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‘We’re really good. I don’t mean that arrogantly’: Yard Act on bullying, imposter syndrome and their heavy new album
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‘We’re really good. I don’t mean that arrogantly’: Yard Act on bullying, imposter syndrome and their heavy new album

The Leeds group arrived in a frenzy of post-punk energy, picking at the scabs of society – then started questioning their instant success. They talk about dodging ‘the megaband treadmill’ to make thei...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Collection of rave-era memorabilia expected to fetch up to £80,000
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Collection of rave-era memorabilia expected to fetch up to £80,000

Producer Rob Ford’s trove of 1,700 items includes membership cards and the Prodigy’s first business cardRob Ford often met his contacts in car parks, under the cover of darkness. Cash quickly passed b...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
‘It’ll be like Barbenheimer’: UK gripped by new wave of Beatlemania in lead-up to four biopics
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‘It’ll be like Barbenheimer’: UK gripped by new wave of Beatlemania in lead-up to four biopics

Fab Four are still making waves 60 years on – and upcoming Sam Mendes films are expected to turn the hype up to 11If anyone needed a reminder of the enduring cultural clout of the Beatles, the past fe...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
Take That review – stadium redux of Circus tour has maximal razzle-dazzle
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Take That review – stadium redux of Circus tour has maximal razzle-dazzle

St Mary’s Stadium, SouthamptonElephants, clowns, aerialists hanging by their hair … the Big Top concept doesn’t let up at this hugely enjoyable outing for a boy band with hits to spareTake That have n...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Spin city: Melbourne loves records – but is it really the vinyl capital of the world?
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Spin city: Melbourne loves records – but is it really the vinyl capital of the world?

From a vinyl-focused music exhibition to beloved record stores, ‘listening bars’ and clubs, the Victorian capital’s fondness for wax reverberates in every corner of the cityWhen the needle drops, Elia...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
If CMAT is an affront to the male gaze and Olivia Rodrigo is indulging it, how exactly should women dress? | Laura Snapes
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If CMAT is an affront to the male gaze and Olivia Rodrigo is indulging it, how exactly should women dress? | Laura Snapes

The loud online hate aimed at two pop stars with polar-opposite styles suggests a shrinking realm of acceptability in which women can exist. That is, you suspect, the pointFor an eye-catching spring/s...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Add to playlist: the whimsy and warped electronics of duo Ear and the week’s best new tracks
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Add to playlist: the whimsy and warped electronics of duo Ear and the week’s best new tracks

There’s nostalgia to the New York/London duo’s lo-fi laptop sound, but their second album pushes them into vivid, weirder new territoryFrom Hudson valley, New York, and LondonRecommended if you like t...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Matías Aguayo: Anenoa review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month
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Matías Aguayo: Anenoa review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

(Platoon)The Chilean-German producer’s shapeshifting vocals stir Latin rhythms, ghetto house, trance and more into a playful partyOver the past two decades, Chilean-German vocalist and producer Matías...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Violet Grohl: Be Sweet to Me review – alt-rock arriviste aces the part
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Violet Grohl: Be Sweet to Me review – alt-rock arriviste aces the part

(Island)The daughter of Foo Fighters’ Dave does a serviceable line in 90s throwback sounds, though the nostalgia is too reverent‘I’ll eat your liver,” Violet Grohl threatens on 595, a scuzzy, slasher-...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
CMAT shares ‘deep sadness’ over body-shaming after BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend performance
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CMAT shares ‘deep sadness’ over body-shaming after BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend performance

The Irish singer-songwriter says her rise has been increasingly ‘tarnished by the fact that I would be allowed to enjoy it so much more if I was thin’The Irish singer-songwriter CMAT has responded to...

The Guardian - UK News3 months ago
‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new album
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‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new album

At 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s given him ‘every hope that we’l...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Austrian man jailed for 15 years for plotting attack on Taylor Swift concert in Vienna
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Austrian man jailed for 15 years for plotting attack on Taylor Swift concert in Vienna

An Austrian court convicts Beran A, 21, over plan to attack fans outside stadium in 2024An Austrian man who admitted planning a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna has been sentenced to...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
‘The biggest myth? That I left Sister Sledge’: Kathy Sledge on sibling rivalry, Chic and disco’s political power
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‘The biggest myth? That I left Sister Sledge’: Kathy Sledge on sibling rivalry, Chic and disco’s political power

One of disco’s biggest stars answers your questions, recalling tours with Rick James, inspiration for Destiny’s Child and what she wished she asked Michael JacksonYou have been an active contributor t...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Mexican Summer)The quintet add shoegaze, country and 50s rock’n’roll to their core indie-punk sound, resulting in songs that offset lyrical bleakness with gleeful, uplifting musicIceage have always s...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
‘We’re waiting for the plan to find us’: Mouse on Mars on working with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and 30 years of oblique adventures in sound
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‘We’re waiting for the plan to find us’: Mouse on Mars on working with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and 30 years of oblique adventures in sound

The German duo are returning with the results of their whirlwind session with the late dub legend, best heard in a ‘spatial audio’ installation. They explain why such an unexpected move is par for the...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Raves, Brecht and re-enacting Diana’s funeral: the White Hotel bows out as the north’s bravest music venue
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Raves, Brecht and re-enacting Diana’s funeral: the White Hotel bows out as the north’s bravest music venue

​After 10 years of avant garde mayhem, the rough-diamond Salford venue is set to close. Its founders look back on their artistic free-for-all and explain how its spirit will continue‘The White Hotel i...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
‘The UK is a hostile environment to do art’: Tara Clerkin Trio on the​ir bold, bright music – and the fight working class artists face
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‘The UK is a hostile environment to do art’: Tara Clerkin Trio on the​ir bold, bright music – and the fight working class artists face

The British band’s breezy, collagist sound has charmed underground music fans – though it belies the family and financial strife that went into their beautiful second LPDuring a session for their 2020...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Magic, mastery and magisterial power: 10 of Sonny Rollins’ greatest recordings
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Magic, mastery and magisterial power: 10 of Sonny Rollins’ greatest recordings

After his death aged 95, we look back at a remarkable catalogue of work that stretches from vivacious mid-50s sets to his evocative performance after 9/11• News: Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxoph...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
Sonny Rollins obituary
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Sonny Rollins obituary

One of the great American jazz saxophonists regarded as an improvising genius by fans all over the worldThe flyers for his shows often called the saxophonist Sonny Rollins “the greatest living improvi...

The Guardian Music3 months ago
‘I’ve rebranded as a stoic. It’s my ting now!’ The crime and punishment of Pozer, UK rap’s fastest, fiercest talent
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‘I’ve rebranded as a stoic. It’s my ting now!’ The crime and punishment of Pozer, UK rap’s fastest, fiercest talent

In a chaotic London childhood, Isaiah Sampson got drawn into drug dealing and worse before hauling himself into the charts. He opens up about his psychological scars and trust issuesIn one of Pozer’s...

The Guardian Music4 months ago