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(Dead Oceans)The US singer took years away from public life after her silvery balladry reshaped pop. Her return is an ornate reinventionSince her Boygenius supergroup with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus...
The Canadian musician, who achieved major hits such as Spinning Wheel and You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, died peacefully at a Toronto hospitalDavid Clayton-Thomas, lead singer of 60s and 70s group Bloo...
After being dropped by her label, the vocalist became a courier to make ends meet. Now she’s back – with millions of fans of her pheromone-rich songwritingKwn has never been one to turn her nose up at...
(Warner)From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial lifeBarely three minutes of Muse’s 10th a...
Begun in 1982, the festival is now a magnet for Black Britons, who spill across Paris enjoying genres from amapiano to zouk. But can it resist commercialisation – and is it getting too big?At 4.45pm i...
Fed up with expensive tickets and omnipresent branding, some festival fans are creating their own anarchic, ticketless events full of glitter and silliness. They explain how it’s donePicture the scene...
She has won acclaim and countless awards for her body-tapping, raspberry-blowing music. Now she has spent 15 years making her boldest work yet – an epic about birth, infancy and adolescenceIt took Cam...
One of the most powerful men in the American recording industry who promoted Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Barry ManilowControversial, ruthless and staggeringly successful, Cliv...
The Brazilian musician, who collaborates with Indigenous artists and puts millions into philanthropy, explains his mission – and defends his jetsettingWhen Alok, the most successful Brazilian DJ of hi...
To mark 50 years since the punk DIY publishing explosion, we want to compile a map of the UK’s contemporary zine sceneThis year marks what is officially considered the 50th anniversary of punk: five d...
‘Maybe they just didn’t believe in me,’ the pop star said of Universal, which was set to make a film about her life starring Julia GarnerMadonna says that the long-gestating movie about her life that...
The Teesside town struggles with drugs and social discord, but inspired by its magical light and mercurial artistic spirit, some say it has the best cultural scene in the UKAt a gig in a Middlesbrough...
The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry foreverClive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen d...
Davis, who discovered many of the defining musicians of the 20th century and helmed major record labels, said he ‘never’ tired of the music businessClive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no...
Rapping in Spanish used to be a hard sell to Britons – but the Puerto Rican star is making the Latin American community visibleAt the Seven Sisters Latin Village in north London, construction is under...
‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’Nancy Boy was about reclaiming the homophobic insu...
Roundhouse, LondonIn her first European jaunt outside of her headbanging band, the singer uses humour to turn angsty songs into rowdy collective catharsisHayley Williams swaggers on stage with a guita...
Pair pictured ‘laughing and singing’ at Welsh seaside town’s Saltwater Inn, for post-funeral scene in film by British film-maker Jamie AdamsQuentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue have been spotted in Wel...
Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard SumnerJohnny Marr is preparing to auction off about 80 of his gui...
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, LondonA stream of high-profile guest stars included Johnny Marr, Little Simz, Shaun Ryder, Sparks, Yasiin Bey, Bootie Brown and Fatoumata DiawaraGorillaz’s first stadium sho...