But in a piquant irony, just as the short-lived “world music” CD boom was whetting people’s appetite for new sounds, so those sounds were becoming homogenised out of existence, in response to the ...

As it is nearly the end of term, the orchestra can be a noisy environment in which to work, and I’m not talking about the violas cowering in front of the trumpets. There is a level of acceptable ...

New book, The Music, is “definitely a piece of music,” its author Matthew Herbert tells me, but “the more I wrote it as music though the more like a book it became. In the end though, the object is ...

A new extract from Zayn Malik‘s forthcoming autobiography has revealed how the singer considers The Beatles to be an important influence on his own music. The autobiography, titled Zayn, is set for ...