Music

On the edge of ‘Nobody's Empire’: something good will come.

We listen, therefore we are.

Beyond Christmas cards: a guide to the season’s art, past and present

What’s the magic sauce Leonard Cohen mixed into his masterpiece?

The composer’s music contends both the secular and sacred.

Dance music allows us to encounter what’s ’beyond our ken’.

A Laura Marling gig and an All Souls remembrance reverberate life.

He’s picking holes in the idea that religion is where freedom goes to die.

Today’s musicians capture both the barbaric and the beautiful.

The veteran popstar’s story strikes more than a musical chord.

The alt-folk music seeking inspiration from forgotten hymns.

We want the celebrity world to exist, but it returns terrible violence.