @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Park Jiha @ Rich Mix, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Nils Frahm – All Encores (Album Reviews)

Patrick Watson – Wave (Album Reviews)

Don Pasquale @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

808 State’s Graham Massey: “When rave came along, I felt culturally and technologically equipped” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Un giorno di regno @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mark Lanegan Band – Somebody’s Knocking (Album Reviews)

Des’ree – A Love Story (Album Reviews)

Big Thief – Two Hands (Album Reviews)

Kim Gordon – No Home Record (Album Reviews)

808 State – Transmission Suite (Album Reviews)

Elbow – Giants Of All Sizes (Album Reviews)

The Silver Lake @ Hackney Empire, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (Album Reviews)

The Psychedelic Furs @ Dome, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Jambinai @ Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bill Callahan & Dallas Acid @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Lingua Ignota @ Oslo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (Album Reviews)

William Alwyn’s Miss Julie @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Chromatics – Closer To Grey (Album Reviews)

Portico Quartet – Memory Streams (Album Reviews)

Trentemøller – Obverse (Album Reviews)

Penguin Cafe – Handfuls Of Night (Album Reviews)

Moon Duo – Stars Are The Light (Album Reviews)

Max Cooper @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Giulio Cesare @ Opera North, Grand Theatre, Leeds (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Monochrome Set – Fabula Mendax (Album Reviews)

Serafina Steer – The Mind Is A Trap (Album Reviews)

The Memory Band, Far Rainbow & Ingrid Plum @ Union Chapel, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

CHRISTEENE @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Pixies @ Alexandra Palace, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Juan Maclean – The Brighter The Light (Album Reviews)

Stephen Storace’s Bride and Gloom @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Daedelus – The Bittereinders (Album Reviews)

M83 – DSVII (Album Reviews)

Prom 75: The Last Night of the Proms 2019 @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Metronomy – Metronomy Forever (Album Reviews)

Sampa The Great – The Return (Album Reviews)

Gruff Rhys – Pang! (Album Reviews)

Prom 74: NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover / Manze @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

(Sandy) Alex G – House Of Sugar (Album Reviews)

Devendra Banhart – Ma (Album Reviews)

Prom 70: Jonny Greenwood @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Charli XCX – Charli (Album Reviews)

My Life Story – World Citizen (Album Reviews)

Chrissie Hynde – Valve Bone Woe (Album Reviews)

Prom 67: BBC SO / Oramo @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Squid, Black Country, New Road & Daniel O’Sullivan… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Iggy Pop – Free (Album Reviews)

Prom 62: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 61: Vienna Philharmonic / Orozco-Estrada @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Frankie Cosmos – Close It Quietly (Album Reviews)

Prom 60: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Haitink @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Föllakzoid @ Patterns, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Kikagaku Moyo @ Komedia, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Modern Nature – How To Live (Album Reviews)

Alexander Tucker – Guild Of The Asbestos Weaver (Album Reviews)

Bat For Lashes – Lost Girls (Album Reviews)

Prom 55: Jephtha @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 54: Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 53: BBC Symphony Orchestra / Davis @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (Album Reviews)

Bonnie Prince Billy, Bryce Dessner & Eighth Blackbird – When We Are Inhuman (Album Reviews)

Prom 51: Die Zauberflöte @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Leeds 2019 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Ezra Furman – Twelve Nudes (Album Reviews)

Sheryl Crow – Threads (Album Reviews)

The Murder Capital – When I Have Fears (Album Reviews)

Common – Let Love (Album Reviews)

Sam Evian, The Beths, Kikagaku Moyo… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Prom 47: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Nelsons @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Green Man 2019 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 45: Mississippi Goddam @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Taylor Swift – Lover (Album Reviews)

Prom 44: London Symphony Orchestra / Rattle @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert @ Omeara, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won’t Hold (Album Reviews)

Ride – This Is Not A Safe Place (Album Reviews)

Prom 40: Queen Victoria’s 200th Anniversary @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Friendly Fires – Inflorescent (Album Reviews)

Prom 38: Solomon’s Knot @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 36: Late-Night Mixtape @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 35: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Brabbins @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 34: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / Barenboim @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Hold Steady – Thrashing Thru The Passion (Album Reviews)

SOPHIE @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert, Oval, Peaness… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Blanck Mass – Animated Violence Mild (Album Reviews)

Prom 31: Philharmonia Orchestra / Salonen @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Shura – Forevher (Album Reviews)

Prom 29: The Warner Brothers Story @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bon Iver – i,i (Album Reviews)

Johnny Marr @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 26: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Stutzmann @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 25: BBC SO / Stasevska @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend (Album Reviews)

Jungle @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Thundercat @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 21: Olivier Latry @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Visions 2019 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Darren Hayman, Mount Eerie, Marika Hackman… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

La Calisto @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

L’inganno felice / La Cenerentola @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mabel – High Expectations (Album Reviews)

Guys and Dolls @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Indietracks 2019 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: WOMAD 2019 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Advance Base @ Prince Albert, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

kd lang @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Lucinda Williams @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 11: 1969: The Sound of a Summer @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Il segreto di Susanna / Iolanta @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 10: The Race for Space @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Daniel Norgren, Thundercat… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Lloyd Cole – Guesswork (Album Reviews)

Modern Studies and Tommy Perman – Emergent Slow Arcs (Album Reviews)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 1: VOCES8 @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Die Fledermaus @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 4: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Karabits @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

L’arlesiana @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kelsey Lu, Japanese Television, Jenny Lewis… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Prom 1: BBC SO / Canellakis @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

LINGUA IGNOTA – CALIGULA (Album Reviews)

The Flaming Lips – King’s Mouth (Album Reviews)

Doves @ Somerset House, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Don Giovanni @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Final Fling with Simon Keenlyside and Jazz Friends @ Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Africa Express: Moonchild Sanelly, Muzi and Poté on new album EGOLI – Q&A (Music Interviews)

Penelope Isles – Until The Tide Creeps In (Album Reviews)

Africa Express – EGOLI (Album Reviews)

Drab Majesty – Modern Mirror (Album Reviews)

Jónsi & Alex Somers: Riceboy Sleeps @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

METZ – Automat (Album Reviews)

Tycho – Weather (Album Reviews)

The Turn of the Screw @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Le nozze di Figaro @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jónsi & Alex Somers, Kronos Quartet, Jane Weaver… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

The Soft Cavalry – The Soft Cavalry (Album Reviews)

75 Dollar Bill: “Build the thing so you can make the sound you are after” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Rusalka @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Demon @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Turning Tides Festival, The Soft Cavalry, Xylouris White… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Così fan tutte @ Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Black Keys – ‘Let’s Rock’ (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: The Soft Cavalry – Rachel Goswell and Steve Clarke’s most influential music (This Music Made Me)

The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger (Album Reviews)

Kate Tempest @ Broadway Theatre, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Cassius – Dreems (Album Reviews)

Preview: UK Festivals 2019 (Previews)

Belshazzar @ Grange Festival, Northington (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Anna Bolena @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Will Young – Lexicon (Album Reviews)

Mark Ronson – Late Night Feelings (Album Reviews)

Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Cendrillon @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Hot Chip – A Bath Full Of Ecstasy (Album Reviews)

Black Midi – Schlagenheim (Album Reviews)

Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars (Album Reviews)

Don Carlo @ Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bill Callahan – Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Field Day 2019 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Fantasio @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Howling @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kate Tempest – The Book Of Traps And Lessons (Album Reviews)

Jordan Rakei – Origin (Album Reviews)

Stile Antico / Azar @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bastille – Doom Days (Album Reviews)

Matmos @ Jazz Cafe, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Un ballo in maschera @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Madonna – Madame X (Album Reviews)

Calexico & Iron And Wine – Years To Burn (Album Reviews)

PicaPica – Together And Apart (Album Reviews)

Falstaff @ Grange Festival, Northington (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tame Impala @ O2 Arena, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Aurora – A Different Kind Of Human (Album Reviews)

Le nozze di Figaro @ Grange Festival, Northington (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Porgy and Bess @ Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Cinquecento @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Capriccio @ Teatro Real, Madrid (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

BBC Concert Orchestra / Helsing @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Das Rheingold @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Pixx – Strange Mercies (Album Reviews)

The Divine Comedy – Office Politics (Album Reviews)

Dylan LeBlanc – Renegade (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Best Kept Secret 2019 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Froth – Duress (Album Reviews)

