‘I’m in my sod-it era’: Sophie Ellis-Bextor on speaking up, suing the tabloids and finding power in perimenopause

The singer’s kitchen discos and that Saltburn scene have given her the mother of all career resurgences. So how is she capitalising on this midlife moment? With an album about the perimenopause

Josh Pyke: ‘I turned around and throat-punched the guy – and the whole gig stopped’

The Australian musician on survival skills, moonlighting as a door-to-door salesman, and the one pop star he doesn’t get

Josh Pyke: ‘I turned around and throat-punched the guy – and the whole gig stopped’

The Australian musician on survival skills, moonlighting as a door-to-door salesman, and the one pop star he doesn’t get

‘America, are we dating?’: Oasis finally wins over the US with triumphant tour

As the rock band played the final stop of their sold-out reunion tour near LA, it was clear: Liam and Noel Gallagher have become icons stateside

‘America, are we dating?’: Oasis finally wins over the US with triumphant tour

As the rock band played the final stop of their sold-out reunion tour near LA, it was clear: Liam and Noel Gallagher have become icons stateside

My cultural awakening: a Bastille show helped me get over my crippling Covid-era anxiety

I was afraid to be near people for two-and-a-half years, but then I got a chance to meet the band I loved – and the experience changed everything

My cultural awakening: a Bastille show helped me get over my crippling Covid-era anxiety

I was afraid to be near people for two-and-a-half years, but then I got a chance to meet the band I loved – and the experience changed everything

You haven’t felt the power of heavy metal until you’ve seen a room of grown men cry

Here in metal-mad Finland, I see the 50-year-old genre is still in rude health – and helping people see the light in dark times, says Mike Watson, media and art theorist based in Finland

You haven’t felt the power of heavy metal until you’ve seen a room of grown men cry

Here in metal-mad Finland, I see the 50-year-old genre is still in rude health – and helping people see the light in dark times, says Mike Watson, media and art theorist based in Finland

From Spinal Tap II to Ed Sheeran : your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The mock rockers are back with a long-awaited sequel to their comedy classic, and the relentlessly prolific troubadour delivers the first album of a proposed quartet

From Spinal Tap II to Ed Sheeran : your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The mock rockers are back with a long-awaited sequel to their comedy classic, and the relentlessly prolific troubadour delivers the first album of a proposed quartet

Spinal Tap eat your heart out: the Pretty Things drummer Viv Prince forged the blueprint for rock’n’roll hijinks

Stories of meth drinking, crayfish slinging and laying carpet onstage while Sandie Shaw played briefly made him rock’s most unhinged wild man

Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton: The World Feels Dusty album review – powerful narrations spanning Ella Fitzgerald to Emily Dickinson

With sweeping, full colour piano Connolly and Middleton pay attention to every word, every harmonic shift in a performance of appealing immediacy

Add to playlist: the DIY no wave dub of Devon Rexi and the week’s best new tracks

Amsterdam combo blend funky post-punk, turntablism and ‘miscellaneous objects’ in a giddy mix beguiling a growing cross-genre audience

Self Esteem to star as raging rock star in revival of David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles

Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a ‘landmark’ 50th anniversary production in London in March