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In the week that we mourn the death of the Guardian’s long-serving classical music critic, composers, performers, colleagues and others who knew and worked with him pay tribute to a writer whose passi ...

Alicia Keys set out to create “Hell’s Kitchen” more than 13 years ago, according to Kristoffer Diaz, who wrote the book for ...

From Elton John and Billy Joel to Stevie Wonder and Charlie Puth, the piano has become the backbone of some of music's most popular acts. The instrument has shown up on a slew of top tracks in genres ...

Music affects us physically. A quick example of this is that our heart beat, respiration and brain waves all entrain, or synchronize, with different rhythms. Slow music tends to slow down our heart ...

Simon and Garfunkel had so many great songs, with classics like "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "The Sound of Silence" ...

We’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pitchfork with a full week dedicated to Sunday Reviews of great albums from 1996. Today we revisit Aphex Twin’s fourth album under the alias, which used naive ...

Reaching its 40-year milestone, the career-making Dutch festival Eurosonic Noorderslag is fighting for a united Europe.

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Elisabeth Schwarz sits down with the British conductor to talk about his history of mental illness, his coming out and his ...

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