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‘We’re ripping ourselves to shreds’: with dance music bitterly divided, how far should cultural boycotts go?

3h ago

Sydney nightclub named after lesbian artist’s song changes name after ‘preferred clientele’ revealed to be men

5h ago

Taylor Swift's final Vancouver show to headline Eras Tour documentary

The Vancouver Sun

18h ago

Taylor Swift announces behind-the-scenes Eras tour docuseries, plus new concert film

23h ago

‘The vocals were on another level’: how Counting Crows made Mr Jones

23h ago

The Fiery Furnaces reissue a cult classic: ‘We knew we wouldn’t seem like an also-ran NYC band in leather jackets’

Mon

Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal

Mon

Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition review – fabled album falls short of expectations

Mon

Jade review – pop’s quirkiest star transcends manufactured past

Sun

Rolling Stones’s Ronnie Wood says he is working on new songs with Rod Stewart

Sat

Perfume Genius: ‘I really like body hair! I like a bush. I didn’t even notice Jimmy Fallon censored mine’

Sat

‘My Led Zeppelin road trip was counted as a class credit’: Cameron Crowe on the interview that changed everything

Sat

My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’

Sat

Taylor Swift scores second-biggest UK charts opening week ever with The Life of a Showgirl

Fri

John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band

Fri

Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge dies aged 82

Fri

Add to playlist: the coffee-shop charms of Jordan Patterson and the week’s best new tracks

Fri

Meet Anamanaguchi, the band behind the last Scott Pilgrim video game’s soundtrack – and the next one

Fri

Robbie Williams review – tiny Camden gig offers blinding star wattage – and a surprising new song about Morrissey

Fri

Širom: In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

Fri

Hannah Frances: Nested in Tangles review – ramshackle arrangements power restless revelations

Fri

‘We’ve all done stupid things but we’re all capable of redemption’: spoken-word artist Joshua Idehen on fighting hate with hope

Fri

From boom to backlash: has Taylor Swift lost her touch? – podcast

Fri

Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group dismissed

Thu

Kiss’s Gene Simmons admits to being ‘horrible driver’ after California crash

Thu

Vegas vignettes and killer karaoke staples: Katy Perry’s greatest songs – ranked!

Thu

Blawan: Sick Elixir review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week

Thu

Venice opera house staff to strike over hiring of Meloni-linked conductor

Thu

There’s a £1 idea that could save small music venues. Is Live Nation holding it back?

Thu

Gruff Rhys: ‘Welsh is still being invented as a pop language’

Thu

Dolly Parton addresses health concerns in new video: ‘I ain’t dead yet!’

Wed

Taylor Swift beats Adele’s first week in US sales record with Life of a Showgirl

Wed

The Life of a Showgirl is a massive hit – and massively divisive. What should Taylor Swift do next?

Wed

Katy Perry review – like being high on Haribo while trapped in a theme park

Wed

Country superstar Zach Bryan criticised by US Homeland Security over Ice lyrics

Wed

The best gig I ever saw cost £4. Spiralling concert prices are a cultural disaster | John Harris

Wed

Dolly Parton ‘going to be just fine’, singer’s sister says as she calls for prayers amid health problems

Wed

Long-lost John Lennon interview reveals US phone-tapping fears

Tue

Nicole Scherzinger review – raunchy gags and dazzling stylistic zigzags

Tue

MPs and Jewish leaders call for Bob Vylan’s Manchester gig to be cancelled

Tue

‘Are the neighbours’ curtains twitching? Good!’ Avril A, the 80s housewife who became a star of Manchester’s gay scene

Tue

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Tue

Post your questions for Todd Rundgren

Tue

‘People screamed. Cried. Threw up’: 10 extraordinary life lessons from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir

Tue

I judged this year’s Welsh music prize – and Don Leisure’s winning album sums up the nation’s eclectic spirit

Tue

Canadian landmark makes appearance in new Taylor Swift video

Mon

Rush reform for first time since drummer Neil Peart’s death

Mon

Meet the Vancouver artist who reimagined the Reading Rainbow theme

Mon 3m read

‘The lyrics were throwaway. I never intended keeping them!’ How Feeder made Buck Rogers

Mon

‘I want to hear harmonica in the strip club!’: the bold ideas and bleak visions of British musician Klein

Oct 6

The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando: ‘Some people were supposed to take drugs – and one of them was me’

Oct 6

Finn Wolfhard’s honest playlist: ‘I don’t know if I want to hear Sweet Child O’ Mine any more’

