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  • Jacqui McShee of Pentangle at the concert to celebrate Bert Jansch – 56 years after Pentangle made its debut on the same stage with Jansch in the lineup.

    Live review
    An 80th Birthday Concert for Bert Jansch – moving homage to 60s folk guitar hero

  • Björk

    Björk
    I always wanted to be David Attenborough

    The singer is releasing a single with Rosalía to support action against intensive salmon farming. She talks about being a guardian of Iceland’s wilderness and how young people will make real change
  • John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney in Liverpool in 1964

    Peter Jackson
    More new Beatles music ‘conceivable’ after Now and Then

    Get Back director who helped with AI technology that isolated John Lennon’s vocals in new single says there are more song fragments in archive
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Interviews

  • Kagami, a groundbreaking mixed-reality concert event created by Ryuichi Sakamoto in collaboration with Tin Drum.

    ‘We put his face back together again’
    The groundbreaking show bringing Ryuichi Sakamoto back to life

  • ‘I’ve written 3,500 songs’ … Child singing with Alice Cooper.

    Livin’ on a Prayer!
    Desmond Child on writing bombastic hits for Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and more

  • ‘I see the song and then translate it into melodies’ ... Sofia Kourtesis

    ‘My mother’s neurosurgeon loved Berghain’
    Producer Sofia Kourtesis on love, loss and her debut album

  • Photo of the band Semisonic.

    Semisonic’s Dan Wilson
    On Closing Time and a new album: ‘I’m just a really earnest person’

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Album reviews

  • lucy and jon hart with guitars, smiling while standing in an outbuilding full of firewood

    Honey and the Bear
    Away from the Fret – another lively hymn to Suffolk

  • Sam Fenton, Nina Cristante and Jezmi Tarik Fehmi of Bar Italia.

    Bar Italia
    The Twits – back to mid-90s alt-rock

    • Tkay Maidza
      Sweet Justice – Zimbabwean-Australian rapper levels up

    • Jung Kook
      Golden – BTS star searches for his own sound

    • Tkay Maidza
      Sweet Justice – an intoxicating album from a chameleonic rapper

    • Taylor Swift
      1989 (Taylor’s Version) – subtle bonus tracks add new depths to a classic

    • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
      Billy Bragg: The Roaring Forty – four decades of flying the flag

    • Folk album of the month
      ØXN: CYRM – Irish folk debut full of unsettling dark magic

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Live reviews

  • Jacob Slater, frontman of Wunderhorse, performing in Glasgow.

    Wunderhorse
    A band galloping towards even bigger things

  • Joe Trohman, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy on stage in Leeds, with flames in the background

    Fall Out Boy
    Pop-punk stalwarts bring the hits, and the flamethrower

    • Eric Cantona at The Stoller Hall in Manchester

      Eric Cantona
      Manchester faithful lap up raspy whisper and jazz groove

    • Corinne Bailey Rae at Ladbroke Hall in London.

      Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Corinne Bailey Rae – a genre-mashing celebration of her artistic freedom

    • Rockin’ the block … The Chemical Brothers play the OVO Hydro in Glasgow.

      Chemical Brothers
      Mesmerising barrage of thunder and lighting

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Add to playlist

  • Chiminyo in the studio.

    One to watch
    Chiminyo

  • Barbra Streisand in 1970.

    Ranked!
    Barbra Streisand’s 20 greatest songs

  • Sadie Frost

    ‘I went into labour at a Radiohead gig’
    Sadie Frost’s honest playlist

  • Problem Patterns wool-sitting-12-scaled-e1696410484842

    One to watch
    Problem Patterns

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Obituaries

  • Angelo Bruschini performing with Massive Attack at Glastonbury in 2014

    Angelo Bruschini
    Massive Attack confirm death of guitarist

  • Carla Bley pictured in 2006.

    Carla Bley
    Imaginative jazz pianist and composer dies aged 87

  • Rudolph Isley, centre, who has died at 84. With brothers O’Kelly (left) and Ron (right), he founded pioneering soul group The Isley Brothers, whose career has spanned over six decades

    Rudolph Isley
    Founding member of the Isley Brothers dies at 84

  • close-up of Italian singer and composer Toto Cutugno performing in 2002

    Toto Cutugno
    Musician whose song L’Italiano was No 1 across Europe dies at 80

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From the archive

  • Lorde: ‘It’s my joy to be patient zero on a harmony virus.’

    Lorde
    I’m not a climate activist. I’m a pop star

    As Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine turns 10, revisit our interview with the New Zealand musician on the cusp of her underrated third album, Solar Power
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