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In music

Franco's win at Eurovision...

  • By Jonathan Rice
  • 07 May

How La La La pipped Congratulations to first place at the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest. But was General Franco involved in thwarting Cliff Richard?

Robot love

  • By Natasha Periyan
  • 03 May

The time is now

  • By Alice O'Keeffe
  • 01 May

Stars of the Nineties still dominate the media, but British dance music is more exciting today

Going, going . . . gone

  • By Andrew Billen
  • 01 May

Trevor Nunn slips up with this tuneless assault on the English language
Gone With the Wind
New London Theatre, WC2

Revolutions all round

  • By Owen Hatherley
  • 01 May

Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries (1915-1922) - Behind the Mask
Edited by Anthony Phillips Faber & Faber, 784pp, £30

The way I see it: Adam Green

  • 01 May

Green is a singer-songwriter from New York, best known as one half of the group the Moldy Peaches, whose music featured on the soundtrack to the film “Juno”. His solo album “Sixes and Sevens” is out now on Rough Trade records.

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Cast the first Stone

Cast the first Stone

Sway
Zachary Lazar
Jonathan Cape, 272pp, £11.99

Album Reviews

All woman

  • By Alice O'Keeffe
  • 20 September

Leaving gender-bending rock behind, P J Harvey has produced an album of fragile beauty

New world order

  • By Daniel Trilling
  • 23 August

MIA adopts the feisty sound of the slums, but she is strongest when closer to home.

Swinging Addis

  • By Rachel Aspden
  • 16 August

Ethiopian pop was killed off by dictatorship, but left a rich and eccentric legacy.

The sound of resistance

  • By Rick Jones
  • 05 July

Using folk melodies and bracing discords, Baltic composers railed against Soviet dominance

More in music

Extraordinary tales of English folk

  • By Antonia Quirke
  • 24 April 2008

Scot on the rocks

  • By Tadzio Koelb
  • 24 April 2008

Emmanuel Jal

  • 24 April 2008

Rock 'n' roll dreams

  • By Yo Zushi
  • 17 April 2008

International front

  • By Rahul Verma
  • 10 April 2008

Shiny, happy people

  • By Jude Rogers
  • 10 April 2008

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