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‘We were a bit naive about privacy’: LadBaby on blackmail, backlash – and their Christmas No 1s | Pop and rock

November 4, 2024

‘I’m a tyrant!’: pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter on freakish fame, fighting Disney and writing the song of the summer | Sabrina Carpenter

August 23, 2024

It’s hard to believe, but there were summers before Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso came around. The breezy daytime disco track was only released in...

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God review – this masterpiece will make you fall back in love with life | Nick Cave

August 22, 2024

Perhaps the most telling moment on Wild God comes about a quarter of an hour in. A track called Joy opens in a...

‘Peter Gabriel’s cover of The Book of Love bought me a house’: the Magnetic Fields on 69 Love Songs | Music

August 20, 2024

Stephin Merritt, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalistI initially conceived the album as a poster, to get myself out of obscurity: I pictured glitzy gold-leaf calligraphy...

Fontaines DC: Romance review – arenas await, but on the band’s own strange terms | Fontaines DC

August 17, 2024

Few debuts in recent years have boasted an opening quite as striking as Big, the first track on Fontaines DC’s 2019 album Dogrel....

I wanna be top-rated: Ramones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked! | The Ramones

August 16, 2024

20. Something to Believe In (1986)Perhaps the last Ramones song to sound heartfelt came on 1986’s Animal Boy. Joey Ramone’s voice was an...

‘Identifying as underrated isn’t healthy’: Tinashe on staging the pop comeback of the year | Pop and rock

August 16, 2024

So far, all things considered, 2024 has been pretty dark. Online, people are responding by embracing fecklessness and hedonism. Some are having a...

‘I had a walloping left hook I didn’t see coming’: ex-Girls singer Christopher Owens on his journey back from rock bottom | Music

August 15, 2024

In 2017 Christopher Owens was at a crossroads. After a decade spent making records and touring them – initially with cult indie band...

‘Fame is like inhaling a toxic substance’: the The’s Matt Johnson on pop, politics and his death-defying return | Music

August 9, 2024

Just over six years ago, Matt Johnson announced the The’s first shows in 16 years, including a prestigious concert at the Royal Albert...

Asake: Lungu Boy review – Nigerian superstar trips across the Black diaspora, with help from Stormzy | Pop and rock

August 9, 2024

With his 2023 release Work of Art, Nigerian vocalist Asake set a high-water mark for albums in the impressive recent wave of west...

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