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The country star has abandoned Nashville slickness for a set of raw, pared-back songs that reckon with the death of her mother and decades of personal struggles. ‘This is a labour of love,’ she saysWh...
Inspired by everything from Radiohead to Deerhoof and Linda Perhacs, the west country band merge disparate styles into solid anthemsFrom Bristol, UK Recommended if you like Puscifer, Julie Christma...
(ECM)The Italian trumpeter’s group – featuring an old friend – rip through originals and free improvisation while balancing late-Miles funk with excellent vocals and horn balladsMiles Davis was the ga...
(Vertigo)Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth albumOver the six years that La Roux, AKA Elly Jackson, was making he...
After some so-so albums, can U2’s new one, Carnaval de Luz, restore them to glory? They discuss male egos, working with Dolly Parton, and explain why, despite Trump, they still believe in democracy –...
New report finds that record label Ador stripped child protections from group’s contracts when they were minorsThe superstar K-pop group NewJeans signed restrictive record label contracts that waived...
(VOTB)On their fourth buzzy project in two years, the gobby and combustible US-Polish pair are best when they’re leaning into the roughness of their soundEven by the standards of an age in which arti...
Huge, ecstatic canvases are just one of the vocations of the musician who joined the art rockers in 2024. As her show Hotwire My Heart opens, she talks terror, awe and teabagsEmma Richardson loves to...
As the French avant-popper returns with new single Rendez-vous avec toi, we celebrate the best of an artist who uses sleek songwriting to grapple with knotty emotionOriginally leaked online by the art...
The cost of checking your coat or bag is galloping ahead of other – also rising – prices at venues. We explain the surprisingly complex reasons whyNot long ago, it cost just £2 to put a coat or a heav...
With globe-spanning artists – including Charlotte Church doing angry electropop – the Flow project is hoping to make an impact at this month’s Cop31Amid tense and long-winded negotiations, and with th...
The Detroit techno pioneer, who has died aged 64, blended funk and electronics with information-age philosophy to create music of huge power and influenceJuan Atkins, the originator of techno who died...
Digbeth is the city’s most thriving party district, but railway upgrades could tear it apart. Here, clubbers explain why they are doing everything to stop that happeningHouse beats ring out through th...
He is the outstanding lyricist who propelled the Rocket Man to 300m sales. As Taupin releases a wistfully grouchy solo album, he talks about the joy of anonymity, his LA drinking gang – and owning a p...
Before her Australian tour, the Grammy-winner talks about her marriage to Nelly, fans rushing the stage and her secret skillGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYour debut album, Ashanti, turns...
Singer hit No 1 with pop-rock band in 1968 and scored three more Top 10 hits with them, before solo career featuring collaborations with Paul WellerSteve Ellis, the singer who found fame as the frontm...
Mal Evans’s tale of historic meeting among revelations in forthcoming memoir unpublished before his death in 1976Meeting Elvis Presley was “the biggest day of all the years I have spent with the famou...
Young, black and fuelled by self-help mantras, they were reputedly the best live band on Earth. As their wild first sessions are rereleased, the group talk about scaring club owners – and getting kick...
Judges hail Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturityA teenage violinist has won the BBC Young Musician competition 2026, in the first a...
US artist known as Model 500 and as one half of the duo Cybotron had huge influence on dance music worldwideJuan Atkins, one of the pioneers of Detroit techno and a huge influence on dance music more...