Outbreak festival review – hardcore and pop hooks collide in impeccable genre-fluid lineup

Turnstile headlined with soaring high-tempo energy while Speed went route-one punk, Jane Remover caused pandemonium and Have a Nice Life electrified their fanbase in this most free-thinking of festivals

Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio

Barrie Kosky’s remarkable 2015 production returns to the summer festival with Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies superb in the lead roles

Post Malone at Coachella review – chameleonic megastar wows in the desert

The 29-year-old singer travelled through his genre-shifting back catalogue in a charming and energetic 90-minute headliner set

Green Day at Coachella review – fun but muddled set pokes fun at American Idiots

The weekend’s legacy headliner offered some cathartic punk pop rebellion but the awkward setlist lacked coherence and thought

Lady Gaga at Coachella review – a thrilling all-timer of a performance

The pop superstar made an electrifying return to the desert for a career-spanning two-hour show, one of the best the desert has ever seen

Golden Plains 2025: Belfast rappers Kneecap and Dublin rockers Fontaines DC lead sublime weekend

PJ Harvey topped the bill alongside two of Ireland’s best musical exports, but local acts such as Thelma Plum, Jada Weazel and RMFC shone in an eclectic festival full of magic moments.

Le Piano Symphonique festival review – high drama with Argerich and friends

Evgeny Kissin, Beatrice Rana, Yunchan Lim and more dazzled at this flourishing young festival, but the week belonged to the great Martha Argerich

The week in classical: La bohème; London Contemporary Music festival – review

Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska is an unforgettable Mimì in Richard Jones’s ever sumptuous Puccini production. And mischief rules at this year’s LCMF

London Contemporary Music festival review – anarchic and provocative, sublime and ridiculous

Cutting-edge composers and sound artists converge for a festival packed with curious works, from scatological panto scores to futurist noise opera, on the theme of tricksters

Meredith music festival 2024: a glorious weekend spanning Jamie xx and Leo Sayer

Shoes were held aloft for many of the acts at Victoria’s little festival that could, which seems to be spreading its magic to a new generation

Williams/Burch; Booth/Waley-Cohen review – persuasive Schubert and superb Kurtág

Roderick Williams was vivid and compelling in Schubert’s Schwanengesang, while Claire Booth rose to the challenges of Kafka Fragments

Albert Herring review – Britten’s postwar comic opera sits surprisingly well in the 21st century

Impressive debuts, thoughtful characterisations and an Albert who was easy to root for helped Scottish Opera’s production feel remarkably timely

End of the Road festival review – engagingly eclectic weekender never fails to surprise

A headlining Slowdive ticked the indie boxes, but Lankum’s intense folk, Paranoid London’s filthy techno and Nourished By Time’s slick R&B grooves once again prove this festival has punch and personality

Supersonic festival review – an awesome windmill of noise and connection

This festival of heavier sounds from the fringes was a blast, from chilling Gazelle Twin to Daisy Rickman’s Krautrock-folk, noise icons Melt-Banana and locals Flesh Creep

Leeds festival review – Lana Del Rey and Liam Gallagher are sublime after the storm

An eclectic line-up – from Lambrini Girls to Fontaines DC and Fred Again – defied Storm Lilian to deliver a fiery, heartfelt festival