This is the last theartsdesk on Vinyl before Record Store Day. Our RSD Special will arrive on theartsdesk Thurs 16th April.

I’ve always liked to think that, when it comes to artistic performance, comparisons are odious (or oderous, as Dogberry had ...

Poetry and song are related, but they’re not kissin’ cousins, more first cousins at one remove. Composers of art song in the ...

The title doesn’t refer to a void into which detectives disappear, but to Harry Hole, the fictional Norwegian sleuth created ...

With their previous album, 2021’s Amazing Things, they not only secured their first UK, number one album, but sonically, their frenetic sound was notably refined and matured. Their open-minded ...

Tamerlano, tyrannical Emperor of the Tartars, is a burger-munching boor with a golf-habit, a bulbous belly and a crashing ...

Your term is about to end,” Italian president De Santis (Toni Servillo) is told, with implications which extend far past ...

The Downfall of Huw Edwards does what it says on the tin. We watch the fêted newsreader from initial online contact with a 17 ...

Immaturity is a virtue in Kirill Sokolov’s action-horror-comedy, a slapstick class satire set in an exclusive New York apartment block where being on the list gains a hellish new meaning. Derivative, ...

How to Have a Number 1 The Easy Way, Bill Drummond wrote: “We await the day with relish that somebody dares to make a dance ...

José González is one of those musicians who is well known without many recognising it. Until that is, someone plays his most known track “Heartbeats”, which was unavoidable after it released in the ...

This was a concert of music by living women composers, and I guess you could call all three of its components protest music.