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Black Sabbath Paranoid
Johnny Sharp  |  Mar 15, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
Snapping at the heels of the band’s 1970 debut album, the follow-up – released in the same year – continued to lay down the foundations of heavy metal with its molten-iron riffs and dark lyrical content. Just don’t ask about the cover art...
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Classical
Classical, January 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 14, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
This month we review: Luiza Borac, Rachel Fenlon, Franco Mezzena, Pina Napolitano, and the BBC Concert Orchestra with Alice Farnham
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Rock
Rock, January 2025
Mike Barnes  |  Mar 14, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
This month we review: Rosalie Cunningham, Mirror System, Amyl And The Sniffers, and Fionn Regan
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Jazz
Jazz, January 2025
Steve Harris  |  Mar 14, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
This month we review: Samara Joy, Out Of/Into, Ilario Ferrari Trio and En Wendel
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, January 2025
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 14, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
This month we review: Ron Legault Quintet, John Lennon, Steeleye Span and Neil Young With Crazy Horse
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Inside the Studio
Highbury Studio
Steve Sutherland  |  Mar 13, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
Exclusive Duran Duran demos, UB40’s iconic sessions, the birth of 2-Tone records... Steve Sutherland on a studio that would help put the Midlands on the musical map
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Opinion
That Friday feeling
Steve Harris  |  Mar 13, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
Steve Harris has been thrilled by the Radio 3 revival of the BBC’s venerable Friday Night Is Music Night programme – as will anyone with a love of light music, show tunes and pre-’60s pop
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Opinion
Too young for Brahms
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 13, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
A pair of prestigious piano competition finals has Peter Quantrill wondering if particular pieces and composers are best left on the shelf, waiting for a musician’s life to catch up with their ability
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Opinion
You and AI
Jim Lesurf  |  Mar 13, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
Jim Lesurf admires the technology used to finish off the long-lost John Lennon ballad ‘Now And Then’, but believes Artificial Intelligence brings with it problems as well as solutions
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Opinion
Performance art
Barry Willis  |  Mar 13, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
Can a good hi-fi demo count as art? Barry Willis discovered the crowd-pleasing nature of high-quality music reproduction – and some ‘interesting’ systems – at San Francisco’s MOMA
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