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Sunn O))): Sunn O))) review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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Sunn O))): Sunn O))) review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Sub Pop)The doomy duo strip back their sound to tectonic guitars and feedback, conjuring an immersive, strangely euphoric listening experience recorded in the wilds of WashingtonNearly seven years on...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘Curated chaos’: Danny Boyle on the ‘pop culture spectacular’ he is bringing to London’s Southbank Centre
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‘Curated chaos’: Danny Boyle on the ‘pop culture spectacular’ he is bringing to London’s Southbank Centre

Director and producer is co-creator of You Are Here, a one-day immersive theatrical event traversing 75 years of youth cultureOut of chaos come great cultural movements, according to the director and...

The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
Wireless festival’s backing for Kanye West is all about money. Don’t pretend it’s about the art | Dan Hancox
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Wireless festival’s backing for Kanye West is all about money. Don’t pretend it’s about the art | Dan Hancox

The event has signed up Ye, who has a penchant for antisemitic and sexist outbursts, to be its headline act. It’s not even as if his music is any good any moreIn May 2025, Kanye West, also known as Ye...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘Ring the alarm! Wake up! Be human!’: Aurora and Tom Rowlands on their new dance-pop duo Tomora
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‘Ring the alarm! Wake up! Be human!’: Aurora and Tom Rowlands on their new dance-pop duo Tomora

The Norwegian singer-songwriter and the Chemical Brother have combined their talents, and names, to create a wildly inventive new band. The collaboration has gone smoothly so far – but will they soon...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
Megan Thee Stallion diagnosed with extreme exhaustion after hospitalization
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Megan Thee Stallion diagnosed with extreme exhaustion after hospitalization

The rapper was hospitalized in New York City after feeling unwell during her Moulin Rouge performance on BroadwayMegan Thee Stallion was taken to the hospital on Tuesday in New York City after feeling...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
Sadiq Khan and Jewish Leadership Council condemn Wireless festival for Kanye West headline booking
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Sadiq Khan and Jewish Leadership Council condemn Wireless festival for Kanye West headline booking

Ye, who has called himself a Nazi, released a song called Heil Hitler and sold T-shirts bearing swastikas, is confirmed to play three nights at the London festivalThe Jewish Leadership Council has con...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘I can’t listen without feeling rattled’: how Fairuz’s anthem of resilience became a harbinger of strife for Lebanon
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‘I can’t listen without feeling rattled’: how Fairuz’s anthem of resilience became a harbinger of strife for Lebanon

The Lebanese singer’s patriotic song has returned repeatedly since 1976 to inspire hope amid catastrophe. But as it resurges during the US-Israeli war, some Lebanese are chafing against its optimism a...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘It was an exorcism’: how heartbreak, queer rebirth and finding love over Only Connect shaped Wendy Eisenberg’s stunning new album
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‘It was an exorcism’: how heartbreak, queer rebirth and finding love over Only Connect shaped Wendy Eisenberg’s stunning new album

The guitarist made their name on dazzlingly knotty musicianship and collaboration with the likes of Bill Orcutt. So their new album is their most surprising: a startlingly beautiful reflection of love...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘A place where music fills the air’: Bangkok to host Eurovision’s first Asia song contest
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‘A place where music fills the air’: Bangkok to host Eurovision’s first Asia song contest

Spin-off launched with 10 nations, as original event remains mired in protests and boycotts over Israel’s involvementEurovision is seeking to expand into the Asian market by hosting a version of its...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
Fainting in front of Michael Jackson and feuding with Monica: inside Brandy’s jaw-dropping memoir
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Fainting in front of Michael Jackson and feuding with Monica: inside Brandy’s jaw-dropping memoir

The R&B singer’s must-read autobiography candidly describes a life of heady highs and horrific lowsDespite a 30-year-plus discography and a slew of undeniable classics (Sittin’ Up in My Room, The Boy...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘Extremely rare’ Bob Dylan draft lyrics discovered inside Allen Ginsberg book
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‘Extremely rare’ Bob Dylan draft lyrics discovered inside Allen Ginsberg book

A torn page bearing Dylan’s lyrics for the 1967 song I’m Not There is set to go under the hammer in April when it could fetch £40,000Almost 60 years after it was first typed out by Bob Dylan, a torn p...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
Céline Dion to return to performing after lengthy hiatus due to illness
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Céline Dion to return to performing after lengthy hiatus due to illness

Titanic singer will perform 10 shows in Paris in September, after six-year break due to stiff-person syndromeCéline Dion has announced her long-awaited return to performing live after a lengthy break...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘After one gig, someone stole my car with my dole money in it’: Morcheeba on how they made The Sea
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‘After one gig, someone stole my car with my dole money in it’: Morcheeba on how they made The Sea

‘The string section we got in thought I was the tea boy. When I asked for a psychedelic improvisation like A Day in the Life, they went: “Why is this guy telling us what to play?”’We’d made our first...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
The nightmarish sounds of Squid Game composer Jung Jae-il: ‘Having no identity very much defines my identity’
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The nightmarish sounds of Squid Game composer Jung Jae-il: ‘Having no identity very much defines my identity’

Korean composer behind Netflix’s most-watched series on the calculated imperfection in his scoresGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIf you were among the 265 million viewers who made Squid Gam...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
AI lectures, Old West folk heroes and Mark Twain: what is Bob Dylan up to joining Patreon?
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AI lectures, Old West folk heroes and Mark Twain: what is Bob Dylan up to joining Patreon?

By far the biggest musician to have joined the membership-based platform, Dylan’s posts have so far been puzzling – and therefore entirely in characterA couple of years back, the august music writer D...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘African people are surreal’: songwriter and blues poet Aja Monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare
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‘African people are surreal’: songwriter and blues poet Aja Monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare

Radicalised by the inventiveness of groups such as the Harlem Renaissance, the LA-based musician is determined to reclaim the radical possibilities of culture in an age of institutional and algorithmi...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘I’m an old b****** looking back’: the bizarre renaissance of piano-jammer Bruce Hornsby
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‘I’m an old b****** looking back’: the bizarre renaissance of piano-jammer Bruce Hornsby

The AOR jazzer behind smash hit The Way It Is veered off into the avant garde. But he’s having sudden mainstream acclaim. ‘Well,’ he says as he releases yet another album, ‘it’s nicer than being ignor...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
Nicole and Natalie Appleton look back: ‘She was my home away from home during the craziness of All Saints’
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Nicole and Natalie Appleton look back: ‘She was my home away from home during the craziness of All Saints’

The singers and sisters on growing up in west London, finding fame in the 90s and relaunching their music as a duoBorn in Canada, Natalie and Nicole Appleton are singers best known as members of the g...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
‘My mum bought me Hardcore Ecstasy when I was seven – it’s a great compilation’: Nick Grimshaw’s honest playlist
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‘My mum bought me Hardcore Ecstasy when I was seven – it’s a great compilation’: Nick Grimshaw’s honest playlist

The presenter would do Common People at karaoke and avoids 6 Music during intimate moments. But which multilingual song makes him cry?The first song I fell in love withMy dad had a quite a small recor...

The Guardian Music7 months ago
Fill that Glasto-shaped hole! The 40 best UK festivals you can still book
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Fill that Glasto-shaped hole! The 40 best UK festivals you can still book

Who needs Worthy Farm? From woodland raves and psych freakouts to fell walks and barbecue hoedowns, there’s a festival for everyone this summer. And some of them don’t even require a tentDownload10 to...

The Guardian Music7 months ago