By Tessa Nolan There is a moment in every Kirill Richter performance when the audience realises it is hearing something that does not fit any…
By Tessa Nolan In December 2025, France’s Culture Minister Rachida Dati made a declaration that would have seemed absurd to the Anglo-Saxon music press of…
By Tessa Nolan In January 2024, France became the first major music market in the world to impose a dedicated levy on music streaming revenues.…
By Tessa Nolan Two years ago, Chappell Roan was working at a donut shop in Los Angeles, seriously considering giving up on music. This February,…
By Tessa Nolan In the modern music industry, careers are supposed to follow a predictable arc. An artist breaks on TikTok, surges through algorithmic playlists,…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 February 2024, during Super Bowl LVIII, Beyoncé stepped out of a Verizon commercial alongside Tony Hale and surprise-released two singles…
By Tessa Nolan On 20 March 1988, a reggae track written by two of pop’s most prolific songwriters and originally buried as a B-side on…
By Maria Bregman, literary and music critic Recently, some very strange and sudden news has emerged from Boston. It has been announced that Andris Nelsons,…
By Tessa Nolan There are songs that lodge themselves in the cultural spine. You hum them without knowing where you heard them. Greensleeves is one…
By Sara Bright We have a habit of resurrecting our dead rock stars. Not literally, of course, but forensically. We dig them up, dust off…