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Girl bands from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand are going global with their fusion of traditional and modern sounds“We all know that music is a universal language,” says Maloi Ricald...
The Vancouver band earned a cult fandom for their uncompromising gigs. As they ready their brutal debut album, they discuss subverting audience expectations and the nightly toll of excavating trauma o...
O2 Arena, LondonFans scream ‘eat zucchini’ as if their lives depend on it as the six-piece’s remaining members strut their way through chest-rattling hits, ludicrous bangers and flaccid flopsIt takes...
Nacho Pezzati’s new album Swerved taps into the moody ambience of the UK north-west underground, ratcheting a tangible and thrilling sense of uneaseFrom Barcelona, SpainRecommend if you like Space Afr...
(Self-released)Singer Emma Morton brings an indie-girl chorister’s brightness to this captivating debut album, on songs with hints of darkness that sound ages-oldSairie’s debut album begins at this tr...
(The Flenser)The Oklahoma band use hooky vocals to help their lyrics on desensitisation slip down easy, though their third album lacks the distinction of earlier releasesChat Pile’s 2022 debut album G...
He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 84, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singingAs Art Garfunkel is keen to point...
A hernia may mean his screaming days are over, but the Napalm Death alum’s influence on metal echoes on in unexpected places – and with ‘heavy, ugly’ experiments in the pipeline, his passion for ‘outs...
(Polydor)The 22-year-old is impressively frank about indulging industry sleaze in her pursuit of fame on a debut that puts a distinctive spin on the best of 00s hedonismThere’s something very striking...
The Canadian singer-songwriter answers your questions about her trailblazing career, her spirituality, and collaborations with the likes of Neko Case, Laura Veirs and Pee-wee HermanI left the Canadian...
Like Johnny Depp and Chris Brown before him, Homme has got past his chequered history to retain an adoring fanbase. Almost a decade post-#MeToo, audiences no longer seem to careAs part of the promo fo...
Gretsch Synchromatic 160 acoustic guitar expected to sell for as much as £120,000, as star lot in auction of items owned by late personal assistant Siobhan BaileyOne of the most iconic items in George...
Temi Adegbayibi started out taking pictures of the Ezra Collective and other British musicians as a hobby, then found his work exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall. He discusses Black joy and the moveme...
Misfits Together, by Bastille’s Dan Smith and To Kill a King’s Ralph Pelleymounter, is set amid the 1950s’ ‘red scare’It was lampooned as the union of the “hourglass” and the “egghead” – the marriage,...
Mississippi-born Wilson, who worked across folk, pop, R&B and country, was once dubbed America’s best singerCassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died....
Fifty years ago Parker was hailed as rock’s next big thing, but he picked a different path: cult records, a Hollywood diversion, an aversion to stardom. Ahead of a UK tour, he looks back at his strang...
‘Joey didn’t surf. And he didn’t like this photo. He said, “You made my legs look thin.” Like it was my fault he had skinny legs’The first band I ever saw were the Beatles, on 19 August 1964 at the Co...
The orchestra – at the Proms this week – is hailed as among the best in the world, if not the best. For my money, that’s quite possibly right, but why?The Berlin Philharmonic are in London tonight and...
Referencing Tarkovsky and French theory, the Austrian-Iranian singer is writing some of today’s wittiest music – though she’s ‘too pop for the art world, too indie-darling for the mainstream’You wait...
Rapper’s supporters reflect on ‘astonishing’ events leading to Duane Davis being found guilty over 1996 fatal shootingA criminal conviction this week in the murder of Tupac Shakur, the first since the...