Arts & Culture: Music
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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?
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.
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
The way I see it: Sir Willard White
- 10 April 2008
Shiny, happy people
- By Jude Rogers
- 10 April 2008
