Robert Heller

Queen Beyonce has famously exacting standards.

Kevin Rowland and Dexys are staging an audacious comeback.

Jessie Ware and Laura Mvula are two new British soul singers with claims to a place in your record collection and life.

For those looking for bands of the future, two words. Django Django.

Sinead O’Connor has chosen to call her latest concerts the Crazy Baldhead Tour.

The coolest concerts in London are currently being staged by Kraftwerk, a veteran German band named after a power station -- performing in an old power station.

This could be the year of stomping bluegrass, blazing banjo and pithy vocal harmonies.

Pink turns somersaults suspended high above the crowd. The boys in One Direction cause multiple teenage meltdowns. Bruno Mars exudes greeting-card sentiment and clothing-catalog smiles.

A collision of Vegas dazzle and English indie music, the wholesome American Way hopping into bed with British rock swagger, the Killers’ charmingly preposterous rock is hard to resist.

Jennifer Lopez’s “Dance Again” concerts promise sparkle. They deliver stodge.

John Lydon is about to give North America a righteous blast of post-punk hellfire.

The harmonies were golden, the pop as frisky as a surfer’s body.