Add to playlist: the sweaty, unvarnished electropop of Punchbag and the week’s best new tracks
The sibling duo’s follow-up EP spikes their off-kilter pop with new darkness, adding atmospheric balladry to their glorious racket
Olivia Rodrigo: Drop Dead review – a maximalist rush of infatuation that’s just a bauble short of festive
On this giddy first taste of the US pop star’s third album, she sets aside her rock bona fides to revel in the opulent flush of a crush-come-true. But why does it seem so doomed?
‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death
From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most majestic and mercurial performers
Asha Bhosle obituary
One of the great Bollywood singers whose thousands of songs ranged from ghazals to dance tunes and pop
Jessie Ware: Superbloom review – Table Manners host dishes up more disco – but where are the bangers?
The podcaster’s third sequin-festooned album in a row is her most retro, with its slightly cringe moments balanced by unerring quality control and opulent arrangements
Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times
Unsettling breathing, arrhythmic clatter, gloomy piano and military snares underpin a Beefheartian portrayal of a boorish warmonger on the band’s ominous return
‘A feeling of ecstasy’: how Anne Hathaway and FKA twigs created the thunderous Mother Mary soundtrack
The stars of David Lowery’s psychodrama on the secrets behind creating music for a fictional pop diva
90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’
Mould’s fearsomely loud power trio Sugar rode the wave of grunge, but called it quits when the scene lost its innocence. Now the band are reuniting – before it’s too late
‘Fame quickly became a nightmare’: Preston on Big Brother, falling from a balcony – and reforming the Ordinary Boys
‘Trauma-bonding’ with his future wife on Big Brother, selling their wedding pics to OK!, walking off Buzzcocks, writing hits for stars like Kylie and Olly Murs … as the singer returns, he looks back at a tumultuous career
Madonna announces sequel to her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor
Confessions II reunites her with producer Stuart Price and is billed as a study of the dancefloor as ‘a ritualistic space where movement replaces language’
Jorginho calls Chappell Roan security incident a ‘misunderstanding’
Flamengo footballer previously accused pop star’s security of aggressive behavior to his 11-year-old stepdaughter
Karol G at Coachella review – electrifying set destined for festival’s hall of fame
With dazzling choreography and head-spinning set pieces, the Colombian star delivered a victorious statement of Latin pride
Bollywood classics, rave bangers and Michael Stipe duets: 10 of Asha Bhosle’s greatest recordings
After her death aged 92, we look back on the vast and varied catalogue of one of India’s greatest vocalists, who brought actorly skill to her Bollywood playback performances
Britney Spears enters rehab after March DUI arrest
Singer voluntarily enters facility after erratic driving incident, where she was found to have drugs and alcohol in her system
Justin Bieber at Coachella review – pop’s troubled prince mostly hits right notes in low-energy set
For a reportedly record-breaking amount of money, the increasingly reclusive star proves his voice is still golden in a headliner performance light on enthusiasm