‘I once said there’s no way I’ll still be playing Baggy Trousers at 30’: Suggs’s honest playlist
Prince Buster’s Al Capone changed the Madness singer’s life and Aretha Franklin is his go-to at karaoke, but what song makes him cry?
Post your questions for Peaches
As she prepares to release No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the Canadian dance-punk icon will answer your questions
Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes
Official Trump social media accounts have been using The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?
Lô Borges obituary
Singer-songwriter revered in Brazil for founding the Clube da Esquina collective and releasing two landmark albums of the 1970s
‘I can’t be silent. I’ve been through too much’: Dee Dee Bridgewater on singing with the greats – and confronting Maga with jazz
Fuelled by a loathing of Trump, the war in Gaza and anger at ‘the same old chauvinistic crap’, the 75-year-old – who cut her teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and more – has no plans to stop protesting
Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution
‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens
Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary, they’re seeing the light of day
Robyn: Dopamine review – complex emotions, instant euphoria: no wonder pop’s A-list love her
After 2018’s mellow Honey, the beloved Swede’s heady comeback pairs production worthy of Daft Punk and Moroder with deep romantic realism
Celeste: Woman of Faces review – from chanson to prewar jazz, this timeless song cycle defies the easy sell
It’s a difficult second album for the chart-topping singer, in more ways than one – but her sombre songcraft ends up being spectacular
A night to remember: does everyone really prefer live music to sex?
Seven out of 10 people surveyed by Live Nation would pick a concert over sex. Given our dating and ticketing hellscapes it is interesting to consider which is the more reliable pleasure
AC/DC review – a thrilling show stuffed with classics … and your eardrums will never be the same
In the band’s ‘ancestral homeland’, Accadacca’s first Australian concert in a decade shows Angus Young is still a frenzied force to be reckoned with
Addison Rae review – glorious fantasy from pop’s newest star
With a wedding dress and a giant crystal chandelier, the TikToker-turned-pop wunderkind’s live show is a welcome breath of escapism
Charli xcx: House ft John Cale review – haunt me, then! An elegant, brutal taste of the Wuthering Heights OST
Featuring a lugubrious monologue from the Velvet Underground legend, its jagged strings are more reminiscent of that band than anything on Brat
Sam Fender donates his £25,000 Mercury prize winnings to Music Venue Trust charity
Chart-topping singer-songwriter adds to his previous support of charity that works on behalf of small UK venues
‘Most of it was the conga preset on Prince’s drum machine’: how Fine Young Cannibals made She Drives Me Crazy
‘Prince’s Purple Rain guitar was in the corner of the studio and his lava lamps were everywhere. You couldn’t help but be inspired’