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LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey and more reviewed – Sunday's music at Glastonbury 2016On the final day at Worthy Farm, our writers were out catching the best bands and artists -
Brexit was the headliner – but Glastonbury restored my faith in BritainWho cares about a music festival when the country is falling apart? Actually, says Hadley Freeman, it is one of the best places to be when the real world succumbs to panic, prejudice and outright lies
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Bat for Lashes webchat – post your questions nowNatasha Khan, aka Bat for Lashes, is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat from 1pm BST on Wednesday 29 June -
Coming up: the gigs and albums not to miss this summerThe Observer’s pop critic picks the highlights of the next couple of months, including Beyoncé’s Formation tour
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10 songs in the key of 2016The blistering revenge of a superstar scorned, an anthem to the rise of gender fluidity... Observer and Guardian writers to pick the songs that most reflect the state of music – and the world – right now
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Adele lights up Saturday nightThere were those who thought Adele’s sombre ballads weren’t enough to carry off a Saturday headline slot. They reckoned without her force of personality
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Glastonbury cleanup begins – in picturesIt’s the Monday after the muddiest ever Glastonbury and for many the hangover is kicking in. The litter pickers are out in force on Worthy Farm and festival-goers are embarking on the long and messy journey home
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Michael Eavis laments muddiest ever Glastonbury festivalFounder says he hasn’t seen anything like it in the music event’s 46-year history, and says it highlights climate change
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50 Cent detained for cursing during concert in St Kitts and NevisRapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was detained along with member of entourage by police for allegedly using ‘indecent language’ during performance
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Breathy and sublime as she takes a tantric night offRoyal Festival Hall, London
Guy Garvey’s Meltdown festival sees the nu-folk siren with a newfound ease, her voice beautifully matured, growing in versatility and authority -
The most exciting music on the planetThe world’s biggest musical battle saw DJs and MCs go several rounds of genre-bending sounds, but the dancehall label Mixpak proved to be master of the form
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Blood Orange: Freetown Sound – a pop changeling's pell-mell scrapbookJerking from 80s soul to spindly indie, via snatches of street noise and film samples, Dev Hynes’s grand personal statement is stuffed with fascinating ideas but feels unfinished
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A record of depth and scopeThis debut by a supergroup of female country stars is steeped in yearning and devastation
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The keyboard genius who was 'as bad as Beethoven'Bernie Worrell was a crucial part of Parliament’s Mothership – and then he went on to help Talking Heads change gear
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Why festivals need mental health teamsWhen festival-goers find themselves overwhelmed by the jostling crowds and high-energy partying, help is at hand in a quiet corner
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Never before seen footage of the band backstage in 1965 – videoThe footage, shot by an Australian woman, shows The Beatles getting their make-up done for the special The Music of Lennon & McCartney in November 1965
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Remembered by fans across America – videoFans in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and the artist’s home city of Minneapolis pay tribute
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Eagles of Death Metal return to Paris for first time since BataclanEagles of Death Metal play live in Paris on Tuesday for first time since their gig at the Bataclan was the scene of a massacre in November’s terrorist attacks
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Lady Gaga nails The Star-Spangled Banner at Super Bowl 50The singer wows the crowd at Levi’s Stadium with her performance of the US national anthem before kick-off
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Artist says Donald Trump does not have permission to use her musicAdele has objected after frontrunning Republican candidate Donald Trump was introduced in Iowa by Sarah Palin with Adele’s Rolling in the Deep playing
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Fans pay tribute at Ziggy Stardust album cover location – videoFans lay flowers and leave messages for David Bowie in central London at the site where the photo was taken for Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album
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'I'm a musician. And I am music'
Ringtones are evil. Islamic countries are fun. The internet is like 'a carjacking', where there are no boundaries. Prince on being pop's 'loving tyrant'
