The underground music scene reshaping Dubai’s cultural landscape
There’s growing appetite for original content centered on values and the artists who perform it
Music
Monday
Friday
A pleasant respite from the tumult in Cambridge
It’s far from clear that Great Britain, or Europe, for that matter, can provide a sanctuary from Trump
Cher should stick to what she knows best
Her memoir suggests that the icon doesn’t know what makes her compelling
Thursday
This month in culture: January 2025
What to watch this month
Saturday
Cello explains how music helped escape a certain death at Auschwitz
Exploring the relationship between the cello and its player, Kate Kennedy describes how Anita Lasker-Wallfisch’s musical gift enabled her to survive not just one but two Nazi death camps
Monday
How music can be weaponized
Rebel Sounds is an uplifting compendium of hidden histories of those who have produced, performed and distributed music in times of war
A far out weekend at the Vegas Sphere
Dead shows, whether Grateful or & Company, bring a bunch of disparate people together
Thursday
Back to the birth of the Greenwich Village music scene
David Browne’s latest book pivots around 1961
Bud Powell should be a household name
He cherished the few joys in his life and celebrated them through his innovative approach to the piano
Monday
Back to 1984 with Robert Dean Lurie
‘My forty-five-year-old self is inhabiting my nine-year-old body’
Monday
The evergreen, ageless Rolling Stones
How did the band achieve this curious headlock on our affections?
Wednesday
The individualistic talents of the Pet Shop Boys
The eccentricity and idiosyncrasy of Britain’s most commercially successful duo should be cherished and extolled
This month in culture: June 2024
Our guide to what should be on your radar
Thursday
Peter Duchin makes us happy
He is the classiest of class acts
Sunday
An unvarnished insight into the mind of Sonny Rollins
Even if jazz has developed stylistically in ways the jazz saxophonist might not have foreseen, its founding attitudes are enduring
A look into Billie Holiday’s final year
Paul Alexander is on a mission to correct what he sees as misrepresentations of the singer’s life and personality
Monday
Bob Marley: One Love and the surefire success of music biopics
They provide the unmissable opportunity for an up-and-coming actor to become a star
Tuesday
Relive Lou Reed’s wild, contradictory life
In Lou Reed: The King of New York , Will Hermes seems unusually well attuned to his subject, while resisting any temptation to soft-pedal
John Densmore on protecting the Doors’ legacy
The drummer seems to have settled for the role of a wise elder statesman of rock ’n’ roll
Wednesday
Jerry Miller’s tale
Moby Grape could have been a contender but never quite were
