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Rapper Pos of the hip hop greats favours Barry White for the bedroom and sobs to Stevie Wonder, but which cheese-rock hit does he love on the sly?The first song I fell in love with My father could...
The Rotterdam band are a riot of sound, look and attitude led by Eva Kah, who is as much a living artwork as she is a phenomenal live performerFrom Rotterdam, the Netherlands Recommended if you lik...
(Rough Trade)Collecting traditional songs of female struggle and strength, the Irish singer invests them with staggering powerLankum singer Radie Peat’s extraordinary debut album begins without frills...
(Ideologic Organ)The US artist takes a newly compact approach to her craft, and trades technical composition methods for pure emotion on another sombre masterpieceIn drone world, Burning Song is Kali...
Thirty-three months after it was announced, the grime legend’s new album is coming out. He explains how skinheads, fatherhood and rap history came to bear on its socially conscious contents‘I can’t be...
Jocelyn Rose and Siobhán Ní Chuanaigh on the folk musician who recorded a succession of celebrated albumsIn the mid-1960s I went to Saturday classes at Hornsey School of Art that they ran for kids fro...
Fronted by Mark Sandman, the group brought enigmatic, elegant rock to post-grunge America. As lost demos surface, those closest to Sandman remember a man who grabbed on to life’s joysIt’s early 199...
As John Lewis reports a 96% rise in searches for CD players, music fans share their reasons for ditching streamingCDs appear to be having a resurgence. John Lewis said searches for CD players are up 9...
(Fiction)After frontperson Juliette Jackson lost half her hearing, she wrote sad songs and felt frustrated. So she pivoted, writing herself a happy ending. The results are joyfully convincingFrom the...
When 17-year-0ld Danny Donelly got a bank loan to open a record shop and sell dancefloor-filling electronic music, he little knew how he would help revolutionise his town and dance music at largeIn th...
With a sound inspired by the San Francisco tech boom, the hyperpop musician is entering the big leagues, and has a slot on Charli xcx’s tour. First she needs to get over her own shyness – not to menti...
A new documentary follows the Chicagoan from child trumpet prodigy to Gabriel-singing icon and DIY maverick. ‘Not everybody wants to see musical genius’, he saysAt We Out Here festival in Dorset in Au...
Brian Jones wrote to Charlie Watts in 1962 asking him to leave his R&B group and join his ‘far better’ band insteadA handwritten letter from Brian Jones to Charlie Watts in which he attempts to recrui...
The rapper lends the NFL a veneer of credibility but is unlikely to push back on the establishment figures who run the leagueOn Monday the NFL named Jay-Z as the headliner for this season’s Super Bowl...
They gigged wildly, helped other groups to fame and their songwriting brilliance gave Blondie a signature track. Could a deathbed wish now see the Nerves finally making it big?The Nerves should have h...
Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgan has turned lost footage of two 1978 concerts into an arena spectacular. ‘You can feel the danger and excitement’, he says• ‘Lost’ 1978 David Bowie tour film to p...
After tiring of writing about herself, the British singer-songwriter asked the public to share stories to inspire her music – and they responded in their thousands‘This project has changed my whole th...
The musician and outspoken critic of the president is suing for $10m in reputational damages – six years after a settlement in which Trump agreed not to use the song againNeil Young is suing Donald Tr...
David Hemmings’ never-released concert film from Bowie’s 1978 world tour will be presented in a multimedia show that aims to ‘create the illusion’ that he is present on stageAlmost 50 years after its...
3Arena, DublinSeveral unannounced guests feature on the first European date of the rapper’s sold-out benefit tour, including video messages from Mark Ruffalo and Cynthia Nixon“We’d like to thank Ed Sh...