music
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Late singer's hologram appearance on The Voice axedThe late singer’s part of a planned duet with Christina Aguilera ‘not ready to air’, says estate after online leak -
Billboard awards performance back on after record label approvesKemosabe Records initially gave permission but rescinded out of concern that the singer would use appearance to discuss sexual assault case against Dr Luke
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Tommy Genesis (No 104)In the beginning, there was rap. Tommy Genesis, from Canada, takes it to a new level with her brittle, daring and cold ATL trap -
Why classical musicians should improviseBeethoven was famed for his ‘riff-offs’ but performers today are steered away from spontaneity. It’s time we learned a trick or two from our jazz-playing peers
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Kevin Rowland webchat – post your questions nowThe Dexys frontman will answer your questions in a live webchat from 12 noon BST on Tuesday 24 May – post them in the comments below
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Sofia Coppola's La Traviata opens at Rome opera houseTickets for film director’s collaboration with designer Valentino have nearly sold out, giving troubled venue huge boost
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David Byrne writing musical based on the life of Joan of ArcFormer Talking Heads frontman says music for Saint Joan, due to premiere in New York on Valentine’s Day 2017, will be ‘anthemic and spiritual’
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John Berry, founding Beastie Boys member, dies aged 52Guitarist was part of the original punk band the hip-hop outfit sprang from, and coined the group’s name before leaving after the release of their first EP
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Pop as product launchThe voice of will.i.am’s new wearable tech device proves more engaging than his largely witless songs
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CBSO/Morlot review – rich, deeply textured and all-encompassingOrchestral beauties swirl and build in an ever-changing score as the UK sees its premiere of John Luther Adams’ glorious Pulitzer-winning Become Ocean
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Various artists: Day of the Dead review – keeps the freak flag flyingA five-CD, 59-track compilation of alt-rock Grateful Dead covers – curated by the National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner – reveals the band’s timeless songcraft
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A Moon Shaped Pool – disintegration at home and beyondRadiohead return to conventional songcraft on an impressive ninth album imbued with a sense of loss
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'Guy Clark's songs were like Peckinpah movies – that powerful'Friends and peers pay tribute to the late country star whose songs, which brought a literary gravitas to the genre, were covered by the best in the business
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The music industry's new priorityThis year’s Mental Health Awareness Week has placed a special focus on relationships. Here Fiona McGugan, general manager of the Music Manager’s Forum, reports on the increasingly vital role of the emotionally responsible manager in the industry
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video
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Never before seen footage of the band backstage in 1965 – videoThe 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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Remembered by fans across America – videoFans 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 return to Paris for first time since BataclanEagles 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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Lady Gaga nails The Star-Spangled Banner at Super Bowl 50The singer wows the crowd at Levi’s Stadium with her performance of the US national anthem before kick-off
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Artist says Donald Trump does not have permission to use her musicAdele has objected after frontrunning Republican candidate Donald Trump was introduced in Iowa by Sarah Palin with Adele’s Rolling in the Deep playing
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Fans pay tribute at Ziggy Stardust album cover location – videoFans lay flowers and leave messages for David Bowie in central London at the site where the photo was taken for Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album
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'If you start thinking how pretty the sunset is, you get lost'
The Rolling Stones showed their enduring power in a storming Glastonbury debut, writes Caspar Llewellyn Smith
interviews
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Ezra Furman’s cultural highlightsThe musician and songwriter on Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts, the Atlanta band Slang, Louis CK’s boldness, and his love of rapturous music writing
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'Bowie kept it cool to the end'The Chicago garage rockers take a distinctly Stonesy turn on their new album, so we asked them to nominate some favourites from the decade that inspired it
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‘Systemic racism isn’t going to get clicks’Unrest in Ferguson led the duo to question their role in hip-hop. The result was White Privilege II, an examination of how white people view race. Will the pair’s soul-searching make fans assess their place in society, too?
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‘Country music is about divorce, drinking and jail’The outlaw Nashville singer worried she’d be singing to empty bars her whole life until Jack White heard the songs on Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
quizzes
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How well do you know your music award-show speeches?After this year’s Grammy’s and ahead of the Brits, see how many of these famous speeches you can match to the probably sozzled winner as we plough into the heart of awards season
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'All right Reading!' – test your knowledge of the Reading and Leeds festivalsWith the rocktastic festivals taking place this weekend, it’s time to see how much you know about their history
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Feeling Directionless? Test your boyband knowledgeThere’s more to boybands than One Direction. But do you know how many members Menudo had? Or in which paper Lou Pearlman advertised for the members of Backstreet Boys?
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Guess the guitar hero – from their guitarWe’ve cut out the faces of 12 axemen with distinctive guitars, so you have to identify the guitarist from their instrument …
in pictures
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Backstage with the Rolling Stones – in picturesCharlie peeing in the sink, Brian fixing his hair and Mick meeting Bo Diddley ... how did the band fill the long hours between stage-time on their 1965 and 1967 tours? Photographer Gered Mankowitz shares his album – and memories
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Everything Must Go turns 20 – in picturesTo celebrate the 20th anniversary of the platinum selling 1996 record which scored the Welsh rock group their first commercial success, a special box set will be released. Taken from the EMG reissue, here’s a preview of the book, featuring Nicky Wire’s lyric sheets and photos from the era
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Unseen Bowie, Blondie and B-52s album shootsThe new book Outside the Lines gathers behind-the-scenes pictures, outtakes and lost images from the cover shoots of punk and new wave’s most famous LPs. Take a look, and read what their photographers recall from the sessions
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Phil Collins then and now – in picturesCollins was photographed for the back catalogue reissues of his solo albums in the same poses, turning the exercise into a meditation on fame and ageing
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I was right about the internet – tell me a musician who’s got rich off itWhen our correspondent was abruptly summoned to an audience with the legendary artist in his Minneapolis studios, he had no idea what to expect. Certainly not being asked to duet on Sign o’ the Times ...
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'I thought my music was beautiful all along'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 working-class voices are music to Darkstar's earsWhy 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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Groupies revisited: the women with triple-A access to the 60sIn 1969, Rolling Stone shocked the world with an issue about the rock ‘supergroupie’. A new book tells all
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‘You don’t stop growing until they shovel the dirt in’At 71, the Rolling Stones legend is proud of his cartoon image as a rock outlaw. He’s back now with his first solo album in 23 years. But some days, the wildman reputation feels like a ball and chain – he just wants to visit an art gallery or water the garden
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'I like everything people say about me – you gay, you a punk, you can't rap, you're the hardest'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
John Berry Beastie Boys founder was much more than a punk rock footnote
Beastie Boys John Berry, founding Beastie Boys member, dies aged 52