Harry Smith

Anthology Of American Folk Music

Junk Shop Classical On Brahms: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Phil Hebblethwaite invites you into Brahms’s German Requiem, one of the worst-named pieces of classical music in the canon. It has nothing to do with nationalism, or the church, and should have been called what Brahms later suggested: A Human Requiem. It couldn’t be more relevant in 2017

Lonesome Valley High: Bill Callahan’s Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest

It's been a while, but the artist formerly known as Smog is back with a new double album of peculiarly American romanticism, finds David Hering

Junk Shop Classical on Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge is one of the most extreme pieces of music ever written, in any genre. A visionary work that only began to make sense in the 20th century, asks Phil Hebblethwaite, or a cacophonous duff that betrays a disturbing truth about a highly complex man?

Enjoy The Silence: In The Studio With Cage Against The Machine Campaign

Zoe Street Howe reports on the 'Cage Against The Machine' campaign, and finds that Band Aid'-style 4'33 recording isn't just a silent X Factor protest

Jazz Is My Religion: Idris Ackamoor’s Baker’s Dozen

In a sprawling Baker’s Dozen, longstanding jazz legend Idris Ackamoor tells Siobhán Kane about the way Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Bob Marley and more have inspired his life and work

Dulli Noted: Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs’ Favourite Albums

With Do To The Beast, the first Afghan Whigs album since 1998, recently released, frontman Greg Dulli takes Aug Stone through the crime scenes of his all-time top LPs

RIP Deep Purple’s Jon Lord

Keyboard player had been suffering from pancreatic cancer

Gary Glitter, Re-Writing Musical History & The Danger Of Censorship

Gary Glitter has been omitted from a recent major compilation about glam. Johnny Sharp argues that such censorship and re-writing of musical history is dangerous, no matter how heinous the artist's crime. Photo from Shutterstock.