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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 News4 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 Music4 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 Music4 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 Music4 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 Music4 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 Music4 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 Music4 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 Music4 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 Music4 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 Music4 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
‘Everyone is equal in this space’: the cosmic world of neurodivergent-friendly club night Robyn’s Rocket
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‘Everyone is equal in this space’: the cosmic world of neurodivergent-friendly club night Robyn’s Rocket

Trumpeter Robyn Steward thought clubs weren’t for her until she encountered Fabric’s accessible upgrade – the new home for her radically inclusive, space-themed nightUntil May last year, trumpeter Rob...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter disapproval
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Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter disapproval

His detractors say he shouldn’t be making pop music in times of war and destruction. His millions of fans say he has given them permission to celebrate their culture and their causeThe first time I he...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was a genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and othersSonny Rollins interview from 2022: ‘I was so cl...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Ozzy Osbourne AI avatar will be ‘so tasteful’, Jack Osbourne says after fan backlash
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Ozzy Osbourne AI avatar will be ‘so tasteful’, Jack Osbourne says after fan backlash

Lifesize avatar of former Black Sabbath frontman will be created by tech companies Hyperreal and Proto Hologram A year after his death, Ozzy Osbourne is set to be recreated as a lifesized AI-powered a...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘Bowie compared us to T Rex. Couldn’t get any better’: the Mekons on how they made Where Were You?
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‘Bowie compared us to T Rex. Couldn’t get any better’: the Mekons on how they made Where Were You?

‘It’s about loneliness, really. It was the total opposite of that “It’s Friday night, let’s have sex” macho mentality that was in most rock music at the time’Most of the people who started the Mekons...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody
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Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody

O2 Kentish Town Forum, LondonAfter three unlikely Top 10 albums in the 90s, the trio are back – and on the basis of this rapid-fire set, you hope they’ll stick aroundBob Mould has never seemed to have...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Food orders and phone bills: Jimi Hendrix memorabilia to go on display in London
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Food orders and phone bills: Jimi Hendrix memorabilia to go on display in London

Exclusive: Exhibition to include letters, work permits and dry cleaning tickets that reveal little moments of domesticity in rock icon’s lifeWhen Jimi Hendrix lived in a bohemian London flat in the 19...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘The knickers that get thrown are bigger now!’: Barry Manilow on fans, love, coming out - and turning 82
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‘The knickers that get thrown are bigger now!’: Barry Manilow on fans, love, coming out - and turning 82

The great showman has spent the last 50 years on stage, followed by his adoring “fanilows” - but he’s not slowing down yet. Here, he talks about cancer, ridicule and roaring successHis name is Barry,...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane review – at 83, his gift for melody still astounds
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Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane review – at 83, his gift for melody still astounds

(MPL/Capitol)From nostalgic returns to his Liverpool childhood to a crazed Glastonbury fantasia, these are songs written with real purpose and a master’s finesseThe rock legend in the autumn of their...

The Guardian Music4 months ago