‘Knowing another world, how other people work and having a completely different role is healthy.’ Daniel Harding rehearses at Musikverein music hall in Vienna in May 2021. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images   He has performed with some of the top orchestras in the world, but claims that his new side job as an airline pilot has […]

The performer recalls and stokes her contentious past as she promotes her sixth album, criticizing identity politics, the effort to defund the police, and the decision to halt culture.   For 20 years, MIA has been caught between vilification and justification. The rapper and singer, who was born in Sri Lanka and reared in London, […]

‘I wanted it to sound like that feeling of possibility,’ … Courtney Marie Andrews. Photograph: Alexa Viscius   Loose Future, the Arizonan’s most recent album, sees the end of a “dark time” in her life and rebalances her longtime ties with songwriting and isolation   Listen to Courtney Marie Andrews’ soul-searching alt-folk and country songs about […]

“I’m a Yorkshire scrub”… Whitby’s Eliza Carthy Christopher Thomond/Guardian   Covid nearly brought her and her illustrious family to ruin. She was the pink-haired fiddler who punked up the people. Eliza Carthy discusses being broke, losing a loved one, and the therapeutic value of booze- and bawdy-themed songs   The Waterson-Carthy folk dynasty’s situation did […]

We were each other’s support system, according to Paramore. Image by Zachary Gray   The pop-punk pioneers, who were among the most important bands of their period, were almost destroyed by internal strife and misogyny in the music business. They have returned after four years of introspection and are prepared to react to a “crazy” […]