The Diary of One Who Disappeared @ Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Manon Lescaut @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Richard Hawley: “We are being led by psychopaths.” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Spotlight: Tiger Bay – Saint Etienne’s masterpiece at 25 (Music Features, Spotlights)

Plaid – Polymer (Album Reviews)

Death & Vanilla @ Shacklewell Arms, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Filthy Friends @ Garage, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Finn Andrews @ St Pancras Old Church, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Don Giovanni @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Il Pomo d’Oro / Moreau @ Barbican Milton Court, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Agrippina @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lucy Dacus, Jambinai, Tame Impala… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Ex Hex @ Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

OAE / Fischer @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lust For Youth – Lust For Youth (Album Reviews)

Richard Hawley – Further (Album Reviews)

Skepta – Ignorance Is Bliss (Album Reviews)

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – And Now For The Watchamacallit (Album Reviews)

Dido @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Melanie De Biasio @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Bartered Bride @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: Daylight Music – Summer 2019 (Previews)

Duel: Porpora and Handel in London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Hayden Thorpe – Diviner (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Christine And The Queens @ All Points East, Victoria Park, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Flying Lotus – Flamagra (Album Reviews)

Filthy Friends, Carly Rae Jepsen, Melanie De Biasio… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Lagrime di San Pietro @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Donnerstag aus Licht @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Cate Le Bon – Reward (Album Reviews)

Cold Showers – Motionless (Album Reviews)

Morrissey – California Son (Album Reviews)

Big Thief @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Big Thief, Aldous Harding, Saint Etienne… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

La Damnation de Faust @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Slowthai – Nothing Great About Britain (Album Reviews)

Oh Sees @ Albert Hall, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Music of Eric Whitacre @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Com Truise – Persuasion System (Album Reviews)

DJINN – DJINN (Album Reviews)

Rammstein – Rammstein (Album Reviews)

Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated (Album Reviews)

Preview: London Festivals 2019 (Previews)

Erland Cooper – Sule Skerry (Album Reviews)

Tyler, The Creator – Igor (Album Reviews)

Unloved @ Scala, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Hen Ogledd @ Bush Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The National – I Am Easy To Find (Album Reviews)

Philip Glass – The Bowie Symphonies @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Israel in Egypt @ Barbican Milton Court, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Paul Bunyan @ Alexandra Palace Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Holly Herndon – Proto (Album Reviews)

Clinic – Wheeltappers & Shunters (Album Reviews)

Fat White Family @ Ritz, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Maps – Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss. (Album Reviews)

Howard Jones – Transform (Album Reviews)

Big | Brave – A Gaze Among Them (Album Reviews)

Tim Hecker – Anoyo (Album Reviews)

Terminal Cheesecake – Le Sacre Du Liévre (Album Reviews)

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – End Of Suffering (Album Reviews)

Protomartyr – No Passion All Technique (Album Reviews)

Vampire Weekend – Father Of The Bride (Album Reviews)

BBCSO / Oramo @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Big Thief – UFOF (Album Reviews)

Man of La Mancha @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Cage The Elephant – Social Cues (Album Reviews)

Breaking the Habit @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

BBCSO / Oramo @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Venceslao @ St George’s, Hanover Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Music for a Queen @ King’s College Chapel, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Connolly / Huntley / Tritschler / Martineau @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Loyle Carner – Not Waving, But Drowning (Album Reviews)

The Mountain Goats – In League With Dragons (Album Reviews)

Marina – Love + Fear (Album Reviews)

Billy Budd @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Foxygen – Seeing Other People (Album Reviews)

SS Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill @ Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Stealing Sheep – Big Wows (Album Reviews)

Sunn O))) – Life Metal (Album Reviews)

Clare College Cambridge Choir @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

St John Passion @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Handel’s Brockes-Passion @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lizzo – Cuz I Love You (Album Reviews)

Band Of Skulls @ Komedia, Bath (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Sleeper @ Forum, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Preview: BBC Proms 2019 (BBC Proms reviews)

Fat White Family – Serfs Up! (Album Reviews)

Fontaines DC – Dogrel (Album Reviews)

Anderson .Paak – Ventura (Album Reviews)

Spiral Stairs – We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized (Album Reviews)

The Chemical Brothers – No Geography (Album Reviews)

Band Of Skulls – Love Is All You Love (Album Reviews)

Pom Poko @ Lexington, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bostridge / Giorgini @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Beirut @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

These New Puritans, Soap&Skin, Marissa Nadler… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Handel Remixed @ CLF Art Cafe, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Midori Takada & Lafawndah: Ceremonial Blue @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bruce Hornsby – Absolute Zero (Album Reviews)

Handel vs Porpora @ St George’s Hanover Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prins Thomas – Ambitions (Album Reviews)

Beirut, Robyn, Sleeper… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Khalid – Free Spirit (Album Reviews)

Parry: Judith @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

St John Passion @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Beth Gibbons & the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Penderecki – Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Album Reviews)

Edwyn Collins – Badbea (Album Reviews)

Berenice @ Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Concerto for Comedian and Orchestra @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Piramo e Tisbe @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Midori Takada & Lafawndah, Steve Gunn, Hannah Peel… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Africa Express: The Circus @ Wanstead Flats, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Jenny Lewis – On The Line (Album Reviews)

Haydn: The Creation @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Fiddler on the Roof @ Playhouse Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (Album Reviews)

White Denim – Side Effects (Album Reviews)

Andrew Bird – My Finest Work Yet (Album Reviews)

Mefistofele @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nathan Gunn / Julie Gunn @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: London Handel Festival 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Matthew Herbert Great Britain and Gibraltar European Union Membership Referendum Big Band – The State Between Us (Album Reviews)

Africa Express, Doves, Sauna Youth… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

David Gray: “I’m about dispatches from NW3, walking the dog in Hampstead” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 (Album Reviews)

Sleeper – The Modern Age (Album Reviews)

Rustin Man – Drift Code (Album Reviews)

Dave – Psychodrama (Album Reviews)

La forza del destino @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lambchop – This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You) (Album Reviews)

TOY – Happy In The Hollow (Album Reviews)

Stella Donnelly – Beware Of The Dogs (Album Reviews)

These New Puritans – Inside The Rose (Album Reviews)

Karen O & Danger Mouse – Lux Prima (Album Reviews)

Preview: Garsington Opera 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Snapped Ankles @ Deaf Institute, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Vampire Weekend, Charlotte Adigéry & Sarah Davachi…This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Matmos – Plastic Anniversary (Album Reviews)

The Hold Steady @ Electric Ballroom, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Rocket Girl’s Vinita Joshi: “Music gave so much to me, I wanted to give something back” – Interview (Music Interviews)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – The Brian Jonestown Massacre (Album Reviews)

Oneohtrix Point Never @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Cinematic Orchestra – To Believe (Album Reviews)

The Turn of the Screw @ Bury Court Opera, Bentley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Coathangers – The Devil You Know (Album Reviews)

Blick Bassy, You Tell Me & Ibibio Sound Machine… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Amanda Palmer – There Will Be No Intermission (Album Reviews)

Dido – Still On My Mind (Album Reviews)

Howe Gelb – Gathered (Album Reviews)

Sigrid – Sucker Punch (Album Reviews)

We walk through mindfields: The Prodigy’s Keith Flint remembered (Music Features, Spotlights)

LSO / Pappano @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra @ Hackney Empire, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Self Esteem – Compliments Please (Album Reviews)

Preview: Longborough Festival Opera 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Obituary: André Previn (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Oneohtrix Point Never, Kristin Hersh, Gemma Ray… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Agreed @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

LPO / Ottensamer / Jurowski @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Pond – Tasmania (Album Reviews)

Solange – When I Get Home (Album Reviews)

White Denim @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Various Artists – Rocket Girl 20 (Album Reviews)

Preview: Opera Holland Park 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Così fan tutte @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Aurora @ Bury Court Opera, Bentley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Monstrous Child @ Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Late Junction Festival, The Twilight Sad, Snapped Ankles… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Follies @ National Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Les Talens Lyriques / Rousset @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Julia Jacklin – Crushing (Album Reviews)

Tynan / Appl / Burnside @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Yo La Tengo @ EartH, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Yann Tiersen – ALL (Album Reviews)

Nash Ensemble / Phillips @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nitin Sawhney, Kathryn Joseph, Kel Assouf… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Wild Nothing @ Mama Roux’s, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Neneh Cherry @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Stile Antico @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ladytron – Ladytron (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Ladytron (This Music Made Me)

