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‘Windrush is a love story too’: Renell Shaw on paying homage to Black British life in his new jazz trilogy

silverguide.site – The Ivor Novello-winning musician has written works inspired by his family history. He talks about building music from testimony – and why the Windrush generation deserves new narratives…
‘Windrush is a love story too’: Renell Shaw on paying homage to Black British life in his new jazz trilogy

Add to playlist: the sweet plunderphonics of Quiet Light and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – Riya Mahesh is the ‘insanely Texas girl’ and medical student whose music splits the difference between dazed ambient production and big-tent pop melody…
Add to playlist: the sweet plunderphonics of Quiet Light and the week’s best new tracks

Ariana Grande rebukes White House for using her music in ‘barbaric, inhumane’ ICE video

silverguide.site – Grande is the latest in a series of pop musicians including Sabrina Carpenter and SZA who have been angered by Trump administration videos…
Ariana Grande rebukes White House for using her music in ‘barbaric, inhumane’ ICE video

Pussy Riot: CYKA review – debut album from iconic Russian agitators is let down by blunt-force EDM

silverguide.site – On a disappointing record helmed by co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, corny guitars and generically moody synths undermine the activist group’s political acuity…
Pussy Riot: CYKA review – debut album from iconic Russian agitators is let down by blunt-force EDM

Brown Wimpenny: Long Live Brown Wimpenny review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

silverguide.site – Named after a 19th-century relative, this sprawling group foreground folk’s rough edges, but are best in the emotional, less showy moments…
Brown Wimpenny: Long Live Brown Wimpenny review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

Sally Beamish: House of Wonder album review

silverguide.site – The British composer’s celebratory album is a family affair…
Sally Beamish: House of Wonder album review

20 ways Taylor Swift remade pop culture in her image

silverguide.site – It has been 20 years since Swift released her debut single, setting in motion a career so extraordinary, it permanently redefined the concept of pop stardom. This is how she did it…
20 ways Taylor Swift remade pop culture in her image

Katia and Marielle Labèque: 55 album review

silverguide.site – The pianist sisters’ celebration of their 55 years of recording is a thoughtfully curated compilation that reveals the extent of their omnivorous musical appetites…
Katia and Marielle Labèque: 55 album review

The Mahler Experiment review – physical drama comes at a musical cost in choreographed symphony

silverguide.site – Tom Morris’s staged take on Mahler’s first symphony is valiantly performed by Stephanie Childress and Sinfonia Smith Square, but the result feels more like R&D than a finished product…
The Mahler Experiment review – physical drama comes at a musical cost in choreographed symphony

Tell us your favourite album of 2026 so far

silverguide.site – We would like to hear about the best new album you have heard this year so far and why…
Tell us your favourite album of 2026 so far

Lola Young review – buoyant, brilliant return from British pop’s great oversharer

silverguide.site – The Messy hitmaker is back after taking time away from live performance, and this charming, relatable set shows why she is such a gen Z icon…
Lola Young review – buoyant, brilliant return from British pop’s great oversharer

Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

silverguide.site – Aided by Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Sampha and more, the cello-playing singer-songwriter’s abstracted yet tuneful second album is worth the seven year wait…
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’

silverguide.site – Stranger Things actor makes first public comments about his ex’s revealing hit album which tracks the dissolution of a relationship…
David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’

LA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the Fall

silverguide.site – Featuring cover bands, walking tours and the poet laureate as DJ, The Fall: Futures and Pasts is the ultimate Fall fan experience. But can our writer get through Eat Y’Self Fitter at karaoke?…
LA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the Fall

Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video

silverguide.site – Sabrina Carpenter, a car crash, a urinal, Kate Moss and, of course, those perplexing green lasers: Confessions II has it all. Let’s make some sense of it ……
Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video

Danish String Quartet review – captivating performance from a world-class group

silverguide.site – The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky …
Danish String Quartet review – captivating performance from a world-class group

The best albums of 2026 so far

silverguide.site – From Thundercat’s all-star funk to Kacey Musgraves’ hymns to solitude, we look at some of our favourite music of the last six months from across the pop spectrum…
The best albums of 2026 so far

Aria music quiz: how well do you know the Australian charts?

silverguide.site – We’ve looked at the Aria charts since 1998 to see who Australians can’t stop listening to. Take our quiz to see if you know your chart toppers from your one-hit wonders…
Aria music quiz: how well do you know the Australian charts?

Jesse Hector obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Charismatic leader of bands including Crushed Butler, Helter Skelter and the Hammersmith Gorillas…
Jesse Hector obituary

The Marriage of Figaro review – Danielle de Niese’s slick direction weds finery with fun

silverguide.site – A touring show was quite a challenge for the opera star’s first directorial gig, but dynamic singing, charismatic orchestral play and clever stage jokes pull it off brilliantly…
The Marriage of Figaro review – Danielle de Niese’s slick direction weds finery with fun
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