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Have a look at the promo for I’m in Love, the first single from the Scottish veterans’ new album
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As the only remaining member of the band, the singer no longer has to compromise – whether that’s about making music or being naked
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This 1971 recording appears for the first time on the forthcoming set The Complete BBC Sessions
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Reed’s widow and producer have been trawling through the Velvet Underground man’s archive for a day-long event at New York’s Lincoln Center, with guests such as Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe and Anohni interpreting his work
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A regular reader who posts as sonofwebcore has picked a playlist from your nominations, with songs from Shonen Knife, Frank Sidebottom and the Fall in the list
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The soul star has survived cancer and now a new documentary charts her progress. Oliver Wang caught up with her to talk about chemo, performing and what it’s like letting a film crew capture your most vulnerable moments
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Punk and metal pioneer and digital music innovator died in California from complications following a cerebral haemmorhage
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With the aid of a ‘space-proof’ turntable and high-altitude balloon, the singer’s Third Man Records will try to beam Carl Sagan’s A Glorious Dawn from orbit
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Shot-by-shot recreation starring 50 residents of New Zealand retirement home and a few of their grandchildren goes viral
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The energetic Dutch conductor guides the tremendous BBC National Orchestra of Wales through Michael Berkeley’s unsparing memorial to his late wife
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Appearing at the famous jazz club for the first time, a physically diminished Faithfull sat down, had a cup of tea and proved she is still a powerful performer
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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 -
Despite having percolated through rock and pop almost continuously for four decades, the most influential punk album of them all can still provide a prickle of danger and discomfort
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One of country music’s most in-demand songwriters, McKenna explores the ups and downs of long-term relationships with intimacy, depth and a literary flair
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As festival season rolls on, we talk to the ordinary heroes there to make sure you enjoy yourselves, stay sane, find a carpenter, or use a clean toilet
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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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No vibrato, principal violinists facing each other, audiences encouraged to applaud between movements … the great conductor celebrates the unorthodox at the Proms this week
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Alongside artists like Christine And The Queens and Years & Years, electropop singer Shura is challenging stereotypes and helping to ‘queer the mainstream’
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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
quizzes
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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
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It’s the season for songs of sunshine – but will our quiz leave you with the summertime blues?
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
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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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Pink Floyd Rarity-packed 27-disc set of their early years out in November