Oct 6

Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird review – Mars Volta bromance looks for time out

Oct 6

The Kooks review – a triumphant and touching mass singalong

Oct 5

‘I was called an enemy of the people’: how the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s

Oct 5

Street battles, invented languages and gigs in psychiatric hospitals: France’s lost rock revolution of 1968

Oct 5

‘Let’s learn from that history’: opera looks to luddites for how to deal with AI

Oct 4

‘Politics is nasty. And it’s getting worse’: Lionel Richie on his worries for America, his friend Michael Jackson – and why he still believes in the power of love

Oct 4

Stunned Combs holds head in hands as judge unmoved by pleas for mercy

Oct 4

Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl review – lazy big screen cash-in

Oct 3

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison on prostitution-related charges

Oct 3

Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs to miss Oasis tour leg for cancer treatment

Oct 3

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs expected to speak in court as prosecution witness backs out last-minute

Oct 3

Add to playlist: the jackhammer noise and clubby alt-rock of Ashnymph and the week’s best new tracks

Oct 3

Ethel Cain review – a sublime rejection of pop stardom from the shadows

Oct 3

Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound review – unabashedly gorgeous noise from ‘ecstatic black metal’ band

Oct 3

Dania: Listless review – intimate underground pop inspired by hospital night shifts

Oct 3

Taylor Swift’s Charli xcx hit job misses the point – and underscores her tedious obsession with conflict

Oct 3

‘We need anger to fight for our lives’: Mexican musician Silvana Estrada on grief, violence and the indignity of ‘el ghosting’

Oct 3

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentencing: what to know

Oct 3

Taylor Swift: fans and critics react to ‘catchy’, ‘goofy’ and ‘joyful’ The Life of a Showgirl

Oct 3

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled

Oct 3

Bossing it! The makers of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere on turning Jeremy Allen White into the rock icon

Oct 3

Experience: I put on the world’s first deaf rave for deaf ravers like me

Oct 3

Combs pleads with judge in letter before sentencing, saying he was ‘reborn’ in jail

Oct 3

Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home review – an extremely moving look into the rock icon’s final months

Oct 2

Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson to make Netflix road trip series

Oct 2

Imogen Heap: ‘We’re making a horrendous job of existing. Maybe AI is the next stage of evolution’

Oct 2

Canadian government asked to clarify whether Kneecap barred from country

Oct 2

‘She’s leaning into the idea that her image is a gilded fantasy’: how Taylor Swift embraced the showgirl

Oct 2

Eat, sleep, rave, ribbit! How Tribe of Frog became the UK’s trippiest, happiest club night

Oct 2

There were two paths for America and Lilith Fair was one of them. Sadly it chose the other | Emma Brockes

Oct 2

Nirvana again defeats alleged child sexual abuse image lawsuit over Nevermind cover

Oct 2

Rapper who joined Trump at rally jailed for five years for attempted murder

Oct 1

‘We can leave knowing we left a mark’: how Corsica Studios transformed London nightlife – and why it’s closing

Oct 1

Sigur Rós and the London Contemporary Orchestra review – crashing waves of refined harmony

Oct 1

Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James on scandals, reunions and her beef with Elvis Costello

Oct 1

Row erupts after Venice opera house hires conductor linked to Meloni government

Oct 1

Lola Young cancels all upcoming gigs to ‘go away for a while’ after collapsing on stage

Sep 30

Taylor review – it’s time to bask in the pop star’s 100-watt joy

Sep 30

Federal prosecutors urge judge to give Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs an 11-year sentence

Sep 30

‘Too soothing’: why have music-hating art duo Gilbert & George gone orchestra mad?

Sep 30

‘I don’t worry about traditionalists’: Rishab Sharma, the sitar maestro earning millions of followers for his mindful music

Sep 30

Lady Gaga review – from skeletons to sexy plague doctors, this is a glorious, ridiculous spectacle

Sep 30

From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds

Sep 24

From disco to Slayer, a DJ set by Optimo’s JD Twitch made life feel full of wild possibility

Sep 21

At the Gates’ Tomas Lindberg’s introspective lyricism broke new ground in death metal

Sep 17

Cheerful Music Could Help People Get Over Car Sickness, New Study Shows

Good News Network

Sun 5m read

NASA Turns Light into Sound Frequency Creating a Milky Way Symphony (LISTEN)

Good News Network

Dec 1 2023 3m read

Daryl Hall & John Oates: ‘We had a lethal ability to experiment’

Jun 11 2021