Know the score? I don’t read music, but that’s no hindrance to reimagining great classical works

Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest strength

‘We get a lot of requests for it be used in sex scenes’: how Goldfrapp made Ooh La La

‘I couldn’t think of a line for the chorus – but we had just been to France. I got Baudelaire into the lyrics somewhere, too’

Dijon review

Brixton AcademyNominated for producer of the year for his album Baby and work with Justin Bieber, the US musician’s passion and experimentalism shine in this daring performance

Ari Lennox: Vacancy review

(Interscope)On her third LP, Lennox balances jazz-soaked tradition with flashes of unruly humour and a surefire viral hit

‘Some artists thought it was too political’: can Jarvis, Damon, Olivia Rodrigo and Arctic Monkeys reboot the biggest charity album of the 90s?

Oasis, Macca and Radiohead made Help a smash for War Child in 1995. A new reboot packs comparable star power – and was partially produced from a hospital bed

R&B star Jill Scott: ‘I like mystery

The neo-soul singer and actor answers your questions on being taken to a go-go club as a child, training as an English teacher and getting mistaken for footballer Jill Scott

Arctic Monkeys release first new song since 2022 to benefit War Child

Opening Night will appear on HELP(2), a charity compilation out in March which also features Olivia Rodrigo, Depeche Mode, Pulp and more

Megadeth: Megadeth review

(BLKIIBLK/Frontiers)Tuneful yet overlong, Dave Mustaine and co’s final album is a recap of Megadeth’s strengths, flaws and familiar grudges

‘We played to 8,000 Mexicans who knew every word’: how the Whitest Boy Alive conquered the world

He lit up Europe with bands ranging from Peachfuzz to Kings of Convenience. But it was the Whitest Boy Alive that sent Erlend Øye stratospheric. As they return, the soft-singing, country-hopping sensation looks back

At 19, The Weeknd worked at American Apparel with a music side hustle—16 years later, he earned $298 million in 2025

As a teenager, The Weeknd quit his job at American Apparel for his music side hustle. Other professionals may want to be less impulsive.

GBSR Duo: For Philip Guston review

Kings Place, LondonAt over four hours without a break, Morton Feldman’s work dedicated to his artist friend is challenging, but in a rare live performance, the concentration of its performers made it an unforgettable experience

Mika looks back: ‘Nowadays you wouldn’t get away with the things journalists said about my sexuality in the noughties’

The superstar singer on his itinerant childhood, brutally honest mother, and the moment of anger that led him to write Grace Kelly