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Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat
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Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat

Great Park, Irvine, CaliforniaPerformances from Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan and Sarah McLachlan raise $20m for charity yet are marred by poor planning for heatwaveShortly after singing the cl...

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The Waterboys review – Steve Earle joins a gloriously unruly return to Fisherman’s Blues
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The Waterboys review – Steve Earle joins a gloriously unruly return to Fisherman’s Blues

OVO Hydro, GlasgowThe Nashville singer-songwriter is among the guests joining Mike Scott for a sprawling, exuberant revue that finds new life in the Waterboys’ rootsy pastThis is strange. A Waterboys...

The Guardian Music4 weeks ago
‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist
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‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist

The Black Bananas singer knows all the words to Rapper’s Delight and relates to AC/DC, but which song reminds her of a heartbreaking theft?The first song I fell in love with Van Halen’s Runnin’ With...

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Stetsons and waterproofs at a very English country music festival
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Stetsons and waterproofs at a very English country music festival

Country music fans use the Long Road festival in Leicestershire to mark the passing of Dolly Parton Continue reading...

The Guardian Music4 weeks ago
Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library
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Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based projectThe next manuscript by the American artist Laurie Anderson will remain unseen for 88 years, as...

The Guardian Music4 weeks ago
Charli xcx, Reading festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it
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Charli xcx, Reading festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it

Reading festivalThere’s not much time to dig into her deep catalogue of future-facing pop, but she satisfies the hardcore“Time itself is a circle,” as the rock’n’roll philosopher Nietzsche once said,...

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‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham
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‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham

Country star came to South Yorkshire town in 2007 for UK launch of the Imagination Library, her book donation schemeShane Jarman was up a ladder decorating a Christmas tree at the school where he was...

The Guardian - UK News4 weeks ago
‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’: inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @
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‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’: inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @

Their un-Googlable, very online name is the antithesis of this earthy duo’s sublime art-folk. Like their emotionally ambiguous music, the pair don’t give up their mysteries easily• The best music of a...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
The best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more
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The best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more

Irish noisemongers Gilla Band, shadowy producers Two Shell and lovable band the Big Moon have new records, and there are tours from Bob Dylan and Kelela – plus the best of jazz, global and classical •...

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Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?
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Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?

As R&L replace the BBC’s unsigned artists stage with one filled with rock scions and a Simon Cowell boyband, many are decrying disappearing opportunities for grassroots actsThis year’s Reading and Lee...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Add to playlist: the spectral, fathoms-deep folksong of June McDoom and the week’s best new tracks
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Add to playlist: the spectral, fathoms-deep folksong of June McDoom and the week’s best new tracks

Rich harmonies mix with synth, harp and aquatic grace on the intriguing first single from the New York songwriter’s debut albumFrom New York, USARecommended if you like Jessica Pratt, Minnie Riperton,...

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Dolly Parton brought divided Americans together. What can we learn from her? | Margaret Sullivan
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Dolly Parton brought divided Americans together. What can we learn from her? | Margaret Sullivan

The singer had a serendipitous mixture of humor, humility and humanity. We could all stand to channel it a bit moreThe moment that the world found out that Dolly Parton had died, I was in a hair salon...

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How Katseye became the world’s biggest girl group – while falling apart
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How Katseye became the world’s biggest girl group – while falling apart

Their raucous pop music has made Katseye the biggest girl band in two decades. Can they weather toxic fandom, critical pans and a dwindling member count?Before screenings of their new documentary, the...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Dahi: Black Boy (Alternative) review – Kendrick producer takes the spotlight for all-star guitar celebration
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Dahi: Black Boy (Alternative) review – Kendrick producer takes the spotlight for all-star guitar celebration

(ALTER)The Grammy winner unites former clients including Lamar and Ravyn Lenae for a playful, dazzling voyage through the guitar’s diversity, from alt-rock to AfrobeatOn this long-awaited debut, Gramm...

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Klara Lewis: Opening review – enigmatic, ecstatic sound sculptures from a Swedish slowburn master
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Klara Lewis: Opening review – enigmatic, ecstatic sound sculptures from a Swedish slowburn master

(Editions Mego)Lewis mines beauty and intimacy from her minimalist blend of samples and rich instrumentation, sounding as profound whether they last 11 minutes or 38 secondsThe first thing you hear on...

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‘I’m an ever-changing vessel’: Erykah Badu on defying definition, life as a birth and death doula and her first album in 11 years
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‘I’m an ever-changing vessel’: Erykah Badu on defying definition, life as a birth and death doula and her first album in 11 years

Why do the Texan innovator’s records take so long to make? ‘It’s important to gather the data,’ she says: the death, dating and dopamine behind her exquisite comeback alongside the AlchemistErykah Bad...

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‘You notice the quiet’: Lorde and Little Simz to star at festival run on green power
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‘You notice the quiet’: Lorde and Little Simz to star at festival run on green power

A zero-emission compact hydrogen power plant will drive the two stages at Clifton Down in BristolWhen Lorde, Little Simz and Wet Leg stride on to stages in Bristol this weekend, they will not only be...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
Dolly Parton’s sister reveals singer offered to test experimental cancer drugs before she died
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Dolly Parton’s sister reveals singer offered to test experimental cancer drugs before she died

‘My sister was always thinking of others,’ Parton’s younger sister Stella wrote in a Facebook tributeDolly Parton’s younger sister Stella Parton has shared a moving tribute to the late country music s...

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Ain’t nobody better: Chaka Khan’s 20 best songs – ranked!
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Ain’t nobody better: Chaka Khan’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Ahead of the release of her 13th solo album, the fantastically titled Chakzilla, we rank the best of a sublime catalogue of funk, slow jams and tears-on-the-dancefloor discoChaka Khan had harsh words...

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Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass
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Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass

(Reprise)The crossover star’s introspective sixth album is full of memories of his mother, who died in 2025, bringing his dextrous guitar to songs rooted in tradition and yearningOn the face of it, 20...

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