Ariana Grande – thank u, next (Album Reviews)

The Dream of Gerontius @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Yo La Tengo, Poppy Ackroyd, Neneh Cherry… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper: “We really wanted that southern gothic feel that Bobbie Gentry had” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Preview: West Green House Opera 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Mercury Rev – Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited (Album Reviews)

Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs (Album Reviews)

Steve Mason – About The Light (Album Reviews)

The Residents @ Union Chapel, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Preview: Nevill Holt Opera 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Tears For Fears @ Brighton Centre, Brighton (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Kátya Kabanová @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ian Brown – Ripples (Album Reviews)

The Wave Pictures @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Shirley Collins @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Field Music @ Imperial War Museum, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Miri (Album Reviews)

Low @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Residents, Beak>, Anna Calvi… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Claire Richards – My Wildest Dreams (Album Reviews)

The Twilight Sad – It Won’t Be Like This All The Time (Album Reviews)

Shirley Collins: “I despair of the population who allowed themselves to be fooled by tricks and lies” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Nina Nesbitt – The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change (Album Reviews)

Low, Field Music, Shirley Collins… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

The Swingles @ LSO St Luke’s, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Le Concert Spirituel / Niquet @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Blood Red Shoes – Get Tragic (Album Reviews)

Alcina @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Better Oblivion Community Center – Better Oblivion Community Center (Album Reviews)

Ibragimova / Tiberghien @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Pantha Du Prince @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

James Blake – Assume Form (Album Reviews)

Monarchy – Mid:Night (Album Reviews)

Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson: “I try not to take for granted that we’ll be going for another 20 years” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow (Album Reviews)

Winterreise: Gerhaher / Huber @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

You Tell Me – You Tell Me (Album Reviews)

The Queen of Spades @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

LSO / Rattle @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

OAE / Curnyn @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Venus Unwrapped @ Kings Place, 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Drink in his Music with Delight @ Savile Club, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – De Facto (Album Reviews)

Kolesnikov / Buksha / Hermès Quartet @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The King’s Consort / Davies / Hall @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Christmas Festival @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Padmore / Lepper @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Spotlight: Making Christmas Albums – Aidan Moffat and Engelbert Humperdinck on their yuletide works (Music Features, Spotlights)

L’Enfance du Christ @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mahan Esfahani @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The War On Drugs @ O2 Arena, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

John Wilson Orchestra @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Hansel and Gretel @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Ghost Stories For Christmas (Album Reviews)

Julia Holter @ EartH, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Katie Melua @ Westminster Central Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Gazelle Twin & NYX @ Oval Space, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Candide @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nash Ensemble / Roderick Williams @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: EFG London Jazz Festival 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Last And First Men @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Celebrating 50 years of the Glyndebourne Tour (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Good, The Bad & The Queen @ EartH, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2018 (Lists)

Allegri Quartet @ King’s Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Federico Albanese @ Purcell Room, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Twilight Sad @ Mill, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Preview: Spitalfields Music Festival 2018 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Academy of Ancient Music / Collins @ Milton Court Concert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia @ De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bryan Ferry And His Orchestra – Bitter-Sweet (Album Reviews)

Gerhaher / Huber @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (Album Reviews)

Esben And The Witch – Nowhere (Album Reviews)

Ed Harcourt – Beyond The End (Album Reviews)

Vessel – Queen Of Golden Dogs (Album Reviews)

Malcolm Middleton – Bananas (Album Reviews)

Le Willis @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: Salzburg Festival 2019 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Laibach – The Sound of Music (Album Reviews)

Art Brut – Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out (Album Reviews)

Le Concert de L’Hostel Dieu / Comte @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Good, The Bad & The Queen – Merrie Land (Album Reviews)

Boesch / Martineau, Winterreise @ Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jeff Goldblum @ Cadogan Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Mariah Carey – Caution (Album Reviews)

Two Medicine – Astropsychosis (Album Reviews)

Kelly Moran – Ultraviolet (Album Reviews)

Connolly / Newby / Middleton @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Brabbins / Kolesnikov @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

J Mascis – Elastic Days (Album Reviews)

Kurt Vile @ Crossing, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bernard Butler: “I became like a sponge” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Muse – Simulation Theory (Album Reviews)

The Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny And So Bright, Vol 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Pitchfork Paris 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

LSO / Roth @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jean-Michel Jarre – Equinoxe Infinity (Album Reviews)

The Silver Tassie @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Fleet Foxes – First Collection 2006-2009 (Album Reviews)

Charles Bradley – Black Velvet (Album Reviews)

Neko Case @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Damien Jurado @ Union Chapel, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – The Capitol Studios Sessions (Album Reviews)

Darren Hayman – Thankful Villages Vol. 3 (Album Reviews)

The Lucid Dream – Actualisation (Album Reviews)

Selling – On Reflection (Album Reviews)

The Rake’s Progress @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

John Grant @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Marianne Faithfull – Negative Capability (Album Reviews)

Bill Ryder-Jones – Yawn (Album Reviews)

Ólafur Arnalds @ Palladium, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

BLOG: UK Music Video Awards 2018 (Blog)

The Prodigy – No Tourists (Album Reviews)

Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want (Album Reviews)

U2 @ O2 Arena, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Robyn – Honey (Album Reviews)

Sons Of Kemet @ KOKO, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Tenebrae / Connolly @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks @ Asylum, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Preview: Pitchfork Paris 2018 (Previews)

Julia Holter – Aviary (Album Reviews)

La traviata @ Glyndebourne Tour, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Crooked Man – Crooked House (Album Reviews)

Georgia Anne Muldrow – Overload (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Bronski Beat – The Age Of Consent (Music Features, Spotlights)

Richard Ashcroft – Natural Rebel (Album Reviews)

The Triumph of Time and Truth @ King’s Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Neneh Cherry – Broken Politics (Album Reviews)

Company @ Gielgud Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

John Carpenter – Halloween OST (Album Reviews)

Blancmange – Wanderlust (Album Reviews)

Yoko Ono – Warzone (Album Reviews)

Dido and Aeneas / Jonas / I Will Not Speak @ Hackney Empire, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Virginia Wing @ Oslo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

MØ – Forever Neverland (Album Reviews)

Cendrillon @ Glyndebourne Tour, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

How To Dress Well – The Anteroom (Album Reviews)

Solomon @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Appl / Johnson @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kurt Vile – Bottle It In (Album Reviews)

St Vincent – MassEducation (Album Reviews)

Matthew Dear – Bunny (Album Reviews)

John Grant – Love Is Magic (Album Reviews)

Tim Hecker @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Julian Joseph’s Tristan & Isolde @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood @ Union Chapel, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie (Album Reviews)

Kristin Hersh – Possible Dust Clouds (Album Reviews)

Cat Power – Wanderer (Album Reviews)

Advance Base – Animal Companionship (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Felt – A Decade In Music (continued) (Music Features, Spotlights)

Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams (Album Reviews)

Götterdämmerung @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Rival Consoles, Tim Hecker and Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Siegfried @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La Luz @ Tufnell Park Dome, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Die Walküre @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Amber Arcades – European Heartbreak (Album Reviews)

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – King Of Cowards (Album Reviews)

Marissa Nadler – For My Crimes (Album Reviews)

Mudhoney – Digital Garbage (Album Reviews)

Cypress Hill – Elephants On Acid (Album Reviews)

Viagra Boys – Street Worms (Album Reviews)

Nile Rodgers & Chic – It’s About Time (Album Reviews)

David Crosby @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Das Rheingold @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jlin – Autobiography (Album Reviews)

Spiritualized @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Exploded View – Obey (Album Reviews)

Thalia Zedek Band – Fighting Season (Album Reviews)

Christine And The Queens – Chris (Album Reviews)

Suede – The Blue Hour (Album Reviews)

Villagers – The Art Of Pretending To Swim (Album Reviews)

Gazelle Twin – Pastoral (Album Reviews)

London Symphony Orchestra / Rattle @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Metric – Art Of Doubt (Album Reviews)

Isouard’s Cendrillon @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Michel Legrand: 60 Years of Music & Movies @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Gruff Rhys & London Contemporary Orchestra @ Barbican Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Field – Infinite Moment (Album Reviews)

Paul McCartney – Egypt Station (Album Reviews)

Dilly Dally – Heaven (Album Reviews)

Paul Weller – True Meanings (Album Reviews)

