Duane Keith Davis found guilty of 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur
Las Vegas jury returns verdict against ex-South Side Compton Crips gang leader in killing of US rap legend
Dolly Parton laid to rest in private Nashville funeral
The queen of country was interred next to her late husband in an intimate ceremony attended by close family
Reading and Leeds festival review – post-GCSE blowout shows how dominant dance music now is
Charli xcx and Fontaines DC are spellbinding and there’s an awesome array of genres, but the biggest turnouts are for tech house names like Kettama and Josh Baker
A job that changed me: Being a theatre usher cracked open my heart to beauty
The performances often gave me goose bumps, but I also got to observe the highs and lows of audience behaviour
A$AP Rocky review – arena spectacular has plenty of helicopters but little sense of direction
The polymath rapper’s stage show, which also features SWAT teams and a warship, is truly bravura stuff – but you can’t help feeling this is an artist at a creative crossroads
Les Siècles/Lehmann La Damnation de Faust review – vivid colour, soaring solos and a sharp-suited demon
Period instrument grain and an energised Jakob Lehmann did a fair job with Berlioz’s concert setting of the drama, but the hall’s murky acoustic buried some of the sparkle
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs
AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models
Bel review – the powerful life force and haunting absence of a traumatised singer-songwriter
Beldina Odenyo alchemised the pain of exile, loss and racism into music as Heir of the Cursed before her death in 2021, as this attentive tribute explores
Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat
Performances from Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan and Sarah McLachlan raise $20m for charity yet are marred by poor planning for heatwave
Oslo Philharmonic/Gražinytė-Tyla/Kopatchinskaja review – weapons-grade charisma and anarchic delight
Patricia Kopatchinskaja hurls herself into Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, while conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla brings precision and intensity to Prokofiev
The Waterboys review – Steve Earle joins a gloriously unruly return to Fisherman’s Blues
The Nashville singer-songwriter is among the guests joining Mike Scott for a sprawling, exuberant revue that finds new life in the Waterboys’ rootsy past
‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist
The Black Bananas singer knows all the words to Rapper’s Delight and relates to AC/DC, but which song reminds her of a heartbreaking theft?
Kevin Mitchell: ‘90% of us are loving, peaceful people. A few bad eggs are making us all look bad’
The musician also known as Bob Evans talks about Suburban Songbook turning 20, believing in aliens and his ‘pretty decent legs’
Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library
Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based project