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‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk

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Lily Allen review – pop star makes much-anticipated comeback – but where is the West End Girl?

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‘My guitar was mangled – like my life!’ Goo Goo Dolls on how they made epic ballad Iris

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‘Do what you really want to do while you’re still alive’: Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese guitar hero surfing a second wave in his 70s

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‘People think you’re old if you need a hearing aid’: Pete Tong on ageing, all-nighters and hearing loss

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How Courtney Barnett made her new album by retreating to the desert: ‘It nearly drove me mad’

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Morrissey review – classic Smiths songs meet GB News-style talking points

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‘I never had those deep chats in the smoking area’: Arlo Parks on embracing late night life with her hedonistic new album

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‘By 18 I was having sex to the music of Brian Eno’: Tim Booth’s honest playlist

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Olivia Dean sweeps the board at 2026 Brit awards, winning four including artist, song and album of the year

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Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe: ‘I feel like I have to work very hard to redeem myself’

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From Amarillo to Stockport: 15 of Neil Sedaka’s greatest songs, and their extraordinary stories

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Hard work, romance and bell hooks: how Olivia Dean became British pop’s newest megastar

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Baz Luhrmann: ‘There’s the image of Elvis and then there’s the man’

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Cruz Beckham review – son of David and Victoria transcends nepo-baby tag with intriguing psych-pop

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‘The kinetic energy is palpable’: Manchester embraces its first Brit awards

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Neil Sedaka, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do singer and pop song hitmaker, dies aged 86

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Bruno Mars: The Romantic review – you’re better off listening to the songs he’s blatantly imitating

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Add to playlist: the cliche-correcting medieval music of Idrîsî Ensemble and the week’s best new tracks

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‘It’s good music, not a guilty pleasure’: how Bruno Mars embraced cheese to become pop’s most popular star

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