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‘It’ll be in my Guardian obituary’: David Balfe on inspiring Blur’s Country House and tripping on Top of the Pops

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Beverley Martyn, spirited British folk singer, dies aged 79

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Hey-nonny-bo! The woman reclaiming maypole dancing with dancehall and drum’n’bass

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‘Geordie optimism is this rigorous spirit of hard graft’: Newcastle jazz band Knats break out of the north-south divide

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‘The folk scene is very middle class. The divide is huge’: Jim Ghedi, the Sheffield singer bringing his doomy music to the movies

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Taylor Swift files trademarks for voice and image amid concern over AI misuse

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The Primitives: ‘A reviewer said that Crash would finish the band. Then it was in Dumb and Dumber’

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Nedra Talley Ross helped make the Ronettes the platonic ideal of a girl group

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Mane character energy: part-nag pop provocateur HorsegiirL on burnout, eco tunes and pompous idiot DJs

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‘It needs to be loud’: Jozef Van Wissem’s one-man mission to make the lute rock again

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Nedra Talley Ross, last surviving member of the Ronettes, dies aged 80

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Michael moonwalks to $217m opening weekend, shattering box office records for a biopic

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‘I don’t believe in song shaming!’: Jon Batiste’s honest playlist

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When did northern soul get so southern?

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From Michael to Back to Black, authorised music biopics are becoming bland, blatant propaganda. Audiences deserve better

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Anohni review – masterful songbook reinventions are an out-of-body experience

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Add to playlist: the disaster-baiting jazz-rock brinkmanship of Taupe and the week’s best new tracks

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Walter Smith III: Twio Vol 2 review – classic jazz is vividly alive in the hands of this incisive saxophonist

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‘It’s not much but, at the same time, it’s very much’: the enduring impact of Sade’s style

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‘I nearly quit to become a fencing teacher’: Iron Maiden on 50 years of heavy metal, hard living – and hopeless communication skills

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