The last great bastion of regular international #vinyl record reviewing - #theartsdesk on Vinyl 96 - #DuranDuran #Vitalic #Fliptrix #HappyMondays @happymondays.bsky.social #MilesDavis and more from Thomas H Green www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

The widest ranging record reviews in the cosmos - the latest #theartsdesk on Vinyl 95 from Thomas H Green includes #PinkFloyd @naznomad.bsky.social #Madonna #Doves @linkwrayfangroup.bsky.social @goldfrappmusic.bsky.social and more www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

Turn the page on 2025 with our finest books of the year -
#Bestof2025: BOOKS from #theartsdesk critics - #TomRaworth (pictured here) #BenMarkovits #JustinLewis #OmarElAkkad #HarrietArmstrong #GeorgiGospodinov @carcanet.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/books/best-2...

A seasonal slant on the most wide-ranging record reviews in the universe, from Thomas H Green - #theartsdesk on #Vinyl 94: #NinaSimone #TheCoral @thecoral.bsky.social #TheCranberries #FrankSinatra #PeteFij #JimiHendrix and more www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly sublime to the zoologically ridiculous My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but some of us have been in on the secret for years. Importa...

From the soaringly sublime to the zoologically ridiculous, the #LammermuirFestival 2025 was bigger than ever, and the quality remained astonishingly high - Simon Thompson returns to East Lothian, for a second #theartsdesk report on a popular musical event theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

The biggest, best record reviews in the known universe at #theartsdesk on #Vinyl 92: #MarianneFaithful #CrayolaLectern #UKSubs @uksubs-official.bsky.social #BlackLips #Stax #DennisBovell and more www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

theartsdesk at the Lahti Sibelius Festival - early epics by the Finnish master in context It’s weird, if wonderful, that vibrant young composers at the end of the 19th century should have featured death so prominently in their hero-sagas. Assume their inspiration came from Wagner’s Siegmun...

★★★★★ #theartsdesk at the #LahtiSibeliusFestival - Early epics by the Finnish master in context, as Finnish heroes meet their Austro-German counterparts in breathtaking interpretations #Sibelius - review @davidnice.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

theartsdesk in Kovachevitsa - top Bulgarians and friends make peerless music in a remote village Performers and public alike always treasure a beautiful and, in this case, remote setting for a music festival. But people matter as much as sense of place. When the players work together in various c...

Top Bulgarians and friends make peerless music in a remote village - #theartsdesk in #Kovachevitsa - Four big concerts of hugely varied chamber works in the #Rhodope mountains - @davidnice.bsky.social at the #OfftheBeatenPath festival www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

theartsdesk Q&A: director Andreas Dresen on his anti-Nazi resistance drama 'From Hilde, with Love' Andreas Dresen directs socially engaged realist films that invariably relay personal and political messages; the result can be tough but is usually tender at heart.

#theartsdesk Q&A: director #AndreasDresen on his anti-Nazi resistance drama FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE - The East German-born filmmaker explains why his biopic of the activist Hilde Coppi isn't bound to the 1940s - interview with Pamela Jahn theartsdesk.com/film/thearts...

theartsdesk on Vinyl 91: Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, Tropical Fuck Storm, Sparks, The Sisters of Mercy and more VINYL OF THE MONTHFrank From Blue Velvet I Am Frank (Property of the Lost) + Column258 Interloper (The Workshop Sessions, Volume One) (Property of the Lost)

#theartsdesk on #Vinyl 91: @sexpistolsofficial.bsky.social #PinkFloyd @tropicalfuckstorm.bsky.social #Sparks #TheSistersofMercy and more, in the vastest regular record reviews in the galaxy, from Thomas H Green theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

theartsdesk at the Dublin International Chamber Music Festival - musical revelations, nature beyond If, like me, chamber music isn’t your most frequent home, there are bound to be revelations of what for many are known masterpieces. Mine in recent years have involved Brahms, a composer I love more t...

#theartsdesk at the #Dublin International Chamber Music Festival - Musical revelations, nature beyond, as artistic director #CiaraHiggins’ programming ensures plenty of surprises - review @davidnice.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

theartsdesk on Vinyl 90: Small Faces, ESKA, Luvcat, Dope Lemon, Celia Cruz, Monolake and more VINYL OF THE MONTHEmily Saunders Moon Shifts Oceans (The Mix Sounds)

The most monstrously huge regular record reviews in the universe - #theartsdesk on #Vinyl 90 - #SmallFaces #ESKA #Luvcat #DopeLemon @celiacruz.bsky.social @monolake.bsky.social and more - Thomas H Green covers the latest releases theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

theartsdesk on Vinyl 89: Wilco, Decius, Hot 8 Brass Band, Henge, Dub Syndicate, Motörhead and more VINYL OF THE MONTHRattle Encircle (Upset! The Rhythm)

The last-standing and largest regular vinyl record reviews in the world, from Thomas H Green - #theartsdesk on #Vinyl 89 - @wilcohq.bsky.social #Decius #Hot8BrassBand @hengemusic.bsky.social #DubSyndicate @motorhead-official.bsky.social and more theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...

theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on his apocalyptic musical 'The End' Joshua Oppenheimer made his name directing two disturbing documentaries, The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), that dealt with the aftermath of the brutal anti-communist massacres ...

'All of us are already living entrapped in bunkers' - filmmaker #JoshuaOppenheimer on his apocalyptic musical 'The End': the documentary director talks about his ominous first fiction film and why its characters break into song - #theartsdesk Q&A with Pamela Jahn theartsdesk.com/film/thearts...

theartsdesk Q&A: Indian star Radhika Apte on 'Sister Midnight' Radhika Apte has been acclaimed for her ebullient performance as a reluctant bride in Sister Midnight since director Karan Kandhari’s comic horror movie was launched at Cannes last May.

Indian star #RadhikaApte on SISTER MIDNIGHT, her breakout screen performance capturing the frantic pulse of #Mumbai, and living and working between #London and #India - #theartsdesk Q&A with Pamela Jahn @altitudefilms.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/film/thearts...

theartsdesk on Vinyl 88: Violent Femmes, Ringo Starr, ARXX, Dexter Gordon, Black Star, Dennis Bovell and more VINYL OF THE MONTHBuñuel Mansuetude (Skin Graft/Overdrive)

The wildest, most wide-ranging record reviews in our galaxy, as usual from Thomas H Green - #theartsdesk on #Vinyl 88: #ViolentFemmes #RingoStarr #ARXX #DexterGordon #BlackStar #DennisBovell and more theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...