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Inside the Lou Reed archive: 'You can walk directly into his world'
The singer’s widow Laurie Anderson talks about the mountains of material preserved at the new archive launched at the New York Public Library
Read more » | Desktop version »'Brave and uncompromising': readers' tributes to Scott Walker
The innovative musician and songwriter has died at the age of 76. Here some of you share your memories and tributes
Read more » | Desktop version »Pop's great adventurer: how Scott Walker reached the heart of darkness
Few pop stars went the artistic distance that Scott Walker did – and from the middle of the road to its further edges, his work was always extraordinary
Read more » | Desktop version »Panic! at the Disco review – ballads, backflips and big-top emotion
Velveteen-voiced showman Brendon Urie’s joyful, muscular maximalism is a tonic for our times
Read more » | Desktop version »LSO/Roth review – Lang premiere gave voice to the community
Local choir members are among the 500 singers who debuted David Lang’s new choral work, while François-Xavier Roth led a diaphanous account of Scriabin
Read more » | Desktop version »Diana Ross calls for end to criticism of Michael Jackson
Ross describes Jackson as ‘a magnificent incredible force’, following extensive allegations of child sexual abuse against him
Read more » | Desktop version »Mefistofele review – rare outing for a 19th-century standout
Arrigo Boito’s unique interpretation of the Goethe play had a splendid performance by Pablo Bemsch in the lead role
Read more » | Desktop version »Scott Walker, experimental pop hero, dies aged 76
Death announced by label 4AD, who said he had ‘enriched the lives of thousands’
Read more » | Desktop version »Victor Hochhauser obituary
Impresario who brought many great Russian artists to Britain, including Shostakovich and Nureyev
Read more » | Desktop version »Sharon Van Etten review – survivor's love on a banshee rollercoaster
The stylish New York singer careers from ice maiden to wailing, whirling dervish in a spellbinding and at times sublime gig
Read more » | Desktop version »Jon Savage: ‘Something about Joy Division transcends their time and place’
The music writer explains the roots of his new oral history of the band
Read more » | Desktop version »Jenny Lewis: On the Line review – gripping, subversive, bittersweet
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