Our May selection features Job Sifre’s bitter electro, TSVI’s polyrhythms, and a trip down memory lane with Tama Sumo

The Spice Girls say it’s all about ‘people power’ now. But their endorsement of the prime minister suggests they have really, really, really forgotten their original message

The New Zealand singer-songwriter begins touring her third album, Designer

Musician, banned in 2015 over lyrics, posts pictures from London and hints at show

Osíris inflamed Portugal with his outrageous attire and provocative multicultural sound – and was assumed to be a sure-fire contender before getting voted off in the semi-final

The former Smiths singer’s new album features guest spots from Billie Joe Armstrong and Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste. Are they not put off by his increasingly unpleasant right-wing stance?

Cuban singer Livam alleged the Colombian superstar copied parts of one of his songs

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has posted a video of himself dancing around a rehearsal room weeks after recovering from heart surgery

The story might feel flimsy but the emotions are anything but. The director of a new take on Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas explains how she is rethinking the opera for a teenage audience

Before Mahler’s First Symphony reached its final form, it was a ‘tone poem’, well revived here on German and Viennese instruments

With a new album that harbours as many characters as a rowdy dive bar, the Australian musician is ready to shake off the labels that follow her

Prodigy singer, 49, had drugs and alcohol in his system when found at his home on 4 March

For more than 50 years, the country singer has celebrated the tacky and joyous. As she announces her own fashion range, we round up some of her style highlights

Hip hop group honored with Staten Island district in their name while former president gets own boulevard in Los Angeles

Pop icon accepted the advocate for change award and gave both a playful and emotional speech, bringing the audience to its feet

Louise Alder was a unusually sympathetic Semele in this semi-staged and classy production conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

Hypnotic soft guitars mask uneasiness on the New York four-piece’s third album: it really packs a punch

(Captured Tracks)Leeds trio’s potent first album takes rugged-but-cerebral post-punk on a propulsive, saxophone-tinted journey

Lucia Lucas to play one of the genre’s best-known protagonists in casting that ‘opens doors for trans singers’

In Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, the singer’s allure is explored by an array of artists in a variety of different mediums

Steven Osborne, Yevgeny Sudbin and Jonathan Biss underline the composer’s humanity. Plus: the life of Michael Tippett on Radio 3

Isata Kanneh-Mason will record album in composer’s 200th anniversary year

Fans were speculating that Spears had been admitted to a mental health facility against her will under the terms of her father’s conservatorship

A Song for You: My Life With Whitney Houston will describe the nature of the pair’s friendship, from meeting as teenagers to their estrangement in 2000