music
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More than 20 years after it first launched, the club that helped birth the jungle scene is still one step ahead of the game
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Growing up, Bowie was as influenced by surrealist art and film as he was by Little Richard and John Coltrane, says Paul Morley
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Artists around the world have been seduced by the Alhambra. In the centenary year of Alberto Ginastera’s birth, Juanjo Mena explores the composer’s Andalucían influences
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As gay clubs close across the country, Sink The Pink is revitalising the scene with its gender-screwing, club-meets-cabaret vibe
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Iraq-born musician Nadin Al Khalidi fled her homeland to escape beheadings and the ravages of war – she’s since found a new purpose recounting such tales through song
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After being out of print for more than 30 years, the sole official Beatles live album is being reissued. Are there better ways to add to the band’s legacy?
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Fifty years on, Klaus Voormann tells the story behind Revolver’s psychedelic cover
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Furious festival goers describe waiting for more than three hours for transport in the cold, despite having been informed there would be shuttle services
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The Gouster, which evolved into Young Americans, will be form part of the box set Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976)
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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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I’m a Freak Baby A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1972
Alexis PetridisFour hours of angry, crashing music – with a handful of famous names, including Deep Purple and the Groundhogs – that perfectly captures its era -
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For most school-age kids, they’re a chance to escape the constraints of home to watch your heroes. But, for a select few, it’s a chance to play in front of thousands
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Out in the North Atlantic, this tiny archipelago has a thriving music scene of everything from primary coloured-pop to thrash metal – despite having one record label and just a handful of venues
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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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Hailing from Ethiopia via south London, dropping out of music college and seeing her teenage girl group flop have shaped this jazzy singer-songwriter’s perspective
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The Tobagonian calypso star on touring with Bob Marley, her battles against sexism and exploitation, and enjoying an unlikely career boost at the age of 76
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The French DJ released his first record in 2002. Now, dance music sounds the way it did when he started – but everything else has changed
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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
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 the week Elvis made his first recordings, and we lost Amy Winehouse. But how well do you know your pop history?
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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
in pictures
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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
you may have missed
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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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