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Sabrina Carpenter at Coachella review – madcap maximalism from pop savant
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Sabrina Carpenter at Coachella review – madcap maximalism from pop savant

Empire Polo Club, Indio, CaliforniaThe pop star turned the desert into an ambitious theatrical revue with elaborate sets and celebrity cameosWay back in the good old days of spring 2024, the pop singe...

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‘The party was chilled until police sent in the riot squad’: when a Dorset free rave turned violent
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‘The party was chilled until police sent in the riot squad’: when a Dorset free rave turned violent

The organisers of Eggtek in Lulworth and local police have two very different stories about how trouble started at the Easter eventA couple of thousand ravers were given the secret location for one of...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify
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‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify

Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged itJason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange call from a friend...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
Add to playlist: the beautifully dazed, countrified indie-rock of Tracey Nelson and the week’s best new tracks
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Add to playlist: the beautifully dazed, countrified indie-rock of Tracey Nelson and the week’s best new tracks

Pushing his winsome songwriting into rootsier territory with a little help from co-producer MJ Lenderman, the New Yorker’s debut album is primed to soundtrack your summer From New York City, New YorkR...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
Tori Amos review – fans hang on every note of this dramatic deep dive into her back catalogue
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Tori Amos review – fans hang on every note of this dramatic deep dive into her back catalogue

City Hall, SheffieldThe masterful performer previews her allegorical new album about the ‘fight for democracy over tyranny’ amid a set full of immaculate musicianshipAhead of her 18th studio album, In...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
Coachella 2026: Justin Bieber launches a major comeback in the desert
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Coachella 2026: Justin Bieber launches a major comeback in the desert

Stars including Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G, David Byrne and Addison Rae also head to the desert for the first of two sold-out weekends of live musicJustin Bieber is set for a major live performance co...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
Reckonwrong: How Long Has It Been? review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month
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Reckonwrong: How Long Has It Been? review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

(New Year)Londoner Alex Peringer breaks from his intriguing and outlandish dance music with this debut album of charming bedroom-pop balladsA decade ago, Londoner Alex Peringer intrigued underground c...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
Holly Humberstone: Cruel World review – Taylor Swift fave trades gothic melancholy for pop glow-up
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Holly Humberstone: Cruel World review – Taylor Swift fave trades gothic melancholy for pop glow-up

(Polydor)The British singer-songwriter replaces introspection with euphoric choruses, 80s synths and even happy hardcore on her vivid second LPAs a profession, pop stardom has been in existential cris...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
‘The biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see’: why no one sang the blues like Big Mama Thornton
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‘The biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see’: why no one sang the blues like Big Mama Thornton

Gay, fearless and utterly unique, Thornton had a hit with Hound Dog before Elvis – but was then fleeced and forgotten. One hundred years after her birth, a new documentary sets the record straightWill...

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Why the UK banned Kanye West - podcast
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Why the UK banned Kanye West - podcast

Lanre Bakare on the UK government’s decision to revoke Kanye West’s visa after Wireless festival booked him as a headlinerWhen Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London...

The Guardian - UK News5 months ago
Afrika Bambaataa, hip-hop pioneer, dies aged 67
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Afrika Bambaataa, hip-hop pioneer, dies aged 67

The Bronx born rapper and DJ helped introduce hip-hop to the mainstream and was also accused of child sexual abuseThe American rapper and DJ Afrika Bambaataa has died aged 67. The musician died in Ph...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
Dream-pop at its most divine: Cocteau Twins’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!
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Dream-pop at its most divine: Cocteau Twins’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Forty years on from the release of their Victorialand album, we rank the Scottish band’s 20 best tracks, from goth beginnings to weightless masterpiecesAt first, Cocteau Twins gave every impression of...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
My New Band Believe review – beautiful ideas burst from ex-Black Midi man’s lovable debut album
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My New Band Believe review – beautiful ideas burst from ex-Black Midi man’s lovable debut album

(Rough Trade)Smoothing out the jump-cut chaos of his previous band, Cameron Picton brings entirely acoustic instrumentation to bear on these lovely, beguiling songsIn the middle of Hellfire, the final...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
Belle and Sebastian review – joyful anniversary tour makes debut album brighter than ever
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Belle and Sebastian review – joyful anniversary tour makes debut album brighter than ever

Royal Albert Hall, LondonOn a tour playing Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister in full on alternate nights, Stuart Murdoch and co wittily reanimate their world of aesthetes and misfitsIt’s a doub...

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Hit New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords reunion gigs sell out in minutes
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Hit New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords reunion gigs sell out in minutes

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement announce four shows at Wellington venue Meow Nui from next week – their first gigs since 2018New Zealand’s self-described “fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
Suzi Quatro review – at 75, her signature scream is still thrilling
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Suzi Quatro review – at 75, her signature scream is still thrilling

Royal Concert Hall, GlasgowThere is something eternally teenage about the trailblazing rocker, who can still deliver at her glam-era best – but her rambling reminiscences are a bit Alan PartridgeSuzi...

The Guardian Music5 months ago
‘We wanted to put a mark on the world’: the sweaty, singular indie music scene of early-00s Brighton
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‘We wanted to put a mark on the world’: the sweaty, singular indie music scene of early-00s Brighton

From Bat for Lashes to Brakes and the Pipettes, misfits on the south coast made fearless music amid cheap rents and salty air. Could this ever happen again?It’s any given night in 2002. We’re at the F...

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Wireless festival cancelled after Kanye West banned from entering UK
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Wireless festival cancelled after Kanye West banned from entering UK

Rapper had been booked to play at festival in London, prompting outcry over his past antisemitic remarksThe Wireless music festival has been cancelled after the artist formerly known as Kanye West was...

The Guardian - UK News5 months ago
Universal Music, home to Taylor Swift and Drake, receives €55bn takeover offer
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Universal Music, home to Taylor Swift and Drake, receives €55bn takeover offer

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square claims world’s biggest music company has suffered because of delay of US listingBusiness live – latest updatesBillionaire Bill Ackman’s hedge fund has offered to buy Univ...

The Guardian - UK News5 months ago
Rapper Offset hospitalised after being shot outside Florida casino
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Rapper Offset hospitalised after being shot outside Florida casino

The former member of Migos is in a stable condition after being shot on Monday, with police detaining two peopleThe rapper Offset is in a stable condition in hospital after he was shot outside a Flori...

The Guardian Music5 months ago