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Man sentenced to two years in prison for stealing unreleased Beyoncé music

silverguide.site – Kelvin Evans pleads guilty to stealing hard drives and laptops from a car before singer’s Atlanta tour dates in 2025…
Man sentenced to two years in prison for stealing unreleased Beyoncé music

Beverley Martyn obituary

silverguide.site – Star of the 60s London folk scene whose career faltered after her troubled marriage to the musician John Martyn…
Beverley Martyn obituary

‘Live is the new status symbol’: can New York’s C2C beat festival burnout by embracing the niche?

silverguide.site – With performers Arca, Los Thuthanaka and YHWH Nailgun, New York’s C2C proved the thrills – and limits – of staying independent amid a festival boom…
‘Live is the new status symbol’: can New York’s C2C beat festival burnout by embracing the niche?

‘We must keep her name alive’: Cesária Évora, the captivating Cape Verdean who went from restaurant singer to global star

silverguide.site – After a lifetime of poverty, Évora found huge success aged 51 with 1992 album Miss Perfumado. As Cape Verdean singers celebrate her morna ballads on stage, those who knew her recall her power, pride and constant smoking…
‘We must keep her name alive’: Cesária Évora, the captivating Cape Verdean who went from restaurant singer to global star

Buyers of Liza Minnelli memoir claim it was not signed by hand

silverguide.site – Premium editions of Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! cost up to $250 but some say signatures are unnaturally identical…
Buyers of Liza Minnelli memoir claim it was not signed by hand

‘When I heard it, I nearly fell off my chair’: behind the scenes at Angel’s Bone, ENO’s audacious Manchester debut

silverguide.site – After years of upheaval, English National Opera is staging its first new opera in its northern base: the Pulitzer-winning Angel’s Bone, about two angels brutally exploited by human traffickers. We talk to its creators…
‘When I heard it, I nearly fell off my chair’: behind the scenes at Angel’s Bone, ENO’s audacious Manchester debut

Shakespeare’s Sisters review: brilliantly unexpected songs and prose give voice to the voiceless

silverguide.site – Combining words devised for Shakespeare’s female characters with music from composers old and new this was a Bardic treat with teeth…
Shakespeare’s Sisters review: brilliantly unexpected songs and prose give voice to the voiceless

Angine de Poitrine review – alien rock duo’s UK debut is hypnotic, harebrained and 100% worth the hype

silverguide.site – The polka-dotted phenomenon land their spaceship in Leeds for an ecstatic show that balances supremely complex musicianship with ridiculous good fun…
Angine de Poitrine review – alien rock duo’s UK debut is hypnotic, harebrained and 100% worth the hype

Get back: Beatles’ Apple Corps to turn former London base into seven-storey visitor attraction

silverguide.site – Paul McCartney hails plans for 3 Savile Row, which include access to rooftop where the band played their final gig…
Get back: Beatles’ Apple Corps to turn former London base into seven-storey visitor attraction

Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m over use of her image on TV boxes

silverguide.site – British singer claims electronics company ‘repeatedly refused’ to stop using a photo of her on its packaging…
Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m over use of her image on TV boxes

Super Furry Animals review – stirring reunion showcases immaculate songcraft

silverguide.site – The Welsh band with a weird edge mostly let their formidable music speak for itself, lent a transcendent power by frontman Gruff Rhys’s rich voice…
Super Furry Animals review – stirring reunion showcases immaculate songcraft

‘I will sing at the drop of a hat’: Jeff Goldblum’s honest playlist

silverguide.site – The actor and pianist swapped playing Beethoven for Deep Purple and knows what to put on at a party, but which of his movie themes has he put words to?…
‘I will sing at the drop of a hat’: Jeff Goldblum’s honest playlist

Darkness Visible: Âme x Lawrence Power review – violist and guests reimagine the concert for the digital age

silverguide.site – This ambitious and imaginative concert experience blended live and filmed performance. Not all its experiments felt successful, but at its best this was mesmerising…
Darkness Visible: Âme x Lawrence Power review – violist and guests reimagine the concert for the digital age

Are Katseye transforming K-pop or making ‘skibidi toilet music’? Either way, fans will tearfully wait hours for a glimpse

silverguide.site – Katseye blends US sensibilities with the hard-hitting choreography, branding and relentless perfectionism of Korean pop music – and ‘Eyekons’ can’t get enough…
Are Katseye transforming K-pop or making ‘skibidi toilet music’? Either way, fans will tearfully wait hours for a glimpse

Charli xcx: Rock Music review – is she really pivoting from pop? Don’t be so sure …

silverguide.site – The lyrics may argue the dancefloor is dead, but this funny, wilfully plasticky new single isn’t the total about-turn from Brat that fans expected…
Charli xcx: Rock Music review – is she really pivoting from pop? Don’t be so sure …

Paul Simon review – at 84, back on stage after hearing loss, his resolute artistry is inspiring

silverguide.site – What Simon has lost in vocal power he has added in intimacy and authority – and this hushed performance makes for an arena concert like no other…
Paul Simon review – at 84, back on stage after hearing loss, his resolute artistry is inspiring

Add to playlist: the magnetic, uncanny songwriting of Frances Chang and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – The Brooklyn-based artist’s songs seem to follow private trains of thought, which shift their subtle musical colours in a way that will slink in to your head, too…
Add to playlist: the magnetic, uncanny songwriting of Frances Chang and the week’s best new tracks

Olof Dreijer: Loud Bloom review – the Knife star’s debut solo album is a garden of earthly delights

silverguide.site – On a floral-themed LP, squiggling melodies and quizzical distortion banish the winter gloom Dreijer brought to the Knife and his tracks with Fever Ray…
Olof Dreijer: Loud Bloom review – the Knife star’s debut solo album is a garden of earthly delights

Ana Roxanne: Poem 1 review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

silverguide.site – ​Essaying a broken heart, the New Yorker puts her voice front and centre for her most accessible work yet, though still with unexpected details – and a Schumann cover…
Ana Roxanne: Poem 1 review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

Helen Charlston: A Poet’s Love album review – original and absorbing

silverguide.site – Schumann’s Dichterliebe is at the heart of this disc from the mezzo-soprano and pianist Sholto Kynoch; Heloise Werner’s new work Knight’s Dream is a rich and intriguing companion piece…
Helen Charlston: A Poet’s Love album review – original and absorbing
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