The no-frills cable show captured 80s and 90s bands at their most bonkers – from Napalm Death’s growling mayhem to New Order calling U2’s singer ‘that bongo guy’. Co-founder Pete Fowler explains why nothing else has come close
For almost four decades, Matt Johnson and his rotating cast of bandmates have fused optimism, despair and political prescience into a distinctive brand of existential blues
Lucy in the Sky fireworks, A Day in the Life of the living dead, Lovely Rita’s parking meter parade … Beatlemania is gripping Liverpool. Our writer dives in
Mobile phone footage shows Chris Cornell performing as lead singer of Soundgarden for the last time. Cornell died hours later at a Detroit hotel. Police say the death of the singer is being treated as a possible suicide
Amateur footage shows Wyclef Jean being detained by the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department after being wrongly identified as a suspect in a robbery
Pop star Katy Perry talks about her religious upbringing and finding her ‘gift’ while accepting the National Equality Award at the 2017 Human Rights Commission Gala.
He was the musical genius who reinvented pop with the Family Stone – and threw it all away in a haze of drugs and paranoia. Now, at the age of 70, he tells Alexis Petridis in a remarkable interview about his planned comeback with an all-albino band
In just 18 months the Parisian MC has gone from delivering pizzas to playing for 65,000 people. He talks football, hanging out in Manchester with Paul Pogba and what he’s learned from the UK grime scene
The singer had a huge fallout with her ex, former bandmate Dave Longstreth, after he finished producing her debut solo album. He may have slated her on his record – but there’s no retaliation here
How many of the classical world’s comings and goings, openings and closings, bouquets and brickbats do you remember from the past 12 months? Try our quiz
A new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum, London, chronicles the music, design and staging of Pink Floyd’s career – from the first flourish of creativity in the 60s through to the present day
Drake drops in, Lady Gaga attempts the world’s scariest human pyramid and celebrity festivalgoers break out the short-shorts at California’s annual desert party
Ed Sheeran has reached a £16m settlement over his song Photograph in the latest claim over pop plagiarism. So are songwriters out of ideas? Time to call in the musicologists
The Long Read: After more than a decade of being fetishised and then written off, grime now dominates British pop culture. To understand why, you need to understand the man who created it
From squat rock to laptop futurism, 2016’s most creative music is being made away from focus groups, major labels and publicists. Meet the most exciting independent minds in music
The global superstar talks about the masculine facade of Donald Trump, the strength he inherited from his mother, the philosophy he shares with fans, and the joy he delivers on stage
He’s sold 75m albums, but he’s still racked with self-doubt. He talks about anxiety, addiction and why he still fears being sent back to Stoke-on-Trent
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