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Picks of the week
Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt-pop star?
‘Rethink it all!’  
Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt-pop star?
Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory finds common ground between Ella Fitzgerald and Charli xcx – and its free-thinking alumni are thriving. We go on a tour to see what’s in the water there (aside from shipwrecks)
That’s me in the spotlight  
Michael Shannon on swapping Hollywood for an REM covers band
‘It’s a northern sound, it gives you hope that it can happen to you’  
How bassline bounced back
‘It’ll be solemn, enshrining his ashes’  
Statue of Lemmy to be unveiled in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent
‘People think I’ve gone crazy’  
Indie sensation Cameron Winter on leaving crowds in tears with his wild lyrics and supernatural voice
Drug runs for the Stones, a love triangle with Joni Mitchell  
Has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?
Reviews
Alexis Petridis's album of the week  
PinkPantheress: Fancy That – sharp-minded bops hop across pop’s past and present
PinkPantheress: Fancy That – sharp-minded bops hop across pop’s past and present
Global album of the month  
Lido Pimienta: La Belleza – Gregorian chant meets dembow rhythm in a work of remarkable depth
Album review  
Billy Woods: Golliwog – one of the most engrossing, unnerving records you’ll hear this year
FIlm review  
Desire: The Carl Craig Story – goatee-stroking homage to a techno legend
Art review  
Robbie Williams: Radical Honesty – ‘Tone deaf, self-important, incredibly bad art’
Spotlight
How the wildfires decimated LA’s music scene
‘Everything we built – gone’  
How the wildfires decimated LA’s music scene
January’s blazes in California have devastated the livelihoods of performers, technicians and other music industry pros. They reveal what they lost – and how they’re rebuilding
Classical
Classical album of the week  
Brahms: Complete Symphonies – period-instrument plushness with modern-instrument refinement
Brahms: Complete Symphonies – period-instrument plushness with modern-instrument refinement
Feature  
Mini masterpieces: why Mahler’s songs are marvels to rank alongside his symphonies
Mini masterpieces: why Mahler’s songs are marvels to rank alongside his symphonies
Concert review  
The Excursions of Mr Brouček – Simon Rattle embraces Janáček’s baffling but beautiful opera