Paul Simon – In The Blue Light (Album Reviews)

Low – Double Negative (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Festival No 6 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love (Album Reviews)

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood – With Animals (Album Reviews)

Prom 75: The Last Night of the Proms 2018 @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Boesch / Martineau @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Justice – Woman Worldwide (Album Reviews)

Ólafur Arnalds – Re:member (Album Reviews)

The Cornshed Sisters, Janelle Monáe, Neneh Cherry… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Prom 74: Theodora @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 73: Before the Ending of the Day @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 72: Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Oundjian @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: End Of The Road 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

BC Camplight – Deportation Blues (Album Reviews)

Mothers – Render Another Ugly Method (Album Reviews)

Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt (Album Reviews)

Oliver Coates – Shelley’s On Zenn-La (Album Reviews)

Prom 70: Tango Prom @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

MNEK – Language (Album Reviews)

Wild Nothing – Indigo (Album Reviews)

Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance (Album Reviews)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 6: Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker @ Cadogan Hall, London (Classical and Opera)

Proms at Alexandra Palace: Trial by Jury @ Alexandra Palace Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Marquis Hawkes – The Marquis Of Hawkes (Album Reviews)

Prom 64: London Philharmonic Orchestra / Orozco-Estrada @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Anna Calvi – Hunter (Album Reviews)

St Vincent, Juanita Stein, Michael Price… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Festival Review: Leeds 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 7: Bernstein on Broadway and Beyond @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Interpol – Marauder (Album Reviews)

Prom 58: The Sound of an Orchestra @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

One For Keeps: Squarepusher – Ultravisitor (One For Keeps)

Darwin Deez – 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart (Album Reviews)

Phoebe Bridgers @ Scala, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Dirty Projectors @ Village Underground, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 52: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Gardner @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tunng – Songs You Make At Night (Album Reviews)

Goblin @ Union Chapel, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Death Cab For Cutie – Thank You For Today (Album Reviews)

Jake Shears – Jake Shears (Album Reviews)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 6: BBC Singers / Oramo @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jenny Lewis @ KOKO, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 46: National Youth Jazz Orchestra / Armstrong @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 44: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Morlot @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mitski – Be The Cowboy (Album Reviews)

Miles Kane – Coup De Grace (Album Reviews)

Prom 41: BBC Symphony Orchestra / Gardner @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 38: West Side Story @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Coral – Move Through The Dawn (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 33: BBC Symphony Orchestra / Farnes @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 4: Sarah Connolly / Joseph Middleton @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Vanessa @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / Benjamin @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nine Inch Nails, Gaika, Sløtface, Interpol …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Festival Review: WOMAD 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: Indietracks 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

L’incoronazione di Poppea @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Kendal Calling 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 22: BBC Scottish SO / Manze @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Candide / Midday Music @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ba-ta-clan / Madama Butterfly @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Gabe Gurnsey – Physical (Album Reviews)

Marvellous Party! @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 3: Ancient Rituals and New Tales @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 17: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Brabbins @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Felicita – Hej! (Album Reviews)

All Saints, Mitski, The National …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Santigold – I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions (Album Reviews)

Mercury Music Prize 2018: The Nominees (Music Features, Spotlights)

Gaika – Basic Volume (Album Reviews)

Breslik / Katz @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 11: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Søndergård @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

L’Ange de Nisida @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ross From Friends – Family Portrait (Album Reviews)

Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose (Album Reviews)

Prom 7: Jacob Collier and Friends @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ariadne auf Naxos @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Isabeau @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 6: BBC SO / Oramo @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: Latitude 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Paul Simon: British Summer Time @ Hyde Park, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Cure @ Hyde Park, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 1: BBC SO/Oramo @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ariadne auf Naxos @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sigrid @ Somerset House, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers 2 (Album Reviews)

Pushkin @ Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kaleidoscope, Amadou & Mariam, Pram… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Anna Meredith, MNEK, SOPHIE, BODEGA …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Candide @ The Grange Festival, Alresford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

MGMT @ Somerset House, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Un Ballo in Maschera @ Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Iggy Pop @ Finsbury Park, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Lotic – Power (Album Reviews)

The Skating Rink @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Black Spirituals – Black Access/Black Axes (Album Reviews)

Rokia Traoré, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, MGMT …This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Nile Rodgers, Florence And The Machine, Pusha T …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Years & Years – Palo Santo (Album Reviews)

Pelléas et Mélisande @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Track-By-Track: Immersion – Sleepless (Music Features, Spotlights)

Jazzanova – The Pool (Album Reviews)

Drake – Scorpion (Album Reviews)

Florence And The Machine – High As Hope (Album Reviews)

Kristin Hersh @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Florence And The Machine, Let’s Eat Grandma, Garbage …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Jim James – Uniform Distortion (Album Reviews)

Somerset House Summer Series, The Cure, Oneohtrix Point Never… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Kiefer – Happysad (Album Reviews)

The Milk Carton Kids – All The Things I Did And All The Things That I Didn’t Do (Album Reviews)

Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears (Album Reviews)

Nine Inch Nails @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

La traviata @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Bushstock 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Abduction from the Seraglio @ The Grange Festival, Alresford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Liminal @ Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Gorillaz – The Now Now (Album Reviews)

My Bloody Valentine @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Capriccio @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Johnny Jewel – Themes For Television (Album Reviews)

Nine Inch Nails @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Kiss Me Kate @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nine Inch Nails, Florence + The Machine, Paul McCartney …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Death Grips – Year Of The Snitch (Album Reviews)

Jack White, Gilberto Gil, Let’s Eat Grandma… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Kamasi Washington – Heaven And Earth (Album Reviews)

Mogwai @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Moon Duo @ Purcell Room, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bach: Mass in B minor @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

David Byrne @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Death Cab For Cutie @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Manic Street Preachers @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Falstaff @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Libertines @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Die Zauberflöte @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Gang Gang Dance – Kazuashita (Album Reviews)

The Orb – No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds (Album Reviews)

Soulwax – Essential (Album Reviews)

Benin City – Last Night (Album Reviews)

Agrippina @ The Grange Festival, Alresford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Le nozze di Figaro @ Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Carters – Everything Is Love (Album Reviews)

The Psychedelic Furs @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Alice Glass, serpentwithfeet, Anna Calvi …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Christina Aguilera – Liberation (Album Reviews)

Nas – Nasir (Album Reviews)

Stuart A Staples – Arrhythmia (Album Reviews)

Johnny Marr – Call The Comet (Album Reviews)

Bushstock, David Byrne, Hackney Arts Centre… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Hilary Woods @ St Pancras Old Church, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

SOPHIE – Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides (Album Reviews)

Waxahatchee @ Oval Space, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Der fliegende Holländer @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La finta semplice @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Oklahoma! @ Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Long Christmas Dinner / A Dinner Engagement @ Silk Street Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Wavves @ Tufnell Park Dome, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Bromide – I Woke Up (Album Reviews)

Microdisney @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Thom Yorke @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Leon Vynehall – Nothing Is Still (Album Reviews)

serpentwithfeet – soil (Album Reviews)

Snail Mail – Lush (Album Reviews)

Kids See Ghosts – Kids See Ghosts (Album Reviews)

Uniform & The Body – Mental Wounds Not Healing (Album Reviews)

Lily Allen, Kanye West, The Cure …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Matt Maltese – Bad Contestant (Album Reviews)

Angélique Kidjo – Remain In Light (Album Reviews)

Meltdown Festival, Beyoncé & Jay-Z, HAIM… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Lykke Li – So Sad So Sexy (Album Reviews)

The The @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Gruff Rhys – Babelsberg (Album Reviews)

Courtney Barnett @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

LUMP @ Oslo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: Field Day 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Lily Allen – No Shame (Album Reviews)

Neko Case – Hell-On (Album Reviews)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Something Else (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: All Points East 2018 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Così fan tutte @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

LUMP – LUMP (Album Reviews)

Kanye West – Ye (Album Reviews)

Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer (Album Reviews)

The Breeders @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Courtney Barnett, Laura Veirs, The The… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

La traviata @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Erykah Badu, Gorillaz, Anitta, Snail Mail …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Deerhunter @ Albert Hall, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Natalie Prass – The Future And The Past (Album Reviews)

Panel: All Points East’s inaugural London weekend (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Field Music @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of (Album Reviews)

