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Add to playlist: the beautiful, breakneck chaos of Heavensouls and the week’s best new tracks
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Add to playlist: the beautiful, breakneck chaos of Heavensouls and the week’s best new tracks

His hyperactive stylistic shifts and high-speed rhythms have a delirious, head-spinning beauty of their ownFrom Biafra, Nigeria/Texas, USARecommended if you like Los Thuthanaka, Jpegmafia, DJ Sabrina...

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‘It’s rational to fear the music industry’: Grouper’s Liz Harris on virality, streaming scammers and her ‘restorative’ dream-pop trio
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‘It’s rational to fear the music industry’: Grouper’s Liz Harris on virality, streaming scammers and her ‘restorative’ dream-pop trio

When a rarity blew up on TikTok, the solitary ambient artist had fraudsters trying to steal her royalties. It reinforced her DIY mentality – until reforming her band Helen reminded her of the beauty o...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Trá Pháidín: Cloch’s Claí review – giddy Galway gang burst the boundaries of folk music
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Trá Pháidín: Cloch’s Claí review – giddy Galway gang burst the boundaries of folk music

(World of Echo)With musical ideas spanning mariachi and motorik beats, and lyrics with Kneecap-grade rage, this brilliant collective evolve tradition with stinging, joyful songsQuicksilver and giddy i...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
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‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices For some, it is the security of knowing they have a physical copy of their...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Greg Freeman: All Set the Bone review – ambitious alt-country double album spreads its talents a touch thin
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Greg Freeman: All Set the Bone review – ambitious alt-country double album spreads its talents a touch thin

(Transgressive)The Maryland singer-songwriter’s third album has an impressive sense of scale compared to last year’s breakout Burnover, but is less immediately appealingGreg Freeman’s third album All...

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Take It Or Leave It review – vividly atmospheric formative adventures of future pop princes Madness
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Take It Or Leave It review – vividly atmospheric formative adventures of future pop princes Madness

Docufictional 1981 comedy captures the working-class ska-pop pranksters in their hungry years with an almost Loachian authenticityOpting for the former is the best idea for this unexpectedly revealing...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
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‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring

Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about difficult recent years, being happily uncool and battling resurgent homophobiaAndy Bell is rabbiting away on multip...

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Enter Shikari announce indefinite hiatus from 2027: ‘We don’t think we’re splitting up’
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Enter Shikari announce indefinite hiatus from 2027: ‘We don’t think we’re splitting up’

Rock band will still tour the UK, Europe and US over the next year but say decision to ‘fall dormant’ feels ‘liberating’The British rock band Enter Shikari have announced they will go on hiatus at the...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant, frontman of UK heavy metal band Venom, dies aged 63
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Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant, frontman of UK heavy metal band Venom, dies aged 63

Singer and bassist helped turn Newcastle band into hugely influential force on thrash and black metal subgenresConrad Lant, the British heavy metal musician who fronted Venom and ensured the Newcastle...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Jackie Jackson obituary
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Jackie Jackson obituary

Toots and the Maytals bass player whose melodic lines drove some of the biggest reggae hits of the 1960s and 70sThe bass player Jackie Jackson, who has died aged 79, was one of the cornerstones of Jam...

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Rick Ross arrested on domestic battery and strangulation charges
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Rick Ross arrested on domestic battery and strangulation charges

The rapper was arrested in Miami Beach on Thursday, days after an ex-girlfriend accused him of physical abuseRick Ross has been arrested on domestic violence charges in Miami Beach, according to local...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
‘Shane was rascality personified’: the Pogues on their late frontman, anti-Irish prejudice and the feud over Fairytale of New York
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‘Shane was rascality personified’: the Pogues on their late frontman, anti-Irish prejudice and the feud over Fairytale of New York

The Celtic punk band’s co-founders Spider Stacy and James Fearnley take your questions about Shane MacGowan, ruffling the feathers of trad musicians and putting Laurence Fox in his placeThe Pogues ear...

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Meshell Ndegeocello: Synonym review – vivid all-star reinventions of everyone from Bob Dylan to J-Lo
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Meshell Ndegeocello: Synonym review – vivid all-star reinventions of everyone from Bob Dylan to J-Lo

(Blue Note)In the jazz-soul singer’s ‘expression of queer liberation’, stars from Chaka Khan to Bill Callahan to Cynthia Erivo duet on equally varied songs from Cher to the Human League and beyondIt’s...

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Oasis take legal action to stop sale of unheard recordings valued at more than £1m
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Oasis take legal action to stop sale of unheard recordings valued at more than £1m

Tapes made in the 90s, including candid conversations between Noel and Liam Gallagher, which were expected to sell for up to £1.6mA collection of unheard Oasis recordings, including 63 live shows, hou...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
Heavy metal is about uplifting the downtrodden. So why is alleged abuse by Marilyn Manson so easily forgotten?
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Heavy metal is about uplifting the downtrodden. So why is alleged abuse by Marilyn Manson so easily forgotten?

Slipknot sharing their stage with a man accused of wrongdoing by more than a dozen women is the antithesis of everything the genre should stand for, even if he denies it Continue reading...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
The Pussycat Dolls review – Nicole Scherzinger’s star power dominates fraught reunion
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The Pussycat Dolls review – Nicole Scherzinger’s star power dominates fraught reunion

Utilita Arena, BirminghamFirst announced in 2019 and now launching with just three of the original lineup, the Dolls whip up a whirlwind of hair-flipping and put on a decent spectacleThe road to the P...

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Tough decisions for Andy Burnham – take our quiz and guess the tracks he picked for each of England’s regions
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Tough decisions for Andy Burnham – take our quiz and guess the tracks he picked for each of England’s regions

At receptions at Labour conference, Burnham played a series of regionally specific tracks – but did he hit the right notes?Freshly minted as prime minister, Andy Burnham has been holding a series of r...

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It was a ghost town of three people. So how did Luckenbach rival Nashville as the heartland of country music?
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It was a ghost town of three people. So how did Luckenbach rival Nashville as the heartland of country music?

In 1971, self-appointed mayor Hondo Crouch turned the Texan town into a rural respite for country stars. Soon it was immortalised in chart-topping songs – and became a symbol of a simpler American lif...

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‘A genre-defying monument’: how Sign o’ the Times captured Prince at his creative peak
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‘A genre-defying monument’: how Sign o’ the Times captured Prince at his creative peak

As a new book on the Paisley Park polymath is released, author John McKie explains why Prince’s 1987 album is the ultimate showcase of his geniusBy the early 1980s, Prince had cemented his place as a...

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Mighty Sparrow obituary
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Mighty Sparrow obituary

Trinidadian singer and songwriter hailed as a living legend and the greatest calypsonian of all timeThe singer and songwriter Mighty Sparrow, who has died aged 91, was quite simply the greatest calyps...

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