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From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked!

www.silverguide.site – As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop…
From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked!
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LPO/Benjamin review – music of crystalline clarity and hedonistic pleasure

www.silverguide.site – George Benjamin conducted this meticulously programmed and beautifully executed concert of his own Palimpsests alongside music by Scriabin, Stravinsky and Ravel…
LPO/Benjamin review – music of crystalline clarity and hedonistic pleasure
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Hemlocke Springs: The Apple Tree Under the Sea review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

www.silverguide.site – On her self-released debut, the singer-songwriter championed by Chappell Roan doubles down on the wonky charm that made her go viral on TikTok…
Hemlocke Springs: The Apple Tree Under the Sea review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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Snippets? Apps? Visuals? Why classical music should stop trying to be pop

www.silverguide.site – Classical music’s blessing is also its curse: you’ve simply got to pay it attention. Plus: No wonder Rossini was an Olympics hit – he invented disco…
Snippets? Apps? Visuals? Why classical music should stop trying to be pop
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The Beach Boys: We Gotta Groove review – box set of lost 70s music has all of Brian Wilson’s turmoil and talent

www.silverguide.site – Spanning 1974-77, this collection shows Wilson was capable of stunning pre-rock’n’roll homage – on the previously unheard Adult/Child – while also writing wayward songs about organic food…
The Beach Boys: We Gotta Groove review – box set of lost 70s music has all of Brian Wilson’s turmoil and talent
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​AI slop, begone! The viral musical virtuosos bringing brains and brilliance back to social media

www.silverguide.site – Whether making microtonal pop or playing Renaissance instruments with sheep bones, a crop of bold artists are making genuinely strange music go mainstream – but are they at the mercy of the algorithm?…
​AI slop, begone! The viral musical virtuosos bringing brains and brilliance back to social media
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Britney Spears sells rights to music catalog for undisclosed sum, say reports

www.silverguide.site – Music publisher Primary Wave said to have bought rights to pop star’s music, including Toxic and Baby One More Time…
Britney Spears sells rights to music catalog for undisclosed sum, say reports
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‘Holy grail’ footage of David Bowie at his peak to feature in immersive London show

www.silverguide.site – Earl’s Court performance of Heroes in 1978 is among highlights of exhibition exploring singer’s life and work…
‘Holy grail’ footage of David Bowie at his peak to feature in immersive London show
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Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage

www.silverguide.site – He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera…
Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage
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J Cole: The Fall Off review – rap legend’s final album is a self-obsessed hip-hop history lesson

www.silverguide.site – (Interscope)Bowing out after six consecutive US No 1 albums, Cole references rap greats and even conjures a convo between Biggie and 2Pac – but the lens rarely strays from himself…
J Cole: The Fall Off review – rap legend’s final album is a self-obsessed hip-hop history lesson
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Florence + the Machine review – ​a thrilling shift in tone towards stark, sombre catharsis

www.silverguide.site – Florence Welch is backed by the folk-horror dramatics of a petticoat-clad choir – but quite capable of transfixing the crowd with her billowing voice alone…
Florence + the Machine review – ​a thrilling shift in tone towards stark, sombre catharsis
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It’s known for making submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian venue attract the world’s boldest musicians?

www.silverguide.site – In a park keeper’s lodge in Barrow-in-Furness, Full of Noises has hosted the likes of Julia Holter and Lonnie Holley – and is a model for why arts funding matters…
It’s known for making submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian venue attract the world’s boldest musicians?
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Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire

www.silverguide.site – Podcast by Adam Batty and BBC 6 Music DJ Afrodeutsche follows the leads to Leeds…
Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire
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‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers

www.silverguide.site – In the mid-60s, the Beatles tuned in to the world’s most audacious experimental musicians. Paul McCartney reveals how many of the Fab Four’s ‘far-out’ masterpieces were inspired by their sonic breakthroughs…
‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers
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They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?

www.silverguide.site – Faced with ‘catastrophic financial doom’ in a difficult industry, the Sunderland outfit explain why imitating Jim Morrison is their way to survive…
They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?
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A Mass of Life review – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus

www.silverguide.site – Mark Elder and the BBC Symphony Orchestra make such an outstanding case for Delius’s setting of Nietzsche that its 37-year absence from the Proms is baffling…
A Mass of Life review – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus
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BBC says it delayed Ozzy Osbourne documentary at family’s request

www.silverguide.site – Broadcaster says family wants ‘to wait a bit longer’, after film about singer’s final years pulled from Monday’s listings…
BBC says it delayed Ozzy Osbourne documentary at family’s request
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Coldplay review – after 12m tickets sold, this tour is still a mindblowing spectacle

www.silverguide.site – They may be as cloyingly earnest as ever, but even amid an overwhelming production full of fireworks and lovehearts, Chris Martin and co are in total control…
Coldplay review – after 12m tickets sold, this tour is still a mindblowing spectacle
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Le Concert Spirituel review – a sumptuous musical journey to late Renaissance Florence

www.silverguide.site – Striggio’s mass, lost for 400 years, was the centrepiece of this imaginative concert of 16th- and 17th-century music that possibly worked best for radio listeners…
Le Concert Spirituel review – a sumptuous musical journey to late Renaissance Florence
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Green Man festival review – Kneecap and CMAT lead the charge in a utopian Welsh idyll

www.silverguide.site – Progressive, independent and more sonically diverse than ever, the Brecon Beacons festival offered sterling sets from MJ Lenderman to Mike, Jasmine.4.t to Joshua Idehen…
Green Man festival review – Kneecap and CMAT lead the charge in a utopian Welsh idyll
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