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The Californian indie rocker reflects on provocative lyrics, recent collaborations and what she now thinks of Ryan Adams
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Mixing savage lyrics with a haunting, cinematic sound, this enigmatic duo deliver potent songs for surreal times
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5 out of 5 stars.Full of bleak and brooding rhythm and blues, Rough and Rowdy Ways reveals Dylan at his lyrical best
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Company says it will address ‘inequities or anomalies’ within 30 days following criticism of widespread financial inequality in the music industry
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We’re seeing the same problems with race that Abraham Lincoln once complained about, but blackness is threaded into the heart of America’s identity and can never be erased
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The 100 greatest UK No 1 singles
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Look back on our complete countdown of the greatest UK No 1s, from the Beatles to Baby D, and So Solid Crew to Suzi Quatro
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Thirty-six years on, their debut single still pulses with beguiling ambiguity – a heady rush of lust, naivety, disco and opaque references to Lenin
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The remarkable, dark power of this song, with its harrowing wail of a chorus, plunges you straight back into the anger, violence and despair of the early 80s
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The Fab Four’s 1963 hit is an explosion of exuberance that made “yeah yeah yeah” the fanfare for a culture on the brink of irreversible change
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‘We stomped into EMI and told them we were going to be the biggest band in the world’
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After a tumultuous year, the godfather of grime explains his beef with Drake, Stormzy and ‘England’s golden boy’ Ed Sheeran – then announces his retirement
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The Irish rockers were set for a big year until their viral namesake struck. They reflect on the future of live music and why they’d rather be The Vaccines
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The Russian electronic musician on her homeland’s bizarre 80s movie themes and reappraising childhood favourites
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4 out of 5 stars.
Album of the week Jessie Ware: What's Your Pleasure? – dancefloor diva back where she belongs
4 out of 5 stars.Without the burden of reinvention, Ware’s fourth album of defiantly sexy, plush post-disco is a flirtatious joy -
3 out of 5 stars.
Jehnny Beth To Love Is to Live – intense and provocative
3 out of 5 stars.The Savages frontwoman goes solo with an accompanying erotic short story collection -
Obituaries
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As one of the original Pointer Sisters, Bonnie Pointer, who has died aged 69, brilliantly wrongfooted her audience by hopping from blaxploitation films to Nashville
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Member of Grammy-winning group went on to launch solo career with Motown Records
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Other lives: Co-writer of Under the Boardwalk, a 1964 hit for the Drifters that has since been covered by dozens of other artists
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He was cartoonish – once warned by David Bowie to tone down his makeup – and ‘built like a hod-carrier’, but Priest’s camped-up performances defined glam rock
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As a pioneering female DJ duo, the two best friends were integral to the rise of the 90s dance scene, before a car accident changed everything. Storm talks about the soul sister she lost
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He was cartoonish – once warned by David Bowie to tone down his makeup – and ‘built like a hod-carrier’, but Priest’s camped-up performances defined glam rock
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The British dance-pop star considers Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come amid the Black Lives Matter protests, and picks out tracks by Otis Redding, Miraa May and more
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The Californian indie rocker reflects on provocative lyrics, recent collaborations and what she now thinks of Ryan Adams
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Underground scenes like noise and vaporwave are reaching for their ten-gallon hats, musically speaking – and soothing their pets in the process
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Mixing savage lyrics with a haunting, cinematic sound, this enigmatic duo deliver potent songs for surreal times
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5 out of 5 stars.
Pop and rock Rose City Band: Summerlong review – a gorgeous record
5 out of 5 stars.One-man band Ripley Johnson casts an unashamedly sunny eight-song spell
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Down the road from the Haçienda, an underground acid house scene was jumping. Now a new archive has restored its rightful place in the history of dance
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As coronavirus derails plans for a concert to celebrate the centenary of Lee’s birth, Kevin EG Perry looks back on a singer whose seductive style masked rejection and pain
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Kraftwerk’s robotic rhythms resonated loudest in deindustrialising 1970s Detroit and gave rise to techno – starting a cultural feedback loop that continues today
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From Q Magazine to smaller free sheets, many publications hit hard by Covid-19 lockdown
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Festivals are cancelled, livestreams thriving – so how can music recover? Jack Garratt, Ella Eyre, Sara Quin and more talk gigs, hits and togetherness
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In the 1960s, a group of Indian students accidentally invented minimal techno – and hoped their synths could cure disease. A new documentary unearths their story
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Kitty Empire's artist of the week Laura Marling live at Union Chapel: up close and virtual
4 out of 5 stars.