Erland Cooper @ St Pancras Old Church, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Der Schauspieldirektor / Bastien und Bastienne @ Various Locations (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Lindi Ortega – Liberty (Album Reviews)

Chvrches – Love Is Dead (Album Reviews)

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Sparkle Hard (Album Reviews)

Snow Patrol – Wildness (Album Reviews)

Sparks @ Forum, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Breeders, The Goon Sax, Frankie Cosmos… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Lithics – Mating Surfaces (Album Reviews)

ABBA, MØ, Despacio, Ari Roar …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Screaming Females @ Oslo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Preview: London Festivals 2018 (Previews)

Susanne Sundfør @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Kronos Quartet & Trio Da Kali @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Japanese Breakfast @ Islington Assembly Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Madama Butterfly @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Pusha T – Daytona (Album Reviews)

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Rieder @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kamaal Williams – The Return (Album Reviews)

Wooden Shjips – V (Album Reviews)

Histoires Sacrées @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! (Album Reviews)

Ryley Walker – Deafman Glance (Album Reviews)

Ash – Islands (Album Reviews)

Charles Watson – Now That I’m A River (Album Reviews)

Effigies of Wickedness! @ Gate Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Frightened Rabbit, Laurie Anderson, Arctic Monkeys, Actress… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Half Man Half Biscuit – No-One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin’ Hedge Cut (Album Reviews)

Susanne Sundfør, Phoebe Bridgers, Field Music… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Gretchen Peters – Dancing With The Beast (Album Reviews)

Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Album Reviews)

James Bay – Electric Light (Album Reviews)

Ex Eye @ Milton Court, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Orfeo ed Euridice @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Pearse / Lepper @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: Festivals 2018 – UK (Previews)

Max Richter @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Mary Lattimore – Hundreds Of Days (Album Reviews)

Parry Anniversary Concert @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Iceage @ Scala, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Luke Haines – I Sometimes Dream Of Glue (Album Reviews)

Anna Burch @ Old Blue Last, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Mahan Esfahani @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Beach House – 7 (Album Reviews)

Protomartyr @ Scala, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Here Lies The Body (Album Reviews)

Simian Mobile Disco – Murmurations (Album Reviews)

Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Album Reviews)

Pinkshinyultrablast @ Castle & Falcon, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Eurovision, Beach House, Lily Allen, Neko Case… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Japanese Breakfast, Snail Mail, Ólafur Arnalds… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Nap Eyes @ Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Daniel Blumberg – Minus (Album Reviews)

We Are Scientists @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Holst Singers @ St Peter’s Eaton Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Manic Street Preachers @ Wembley Arena, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Yo La Tengo @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Goat Girl @ Garage, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Plan B – Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose (Album Reviews)

DJ Koze – Knock Knock (Album Reviews)

Cut Worms – Hollow Ground (Album Reviews)

Iceage – Beyondless (Album Reviews)

Jon Hopkins – Singularity (Album Reviews)

Tigercats – Pig City (Album Reviews)

Lake Street Dive – Free Yourself Up (Album Reviews)

Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois – Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois (Album Reviews)

Chess @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Gaz Coombes – World’s Strongest Man (Album Reviews)

Jon Hopkins, Beach House, Belly, Grouper… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Anna Burch, Jon Hopkins, Max Richter… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Gnod – Chapel Perilous (Album Reviews)

Eleanor Friedberger – Rebound (Album Reviews)

Powerplant: The Filthy Fifteen @ Barbican Milton Court, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Anna Meredith @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Belly – Dove (Album Reviews)

4.48 Psychosis @ Lyric Hammersmith, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Frank Turner – Be More Kind (Album Reviews)

Kim Wilde @ KOKO, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer (Album Reviews)

Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse (Album Reviews)

We Are Scientists – Megaplex (Album Reviews)

Grouper – Grid Of Points (Album Reviews)

Blossoms – Cool Like You (Album Reviews)

Arnaud Rebotini – 120bpm OST (Album Reviews)

ABBA return with two new songs (Blog)

Alice Glass, Avicii, Madonna, Ezra Furman… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Angel Olsen, Kamasi Washington, Yo La Tengo… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Dylan Carlson – Conquistador (Album Reviews)

Anne-Marie – Speak Your Mind (Album Reviews)

Okkervil River – In The Rainbow Rain (Album Reviews)

Ought @ Garage, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Natalie Prass @ Bush Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Matthias Goerne / Seong-Jin Cho @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Orchestral Concert @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Otoboke Beaver @ Scala, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Hinds @ Electric Brixton, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Thievery Corporation – Treasures From The Temple (Album Reviews)

Paul White – Rejuvenate (Album Reviews)

Preview: BBC Proms 2018 (BBC Proms reviews)

Jenny Wilson – Exorcism (Album Reviews)

Anna Meredith, Natalie Prass, A Hawk And A Hacksaw… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Melvins – Pinkus Abortion Technician (Album Reviews)

Lord Huron – Vide Noir (Album Reviews)

Lump, Simian Mobile Disco, Manic Street Preachers… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Gregory Rose at 70 @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mark Peters – Innerland (Album Reviews)

Occasional Oratorio @ St George’s, Hanover Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sting & Shaggy: “It was very much an accident” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Preview: Record Store Day 2018 (Previews)

Philharmonia @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Alexis Taylor – Beautiful Thing (Album Reviews)

Preview: West Green House Opera 2018 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Homage to ‘Switched-On Bach’ – Art of Moog @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Teseo @ St George’s, Hanover Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Giulio Cesare @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mouse On Mars – Dimensional People (Album Reviews)

Rival Consoles – Persona (Album Reviews)

Slug – Higgledy Piggledy (Album Reviews)

Laura Veirs – The Lookout (Album Reviews)

Novelist – Novelist Guy (Album Reviews)

A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Forest Bathing (Album Reviews)

The National’s Bryce Dessner on composing, collaborations and minimalist mentors – Interview (Music Interviews)

Goat Girl, Amen Dunes, Jack White, Hinds… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Dua Lipa, Shame, Joan As Police Woman… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Simone Felice – The Projector (Album Reviews)

Josh T Pearson – The Straight Hits! (Album Reviews)

Tinashe – Joyride (Album Reviews)

Erland Cooper: “I can see the seals, gannets and fishermen” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Manic Street Preachers – Resistance Is Futile (Album Reviews)

Fairest Isle @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Eels – The Deconstruction (Album Reviews)

Zola Jesus – Okovi: Additions (Album Reviews)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food (Album Reviews)

Lisa Stansfield – Deeper (Album Reviews)

Kali Uchis – Isolation (Album Reviews)

Rainbow Kitten Surprise – How To: Friend, Love, Freefall (Album Reviews)

Alela Diane, Gwenno, Arcade Fire… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (Album Reviews)

Years & Years, Pulp, Kali Uchis, Arcade Fire… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Hinds – I Don’t Run (Album Reviews)

Daniel Avery – Song For Alpha (Album Reviews)

Tom Misch – Geography (Album Reviews)

Kylie Minogue – Golden (Album Reviews)

Goat Girl – Goat Girl (Album Reviews)

Levellers – We The Collective (Album Reviews)

Kate Nash – Yesterday Was Forever (Album Reviews)

Coraline @ Barbican Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Spotlight: John Howard – Incidents Crowded With Life (Music Features, Spotlights)

Daphne & Celeste – Daphne & Celeste Save The World (Album Reviews)

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society @ Oslo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Dead Meadow – The Nothing They Need (Album Reviews)

Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (Album Reviews)

Eagle Twin – The Thundering Heard (Album Reviews)

Skylark: Seven Words from the Cross @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bach, St John Passion @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Marriage of Figaro @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Calexico @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Vaccines – Combat Sports (Album Reviews)

Eleanor Friedberger, Sunflower Bean, Panda Bear… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Anna von Hausswolff, Foals, Japan, Harry Styles… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

This Music Made Me: Tom Rogerson (This Music Made Me)

Harmonic Spiritual Theatre @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Macbeth @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Caroline Rose – Loner (Album Reviews)

Amadigi di Gaula @ St George’s, Hanover Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Django Django @ Printworks, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite – No Mercy In This Land (Album Reviews)

Haley Heynderickx – I Need To Start A Garden (Album Reviews)

Erland Cooper – Solan Goose (Album Reviews)

Jarvis Cocker, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Piano Day… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Jack White – Boarding House Reach (Album Reviews)

Baloji – 137 Avenue Kaniama (Album Reviews)

Workers and the State @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preoccupations – New Material (Album Reviews)

