Pleasant, underwhelming: Kurt Vile's Back to Moon Beach reviewed
I know where he is coming from. But I haven’t a clue where he wishes to end up
Music industry
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Small moments vs Big Ideas: Peter Gabriel's i/o reviewed
In his latest album, the singer imagines a utopian ideal harnessed by tech at its most enlightened
Wednesday
When atonal music was original and exciting
Alexander Goehr’s Composing a Life is a fascinating study of musical transmission
The biggest music feuds of all time
Hotels and studios are OK, but for optimal angst you need the stage
Wednesday
Did the music industry enable R. Kelly?
As Harvey Weinstein was to film, so Robert ‘R.’ Kelly has been to the music industry. An energetic and profligate figure who enjoyed enormous commercial and artistic success in his heyday, Kelly’s downfall, with his convictions on nine charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, is now total. It looks likely he will be given a life sentence for his crimes, and few, other than his most devoted admirers, will be mourning his entry into the penal system. Yet Kelly’s fate, while richly deserved, is not the end of the story. Instead, questions have to be asked of those who were around him while he behaved egregiously behind the scenes. It transpired,
