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The singer-songwriter's best album yet conjures low-lit jazz bars with swelling, sultry songs of attraction and desire, fleshed out with flurries of brass and vintage Wurlitzers ...

When pop stars are deemed 'past their peak', it's easy to dismiss their work. But do that and you might miss out on hidden treasure. Here our critics celebrate unexpected gems from the likes of Aretha Franklin and The Fall ...

A new Oscar-tipped Netflix film sheds light on the later years of the opera legend, played by Angelina Jolie, and the problems she faced ...

The Bros frontman is back touring the UK after an 11-year Vegas residency. He discusses mega-fame, political correctness, loneliness and the joy of long-term success ...

Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial 'dividend'

Traditional songs in dub, Irish keening with touches of Yoko Ono and shape-note hymns with sound-processing were among the year's records renewing an ever elusive genre ...

Brian Harvey said, 'I'm not singing this shit!' - and threw his headphones on the floor. It took two days to get the performance out of him ...

This freewheeling embrace of the singer's roots was also a triumphant reclamation of a genre that had long shunned its Black origins ...

The latest in a series of writers on their go-to comfort movies is a look back to the camp pleasures of Cher and Christina Aguilera together at last ...

The Sopranos and Goodfellas star danced to Sinatra as a child and bought the Turtles with her babysitting money. But which rocker makes her cry?