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The Chicks review – exquisite harmonies and hard-won vindication in anniversary show
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The Chicks review – exquisite harmonies and hard-won vindication in anniversary show

Beacon Theatre, New YorkTwo decades after country music blacklisted the band for their Iraq war protest, the trio celebrate their unapologetic album Taking the Long WayLast month, with almost no fanfa...

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Beth Orton review – battered optimism from an artist making the best music of her career
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Beth Orton review – battered optimism from an artist making the best music of her career

Concorde 2, BrightonDrawing almost entirely from her last two albums, and backed by a band rooted in jazz and experimentation, Orton performed her emotionally fraught songs to a rapturous crowdThe aud...

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‘Girls aren’t supposed to be c****’: Sophia Stel on the pressure of writing The Greatest Album Of All Time
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‘Girls aren’t supposed to be c****’: Sophia Stel on the pressure of writing The Greatest Album Of All Time

Raised as one of 11, the Vancouver artist (and model) is now signed by A24. She talks about her ultra-religious childhood and how – despite her album title – she still suffers from imposter syndromeTh...

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‘When it went double platinum, Andy Burnham gave us the award’: how Courteeners made Not Nineteen Forever
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‘When it went double platinum, Andy Burnham gave us the award’: how Courteeners made Not Nineteen Forever

‘In nightclubs, I’d be the dude scribbling lyrics in the corner while everyone else was dancing or copping off’I had the lyrics to Not Nineteen Forever before the band existed. They were in a little r...

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The missed opportunity of Jay-Z’s documentary series
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The missed opportunity of Jay-Z’s documentary series

Jay-Z in 8, the rap mogul’s HBO docuseries, covers his life and career in effort to mend his image – with no pushback. Why is he so fixated on the court of public opinion?During the finale of Jay-Z’s...

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Fontaines DC: Dopamine Chamber review – gloomy, gorgeous and a gargantuan triumph
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Fontaines DC: Dopamine Chamber review – gloomy, gorgeous and a gargantuan triumph

(XL)This is a beguiling, endlessly inventive and frequently astonishing fifth LP from a group at increasing ease with being the best band of their generationFifteen centuries ago, the Byzantine archbi...

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The Beach Boys’ Mike Love returns to the stage despite ‘facing serious health challenges’
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The Beach Boys’ Mike Love returns to the stage despite ‘facing serious health challenges’

The 85-year-old was helped on stage by actor John Stamos, who shared an emotional message about his ‘musical hero and mentor’After months of cancelled comeback tours, the Beach Boys have played their...

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There’s more to our music than Oasis, says Manchester mayor
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There’s more to our music than Oasis, says Manchester mayor

Bev Craig pledges £2m in funding to nurture local artists by improving access to rehearsal and production spaceThe Manchester mayor, Bev Craig, has said the city’s music scene is about more than just...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
‘I’d wander through the park all angsty listening to Arctic Monkeys’: Arlo Parks’ honest playlist
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‘I’d wander through the park all angsty listening to Arctic Monkeys’: Arlo Parks’ honest playlist

The singer shamelessly blasts Lady Gaga in the car and is brought to tears by Portishead – but which song does she have to be careful listening to?The first song I fell in love with I remember list...

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Manchester-based composer creates requiem to honour enslaved Africans
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Manchester-based composer creates requiem to honour enslaved Africans

David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links A centuries-old insurance document detailing the trafficking of enslaved Africans be...

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Tame Impala review – Kevin Parker ricochets between musical uppers and downers in eye-popping arena show
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Tame Impala review – Kevin Parker ricochets between musical uppers and downers in eye-popping arena show

Brisbane Entertainment CentreMelancholic newer tracks sit uncomfortably alongside the chunky psychedelia and hazy prog-rock the Australian band is known forThere were a lot of firsts to be experienced...

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Post your questions for Richard Thompson
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Post your questions for Richard Thompson

Ahead of new album Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, the British folk music legend will join us to answer your questionsFrom Fairport Convention to his musical partnership with then-wife Linda and on to solo...

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Add to playlist: the fizzing fuzz-pop racket of Pushbike and the week’s best new tracks
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Add to playlist: the fizzing fuzz-pop racket of Pushbike and the week’s best new tracks

Drawing from post-hardcore, twee and emo, the Exeter trio’s intoxicating energy feels like an invitation to form your own bandFrom Exeter, UK Recommended if you like Boyracer, the Promise Ring, Rit...

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Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves: Dedicated to You review – eloquent Coltrane tribute
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Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves: Dedicated to You review – eloquent Coltrane tribute

(Blue Note)This elegant contemporary reinvention of 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman pairs Marsalis’s post-bop sax with Reeves’ agile vocals, to time-stopping effectIn the early 1960s, the...

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Jess Williamson: A Mile South of Heaven review – alt-country singer’s love-hate affair with LA
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Jess Williamson: A Mile South of Heaven review – alt-country singer’s love-hate affair with LA

(New West)Following 2023 breakout Time Ain’t Accidental, the best songs here are when Williamson strips back country music, rebuilding it as something familiar yet differentIn her essay Goodbye to All...

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‘It gave me a superpower – question everything’: ​as punk turns 50, bands from China to Greenland explain how it fires up their lives
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‘It gave me a superpower – question everything’: ​as punk turns 50, bands from China to Greenland explain how it fires up their lives

Whether on the frontline in Ukraine or skate parks in Soweto, the genre is still a vital outlet for disaffected people everywhere. Here, musicians explain how they rage against the machineAndriy Zholo...

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Troye Sivan: She’s the Best review – a strange, singular pop star who deserves to be multiplatinum
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Troye Sivan: She’s the Best review – a strange, singular pop star who deserves to be multiplatinum

(Interscope)Adored by the A-list and filling arenas, but without huge smash hits, the Australian singer treads his own distinctive path through pop via shoegaze, Balearic and the SmithsA few years bac...

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Fierce, frantic and loaded with menace: Fontaines DC’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
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Fierce, frantic and loaded with menace: Fontaines DC’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ahead of the Irish alt-rockers’ highly anticipated fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, we count down their potent, occasionally political, catalogueA single inspired by the birth of guitarist Carlos O’Conn...

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Dafydd Owain’s second album wins the 2026 Welsh music prize
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Dafydd Owain’s second album wins the 2026 Welsh music prize

Ymarfer Byw, which was praised for its ‘musical excellence’, beat 14 other albums to the prize of £10,000Singer-songwriter Dafydd Owain has won the 2026 Welsh music prize with his second album Ymarfer...

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‘Spend time going down rabbit holes’: how the Avalanches created their wildest album yet
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‘Spend time going down rabbit holes’: how the Avalanches created their wildest album yet

The Aussie trio explain creating their new record sampling kids’ science shows and Tunisian music – and their surreal film with Haley Joel OsmentLast December, Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi, the cor...

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