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Songwriter sends a speech and Patti Smith to the Nobel awards dinner in Sweden rather than attending in person
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Kate Tempest felt the love as she rhymed and rapped her way through her new album, Let Them Eat Chaos
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Thirteen-year-old twins Max and Harvey Mills have 2.5m followers on the lip-synching app. Will global fame follow?
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The rapper and activist takes aim at mass incarceration, police brutality and toxic masculinity on his much anticipated follow up to Forest Hill Drives
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The musician formerly Antony Hegarty returned with staggeringly beautiful protest songs that are escapist as well as subversive
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The superstar DJ on the magic of John Paul Young’s classic and why he loves waking up to an isolated bass
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Leading voice of husband Stevo Teodosievski’s ensemble who represented Macedonia at the Eurovision song contest
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A nervous Patti Smith sings ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ in Stockholm on Saturday, in a performance given to mark Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature
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Representing the Nobel laureate at the prize-giving, the US singer admitted nerves in performance at Swedish academy
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The A-listers’ go-to vocalist previews tracks from his debut album in a powerful hometown gig
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The Japanese conductor got into the swing with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a performance of slow-burning, propulsive energy
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Armed only with righteous anger, Neil Young punctures this knocked-together protest project with half-formed songs full of confused platitudes
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Jagger, Richards and co reconnect with their youth on this joyful collection of blues covers
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The city’s insular scene is full of aspiring talent, but a string of murders involving high-profile stars has led to rappers relocating for their own safety
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Call them greedy and vacuous, but the TV show’s legion of would-be musicians have produced songs of heartbreak, courage and perseverance
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We go backstage at a Sleaford Mods gig in their hometown of Nottingham to hear what singer Jason Williamson thinks about politicians
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Madonna joins James Corden for a trip around New York in the latest episode of Carpool Karaoke from The Late Late Show aired on Wednesday.
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Lady Gaga visits a shelter for homeless LGBT teenagers in New York and tells them about her own struggle with PTSD
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Country singer Dolly Parton has created a ‘My People Fund’ to help victims of fires that have killed 10 people and laid waste to large parts of her home county in the Smoky Mountains
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The audience at the final night of Crowded House’s Opera House reunion harmonise the chorus of Four Seasons in One Day, gently coached by frontman Neil Finn
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Stars of Australian music perform and Crowded House are inducted into the hall of fame at the Sydney ceremony
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Sombre prophet, mordant wisecracker, repentant cad: Leonard Cohen is back with a great new album, Old Ideas – and more wit and wisdom
interviews
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Nine years sober and back on tour, the Culture Club star talks about the power of positivity and why pop needs mystery
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Lars Ulrich: ‘There’s a fast song, a mid-tempo song, a ballad. It’s like food groups: you need your carbs, your protein’
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Abel Tesfaye’s tortured, genre-bending R&B has brought him millions of fans, a triple platinum album and collaborations with Daft Punk and Beyoncé. Will mainstream success make him happy?
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As she publishes an intimate new memoir, the Against Me! founder shares her thoughts on the presidential election, parenting and the healing power of punk
quizzes
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It’s the 25th anniversary of the death of the Queen frontman on 24 November – test your knowledge of his life and times
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This quiz features randomised questions dynamically generated from Hottest 100 data between 1993 and 2014
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It’s our weekly test of your knowledge of pop arcania – come and have a go if you think you know enough
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A delinquent Door; a rapping Ramone; a generation of Whitesnakes; and a TV dispatch from our own correspondent
in pictures
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The Morrison Hotel Gallery is hosting Long May You Run, a retrospective of Neil Young, charts his rise from Buffalo Springfield to refusing to settle down in his 70s
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Since the 1980s, Melody Maker’s Tom Sheehan has captured the Cure’s ascent from the underbelly of British alternative rock to global stadium headliners. Now Sheehan – who was even enlisted as frontman Robert Smith’s official wedding photographer – has compiled a record of his journey with the band in a new book, In Between Days
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A pair of graphic designers and self-confessed Beatles geeks have mapped Fab Four trivia including the instruments they played, the outfits they wore and even some of their most famous press-conference quips
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Since the 1970s, Ross Halfin has photographed the biggest names in rock and pop, capturing seminal shows by the Who, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. Shots from his career will be exhibited at The Indulgence Show in London
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Last week she was widely attacked for apologising to refugees on the UK’s behalf. But, just as her candour and directness mark her music, she has never been afraid to speak her mind
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His return to live performance will infuriate as many as it delights, but only a hardened bete noire can haul today’s pop out of cheery mediocrity. And maybe those derided solo hits weren’t so bad after all…
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Appearing on the most streamed track of all time, Lean On, made the Danish singer an instant global star. But is she ready to abandon her anarcho roots?
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Some songwriters can turn any subject into gold. Most aren’t so fortunate, so here are some subjects best steered clear of – and feel free to add more
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Bon Iver joins the pantheon of music number nerds fascinated by figures and their occult connections, from Mozart and the Beatles to Led Zep and Wu Tang
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Denmark’s Agnes Obel takes music where it has never gone before, layering 250 tracks on top of each other, and duetting with a male cyborg version of herself. Where does it all come from?
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First to go was her meekness in rehearsals – then she had to ‘learn how to be unapologetic and unemotional’ with the people who worked for her. Did it pay off creatively for her new album, The Altar?
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