Sade, Kate Nash, Joan Baez, Suede …Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Preview: Opera Holland Park 2018 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Fever Ray @ Troxy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo In Blue (Album Reviews)

George Ezra – Staying At Tamara’s (Album Reviews)

Acis and Galatea @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Shakarchi & Stranéus – Steal Chickens From Men And The Future From God (Album Reviews)

Irit – Hello (Album Reviews)

Applausus @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Turin Brakes @ Palladium, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Preview: Garsington Opera 2018 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl (Album Reviews)

Creep Show – Mr Dynamite (Album Reviews)

Kim Wilde – Here Come The Aliens (Album Reviews)

Rinaldo @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mount Eerie – Now Only (Album Reviews)

Essaie Pas – New Path (Album Reviews)

Lily Allen, Fever Ray, Django Django… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On (Album Reviews)

Daphne & Celeste, Judas Priest, Manic Street Preachers… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

David Byrne – American Utopia (Album Reviews)

Anna von Hausswolff @ Tufnell Park Dome, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

George Fitzgerald – All That Must Be (Album Reviews)

John Tejada – Dead Start Program (Album Reviews)

Sam Vance-Law – Homotopia (Album Reviews)

Giulio Cesare @ Bury Court Opera, Bentley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar (Album Reviews)

Gengahr – Where Wildness Grows (Album Reviews)

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Tearing At The Seams (Album Reviews)

Shame, Creep Show, the NME… Weekend Reads (Weekend Reads)

Anna von Hausswolff, Turin Brakes, Sigrid… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Erasure & Echo Collective – World Beyond (Album Reviews)

Preview: Longborough Festival Opera 2018 (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Denis Kozhukhin @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Editors – Violence (Album Reviews)

First Aid Kit @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing – Double Negative (Album Reviews)

Moby – Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt (Album Reviews)

Tracey Thorn – Record (Album Reviews)

Titus Andronicus – A Productive Cough (Album Reviews)

The Breeders – All Nerve (Album Reviews)

Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It (Album Reviews)

Gwenno – Le Kov (Album Reviews)

John Cale, The Hold Steady, Soccer Mommy… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Lucy Dacus – Historian (Album Reviews)

Ty – A Work Of Heart (Album Reviews)

Bernstein at 100 @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Men – Drift (Album Reviews)

Superorganism – Superorganism (Album Reviews)

Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic (Album Reviews)

Dialogues des Carmélites @ Silk Street Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Embrace – Love Is A Basic Need (Album Reviews)

Mosè in Egitto @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Gus Gus – Lies Are More Flexible (Album Reviews)

First Aid Kit, Ibeyi, Marlon Williams… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Go-Kart Mozart – Mozart’s Mini-Mart (Album Reviews)

The Lovely Eggs – This Is Eggland (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: Felt – A Decade In Music (Music Features, Spotlights)

Nils Frahm @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Low Anthem – The Salt Doll Went To Measure The Depth Of The Sea (Album Reviews)

Dead Man Walking @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

War Requiem @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Psychic Markers – Hardly Strangers (Album Reviews)

Jason Sharp – Stand Above The Streams (Album Reviews)

Ought – Room In The World (Album Reviews)

Nils Frahm, Kelela, Franz Ferdinand… This Week In Gigs (Previews)

Iron And Wine @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Pete Astor – One For The Ghost (Album Reviews)

Damrau / Kaufmann / Deutsch @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet – Landfall (Album Reviews)

ionnalee – Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten (Album Reviews)

Marlon Williams – Make Way For Love (Album Reviews)

Superchunk – What A Time To Be Alive (Album Reviews)

Rejjie Snow – Dear Annie (Album Reviews)

Carmen @ Opera House, Sydney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Iolanthe @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Poliça and s t a r g a z e – Music For The Long Emergency (Album Reviews)

Mendelssohn: Elijah @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Red Priest: The Baroque Bohemians @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Remembering Jóhann Jóhannsson, 1969-2018 (Music Features, Spotlights)

MGMT – Little Dark Age (Album Reviews)

Alela Diane – Cusp (Album Reviews)

Susanna – Go Dig My Grave (Album Reviews)

Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending (Album Reviews)

The Just Joans @ Lexington, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

GoGo Penguin – A Humdrum Star (Album Reviews)

The Wombats – Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (Album Reviews)

Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus (Album Reviews)

Joan As Police Woman – Damned Devotion (Album Reviews)

The Hanging Stars – Songs For Somewhere Else (Album Reviews)

Orlando @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Oumou Sangare @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Songs of the Sea @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Field Music – Open Here (Album Reviews)

Justin Timberlake – Man Of The Woods (Album Reviews)

Thomas Truax – All That Heaven Allows (Album Reviews)

Hookworms – Microshift (Album Reviews)

Efrim Manuel Menuck – Pissing Stars (Album Reviews)

Simple Minds – Walk Between Worlds (Album Reviews)

Arcayürek / Lepper @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Das Rheingold @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Shame @ 100 Club, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Remembering Mark E Smith, 1957-2018 (Music Features, Spotlights)

This Music Made Me: Xylouris White (This Music Made Me)

Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us (Album Reviews)

Dream Wife – Dream Wife (Album Reviews)

Nightmares On Wax – Shape The Future (Album Reviews)

Craig David – The Time Is Now (Album Reviews)

Turin Brakes – Invisible Storm (Album Reviews)

Django Django – Marble Skies (Album Reviews)

Classical Opera / Page @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nils Frahm – All Melody (Album Reviews)

Alder / Baillieu @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

This Music Made Me: A Grave With No Name (This Music Made Me)

The Spook School – Could It Be Different? (Album Reviews)

Shopping – The Official Body (Album Reviews)

The Go! Team – Semicircle (Album Reviews)

A Grave With No Name – Passover (Album Reviews)

Tune-Yards – I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (Album Reviews)

First Aid Kit – Ruins (Album Reviews)

The Shins – The Worm’s Heart (Album Reviews)

Tosca @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

A Child Of Our Time @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Return of Ulysses @ Roundhouse, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Shame – Songs Of Praise (Album Reviews)

Jaguwar – Ringthing (Album Reviews)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Wrong Creatures (Album Reviews)

Salome @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Breaking the Rules @ LSO St Luke’s, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bach Christmas Oratorio @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Rigoletto @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2017 (Lists)

Christmas Oratorio @ King’s Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Unthanks @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Mark Lanegan Band @ KOKO, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Charlatans @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Britten St Nicolas @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Wonderful Town @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ex Cathedra / Skidmore @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Christmas Eve @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Praetorius: Mass for Christmas Morning @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs 4-10 December 2017 (London Gigs)

Björk – Utopia (Album Reviews)

Fleet Foxes @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Wolf Alice @ Alexandra Palace, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Algiers @ Moth Club, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Who Built The Moon? (Album Reviews)

Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest (Album Reviews)

Anna Meredith @ Oval Space, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Stimmung and Cosmic Pulses @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Morrissey – Low In High School (Album Reviews)

Joshua @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jake Shears @ Heaven, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Taylor Swift – Reputation (Album Reviews)

Watter – History Of The Future (Album Reviews)

Bond and Beyond @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Fever Ray – Plunge (Album Reviews)

The War On Drugs @ Apollo, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Esmerine – Mechanics Of Dominion (Album Reviews)

Destroyer – ken (Album Reviews)

Banks @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

La Nuova Musica / Bates @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Girl Ray @ Scala, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

London Gigs: 13-19 November 2017 (London Gigs)

John Carpenter – Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 (Album Reviews)

Beck – Colors (Album Reviews)

Högni – Two Trains (Album Reviews)

Gregory Rose, Singcircle: “There’s the hippy angle to it… six people sitting round a ‘camp fire’ singing vocal harmonics” – Interview (Opera + Classical Music Features)

La Tragédie de Carmen @ Wilton’s Music Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Rodelinda @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs 6-12 November 2017 (London Gigs)

Gilchrist / Tilbrook @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Lost Horizons (This Music Made Me)

Lost Horizons – Ojalá (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Mirrors 2017 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Camille @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Consul @ Silk Street Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Weezer – Pacific Daydream (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 30 October-5 November 2017 (London Gigs)

London Chamber Orchestra / Warren-Green @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Opera and the Silver Screen @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Hamlet @ Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Big Moon @ KOKO, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Porgy and Bess @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Semele @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 23-29 October 2017 (London Gigs)

