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The sound of live music: get outside London for some great gigs | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Readers respond to an article that sounded a bum note on the experience of going to see bands…
The sound of live music: get outside London for some great gigs | Letters
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Grab your Stetsons! How country music is taking over the UK

silverguide.site – With country music festival attendances soaring and US artists selling out tours, are British and Irish audiences ready for “the full Southern experience”?…
Grab your Stetsons! How country music is taking over the UK
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Initiation stones, buried recordings, and Ringo Starr’s drumkit: inside the visionary world of reggae master Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

silverguide.site – The late production genius’s chaotic reputation has always preceded him. But could two new books, a posthumous album and a flurry of classic reissues change all that – and put the focus back on his music?…
Initiation stones, buried recordings, and Ringo Starr’s drumkit: inside the visionary world of reggae master Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
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Add to playlist: the doomy predictions of incendiary metallers Burner and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – For anyone furious about the state of the world, the London band offer a welcome – and unsparing – blast of catharsis…
Add to playlist: the doomy predictions of incendiary metallers Burner and the week’s best new tracks
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Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

silverguide.site – A treasure trove of field recordings are reshaped into pulsating floor-fillers and sparse baile funk by a range of producers…
Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month
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Downtown Boys: Public Luxury review – a joyful blast of bilingual political punk

silverguide.site – The Rhode Island five-piece return with a ferocious rallying call to fight for your beliefs, with bouncing basslines, muted house chords and stomping drums…
Downtown Boys: Public Luxury review – a joyful blast of bilingual political punk
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‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield

silverguide.site – Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising the roundabout and why she hates cover versions of her songs…
‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield
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Jonathan Kuo: Java Dreams album review – young pianist brings unflashy exuberance to complex works

silverguide.site – The Indonesian musician impresses in his debut solo recording of Godowsky’s Java Suite and Stravinsky’s piano arrangement of Petrushka…
Jonathan Kuo: Java Dreams album review – young pianist brings unflashy exuberance to complex works
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Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Boys review – ghosts, guns and guileless youth on generational songwriter’s return

silverguide.site – The US singer took years off after becoming ‘world-weary’ of public life – and in the meantime, her silvery balladry reshaped pop. Her return is an ornate reinvention…
Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Boys review – ghosts, guns and guileless youth on generational songwriter’s return
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Brahms’ Last Concert review – OAE and Emelyanychev take audience back to 1897

silverguide.site – This recreation of the final concert that the composer attended – only weeks before his death aged 63 – featured his fourth symphony, Dvorak’s Cello Concerto and Haydn’s symphony no 73.…
Brahms’ Last Concert review – OAE and Emelyanychev take audience back to 1897
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Anna Netrebko review – high camp and bel canto brilliance as star soprano shows she’s still the real deal

silverguide.site – In this London recital the Russian singer moved from Rachmaninov to Mozart and Strauss to Charpentier, showcasing in all her voice’s full range of plush, dark beauty and endless legato…
Anna Netrebko review – high camp and bel canto brilliance as star soprano shows she’s still the real deal
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David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies aged 84

silverguide.site – The Canadian musician, who achieved major hits such as Spinning Wheel and You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, died peacefully at a Toronto hospital…
David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies aged 84
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Muse: The Wow! Signal review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

silverguide.site – From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous​ yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial life…
Muse: The Wow! Signal review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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Whitney Houston estate denies Oprah’s ‘inaccurate and unfair’ claim singer fell off stage due to drug use

silverguide.site – Late singer ‘absolutely not high’ when she fell on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009, says estate after Winfrey claimed she had relapsed…
Whitney Houston estate denies Oprah’s ‘inaccurate and unfair’ claim singer fell off stage due to drug use
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Making earwax melt and teeth rattle: the project returning music to our bodies

silverguide.site – Listeners in the 17th and 18th centuries experienced music in a startlingly vivid – and physical way. A fascinating academic project is wondering if we should let ourselves be much more moved, and get moving. Plus: a prime minister’s musical legacy?…
Making earwax melt and teeth rattle: the project returning music to our bodies
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Turandot review – Opera Holland Park celebrate 30 years with Puccini’s grand guignol

silverguide.site – A concert performance in an orchestral reduction of Puccini’s colossal final opera was stylishly led by conductor Naomi Woo with José de Eça’s Calaf heading a strong cast…
Turandot review – Opera Holland Park celebrate 30 years with Puccini’s grand guignol
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‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes

silverguide.site – Fed up with expensive tickets and omnipresent branding, some festival fans are creating their own anarchic, ticketless events full of glitter and silliness. They explain how it’s done…
‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes
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Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it

silverguide.site – To mark 50 years since the punk DIY publishing explosion, we want to compile a map of the UK’s contemporary zine scene…
Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it
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Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) review – Tyshawn Sorey’s meditations yield their mysteries slowly

silverguide.site – The Pulitzer-winner’s sprawling amalgam of Morton Feldman and African American spiritual felt meandering, but the GBSR duo, the BBC Singers and Ruth Gibson’s viola were luminous and charismatic…
Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) review – Tyshawn Sorey’s meditations yield their mysteries slowly
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The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write

silverguide.site – Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played together decades later…
The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write
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