Music

Top tunes to add to your playlist, from ancient Yemeni pop to easy listening – without the guilt

Her new album “Lemonade” may draw on her relationship with Jay-Z, but it’s really about what it means to be a black woman in America today

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long

Don Cheadle’s film about Miles Davis captures the evolution of a sound –and paints a man haunted by his past

Todd Rundgren, the ritalin-guzzling genius behind Meatloaf’s “Bat out of Hell”, was a protoype for today’s bedroom necromancers

At a recent night honouring the late jazz-poet Gil Scott-Heron, an eclectic group of musicians gave his verses a modern twist

What an astonishing piece of luck that the Beatles encountered this very modest hero

What to listen to: from opera’s Janis Joplin to Malawian jailhouse rock

What the world is listening to, including Chinese state-sponsored hip-hop and the Russian Bob Dylan

At a new style of songwriting retreat, up-and-coming artists work alongside big names