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Beyoncé stuns the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday with a 16-minute performance, after accepting the video of the year award for Formation
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Judge releases pop star as a potential juror in an aggravated rape and kidnapping case over conflict with her pending sexual assault lawsuit
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Bramham Park, Leeds
The headliners’ two-hour set inspires multi-generational singalongs while Fall Out Boy and Eagles of Death Metal deliver David Bowie tributes -
A new event takes punters to a mystery location, dresses them in overalls and tells them to leave their phones at home. Does it enhance the experience?
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She made her name with angsty alt-country, but now she’s tired of being blue. The singer-songwriter discusses her new album and why it’s bigger than gender and sex
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Liam Gallagher swore his solo album wasn’t the start of a solo career; Adele just swore. Our music stars have been busy – but have you been listening?
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As hackers seize remote control of a car using a laptop, Londoners say they want to curb the amount of new skyscrapers
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Officials say ‘premeditated and celebrity-seeking nature’ of crime outweighs arguments in favour of release, 36 years after Beatle was shot in New York City
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Audio engineer, who helped Blue Note Records become a major force in jazz music, worked with John Coltrane, Lee Morgan and Herbie Hancock
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Rock stalwart is a way of celebrating exam results, but lack of women in the lineup is ‘pretty disgraceful’, say young festivalgoers
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Thomas Larcher’s formidable symphony commemorating refugees drowned in the Mediterranean builds to a climax of tremendous irony and power
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In his final concert as their chief conductor, Donald Runnicles guided the BBCSSO and festival chorus magnificently through the richness and drama of the mega-cantata
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The singer’s new album has quality and poetry enough to raise it beyond its gimmicky release strategy
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With its enigmatic beauty, intoxicating depth and intense emotion, the follow-up to Channel Orange is one of the most intriguing and contrary records ever made
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A new music evolved in east London in 2002 – the sound of an angry but optimistic black Britain. A new book looks at grime’s evolution, and its new wave
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Despite its two founders now having died, it’s time for the word of the flying teapot to spread further – for Gong were a unique and great band
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Fashion aficionados and Kanye West fans queue up in east London on Friday to gain entry to a pop-up shop dedicated to Kanye West’s latest album The Life of Pablo
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Stevie Wonder performed in London’s Hyde Park on Sunday, and he urged the crowd to choose ‘love over hate’ and proclaimed that black lives matter
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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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The singer and Tibetan spiritual leader attended a conference in Indianapolis on Sunday hosted by the US Conference of Mayors that focused on bringing more kindness to a violent world
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John Harris talks to Glastonbury revellers waking up to a damp day on Friday and the news that Britain had voted for Brexit
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The Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi, renowned for his career composing scores for television and movies, gives a haunting performance among the icebergs of the Arctic
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His new album Channel Orange was rushed out a week early to rave reviews, then he made headlines worldwide by blogging about his sexuality
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Their track Pompeii was one of the biggest hits of the decade but the Londoners still think they look like ‘competition winners’ when they hit the red carpet. Will their new album Wild World change that?
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The London-born producer builds dense modern pop with roots in hip-hop, R&B and NYC culture. He says he wants people to be intrigued, not infatuated
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Nathi Maphumulo has become an internationally celebrated artist in spite of many obstacles. Here he describes the lack of opportunities as a youth living in a township during apartheid, the escapism of house music and the car crash in which he lost the use of his left hand
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The quartet are back – taking aim at critics who call them retro revivalists, calling out tech-bros and explaining why their name isn’t such a big deal
quizzes
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Do you know who the first act to get coins thrown at them was? Or how many times the Red Hot Chili Peppers have headlined?
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Car crashes, Cher and and space rock – test your knowledge
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We’re talking loved ones, Led pollution and new livers – test your knowledge
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It was the week Jimmy Webb was born, and Pink Floyd released their first album – but how well do you know your music history?
in pictures
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With Prince’s Paisley Park complex due to open to the public, here’s a whistlestop tour of locations known for their musical significance – from the evocative Joshua Tree to the miserable M5 motorway near Portishead
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How Glyndebourne has tackled the Benjamin Britten opera, from Peter Hall’s 1981 production to the latest revival, which will debut on 11 August
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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 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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