interviews
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Our favourite ever festivalsFrom playing on a truck in Leigh to a drunken nightmare in Scandinavia, the band pick the wildest weekends of their four decades in music
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Getting hammered by the harshest band in AmericaThey’re the ‘audio equivalent of shoving your face into a blast furnace’ and are the latest purveyors of ‘power violence’. Don’t forget your ear plugs
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‘You decide your fate. Are you going to fall apart or own it?’The punk-poet genius behind Horses is finally fulfilling her wish to play Hyde Park next month. She talks about life as an outsider, New York’s scuzzy past and why she loves Peter Pan
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'You lose the art to a song when it gets chopped up and molested'After scoring an unexpected smash with Ho Hey, the pressure was on for the Denver folk-rockers’ second album. Singer Wesley Schultz explains how he avoided the sophomore slump
quizzes
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How well do you know your music award-show speeches?After this year’s Grammy’s and ahead of the Brits, see how many of these famous speeches you can match to the probably sozzled winner as we plough into the heart of awards season
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'All right Reading!' – test your knowledge of the Reading and Leeds festivalsWith the rocktastic festivals taking place this weekend, it’s time to see how much you know about their history
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Feeling Directionless? Test your boyband knowledgeThere’s more to boybands than One Direction. But do you know how many members Menudo had? Or in which paper Lou Pearlman advertised for the members of Backstreet Boys?
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Guess the guitar hero – from their guitarWe’ve cut out the faces of 12 axemen with distinctive guitars, so you have to identify the guitarist from their instrument …
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How to remake a Blue Note jazz albumThe vinyl revival continues. Founded in 1978, Music Matters Jazz is dedicated to re-releasing new pressings of historic Blue Note jazz titles. Each of the reissued albums is restored and remastered from the original analogue master tapes
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For the Record: 60s Pop Through the LensA new exhibition in London celebrates the cultural boom of the 60s, as captured by photographer Stanley Bielecki. Shooting Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and the Supremes, the Polish refugee who arrived in Britain after the second world war worked for titles including Pop Weekly, Teen Beat and Melody Maker
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Backstage with the Rolling Stones – in picturesCharlie peeing in the sink, Brian fixing his hair and Mick meeting Bo Diddley ... how did the band fill the long hours between stage-time on their 1965 and 1967 tours? Photographer Gered Mankowitz shares his album – and memories
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Everything Must Go turns 20 – in picturesTo celebrate the 20th anniversary of the platinum selling 1996 record which scored the Welsh rock group their first commercial success, a special box set will be released. Taken from the EMG reissue, here’s a preview of the book, featuring Nicky Wire’s lyric sheets and photos from the era
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'I thought my music was beautiful all along'She was subjected to decades of vilification. Now everyone from Gaga to Sparks are lining up to pay tribute. How does the 83-year-old artist feel about the world catching up to the Yoko Ono sound?
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Why working-class voices are music to Darkstar's earsWhy did these two men hang around Huddersfield railway station asking young people what they did today? Electronic duo Darkstar explain their most daring LP yet
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Groupies revisited: the women with triple-A access to the 60sIn 1969, Rolling Stone shocked the world with an issue about the rock ‘supergroupie’. A new book tells all
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‘You don’t stop growing until they shovel the dirt in’At 71, the Rolling Stones legend is proud of his cartoon image as a rock outlaw. He’s back now with his first solo album in 23 years. But some days, the wildman reputation feels like a ball and chain – he just wants to visit an art gallery or water the garden
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'I like everything people say about me – you gay, you a punk, you can't rap, you're the hardest'Atlanta’s Young Thug is the gender-fluid, surrealist rapper who’s being anointed as hip-hop’s next titan. Don’t know what to make of him? You’re not the only one
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Blur: 'We used to take it in turns to punch each other'Back in Hong Kong, where they recorded their album The Magic Whip, Damon, Graham, Alex and Dave talk about falling out and making up, the state of British pop music and why 90s Britpop was a wasted opportunity
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