Jo Cox family says Kneecap offering ‘half an apology’ over alleged call to kill MPs
Husband of murdered Labour MP says Belfast rappers’ talk of being unfairly targeted undermines their statement
Britpop battle between Blur and Oasis revisited in ‘punchy’ new comedy
John Niven’s debut play explores rivalry between the two British bands who vied for the No 1 spot in the charts in 1995
Climate crisis could kill off Australian music festivals, report warns
Exclusive: As they wait on latest weather forecasts, concertgoers delay buying tickets. But this has caused some major events to cancel
‘Chipmunks were obsessed with my mics’: the man who recorded a tree for a year
Joshua Bonnetta spent 8,760 hours recording a pine – then honed it down into a four-hour album full of creatures, cracking branches and quite possibly the sound of leaves growing
Beyoncé review – ever-evolving star kicks off electrifying Cowboy Carter tour
The singer delivers a rousing, seven-act spectacle as she performs many of her country songs on stage for the first time while also harking back to her previous dance-leaning era
‘If I kissed some man, I would cut my lips off’: Terrence Howard explains why he declined Marvin Gaye biopic
The American actor told Bill Maher’s podcast that he had asked Quincy Jones about the singer’s sexuality and felt he couldn’t ‘play that character 100%’
‘I felt caught between cultures’: Mongolian musician Enji on her beguiling, border-crossing music
She started singing in her family’s yurt before a Goethe-Institut residency led her to jazz and life in Munich. The distance from home is ‘bittersweet’ – but both styles, she says, are about trusting your instinct
The Life of Sean DeLear review – loving film about queer black punk rocker, and secret legend
Sweet documentary about Sean DeLear, of LA punk band Glue, who never landed a major record deal but was famous among celebrities
Roy Thomas Baker obituary
Record producer, songwriter and arranger whose work on Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody took the single to the top of the charts around the world
RPO/Petrenko review – a blistering, multi-hued Shostakovich
Conductor Vasily Petrenko didn’t put a foot wrong in this Multitudes festival performance of the Leningrad Symphony, the drama enhanced by evocative video imagery by Kirill Serebrennikov and Ilya Shagalov
Mark Knopfler on Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing: ‘I wrote it in the window display of a New York appliance store’
‘A big bonehead of a delivery guy was looking at all these TV screens tuned to MTV and the lines he was saying were too good to be true. So I borrowed a pen and paper, sat down and started writing’
The Flaming Lips review – stops and starts make this too much of a good thing
With lengthy Wayne Coyne anecdotes and frequent interruptions for stage effects to be brought on and off, there was an awful lot of time during the Lips’s two-and-three-quarter hour show when nothing was happening
LPO/Gardner review – no recording could match the visceral thrill of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony live
Gardner’s pacing was virtuosic as his cast of hundreds proved the Southbank Centre’s maxim that you cannot experience the Multitudes festival at home
‘Tragedy to transcendence’: Alice Coltrane exhibit honors jazz legend’s sonic and spiritual legacy
Monument Eternal at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum showcases the life, music and writing of the groundbreaking artist also known as Turiya
Just in Time review – Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm
Jonathan Groff uses his considerable charisma to embody the late singer with pizzazz in a rousing yet incomplete Broadway show