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‘We keep secrets because we’re scared’: Guvna B on porn addiction and recovery

silverguide.site – After writing about a racist attack on his last album, the award-winning musician wanted his new work to be happier. Then life took him down a different path. He discusses stigma, shame and how he got help…
‘We keep secrets because we’re scared’: Guvna B on porn addiction and recovery
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Flattery or forgery? Row erupts over Vienna Phil’s re-orchestration of a Florence Price piece

silverguide.site – Inclusion of first Black woman in US to write a symphony in Vienna’s New Year’s Day concert was a long overdue recognition. But how much of her music was actually played?…
Flattery or forgery? Row erupts over Vienna Phil’s re-orchestration of a Florence Price piece
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‘I woke up and couldn’t move’: Scottish rockers the Twilight Sad on births, death and breakdown

silverguide.site – In the seven years since their last album, the Scots have faced down dementia and cancer. Now they’re returning with a visceral new sound – and eager to get back to globetrotting with the Cure…
‘I woke up and couldn’t move’: Scottish rockers the Twilight Sad on births, death and breakdown
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Seoul raises terror alert as it prepares to host BTS comeback concert

silverguide.site – Thousands of police prepare to deploy to South Korea’s capital ahead of K-pop’s most anticipated comeback…
Seoul raises terror alert as it prepares to host BTS comeback concert
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Siegfried review – invigorating and mesmerising staging, with Schager outstanding as Wagner’s hero

silverguide.site – The third opera of Barrie Kosky’s Ring cycle again places the naked ancient earth goddess centre stage in a thoughtful and deft production that boasts an excellent cast and orchestral playing that captures the score’s complex colours…
Siegfried review – invigorating and mesmerising staging, with Schager outstanding as Wagner’s hero
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‘We built a castle on stage complete with battlements’: how 80s German thrash bands pushed metal to new extremes

silverguide.site – As Metallica et al broke through, Kreator, Sodom and Destruction were forging an even harder sound. They recall gigs in coalmines, sessions in steelworks – and boozing with Slayer…
‘We built a castle on stage complete with battlements’: how 80s German thrash bands pushed metal to new extremes
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Kid Rock decries settlement reached between Live Nation and Trump’s justice department

silverguide.site – Close ally of president was set to testify at antitrust trial of Ticketmaster parent company later this month…
Kid Rock decries settlement reached between Live Nation and Trump’s justice department
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The Kingdom: Oxford Bach Choir, BSO/Nicholas review – Elgar’s unloved oratorio sounds expansive and convincing

silverguide.site – The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Oxford Bach Choir and a fine quartet of soloists made the case for Elgar’s oratorio…
The Kingdom: Oxford Bach Choir, BSO/Nicholas review – Elgar’s unloved oratorio sounds expansive and convincing
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Mike Vernon obituary

silverguide.site – Producer, musician and record label executive who worked with artists such as John Mayall, Eric Clapton and Fleetwood Mac…
Mike Vernon obituary
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The Taylor Swift effect: US vinyl sales top $1bn for the first time since 1983

silverguide.site – Swift leads the 2025 vinyl charts with 1.6m sales of The Life of a Showgirl while Sabrina Carpenter and Kendrick Lamar round out the top three…
The Taylor Swift effect: US vinyl sales top $1bn for the first time since 1983
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Sinfonia of London/ Wilson/ Kantorow review – pushing the limits of the well-oiled orchestral machine

silverguide.site – Conductor John Wilson and players delivered an Enigma Variations that veered between whispers and full-throttle intensity. Soloist Alexandre Kantorow, too, proved a master of extremes with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 3…
Sinfonia of London/ Wilson/ Kantorow review – pushing the limits of the well-oiled orchestral machine
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‘Siegfried wants to have fun, kill the dragon, meet the girl’: Andreas Schager on Wagner’s young bully

silverguide.site – The Austrian tenor is making his Royal Opera debut as Siegfried in the third instalment of of the Ring Cycle. He explains why operetta prepared him for the opera’s epic demands, and why Wagner’s loutish adolescent is more hero than zero…
‘Siegfried wants to have fun, kill the dragon, meet the girl’: Andreas Schager on Wagner’s young bully
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BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oramo/ Son review – rainy days, rolling hills and enchanted creatures

silverguide.site – Judith Weir’s salute to the Indian monsoon kicked off a concert on nature and folk themes, Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son brought poetic flourishes to works by Bartók and Finzi, while the magical Firebird made a rousing finale…
BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oramo/ Son review – rainy days, rolling hills and enchanted creatures
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‘I had never heard something so angry and feminine’: Jehnny Beth’s honest playlist

silverguide.site – The singer and actor, formerly of Savages, was shaken up by Le Tigre and gets emotional when hearing Fontaines DC, but which rapper can she no longer bear to listen to?…
‘I had never heard something so angry and feminine’: Jehnny Beth’s honest playlist
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‘You’ve got to be able to laugh at yourself’: Jamie Oliver stars in video for CMAT’s The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station

silverguide.site – The TV chef wondered what he’d done to prompt CMAT’s indie epic about losing the plot at the sight of his face – but once he got her ‘tragicomedy of misdirected anger’, he was ‘100% in’ to drum in the video…
‘You’ve got to be able to laugh at yourself’: Jamie Oliver stars in video for CMAT’s The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
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BBCNOW/Djupsjöbacka review – Tower’s Love Returns is an uncommonly appealing piece

silverguide.site – Joan Tower’s concerto for alto saxophone was brilliantly delivered by Steven Banks, part of a lively concert…
BBCNOW/Djupsjöbacka review – Tower’s Love Returns is an uncommonly appealing piece
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Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints doom with Helseth’s gleaming trumpet

silverguide.site – Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Receiving its UK premiere in a programme with Britten and Walton, Nico Muhly’s trumpet concerto is inspired by the instrument’s biblical – sometimes apocalyptic – associations…
Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints doom with Helseth’s gleaming trumpet
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Elisabeth Leonskaja review – piano legend’s unerring sense of architecture reveals connections and kinships

silverguide.site – In her recital programme of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Chopin, Webern and Schubert, the Austrian pianist brought new insights and expected delights…
Elisabeth Leonskaja review – piano legend’s unerring sense of architecture reveals connections and kinships
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Add to playlist: the dadaist cubist racket of Angine de Poitrine and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – This hyped anonymous duo match the oddness of their costumes with shredding metal, microtonal flourishes and Dalek-style vocals…
Add to playlist: the dadaist cubist racket of Angine de Poitrine and the week’s best new tracks
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Diagonale des Yeux: Madeleine review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

silverguide.site – Music boxes, miaows and strange melodies pepper the whimsical and charmingly lo-fi post-punk of Laurène Exposito and Théo Delaunay…
Diagonale des Yeux: Madeleine review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month
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