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Suzi Quatro: ‘It is absolutely crazy I’m not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But I’m in good company!’
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Suzi Quatro: ‘It is absolutely crazy I’m not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But I’m in good company!’

The 76-year-old rocker on her pre-gig routine, the one reality show she’d go on and who she’d cast as herself in a film about her lifeYour new album is called Freedom and the title track interpolates...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Add to playlist: the euphoric ‘Bollywood electronic’ of the Twins and the week’s best new tracks
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Add to playlist: the euphoric ‘Bollywood electronic’ of the Twins and the week’s best new tracks

Omar and Jamal Ikram, 21-year-old brothers, are making lo-fi glitchy dance-pop with the melodic sensibilities of Bollywood musicFrom Aldershot, HampshireRecommended if you like 2hollis, the Hellp, Jai...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
UK to answer for its ‘dismal record’ in Eurovision before committee of MPs
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UK to answer for its ‘dismal record’ in Eurovision before committee of MPs

Digital, culture, media and sport committee expected to hear evidence from BBC bosses and music industry expertsJoe and Jake. Daz Sampson. Electro Velvet. Who could forget them?Most people, probably....

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Robert Kraft’s attempts to silence Macklemore have backfired spectacularly | Arwa Mahdawi
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Robert Kraft’s attempts to silence Macklemore have backfired spectacularly | Arwa Mahdawi

The billionaire’s attempted crackdown on Ed Sheeran’s tour only amplified pro-Palestinian statements. It’s been a joy to watchA few weeks ago, the worst thing you could say about Ed Sheeran was that h...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
‘It was a mess. I had to do something’: the personal struggle that inspired rap star Giggs to start a special needs school
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‘It was a mess. I had to do something’: the personal struggle that inspired rap star Giggs to start a special needs school

After a battle to get his autistic children properly assessed, the London MC has co-founded a specialist centre in Kent to help neurodivergent kids realise their potentialIt has been a busy few weeks...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – Jarvis C*****’s wit and warmth upstage the hits
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Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – Jarvis C*****’s wit and warmth upstage the hits

Wonderful archive footage charts the Sheffield outsiders’ unlikely rise, but the distant camerawork struggles to capture the thrill of their triumphant O2 gigsIn 1978, in the classroom of a comprehens...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Baka Beyond: Sing the World Awake review – powerful Cameroonian vocals burst through fussy arrangements
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Baka Beyond: Sing the World Awake review – powerful Cameroonian vocals burst through fussy arrangements

(March Hare Music)This fusion of western folk and the traditional music of the Baka people creates an uneven patchwork of sound – but it astonishes when their vocals are placed front and centreOver th...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Empress Of: Dream House review – a tender and openhearted rebirth after wildfires razed her house
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Empress Of: Dream House review – a tender and openhearted rebirth after wildfires razed her house

(Major Arcana/Giant Music)Lorely Rodriguez contemplates the meaning of home – both physical and emotional – on a gorgeously humid, hopeful album that makes a virtue of her searching natureSince the ea...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
‘I toured with a hole in my brain. I don’t regret a thing’: punk duo Lambrini Girls on fighting extreme times with extreme measures
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‘I toured with a hole in my brain. I don’t regret a thing’: punk duo Lambrini Girls on fighting extreme times with extreme measures

Their debut stormed the charts and wowed Iggy Pop, but health crises threatened to derail the Brighton duo. Now they’re back, taking aim at the manosphere, fascism and the ruling classAt a last-minute...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Paul, John … and Yvonne? The French novelist asking: what if a woman had written the Beatles’ greatest hits?
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Paul, John … and Yvonne? The French novelist asking: what if a woman had written the Beatles’ greatest hits?

Celebrated thriller writer Michel Bussi explains why the plot of his new novel Code Yesterday isn’t so far fetched, saying ‘I wanted to give women revenge’Relations between France and England have rar...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
YouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donation
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YouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donation

Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donationYouTube star Ms Rachel has said she is matching rapper Macklemore’s $1m donation to organizations...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Ireland to boycott Eurovision again over Israeli participation and ongoing Gaza deaths
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Ireland to boycott Eurovision again over Israeli participation and ongoing Gaza deaths

Ireland joins joins Dutch broadcaster in refusing to take part in 2027 song contest, in second consecutive year of protestsIreland is to boycott Eurovision for the second year running over the “appall...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Sway, Mobo-winning British rapper, dies aged 44
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Sway, Mobo-winning British rapper, dies aged 44

Rapper won prestigious award as an unsigned artist before breaking UK Top 10 and nurturing artists including KSIThe British rapper Sway, who proved inspirational to a generation of Black British music...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Beck: ‘What does a devil’s haircut look like? Anything with a lot of architecture and wild flights of fancy’
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Beck: ‘What does a devil’s haircut look like? Anything with a lot of architecture and wild flights of fancy’

The genre-fluid singer answers your questions on being funky v lonesome, his infamous MTV interview with Thurston Moore and why he said yes to performing with a chain-smoking alcoholic robot• Read Ale...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
‘Songwriting instead of doomscrolling’: project inspires Welsh valleys towns to tune into their heritage
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‘Songwriting instead of doomscrolling’: project inspires Welsh valleys towns to tune into their heritage

Community groups and schools work with Wales’s folk arts organisation to set stories of the area’s people to musicGrowing up in Wales, Liz Puleston-Jones was familiar with the country’s rich heritage...

The Guardian - UK News3 weeks ago
Beabadoobee: Pylon review – voice of a generation’s surprisingly relatable rampage through rock star rage
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Beabadoobee: Pylon review – voice of a generation’s surprisingly relatable rampage through rock star rage

(Dirty Hit)The Filipino-British songwriter’s fourth album sprinkles 90s alt fuzz with disarmingly sweet melodies and an impressive host of guests including Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Turnstile’s B...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Macklemore pledges his $1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine aid
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Macklemore pledges his $1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine aid

Rapper challenged billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft to match donation, with Kraft saying he and Sheeran will give $2m to ‘aid in the region’Macklemore has announced he will donate the $1m salary...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Charli xcx Music, Fashion, Film tour review – an electrifying and deafening pop evolution
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Charli xcx Music, Fashion, Film tour review – an electrifying and deafening pop evolution

Barclays Center, BrooklynThe tireless star brings her latest, somewhat over-explained album to the stage for a dazzling and euphoric showFor more than a year now, I have often returned, when seeking a...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality
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Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality

By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those crushin...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago
‘Very authoritarian, very brutal’: three decades after the UK’s anti-rave crackdown, why is France doing the same?
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‘Very authoritarian, very brutal’: three decades after the UK’s anti-rave crackdown, why is France doing the same?

With tear gas, grenades and a new law, French authorities are targeting unlicensed music gatherings. Those in the rave scene explore the parallels with the UK in the 90sWhen Spiral Tribe fled England...

The Guardian Music3 weeks ago