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The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music | Editorial
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The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music | Editorial

The trumpeter, composer and band leader still towers over jazz because he treated reinvention not as a betrayal, but as necessary for its survivalThe space reserved for Miles Davis in the pantheon of...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘Growing up, you couldn’t play Bon Jovi – that’s what our parents listened to’: Bebe Rexha’s honest playlist
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‘Growing up, you couldn’t play Bon Jovi – that’s what our parents listened to’: Bebe Rexha’s honest playlist

The chart-topping star makes a strong case for Livin’ on a Prayer and opts for TLC at karaoke. But which song reminds her too much of her ex to listen to?The first song I fell in love with When I was...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Boards of Canada: Inferno review – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointment
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Boards of Canada: Inferno review – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointment

(Warp)The Scottish electronic duo remain hugely influential – but their new album’s interrogation of religion is dubious, and the drum programming is worse stillThis is the first album in 13 years fro...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Post your questions for Sister Sledge’s Kathy Sledge
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Post your questions for Sister Sledge’s Kathy Sledge

The voice of some of Sister Sledge’s biggest hits is touring again, and will take on your questionsLost in Music, He’s the Greatest Dancer, Thinking of You and We Are Family – many artists would long...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Add to playlist: the virtuoso prog-metal-folk of Brazil’s Papangu and the week’s best new tracks
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Add to playlist: the virtuoso prog-metal-folk of Brazil’s Papangu and the week’s best new tracks

The five-piece combine traditional musical styles with mountains of synths and hurried drums – rejecting computerised production in a pointed anti-AI statementFrom João Pessoa, BrazilRecommended if yo...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Doja Cat review – pop superstar or true freak? US iconoclast plays the tension to perfection
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Doja Cat review – pop superstar or true freak? US iconoclast plays the tension to perfection

OVO Hydro, GlasgowMoving seamlessly through extravagant choreography between bubblegum–rap and darker, rockier material, the singer is always in full command Since her breakout almost a decade ago, s...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
English Heritage unveils recreation of 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge
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English Heritage unveils recreation of 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge

The Kusuma Neolithic Hall, based on Durrington 68 site, will allow visitors to ‘step back in time’ into the lives of those who built the stone circleIt may have been a place for ceremony or a barn for...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Tour Down Under to feature first joint men's and women's event
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Tour Down Under to feature first joint men's and women's event

Australia's Tour Down Under will become the first World Tour race to host men's and women's stages on the same course and day, over the same distance.

BBC News - UK4 months ago
Fuel sales collapse as Iran war costs knock savings
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Fuel sales collapse as Iran war costs knock savings

A growing number of UK households are dipping into savings as rising costs linked to the US-Iran war pile pressure on family budgets, according to a closely-watched survey as official figures chart a...

Sky News - UK4 months ago
Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon wins big at Ivor Novello awards
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Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon wins big at Ivor Novello awards

Musician wins rising star and best song musically and lyrically, continuing their success after Brit award win and Mercury prize nominationScottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon was the big winner at t...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Music industry risks excluding working-class talent, says Tinie Tempah
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Music industry risks excluding working-class talent, says Tinie Tempah

Singer Skye Newman also highlights how becoming a performer is becoming inaccessible to those without moneyThe music industry risks becoming a more hostile place for working-class artists, Tinie Tempa...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Big science and uncanny prescience: Laurie Anderson’s greatest songs – ranked!
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Big science and uncanny prescience: Laurie Anderson’s greatest songs – ranked!

Forty years since her pioneering concert film Home of the Brave, and ahead of a European tour, we count down the best of a surprisingly poppy avant garde catalogueFrom a compilation released by Willia...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me review – indie rock’s most easygoing dude gets existential
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Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me review – indie rock’s most easygoing dude gets existential

(Verve)Sounding characteristically virtuosic but unbothered, Vile is more forward-thinking than ever on a record that surveys the bliss and bumps of life in his mid-40sThese days, Kurt Vile songs begi...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher
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Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher

The Rolling Stone will play a lighthouse keeper in Three Incestuous Sisters, joining a cast including Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley and Saoirse RonanRolling Stones singer Mick Jagger is playing a lig...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘People say there are no words, but there are thousands’: Liz Lawrence on making a new kind of grief album after her sister’s death
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‘People say there are no words, but there are thousands’: Liz Lawrence on making a new kind of grief album after her sister’s death

When her sibling died in an accident the singer-songwriter sought comfort in music. But after finding that the most celebrated records about loss were angry, loud and male, she set about creating some...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
I didn’t think it was possible to love Kylie Minogue any more – her new Netflix series changed that | Emma Brockes
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I didn’t think it was possible to love Kylie Minogue any more – her new Netflix series changed that | Emma Brockes

After the glut of brand-building shows from other celebrities, the Kylie documentary is radical for simply allowing the star to come across as humanKylie, the new three-part documentary that launched...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘Brits are not as groovy as us – but they’re less square than Europeans’: how drum’n’bass united Brazil and the UK
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‘Brits are not as groovy as us – but they’re less square than Europeans’: how drum’n’bass united Brazil and the UK

When drum’n’bass grew stale in the 90s, it got a samba-splicing Brazilian twist. As that style returns, the scene’s legends and newcomers celebrate a cross-cultural triumphWagner Ribeiro de Souza wasn...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Totó la Momposina, vocalist and Colombian music legend, dies aged 85
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Totó la Momposina, vocalist and Colombian music legend, dies aged 85

The singer was one of her country’s most’s popular musical exports, and travelled the world with an evangelistic vision for spreading cumbia musicTotó la Momposina, one of the most celebrated musician...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Goldie, Bananarama and boat trips with the Spice Girls: the hedonistic madness of 90s label London Records
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Goldie, Bananarama and boat trips with the Spice Girls: the hedonistic madness of 90s label London Records

From synthpop to drum’n’bass, the company had a roster of edgy stars – and let them do what they wanted. As a new podcast is launched, artists and staff remember the extreme work environment‘My eyes h...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Billy Joel condemns upcoming biopic about his early life as ‘legally and professionally misguided’
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Billy Joel condemns upcoming biopic about his early life as ‘legally and professionally misguided’

Singer-songwriter has ‘not authorised or supported’ Billy & Me, which will be based on the story of his first manager Irwin MazurBilly Joel has condemned an upcoming biopic titled Billy & Me, told thr...

The Guardian Music4 months ago