Bringing house music home

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

Zaytoun Songs by JS Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell and Sayed Darwish et al Haitham Haidar (tenor), Sylvain Bergeron (archlute), Abdul-Wahab Kayyali (oud) et al Athene ATH 23027 51:44 mins In medieval Spain

On 22 November, James Hype will play the Bristol Beacon. The Merseyside-born DJ plays on average 130 shows a year, mainly in North America and Ibiza, and Bristol is one of only two UK dates he is play

Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

‘L et’s go chasing rainbows in the sky…” By the mid-1980s, Freddie Mercury had cemented himself as an international rock icon. With 11 studio albums under his studded belt as part of Queen, the flambo

QUEEN I know this is it,” Sophie Ellis-Bextor told The Guardian newspaper in September 2023. “There’s no next rung coming.” As an artist who’d experienced both the dizzy highs and crushing lows of lif