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Muse: The Wow! Signal review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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Muse: The Wow! Signal review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Warner)From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous​ yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial lifeBarely three minutes of Muse’s 10th a...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘It’s giving me carnival vibes’: how Fête de la Musique became a must-visit event for the Black diaspora
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‘It’s giving me carnival vibes’: how Fête de la Musique became a must-visit event for the Black diaspora

Begun in 1982, the festival is now a magnet for Black Britons, who spill across Paris enjoying genres from amapiano to zouk. But can it resist commercialisation – and is it getting too big?At 4.45pm i...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes
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‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes

Fed up with expensive tickets and omnipresent branding, some festival fans are creating their own anarchic, ticketless events full of glitter and silliness. They explain how it’s donePicture the scene...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘I carry the pain of the world’: Oscar-winning singer Camille on her tumultuous triple album about motherhood
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‘I carry the pain of the world’: Oscar-winning singer Camille on her tumultuous triple album about motherhood

She has won acclaim and countless awards for her body-tapping, raspberry-blowing music. Now she has spent 15 years making her boldest work yet – an epic about birth, infancy and adolescenceIt took Cam...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Clive Davis obituary
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Clive Davis obituary

One of the most powerful men in the American recording industry who promoted Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Barry ManilowControversial, ruthless and staggeringly successful, Cliv...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘There’s a way to fly mindfully. Like, I don’t have my own plane any more’: can DJ megastar Alok make dance music more sustainable?
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‘There’s a way to fly mindfully. Like, I don’t have my own plane any more’: can DJ megastar Alok make dance music more sustainable?

The Brazilian musician, who collaborates with Indigenous artists and puts millions into philanthropy, explains his mission – and defends his jetsettingWhen Alok, the most successful Brazilian DJ of hi...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it
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Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it

To mark 50 years since the punk DIY publishing explosion, we want to compile a map of the UK’s contemporary zine sceneThis year marks what is officially considered the 50th anniversary of punk: five d...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio
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‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio

‘Maybe they just didn’t believe in me,’ the pop star said of Universal, which was set to make a film about her life starring Julia GarnerMadonna says that the long-gestating movie about her life that...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Noise, blood and confetti: how Industrial Coast built a radical arts scene in ‘dark, deprived’ Middlesbrough
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Noise, blood and confetti: how Industrial Coast built a radical arts scene in ‘dark, deprived’ Middlesbrough

The Teesside town struggles with drugs and social discord, but inspired by its magical light and mercurial artistic spirit, some say it has the best cultural scene in the UKAt a gig in a Middlesbrough...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Clive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no one else | Alexis Petridis
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Clive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no one else | Alexis Petridis

The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry foreverClive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen d...

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Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94
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Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94

Davis, who discovered many of the defining musicians of the 20th century and helmed major record labels, said he ‘never’ tired of the music businessClive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Bad Bunny sparks UK’s Latino moment as 100,000 fans line up to see him perform
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Bad Bunny sparks UK’s Latino moment as 100,000 fans line up to see him perform

Rapping in Spanish used to be a hard sell to Britons – but the Puerto Rican star is making the Latin American community visibleAt the Seven Sisters Latin Village in north London, construction is under...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘Guys would think I was a girl then get aggressive when they found out my name was Brian’: how Placebo made Nancy Boy
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‘Guys would think I was a girl then get aggressive when they found out my name was Brian’: how Placebo made Nancy Boy

‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’Nancy Boy was about reclaiming the homophobic insu...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Hayley Williams review – punk and R&B expertly intertwine on first solo tour for Paramore star
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Hayley Williams review – punk and R&B expertly intertwine on first solo tour for Paramore star

Roundhouse, LondonIn her first European jaunt outside of her headbanging band, the singer uses humour to turn angsty songs into rowdy collective catharsisHayley Williams swaggers on stage with a guita...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
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Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl

Pair pictured ‘laughing and singing’ at Welsh seaside town’s Saltwater Inn, for post-funeral scene in film by British film-maker Jamie AdamsQuentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue have been spotted in Wel...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man
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Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man

Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard SumnerJohnny Marr is preparing to auction off about 80 of his gui...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
Gorillaz review – a staggering hi-tech mini-festival from the magpie mind of Damon Albarn
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Gorillaz review – a staggering hi-tech mini-festival from the magpie mind of Damon Albarn

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, LondonA stream of high-profile guest stars included Johnny Marr, Little Simz, Shaun Ryder, Sparks, Yasiin Bey, Bootie Brown and Fatoumata DiawaraGorillaz’s first stadium sho...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
‘Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love makes you move your body’: Gloria Gaynor’s honest playlist
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‘Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love makes you move your body’: Gloria Gaynor’s honest playlist

The disco-pop great salutes the sexiness of Marvin Gaye and the spirituality of Amazing Grace. But which of her own hits does she sing at karaoke?The first song I fell in love with I grew up in Newar...

The Guardian Music4 months ago
Bedtime blues: London ‘killing off nightlife’ as UK city with strictest licensing rules
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Bedtime blues: London ‘killing off nightlife’ as UK city with strictest licensing rules

Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds are experiencing after-hours boom as a result of more lenient rulesLondon has the earliest council-mandated bedtime of any other city in the UK as a result of policies...

The Guardian - UK News4 months ago
David Guetta and Sia’s song Titanium got me through my fertility treatment
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David Guetta and Sia’s song Titanium got me through my fertility treatment

Hearing their in-your-face banger was a turning point for me – and I’ve never looked backAt the end of 2011, party season was under way but I was in no mood for festivities. Two years into fertility t...

The Guardian Music4 months ago