St Vincent @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Grandbrothers – Open (Album Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Högni (This Music Made Me)

Squeeze – The Knowledge (Album Reviews)

Slowdive @ Roundhouse, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

London Gigs: 16-22 October 2017 (London Gigs)

Sabata / Armonia Atenea / Petrou @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Il barbiere di Siviglia @ Glyndebourne Tour, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

St Vincent – MASSEDUCTION (Album Reviews)

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice (Album Reviews)

Dardanus @ Hackney Empire, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 9-15 October 2017 (London Gigs)

Giulio Cesare @ Hackney Empire, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

King Arthur @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Liam Gallagher – As You Were (Album Reviews)

Hurts – Desire (Album Reviews)

Wolf Alice – Visions Of A Life (Album Reviews)

Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly (Album Reviews)

Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger In The Alps (Album Reviews)

The Horrors – V (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 2-8 October 2017 (London Gigs)

Opera: Passion, Power and Politics @ Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Jen Cloher @ Lexington, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Sparks @ Ritz, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Gainsbourg Symphonic @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Wolves In The Throne Room – Thrice Woven (Album Reviews)

The Black Angels @ Forum, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Van Morrison – Roll With The Punches (Album Reviews)

The Judas Passion @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Grange Festival International Singing Competition @ The Grange, Northington (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Oedipe @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 25 September-1 October 2017 (London Gigs)

This Music Made Me: Nick Nicely (This Music Made Me)

Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun (Album Reviews)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers (Album Reviews)

The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful (Album Reviews)

Behind The Shadow Drops – H a r m o n i c (Album Reviews)

The Damnation of Faust @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Die Zauberflöte @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 18-24 September 2017 (London Gigs)

The Clientele – Music For The Age Of Miracles (Album Reviews)

Blancmange: “People want wall to wall music. Never mind the chords, feel the width…” – Interview (Music Interviews)

The School of Jealousy @ St John’s, Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Rostam – Half-Light (Album Reviews)

Gary Numan – Savage (Songs From A Broken World) (Album Reviews)

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton – Choir Of The Mind (Album Reviews)

Foo Fighters – Concrete And Gold (Album Reviews)

Nick Mulvey: “We’re touching the miracle of things” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Nick Mulvey – Wake Up Now (Album Reviews)

Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms 2017 @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Alvvays – Antisocialities (Album Reviews)

Tritschler / Drake @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs 11-18 September 2017 (London Gigs)

Prom 74: Vienna Philharmonic / Thomas @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sparks – Hippopotamus (Album Reviews)

Angelo Badalamenti – Blue Velvet OST (Album Reviews)

Zola Jesus – Okovi (Album Reviews)

Tori Amos – Native Invader (Album Reviews)

OMD’s Andy McCluskey: “There are lies all over modern international politics” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Festival Review: Leeds 2017 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Spotlight: The Verve – Urban Hymns, At 20 (Music Features, Spotlights)

The National – Sleep Well Beast (Album Reviews)

Susanne Sundfør – Music For People In Trouble (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 4-10 September 2017 (London Gigs)

OMD – The Punishment Of Luxury (Album Reviews)

Prom 62: Chineke! / Edusei @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Prom 60: Oslo Philharmonic / Petrenko @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Mary Epworth – Elytral (Album Reviews)

Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun (Album Reviews)

Starsailor – All This Life (Album Reviews)

Hercules And Love Affair – Omnion (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Green Man 2017 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

LCD Soundsystem – American Dream (Album Reviews)

Prom 56: The Bohemian Reformation @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Proms at … Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 28 August-3 September 2017 (London Gigs)

Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains (Album Reviews)

Liars – TFCF (Album Reviews)

Widowspeak – Expect The Best (Album Reviews)

Portico Quartet – Art In The Age Of Automation (Album Reviews)

Iron And Wine – Beast Epic (Album Reviews)

Prom 51: BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oramo @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Preview: Reading and Leeds 2017 (Previews)

The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding (Album Reviews)

Prom 48: A Patchwork Passion @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

EMA – Exile In The Outer Ring (Album Reviews)

Prom 46: Gurrelieder @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 45: BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oramo @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 21-27 August 2017 (London Gigs)

Ghostpoet – Dark Days + Canapés (Album Reviews)

Interview: EMA (Music Interviews)

Everything Everything – Fever Dream (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 14-20 August 2017 (London Gigs)

Paul Draper – Spooky Action (Album Reviews)

Prom 38: Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Proms at … Southwark Cathedral, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 34: Oklahoma! @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Cribs – 24 7 Rock Star Shit (Album Reviews)

Prom 31: La damnation de Faust @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Visions 2017 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 30: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Karabits @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Orfeo ed Euridice @ Greenwood Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ratboy – SCUM (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 7-13 August 2017 (London Gigs)

William The Conqueror – Proud Disturber Of The Peace (Album Reviews)

Dead Cross – Dead Cross (Album Reviews)

Prom 25: English Baroque Soloists / Gardiner @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Indietracks 2017 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Rita / Die Entführung aus dem Serail @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Hafdís Huld – Dare To Dream Small (Album Reviews)

Prom 21: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Xian Zhang @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La Clemenza di Tito @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Silver Birch @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

James Yuill – A Change In State (Album Reviews)

Arcade Fire – Everything Now (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 31 July – 6 August 2017 (London Gigs)

Lana Del Rey – Lust For Life (Album Reviews)

Mercury Music Prize 2017: Nominations (Blog)

Prom 15: The Songs Of Scott Walker (1967-70) (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 13: Malcolm Sargent’s 500th Prom @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Un ballo in maschera @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Dizzee Rascal – Raskit (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 24-30 July 2017 (London Gigs)

Prom 9: Fidelio @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

The Merchant of Venice @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 8: Celebrating John Williams @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Zazà @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Kát’a Kabanová @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Don Pasquale @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Pete Fij & Terry Bickers – We Are Millionaires (Album Reviews)

Mercury Rev and Royal Northern Sinfonia @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 1: BBC SO / Gardner @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Ezra Furman: That’s When It Hit Me @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Cinematic Orchestra @ Somerset House, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

La Voix Humaine @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sheer Mag – Need To Feel Your Love (Album Reviews)

Chris Merrick Hughes – Eirenic Life (Album Reviews)

Broken Social Scene – Hug Of Thunder (Album Reviews)

Preview: UK Festivals 2017 – Part II (Previews)

London Gigs 10-16 July 2017 (London Gigs)

Turandot @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley (Album Reviews)

This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze (Album Reviews)

Haim – Something To Tell You (Album Reviews)

Arcade Fire @ York Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Il turco in Italia @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Dream of Gerontius @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Fidelio @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Black Grape – Pop Voodoo (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 3-9 July 2017 (London Gigs)

Die Walküre @ Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Melvins – A Walk With Love & Death (Album Reviews)

New Order @ Old Granada Studios, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Telescopes – As Light Return (Album Reviews)

The Maccabees @ Apollo, Manchester (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Ralegh Long (This Music Made Me)

Fader – First Light (Album Reviews)

Ariadne auf Naxos @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Algiers – The Underside Of Power (Album Reviews)

Imagine Dragons – Evolve (Album Reviews)

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The Shins @ Village Underground, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop @ Union Chapel, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

London Gigs: 5-11 September 2016 (London Gigs)

This Music Made Me: King Creosote (This Music Made Me)

Twin Atlantic – GLA (Album Reviews)

Prom 63: Les Arts Florissants / Christie @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 62: BBC SO / Young @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon: “Songwriting, apart from anything else, is catharsis. I needed to cathart!” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Silver Apples – Clinging To A Dream (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Reading 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Sophie Ellis-Bextor (This Music Made Me)

Glass Animals – How To Be A Human Being (Album Reviews)

Morgan Delt – Phase Zero (Album Reviews)

Prom 60: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester / Jordan @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Divine Comedy – Foreverland (Album Reviews)

Jamie T – Trick (Album Reviews)

Grandaddy @ Oslo, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Ryley Walker: “Stop cute folk music from progressing, please!” – Interview (Music Interviews)

Britney Spears – Glory (Album Reviews)

The Warlocks – Songs From The Pale Eclipse (Album Reviews)

Frank Ocean – Blonde (Album Reviews)

Factory Floor @ ICA, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: Green Man 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

London Gigs: 29 August – 4 September 2016 (London Gigs)

Prom 54: Budapest Festival Orchestra / Fischer @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 53: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Petrenko @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

