Dorian Lynskey

Three decades and 11 albums in, the Pet Shop Boys still feel like they are renting their place as unlikely pop stars.

Dance floor pioneers Robin Gibb and Donna Summer may have died, but the beat goes on and disco remains the foundation of all modern pop.

Sombre prophet, mordant wisecracker, ­repentant cad: Leonard Cohen is back with a great new ­album, old ideas and more wit and wisdom.

Posthumous albums are troubling entities, and Amy Winehouse’s "new" album is no exception.

Scowling, paranoid and up for a fight – That’s the image with which Tricky is saddled. Dorian Lynskey in London finds out if the rumours are true.

Once there was acid house, white gloves and Trip to Trumpton. Now rave nights are music’s newest form of nostalgia. Dorian Lynskey gets out his airhorn.