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  • Insular and intimate … Billie Eilish

    Best music of 2024
    The 50 best albums: No 3 – Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft

  • A wonderful present for fans … Aphex Twin performing at Field Day in London, 19 August 2023.

    Album review
    Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty

    Compiling the highly sought-after limited vinyl releases sold at recent festival sets, this surprise 38-track release filled with bangers and beauty is a trove for fans
  • Dream-like … Carlos Nino, Damian Dalla Torre, Nala Sinephro

    Best music of 2024
    The 10 best contemporary albums

    Astrid Sonne’s sonic odyssey led her to Auto-Tune experiments, Caroline Shaw took Emily Dickinson into junkyard hip-hop and Nala Sinephro went space-age
  • Gabi Delgado and Robert Görl of DAF.

    Feature
    ‘Like Depeche Mode, but evil’: the sweaty, sexual music of 80s EBM

  • ‘Audacious and wonderful’ … late-period Bob Dylan.

    Feature
    From Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder: the best late-era albums by musical greats

  • black and white photo of a woman

    Feature
    ‘Without a voice, she had no self’: who was the real Maria Callas?

  • Matt Goss in red suit, takes his hair back with his hand.

    The G2 interview
    Matt Goss on love, loss and his brother Luke: ‘I don’t want to lie any more. We’re completely estranged’

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Interviews

  • Andrew Ridgeley wearing a blue check suit, a pink, purple and blue patterned tie, and a white shirt, against a yellow background

    The Q&A
    Wham’s Andrew Ridgeley looks back: ‘Fame or anonymity? I choose famous anonymity’

  • Michael Gracey (left) and Robbie Williams, pictured in London, November 2024

    Pop
    ‘Fame is a drug like LSD’: Robbie Williams on success, sexuality and his simian movie alter ego

  • Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the Flaming Lips

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips: ‘It was insane. We all could have died’

  • A man with short white hair wearing a black T shirt with a white design, holding a black and white guitar, against a mint green background

    The Q&A
    U2 bassist Adam Clayton: ‘When I was drinking, there were many times when I was out for the night and didn’t come back for a week’

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Album reviews

  • Jazz
    Sun Ra Arkestra: Lights on a Satellite – fitting tribute to a century of jazz

  • A woman sits crosslegged on a chair with her hands in her lap.

    Indie
    Angel Olsen: Cosmic Waves Vol 1 – intriguing half compilation, half covers

    • Dance
      Bubble Love: Bubble Love – Ross From Friends’ high-energy pop-club side project

    • Pop
      Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature – a solo statement of intent

    • Contemporary album of the month
      Leya: I Forget Everything – sinister soundworlds from maverick avant gardists

    • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
      Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature – Chvrches singer writes her own pop gospel

    • Global album of the month
      Auntie Flo: In My Dreams (I’m a Bird and I’m Free) – joyous ride through Kenyan and Goan heritage

    • Indie
      The Innocence Mission: Midwinter Swimmers – lo-fi soft focus on the beauty of everyday life

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Live reviews

  • Sublime … Paul McCartney at Co-op Live, Manchester.

    Pop
    Paul McCartney – extraordinarily sublime and humblingly beautiful

  • Menacing … Corey Taylor of Slipknot at the First Direct Arena, Leeds.

    Metal
    Slipknot – metal mammoths deliver exhilarating sonic brutality

    • Tunde Adebimpe fronts TV on the Radio at Islington Assembly Hall, London.TVOTR has released five studio albums: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004), Return to Cookie Mountain (2006), Dear Science (2008), Nine Types of Light (2011), and Seeds (2014), alongside several EPs.

      Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      TV on the Radio – US indie rockers roll back the years

    • Sam Fender plays to a sold-out Co-op Live.

      Rock
      Sam Fender – cathartic songs delivered with passion and a humble presence

    • Retro futurism … Phil Oakey performs at the AO Arena.

      Pop
      The Human League – immaculate electro pop as radiant now as it was 40 years ago

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Add to playlist

  • Lorraine Bracco.

    Honest playlist
    ‘Uptown Funk makes me want to move, it makes me happy’: Lorraine Bracco’s honest playlist

  • Nia Smith.

    One to watch
    Nia Smith

  • Bobby Gillespie Primal Scream Nov 2024

    Honest playlist
    ‘God Save the King makes me sick’: Bobby Gillespie’s honest playlist

  • The White Stripes play Heaton Park, Manchester in 2003

    Ranked
    Tall tales, campfire singalongs and Oldham slang: the White Stripes’ 20 best songs

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Obituaries

  • Zakir Hussain - press publicity portrait

    News
    Zakir Hussain, legendary Indian tabla musician, dies aged 73

  • Lennie De Ice, from his Facebook

    News
    Lennie De Ice, British producer who pioneered sound of jungle, has died

  • From left: Will Cullen Hart and Scott Spillane of the Olivia Tremor Control on stage at All Tomorrow's Parties, 23 April 2005.

    Ambitious and acid-powered, Olivia Tremor Control’s Will Cullen Hart was a genius of lo-fi

    Stevie Chick
  • Colin Petersen performs with the Bee Gees in 1967.

    News
    Two Bee Gees drummers die within days of one another

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From the archive

  • Mitski

    Mitski, the US’s best young songwriter
    I’m a black hole where people dump their feelings

    With songs about heartbreak and capitalism, the cult pop singer is on the brink of the mainstream – but the intensity of her fandom has her fearing for her safety
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