music
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This week, the band’s notorious, semi-banned documentary Cocksucker Blues is screened – and its voyeuristic portrait of real-life rock sleaze still shocks
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Former ENO head, who left the beleaguered UK opera house last year, has not confirmed stories he is to be given a senior appointment at the Russian theatre
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New edition includes a lost session featuring a song that has never featured on an official Zeppelin release
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Kim Kardashian West’s posting of an audio recording of her husband’s call with Swift discussing his song Famous may violate California wiretapping law
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Lineup change follows weeks of speculation following rapper’s comments about the Black Lives Matter movement
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From time-travelling alien doctors to polyrhythmic ‘pornocore’, Keith and his 58 alter egos show his rap peers what it means to stand out
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Björk Digital will showcase how the Icelandic singer has pushed boundaries, culminating in Royal Albert Hall gig
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The rock band, currently on a North American tour, were released after telling customs officials that the firearm did not belong to them
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Singer protests at ‘character assassination’ after Kim Kardashian West posts recording of West and Swift discussing song Famous
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Perfume Genius and Chvrches triumph at event that offers lakeside yoga and invigorating talks from Louis Theroux
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Beguiling fairytales, big choruses – as the crowd declare love, it beggars belief that Belly have spent so long in cold storage
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Mercury nominee Kiwanuka displays biting self-knowledge on the pain of failing relationships
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Kiwanuka has found a troubled, compelling voice with an emotional honesty and stately self-assurance that shows other post-Drake melancholics up as imitators
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The late musician inspired violence and respect in equal measure – from having an axe thrown at his head to influencing Bruce Springsteen and Soft Cell
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Channel U’s founder died this week, but the legacy of his pioneering station lives on. It forged a place for a genre that began its life ignored by the mainstream
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Paloma Faith tells Owen Jones that she thinks few musicians discuss politics because of the abuse directed at them on social media
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Led Zeppelin musicians Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have won a lawsuit brought by the estate of guitarist Randy Wolfe, which alleges that the introduction sequence of the famous hit Stairway to Heaven was copied from Taurus, by Wolfe’s band Spirit
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The 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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Fans 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 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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The singer wows the crowd at Levi’s Stadium with her performance of the US national anthem before kick-off
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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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With tape hiss and Imogen Heap samples, Michael Volpe has become one of rap’s most sought-after beatmakers – and now he’s finally fronting his own project
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She doubted she’d ever be more than a session singer – but now her “wonky” funk is making waves
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Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi spent the best part of two decades making the follow up to their classic debut Since I Left You. Now – having lived through ‘seven shades of shit’ – they’re back with its Technicolor follow-up, Wildflower. What took them so long?
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Once the writer of dreamy songs about pixies and a member of Throwing Muses and the Breeders, Tanya Donelly now makes a living helping new mothers. But alongside the day job, she’s reforming her beloved 90s alt-rockers
quizzes
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It’s the season for songs of sunshine – but will our quiz leave you with the summertime blues?
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It was a big week for Drake, Live Aid and Take That – test your knowledge
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In this year of Shakespeare celebrations, the opera world too is marking the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Glyndebourne not least, with one new and one old Shakespearean productions in their summer season. Do you know your Titania from your Trinculo? Try our quiz
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Here are 10 questions to sort the seasoned welly-wearers from the first-timers in flip-flops
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A collection of photographs, exhibited in Camden’s Proud Galleries from 28 July until 11 September, and taken by Baron Wolman, document a journey ‘three days of peace and music’ which took place at Woodstock during the summer of 1969
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From superstar cantors to Streisand and CBGB’s roster of rebels, Jews have played an influential part in the rise of popular music. The new exhibition Jukebox, Jewkbox! charts the highs of Yiddish theatre, punk politics and Israeli folk
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The 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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A 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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The 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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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 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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In 1969, Rolling Stone shocked the world with an issue about the rock ‘supergroupie’. A new book tells all
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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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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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Amy being alive meant there was hope for my heroin-addicted younger sister. When the singer died, my world caved in. What chance did we have now?
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