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As his new album Build From Here is released, Wolfgang Tillmans talks about his journey to becoming a full-on musician

His student band was a catastrophe but the Turner prize-winning artist decided to release his music after Frank Ocean appropriated one of his experimental songs. So is his uplifting new album pop – or art?

Consistently doing the mahi in bringing the most innovative talents to our shores, the teams behind

The 1973 edition of the British jazz-rock band is heard at its best in a gig at De Lantaren, Rotterdam, caught on a Uher tape recorder

For all ‘Stay Close To Music’ isn’t afraid to get weird, what’s really notable is just how straightforward it can be.

They're also sharing lead single 'French Lessons'.

With Lady Antonia Fraser and Catherine Ostler in conversation with Hallie Rubenhold This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. The stories of two women who refused to be defined by society’s expectations. Award winning historian Antonia Fraser introduces Caroline Norton, a 19th-century poet and pamphleteer who became a pioneering women’s rights a...

John Doran , April 13th, 2021 08:31 Carla Bley is arguably the greatest living jazz composer; John Doran talks to the woman fellow musicians have nicknamed Countess Bleysie and Bleythoven about foundational free jazz sessions, the magic of The Liberation Music Orchestra and her epic jazz opera, Escalator Over The Hill. Home page photograph courtesy of Tod Papageorge Edward Said immersed himself in the final works of Beethoven, Genet and Beckett while writing his own last book. Said, who produce...