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Lola Young review – buoyant, brilliant return from British pop’s great oversharer
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Lola Young review – buoyant, brilliant return from British pop’s great oversharer

O2 Apollo ManchesterThe Messy hitmaker is back after taking time away from live performance, and this charming, relatable set shows why she is such a gen Z iconThe rollercoaster ride towards internati...

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‘Dangerous for being free’: Mon Laferte on calling out injustice as Chile’s biggest pop star
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‘Dangerous for being free’: Mon Laferte on calling out injustice as Chile’s biggest pop star

The musician opens up about her mental health, government corruption and why conservative backlash won’t stop her speaking her mindMon Laferte has a sore throat. Halfway through our conversation, in a...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Dirty Hit)Aided by Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Sampha and more, the cello-playing singer-songwriter’s abstracted yet tuneful second album is worth the seven year waitSeven years separate the release o...

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David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’
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David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’

Stranger Things actor makes first public comments about his ex’s revealing hit album which tracks the dissolution of a relationshipDavid Harbour has spoken about his ex Lily Allen’s tell-all album Wes...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
‘Not just a singer’: Argentinians queue for miles to mourn biggest rockstar most of world has never heard of
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‘Not just a singer’: Argentinians queue for miles to mourn biggest rockstar most of world has never heard of

Hundreds of thousands gather to remember Carlos ‘Indio’ Solari, who inspired cross-generational devotion, especially among working classThe line stretched for more than 7km (four miles). Mourners sang...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
LA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the Fall
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LA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the Fall

Featuring cover bands, walking tours and the poet laureate as DJ, The Fall: Futures and Pasts is the ultimate Fall fan experience. But can our writer get through Eat Y’Self Fitter at karaoke?There has...

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Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’
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Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’

As the musician and producer reaches 82, a new documentary reveals his life working with everyone from James Taylor to Carole King to Paul McCartneyPeter Asher didn’t want to do this interview. He had...

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Peabo Bryson obituary
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Peabo Bryson obituary

Singer of 70s and 80s hits including Tonight, I Celebrate My Love who broke through to a huge new audience with duets for Disney filmsPeabo Bryson, who has died aged 75 after a stroke, earned himself...

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Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video
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Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video

Sabrina Carpenter, a car crash, a urinal, Kate Moss and, of course, those perplexing green lasers: Confessions II has it all. Let’s make some sense of it …Madonna’s new video is called Confessions II...

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Kanya King obituary
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Kanya King obituary

Co-founder of the Mobo awards, which celebrate music of Black origin, as well as initiatives to encourage and recognise new talentKanya King, who has died aged 57 of colon cancer, was co-founder of th...

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‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
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‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras

What will life be like in 2034? Will kids surf in quarries – or live in the woods since they think Earth is hollow? We meet the film-maker behind Gener8ion, whose dark predictions have a habit of goin...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
‘I was dazzled. I thought the walls would fall down’: the oral history of DMZ, the label and club night that gave dubstep its soul
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‘I was dazzled. I thought the walls would fall down’: the oral history of DMZ, the label and club night that gave dubstep its soul

In an extract from Aftershock, a definitive new history of dubstep, DMZ’s Mala, Coki and Loefah recall the bass drops and pacifist mentality that went into their creationBy the turn of the millennium,...

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The best albums of 2026 so far
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The best albums of 2026 so far

From Thundercat’s all-star funk to Kacey Musgraves’ hymns to solitude, we look at some of our favourite music of the last six months from across the pop spectrum• Listen to a Spotify playlist of every...

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James Blood Ulmer, adventurous US guitarist and vocalist, dies aged 86
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James Blood Ulmer, adventurous US guitarist and vocalist, dies aged 86

Musician who spliced jazz, funk and blues, including in a spell on a major label in the early 1980s, was celebrated as ‘fearless’ by his familyJames Blood Ulmer, the US guitarist celebrated for his av...

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Cello belonging to artist John Constable to be played for first time in 100 years
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Cello belonging to artist John Constable to be played for first time in 100 years

Exclusive: Landscape painter was also a keen musician and played a cello made for him by his friend and mentorHe was one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, with masterpieces including The Hay W...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
‘We were going off the cliff’: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain
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‘We were going off the cliff’: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain

As he publishes a memoir, the pioneering guitarist talks about rejecting spandex and hair metal, his fears for breakthrough hit Black Hole Sun – and completing nine unfinished Soundgarden songsKim Tha...

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‘You escape the slaughter. But there’s a long tail of sadness’: musician Bedouine on the strangeness of Arab life outside the Middle East
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‘You escape the slaughter. But there’s a long tail of sadness’: musician Bedouine on the strangeness of Arab life outside the Middle East

With roots in Armenia, Syria and Saudi Arabia, the singer-songwriter now lives in the US. But despite her Carole King-style sound, her homelands are never far from her mindThe title song to Azniv Kork...

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Post your questions for David Byrne
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Post your questions for David Byrne

As the former Talking Heads frontman releases his concert film American Utopia in 4K, he will join us to answer your questionsThe big suit is what you think of first when you think of David Byrne on s...

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‘In prison, I made a little studio in my head. It kept me sane’: Ibrahim Alfa Jr, British techno’s great survivor
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‘In prison, I made a little studio in my head. It kept me sane’: Ibrahim Alfa Jr, British techno’s great survivor

He moved from Nigeria to middle England and was swept up into the rave scene – then battled through incarceration and near-death illness. After making 500 tracks while living on porridge and lettuce,...

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Is Australian music at risk of extinction? Here’s what the data tells us
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Is Australian music at risk of extinction? Here’s what the data tells us

Forty years of Aria chart history shows big changes to our listening habits – and local artists have a huge fight aheadAria music quiz: how well do you know the Australian charts?Want to get more char...

The Guardian Music3 months ago