You can’t really understand house music without grasping the influence of the Black American church. As it coalesced from the remnants of…

Richard Dadd is best known as the mad Victorian painter incarcerated in mental hospitals for 42 years for killing his father; but this…

The pre-publication scuttlebutt on this book suggested that not only would it be David Thomson’s last, but also that it marked a dramatic…

You can tell what a festival believes in by where the crowds crush the hardest. At Latitude, it's in the forest for the up-and-coming acts…

FRIDAY 24 JULY, by Guy OddyEven for a festival whose whole purpose is to platform a rich range of artists from cultures all around the…

This album is such a remarkable document, and on so many levels. Perhaps its main "story" is that it could well be the very last studio…

Had you been at John Wilson's Respighi spectacular on Friday, or heard it on BBC Radio 3/watched it on BBC Four, you might have perceived…

Growing up in Liverpool, it’s usually not long before you visit the vast golden sands of Prestatyn, still the best beach I’ve ever seen,…

“Your civilisation is young but controlled by minds which are old,” says one of the alien Alphoids in Toomorrow to the four young musicians…

You never quite know what to expect from the acoustics of the Royal Albert Hall. It was hard to credit the total focus Kazuki Yamada drew…