Heart In Hand News
Laura Marling: Once I Was an Eagle – review
Published on 23. May 2013
Laura Marling's fourth album kicks in with a thrilling – and unexpected – relentlessness. What's happened to the Brontësque singer-songwriter who seemed born to be mild, asks Alexis Petridis
Henri Dutilleux obituary
Published on 22. May 2013
One of France's leading composers, he used colour, harmony and form to magical effect
John Grant – review
Published on 18. May 2013
John Grant's tortured love affair is still inspiring superb lyrics, now matched by fierce Icelandic electronica, writes Kitty Empire
The National: Trouble Will Find Me – review
Published on 16. May 2013
The music is predictable, but subtlety and self-awareness make this an exquisite album, writes Maddy Costa
The Paisley Underground: an oral history of Los Angeles's 1980s psychedelic explosion
Published on 16. May 2013
Michael Hann: Think of LA in the 1980s, and you think of hair metal. But elsewhere, the Bangles, the Dream Syndicate and a handful of others were reviving the 1960s and briefly becoming rock's hottest scene. Here's the story in the musicians' own words
Bonnie Tyler: 'I'm not part of the 80s, I'm part of now'
Published on 13. May 2013
Bonnie Tyler tells Emine Saner why 2013 is the right time to do Eurovision, her high hopes for her first hit album since 1983, and why she likes Botox, makeup and false eyelashes – but not facelifts
Don Carlo; Gods and Heroes – review
Published on 12. May 2013
It doesn't get much better than German tenor Jonas Kaufmann in Royal Opera's top-notch Don Carlo, writes Fiona Maddocks
The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship
Published on 10. May 2013
Hitler was a great music lover, Stalin often went to the Bolshoi – get over it! The relationship between music and dictatorship is complex, argues Will Self. And at the heart of it is technology
Essential summer tracks for 2013
Published on 02. May 2013
After a seemingly endless winter, the temperature is finally rising. It's the perfect time to put on your headphones, step outside and crank up some sunshine sounds
How we made: Heart of Glass
Published on 29. April 2013
Singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein remember how the band overcame the disco haters – including their own drummer – to transform one of their earliest songs into a worldwide hit
