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Music fan Keith Bailie selects his 30 best albums of the past year.

The English alt-rock star talks about writing in the Dorset dialect of her childhood home on her new album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, plus she performs live with a special guitar.

The album's not dead! Want proof? NPR Music's list of the best albums of 2023 features masterworks by veterans, newcomers, iconoclasts and at least one supergroup.

Amid the chaos and confusion of the past 12 months, critics Mark Beaumont, Helen Brown, Annabel Nugent and Roisin O’Connor found plenty of comfort and solace in the year’s musical offerings

Here are 18 2024 Grammy categories we’ll be watching with particular interest. They are listed in the order they appear on the ballot.

The bellringers of St Mary’s Church in Ely have been practicing for a busy festive schedule.

It was a year of comebacks with such heavyweights as the Rolling Stones and — remarkably — the Beatles releasing new material. Veteran artists such as Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel also rolled back the years.

As the old year ends and a new one begins, this is what we can expect:

See PJ Harvey's performance for NPR's Tiny Desk Concert.

As we enter what has become known in T&T as “fireworks season”, let us take a moment to try to understand the suffering of humans and animals.