De La Soul – And The Anonymous Nobody (Album Reviews)

Marius Neset With London Sinfonietta – Snowmelt (Album Reviews)

Prom 45: BBC SO / Bělohlávek @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Veils – Total Depravity (Album Reviews)

Scott Walker – The Childhood Of A Leader (OST) (Album Reviews)

Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Album Reviews)

Peter Broderick – Partners (Album Reviews)

The Rifles – Big Life (Album Reviews)

Of Montreal – Innocence Reaches (Album Reviews)

Prom 44: BBC Concert Orchestra / Lockhart @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Track-By-Track: Autoheart – I Can Build A Fire (Music Features, Spotlights)

Prom 43: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / Barenboim @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 41: Halle Orchestra / Elder @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 40: Britten Sinfonia / Adès @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Factory Floor – 25 25 (Album Reviews)

Ed Harcourt – Furnaces (Album Reviews)

Russian Circles – Guidance (Album Reviews)

Slow Club – One Day All Of This Won’t Matter Anymore (Album Reviews)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Proms at… Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 15-21 August 2016 (London Gigs)

TOY @ Shacklewell Arms, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Thunderstorm @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Preview: Reading and Leeds 2016 (Previews)

Festival Review: Visions 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Proms at… Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / Gardner @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 8-15 August 2016 (London Gigs)

The Queen of Spades @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: WOMAD 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Wild Beasts – Boy King (Album Reviews)

Dinosaur Jr – Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not (Album Reviews)

Blossoms – Blossoms (Album Reviews)

Mercury Music Prize 2016: Nominations (Blog)

Così fan tutte @ West Green House Opera, Hartley Wintney (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Indietracks 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Spotlight: Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Music Features, Spotlights)

London Gigs: 1-7 August 2016 (London Gigs)

Prom 19: David Bowie Prom @ Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms reviews)

Prom 18: LSO / Haitink @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bear’s Den – Red Earth & Pouring Rain (Album Reviews)

Prom 15: BBC SO / Davis @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 14: Il Barbiere di Siviglia @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Béatrice et Bénédict @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

DM Stith – Pigeonheart (Album Reviews)

Prom 11: BBC NOW / Wigglesworth @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 25-31 July 2016 (London Gigs)

La Cenerentola @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Belly @ Forum, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Pet Shop Boys @ Royal Opera House, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

ANOHNI @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: Latitude 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Blood Orange – Freetown Sound (Album Reviews)

Message To Bears – Carved From Tides (Album Reviews)

Die Fledermaus @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Lovebox 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: Citadel 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

PCM 1: Paul & Bjørg Lewis / Vertavo Quartet @ Cadogan Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

UNKLE @ Somerset House, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Prom 3: OAE / Cleobury @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Prom 2: Boris Godunov @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Courtney Barnett @ Somerset House, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Creation @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tristan und Isolde @ Grange Park Opera, Alresford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs Diary: 18-24 July 2016 (London Gigs)

Track-By-Track: Bright Light Bright Light – Choreography (Music Features, Spotlights)

Interview: Miike Snow (Music Interviews)

Coves @ Brixton Academy, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Preview: Latitude 2016 (Previews)

Róisín Murphy – Take Her Up To Monto (Album Reviews)

Benjamin Clementine @ Somerset House, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate (Album Reviews)

Metronomy – Summer 08 (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 11-17 July 2016 (London Gigs)

Shura – Nothing’s Real (Album Reviews)

The Avalanches – Wildflower (Album Reviews)

Alex Somers – Music From The Film Captain Fantastic (Album Reviews)

Götterdämmerung @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Penguin Cafe + Anna von Hausswolff @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Le nozze di Figaro @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Il trovatore @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Bat For Lashes – The Bride (Album Reviews)

London Gigs: 4-10 July 2016 (London Gigs)

Nils Frahm @ Barbican, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Festival Review: Fold 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Siegfried @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Orchestra Of Syrian Musicians @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Martha – Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart (Album Reviews)

Scholl / Karamazov @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Die Walküre @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Das Rheingold @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 27 June – 3 July 2016 (London Gigs)

Goerne / Bezuidenhout @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Le nozze di Figaro @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Red Hot Chili Peppers ‒ The Getaway (Album Reviews)

Ottensamer / Sidorova / Gallardo @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jenufa @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Laura Marling @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Necro Deathmort – The Capsule (Album Reviews)

Melvins – Basses Loaded (Album Reviews)

Tegan and Sara – Love You To Death (Album Reviews)

Fretwork @ Kings Place, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Early Opera Company / Griffiths @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Stone Free 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Drcarlsonalbion – Falling With A Thousand Stars And Other Wonders From The House Of Albion (Album Reviews)

Deerhoof – The Magic (Album Reviews)

Les Ambassadeurs / Kossenko @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Werther @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Idomeneo @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tristan and Isolde @ Coliseum, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Festival Review: Field Day 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

London Gigs: 20-26 June 2016 (London Gigs)

Laura Mvula – The Dreaming Room (Album Reviews)

Festival Review: Download 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Don Carlo @ Grange Park Opera, Alresford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

John Grant @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Gabrieli / McCreesh @ St John’s Smith Square, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Jake Bugg – On My One (Album Reviews)

case/lang/veirs – case/lang/veirs (Album Reviews)

I Am Kloot @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

This Music Made Me: Laura Mvula (This Music Made Me)

This Music Made Me: The Anchoress (This Music Made Me)

Festival Review: Primavera Sound 2016 (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Death In Vegas – Transmission (Album Reviews)

Pantha Du Prince – The Triad (Album Reviews)

Nothing – Tired Of Tomorrow (Album Reviews)

Boulevards – Groove! (Album Reviews)

The Low Anthem – Eyeland (Album Reviews)

Julianna Barwick @ Pickle Factory, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

The Kills – Ash & Ice (Album Reviews)

Malcolm Middleton – Summer Of ’13 (Album Reviews)

The Cunning Little Vixen @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Sveshnikov State Choir / Volkov @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La bohème @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs Diary: 13-19 June 2016 (London Gigs)

Interview: Caitlin Hulcup (Opera + Classical Music Features)

Raleigh Ringers @ LSO St Luke’s, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Tannhäuser @ Longborough Festival Opera, Longborough (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Dani Siciliano – Dani Siciliano (Album Reviews)

Garbage – Strange Little Birds (Album Reviews)

Sumac – What One Becomes (Album Reviews)

The Monkees – Good Times! (Album Reviews)

Goerne / Trifonov @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Sixteen / Christophers @ Wigmore Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Iris @ Opera Holland Park, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Nabucco @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

LSO / Harding @ Barbican Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Eugene Onegin @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

La fanciulla del West @ Grange Park Opera, Alresford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs 6-12 June 2016 (London Gigs)

LUH @ Electrowerkz (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

Darren Hayman – Thankful Villages Vol. 1 (Album Reviews)

Psychic Ills – Inner Journey Out (Album Reviews)

Holy Fuck – Congrats (Album Reviews)

Bob Dylan – Fallen Angels (Album Reviews)

The Poisoned Glass – 10 Swords (Album Reviews)

L’italiana in Algeri @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Oliver! @ Grange Park Opera, Alresford (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Preview: Top 10 UK Festivals (Festivals)

Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines (Album Reviews)

Classixx – Faraway Reach (Album Reviews)

Amber Arcades – Fading Lines (Album Reviews)

Spotlight: The Death and Rebirth of LCD Soundsystem (Music Features, Spotlights)

This Music Made Me: Mary Chapin Carpenter (This Music Made Me)

Cate Le Bon @ Oval Space, London (Live Music + Gig Reviews)

London Gigs: 30 May-5 June 2016 (London Gigs)

Ladyhawke – Wild Things (Album Reviews)

Richard Ashcroft – These People (Album Reviews)

Jessy Lanza – Oh No (Album Reviews)

Gold Panda – Good Luck And Do Your Best (Album Reviews)

4.48 Psychosis @ Lyric Hammersmith, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Oedipe @ Royal Opera House, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Beth Orton – Kidsticks (Album Reviews)

Band Of Skulls – By Default (Album Reviews)

Il barbiere di Siviglia @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

London Gigs: 23-29 May 2016 (London Gigs)

Skepta – Konnichiwa (Album Reviews)

Philharmonia / Järvi @ Royal Festival Hall, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

The Threepenny Opera @ Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London (Opera + Classical Music Reviews)

Boesch / Martineau @ W