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  • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
    Six films to watch this week
    Sisters With Transistors — heroines of electronic sound get their due

    Lisa Rovner’s absorbing documentary tells the story of female pioneers in technology and music

  • Monday, 19 April, 2021
    From Manchester to Montana, orchestras unveil new work online

    The Hallé Orchestra and the Tippet Rise Art Center are among those presenting premieres this week

  • Monday, 19 April, 2021
    Life of a Song
    Bella Ciao — Italy’s liberation anthem has deep roots

    Now adopted as a protest song worldwide, the song has its origins in the rice fields of the country’s north-east

  • Saturday, 17 April, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Reggae’s reckoning: how 1970s stars were deprived of their fair share

    A generation of Jamaican musicians galvanised British music, so why did they not get what they were owed?

  • Saturday, 17 April, 2021
    Interview
    Tom Jones — ‘Let’s get back to reality’

    The Welsh singer on the evolution of his persona, leaving Las Vegas, and his latest album ‘Surrounded By Time’

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    London Grammar’s Californian Soil is an impressive, sophisticated album

    Hannah Reid is centre stage, singing in a clearly enunciated voice

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    AJ Tracey’s Flu Game fails to score a slam dunk

    A weak basketball theme and insubstantial lyrics let down the Londoner’s limber rapping

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Greta Van Fleet’s The Battle at Garden’s Gate is well-wrought ancestor worship

    The Michigan band resembles Led Zeppelin swaddled in added layers of classic-rock styling

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Toumani Diabaté takes centre stage with the London Symphony Orchestra in Kôrôlén

    This release belatedly recaptures the Malian musician’s 2008 collaboration with the orchestra

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Evan Parker Quartet: All Knavery and Collusion — thrilling spontaneity

    A new album of energetic improvisation draws on the saxophonist’s jazz-club roots

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Britten Sinfonia’s Symphonies 7-9 is no-nonsense, brisk Beethoven

    Thomas Adès rarely misses a trick as he conducts the final volume — recorded at the Barbican

  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
    LexStreaming services
    Taylor Swift/music streaming: the fearless artist Premium

    Covering your own songs is one way to recover lost revenue streams

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    FT World video25 min
    How to make money in the music business | FT Film

    Artists, labels and distributors need to adapt to a fast-changing industry

  • Monday, 12 April, 2021
    Review
    Orchestras and opera companies pave the way for the grand reopening

    The Royal Opera, London Philharmonic and Liverpool Philharmonic gear up with online performances

  • Monday, 12 April, 2021
    Life of a Song
    Morning Dew — how Bonnie Dobson reclaimed her anti-war song

    The folk singer found success with her 1961 track, though it took decades for her to be awarded full royalties

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Brockhampton struggle to reinvent in Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine

    Verbose pop-rap and dull R&B give the collective’s latest album a confused feel

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Freddie De Tommaso: Passione — well-schooled tenor artistry

    The disc is a guilty pleasure with Italian popular songs treated with tuneful romance

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Peggy Seeger’s First Farewell unfolds with elegance and restraint

    The folk musician sings in a clearly voiced, easily melodious way — and is joined by a family band

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Taylor Swift revisits her past

    ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ is the first of six albums the singer plans to re-record

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Oberon: A Midsummer’s Night Dream — a reissued folk classic

    This re-release of the Oxford band’s 1971 album comes with a recording of a live concert

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Alone Together captures the depth and vibrancy of young British jazz

    Compositions from across the century are lushly reinterpreted by 10 piano soloists

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    Louth — Ireland’s hidden gem of a festival

    How did one man in a small Irish town launch an event that now attracts world-class international talent?

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    Why protest music is marching to a different beat

    Once seen as purely hedonistic, techno is now emerging as the sound of anti-authoritarian sentiment

  • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Not OK, computer: music streaming’s diversity problem

    ‘If you look at Spotify’s top 10 most popular artists of 2020, only two are women’

  • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
    How record company Defected defeated the pandemic

    The British house music label has managed to connect with bigger audiences than ever during a dire year for dance

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