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2K88, Lauren Duffus, Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout: Everything Always Changes, for We’re Truly Here review – UK-Poland clan create murky beauty
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2K88, Lauren Duffus, Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout: Everything Always Changes, for We’re Truly Here review – UK-Poland clan create murky beauty

(Fixed Abode x Unsound)The festival-formed quartet conjures an album of glacial sound design and elegiac grandeur, though it can get too moody for its own goodPolish producer 2K88 makes dark, glitchin...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Sienna Spiro: Visitor review – will she be the ‘new Adele’? Not with this merely competent debut
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Sienna Spiro: Visitor review – will she be the ‘new Adele’? Not with this merely competent debut

(Capitol)Amid signs of greatness, the already hugely popular British singer fails to live up to her potential, lacking vocal agility and lyrical subtletyWe live in a post Die With a Smile world. Lady...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Forty-one members and counting! Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band, the gigantic Leeds jazz group embracing ‘chaos, imperfection and all that’
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Forty-one members and counting! Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band, the gigantic Leeds jazz group embracing ‘chaos, imperfection and all that’

With a punkish, antifascist take on the trad jazz sound of Duke Ellington, this noisy outfit are epic in every way. But how on earth do they make a living?Fergus Quill picks me up from Leeds station i...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Together with Harry: the wit, flair and fun of Styles’s fans in Polaroids
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Together with Harry: the wit, flair and fun of Styles’s fans in Polaroids

Gareth Cattermole took a Polaroid camera to one of the singer’s 12 record-breaking Wembley Stadium shows to capture the fans’ creativity, humour and sense of community***Harry Styles is performing for...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Talk is of newlywed Taylor Swift taking a break from music. Did I take a nap and wake up in the 1950s? | Laura Snapes
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Talk is of newlywed Taylor Swift taking a break from music. Did I take a nap and wake up in the 1950s? | Laura Snapes

After exchanging vows with Travis Kelce, the workaholic pop star probably won’t be staying home to admire the wedding silverwareNo speculation is too harebrained when it comes to Taylor Swift and Trav...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Breaking hearts and blowing minds:​ Robyn’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
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Breaking hearts and blowing minds:​ Robyn’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

As she tours the UK, we pick the best of an artist who defined the ‘sad banger’ – but also radiates joy and strength from her perfect pop songsRobyn has written and recorded more striking and melodica...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Alabama Shakes review – US rockers’ first UK gig in a decade is suffused with hope for the future
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Alabama Shakes review – US rockers’ first UK gig in a decade is suffused with hope for the future

Millennium Square, LeedsAs they tee up a long-awaited third album, the deep south band are variously slick and raw as they ruminate on overcoming tough times‘Long time, no see,” declares Brittany Howa...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Madonna: Confessions II review – nostalgic dancefloor trip sparks her most vital album in two decades
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Madonna: Confessions II review – nostalgic dancefloor trip sparks her most vital album in two decades

(Warner)After years spent chasing trends like trap and Latin pop, Madonna settles back​ nicely into​ old-school dance music to tell vivid vignettes of life in 80s New York‘Ask yourself this – what are...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Stephen Hough to lead relaunched Leeds piano competition
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Stephen Hough to lead relaunched Leeds piano competition

Free choice of repertoire and an increased upper age limit part of the changes in a competition that will emphasise individuality and imaginationThe Leeds International Piano Competition is to be rela...

The Guardian - UK News2 months ago
‘Techno in a monastery – are you ready?’ The Greek priest whose doom metal album is the year’s hippest record
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‘Techno in a monastery – are you ready?’ The Greek priest whose doom metal album is the year’s hippest record

His church thinks electric guitars are the devil’s work. But Father Tabakis is on a mission to change that – with Paradise Metal, a religious dubstep album that outdid Daft Punk and Aphex Twin‘The gui...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Canada to ​join Eurovision song contest from 2027
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Canada to ​join Eurovision song contest from 2027

Country is first to join since Australia in 2015 as event director says it ‘continues to welcome the world’Canada will ​join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new ⁠participant si...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Who’s been invited? Will they need to sign an NDA? Seven things you need to know about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding
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Who’s been invited? Will they need to sign an NDA? Seven things you need to know about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding

The pop and football giants’ combined star wattage will be united in matrimony this weekend – probably – in an event shrouded in secrecy. But here’s what we’ve gleanedAfter an agonising 10 months’ wai...

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Victor Willis, frontman of Village People, dies age 74
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Victor Willis, frontman of Village People, dies age 74

The co-writer of enduring hits such as YMCA and Macho Man, who struggled with drug use and legal issues for years, passed away after ‘short but aggressive illness’Victor Willis, the lead singer of the...

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Bruce Foxton, bassist with the Jam, reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis
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Bruce Foxton, bassist with the Jam, reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis

Musician who now plays in From the Jam has vowed to ‘keep going and play live for as long as I’m able to do it’Bruce Foxton, the former bassist of the Jam, has announced he has been diagnosed with Par...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
My Chemical Romance review – ​fire! Nuclear war! Killer pierrots! This is stadium rock at its most monumentally madcap
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My Chemical Romance review – ​fire! Nuclear war! Killer pierrots! This is stadium rock at its most monumentally madcap

Anfield Stadium, Liverpool Adding eye-popping spectacle to this anniversary reprise of The Black Parade is fun, but what really stands out is the tremendous songcraftMy Chemical Romance take the stage...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
R&B star Chris Brown ordered to pay $13m to housekeeper mauled by his dog
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R&B star Chris Brown ordered to pay $13m to housekeeper mauled by his dog

California jury sides with Maria Avila over 2020 attack that left her requiring skin graftsR&B star Chris Brown has been ordered to pay $12.9m in damages to a housekeeper who was mauled by a dog at on...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Lily Allen defends length of West End Girl shows: ‘I don’t want anyone to feel ripped off’
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Lily Allen defends length of West End Girl shows: ‘I don’t want anyone to feel ripped off’

Singer has likened live show to theatre rather than a conventional concert but fans have criticised the performances and lack of crowd interactionLily Allen has defended the live tour of her latest al...

The Guardian - UK News2 months ago
Saxophones, song charts and a rejected Simpsons script: David Bowie archive to tour the UK
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Saxophones, song charts and a rejected Simpsons script: David Bowie archive to tour the UK

V&A takes exhibition of more than 100 pieces by ‘artist in constant motion’ around Britain, from Dundee to BristolKansai Yamamoto’s costumes for Ziggy Stardust, Bowie’s Berlin apartment house keys and...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
‘I’m not a quitter!’ Rubén Blades, the salsa supremo who acted with Jack Nicholson, inspired Bad Bunny – and served as Panama’s tourism minister
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‘I’m not a quitter!’ Rubén Blades, the salsa supremo who acted with Jack Nicholson, inspired Bad Bunny – and served as Panama’s tourism minister

As he prepares to play the UK, the 25-Grammy-winning musician (and Harvard law graduate) looks back on his astonishing journey from the barrios of Panama City to global stardom“Well, I’ve been around,...

The Guardian Music2 months ago
Chris Martin’s lost James Bond theme goes on auction with unheard Coldplay tapes
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Chris Martin’s lost James Bond theme goes on auction with unheard Coldplay tapes

Acoustic recording of a song titled The World Is Not Enough included in wide-ranging auction featuring formative Coldplay recordingsA lost demo recording of a song Coldplay’s Chris Martin reportedly i...

The Guardian Music2 months ago