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Add to playlist: Grumpy’s weirded-up country celebration of trans joy and the week’s best new tracks
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Add to playlist: Grumpy’s weirded-up country celebration of trans joy and the week’s best new tracks

Sometime Zach Bryan backing vocalist Heaven Schmitt started Grumpy as a solo project. It’s now a six-piece band, blending alt-country with jubilant solidarityFrom Brooklyn, USRecommended if you like W...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Second Song review – shaky album occasionally strikes gold
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Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Second Song review – shaky album occasionally strikes gold

(Reprise)The 80-year-old continues his tireless output, delving into the past for inspiration to variable results – though two lengthy brand-new songs are real showstoppersYou can’t fault Neil Young f...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Gretchen Parlato: The Wise Ones review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
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Gretchen Parlato: The Wise Ones review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

(Edition)With guests including Robert Glasper, Parlato turns her immaculate phrasing to soft funk, dancefloor numbers and interpretations of Stevie Wonder and Tears for FearsHearing Gretchen Parlato’s...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Haruomi Hosono: Yours Sincerely review
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Haruomi Hosono: Yours Sincerely review

(Ghostly International)Unpredictable and utterly beguiling, the septuagenarian beloved by Harry Styles brings a hint of mischief to his innocently charming songsHaruomi Hosono is one of the most influ...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
100 years after John Coltrane’s birth, secret tapes are emerging. What can they tell us about jazz’s great rulebreaker?
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100 years after John Coltrane’s birth, secret tapes are emerging. What can they tell us about jazz’s great rulebreaker?

The sax star turned his back on fame to embrace free jazz. Caught on a tape machine hidden in an overcoat, newly revealed recordings show how he did itIn August 1965, at the height of his fame, saxoph...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
‘People think fame is a magic wand’: Jarvis C***** on old songs, young fans and his granny’s verdict on Pulp
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‘People think fame is a magic wand’: Jarvis C***** on old songs, young fans and his granny’s verdict on Pulp

Before the release of a joyful film on the history of the Sheffield band, frontman C***** and director Garth Jennings talk dark times, taking inspiration from Abba – and why there could yet be another...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Angine de Poitrine review – mind-boggling math rock mastery from freaky Québécois duo
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Angine de Poitrine review – mind-boggling math rock mastery from freaky Québécois duo

Le Poisson Rouge, New YorkThe brilliantly strange experimental band’s live show is a must-see spectacle powered by glorious noise and wild flairTheir masks light up now. To the extent there was a hard...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Big hits, massive ballads and titanic emotions: Céline Dion’s greatest songs – ranked!
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Big hits, massive ballads and titanic emotions: Céline Dion’s greatest songs – ranked!

As the French Canadian superstar returns for her first concerts since she was diagnosed with stiff person syndrome, we count down the best of an unabashedly romantic catalogue. Wind machines at the re...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
The Tubs: Hard Life review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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The Tubs: Hard Life review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Merge)Britain’s best indie-rockers hold fast to their defiantly old-school sound, slipping wry sideways looks at despair in among hooky melodies that always sound like a good timeOn a track called He...

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Todd Rundgren review – try-anything veteran doesn’t let his freak flag fully fly
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Todd Rundgren review – try-anything veteran doesn’t let his freak flag fully fly

Cadogan Hall, London The 78-year-old has astonishing range but gets bogged down in middling rock, though later delivers some gorgeous acoustic songs – and a slinky Marvin Gaye coverTodd Rundgren is a...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Evanescence review – devastating power and range from one of rock’s great vocal talents
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Evanescence review – devastating power and range from one of rock’s great vocal talents

First Direct Arena, LeedsThe titanic choruses and stormy metal riffs of latest album Sanctuary are the perfect foundation for Amy Lee’s astonishing, skyscraping vocal range To watch Evanescence in co...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
Even better than the Real Thing? The overlooked Black music scene of 1970s Liverpool
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Even better than the Real Thing? The overlooked Black music scene of 1970s Liverpool

Despite the city’s backdrop of deprivation and racism, vibrant nightclubs and daring artists thrived – but after No 1 success for the Real Thing, why was the scene ignored?Months before the Real Thing...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
‘Would they fight or hug?’ The Oasis comeback film’s makers on shooting fans, vicars, police – and the Gallaghers
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‘Would they fight or hug?’ The Oasis comeback film’s makers on shooting fans, vicars, police – and the Gallaghers

The crowds wept and prayed, police used their song lyrics for briefings and a vicar gave a sermon about brotherly forgiveness. The directors of Don’t Look Back in Anger relive their wildest ride everO...

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Glastonbury tickets break £400 for first time as on-sale date is announced
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Glastonbury tickets break £400 for first time as on-sale date is announced

Tickets set to cost £408 at return for Somerset festival after a fallow year, a jump from £378.50 in 2025After a fallow year in 2026, Glastonbury festival fans can start to get excited – and nervous –...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
‘Cantona’s a Kwengletarian!’ Inside the maximalist, magical mentality of rising London Irish rapper Kibo
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‘Cantona’s a Kwengletarian!’ Inside the maximalist, magical mentality of rising London Irish rapper Kibo

The masterful ​Harrow MC behind the year’s funniest, most inventive UK rap debut explains how his parents sparked his ravenous outlook – and why he’s wrestling his peersA few Guinnesses into an interv...

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Richard Alston, trailblazer and guiding light of British dance, dies aged 77
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Richard Alston, trailblazer and guiding light of British dance, dies aged 77

Akram Khan among those paying tribute to ‘pioneering’ choreographer of intense musicality and grace who inspired generations of dancersSir Richard Alston, the British choreographer and teacher who too...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger: what we learned from the year’s biggest rockumentary
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Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger: what we learned from the year’s biggest rockumentary

Capturing the band’s 2025 global comeback tour, this two-hour film reveals the tense first rehearsal with Liam, Noel being a big softie and the Gallaghers’ politics – just don’t expect any mention of...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
‘She’ll outdo herself’: Céline Dion fans camp out for glimpse of star before sold-out Paris comeback
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‘She’ll outdo herself’: Céline Dion fans camp out for glimpse of star before sold-out Paris comeback

Singer has rewarded patience of hundreds waiting outside hotel with regular appearances and even some dancingNoëlla Lamy, 52, who described herself as one of Céline Dion’s biggest fans, was preparing...

The Guardian Music1 month ago
‘The more famous I got, the bigger my beehive got’: how Mari Wilson made Just What I Always Wanted
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‘The more famous I got, the bigger my beehive got’: how Mari Wilson made Just What I Always Wanted

‘I was trying to bring back some glamour. The backcombed hair was like architecture really. It took more than 45 minutes to style’Just What I Always Wanted had already been in our live set, but with d...

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Oasis recordings up for auction despite band’s objections
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Oasis recordings up for auction despite band’s objections

Guide price of archive documenting concerts, rehearsals, soundchecks and conversations between £1.2m and £1.6mAn archive of more than 100 hours of Oasis recordings, including concerts, rehearsals and...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago