KPOPPED review – making this star-packed singing contest must have been absolutely wild

The likes of Kylie, the Spice Girls and Vanilla Ice are made to perform like K-pop stars, taking on challenges including eating snails. The logistics must have been nightmarish – shame the show is so vibeless

Jessie J delays tour of UK and Europe to undergo second breast cancer operation

British singer also cancels US shows as she focuses on treatment

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 album review – Mahan Esfahani’s reading is lucid and illuminating

The harpsichordist describes Bach’s Preludes and Fugues as a ‘challenge and a homecoming’. His thoughtful new recording has a sense of the work’s drama but is never wilful nor perverse

Defiance, desire and devastation: Patti Smith’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

As the punk poet prepares to tour and reissue Horses for its 50th anniversary, we count down the best of her rich, rabble-rousing work

Taylor Swift: engaged, mummy-tracked and doomed to tradwifedom? You really haven’t been listening

Critics say marriage will kill her creativity. Not likely for an artist who’s made billions from songs about redefining women’s limits, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Blood Orange: Essex Honey review – an exquisitely eclectic portrait of grief

Gorgeous melodies ground Dev Hynes’s questing fifth album, via dancefloor rhythms, indie pop and languorous funk – and cameos from Lorde and Zadie Smith

‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina

The global music star, whose home town of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane in 2005, says ‘people power’ can change the world

Taylor Swift’s romantic travails were the soundtrack to mine. What does her engagement mean for fans’ love lives?

The singer’s breakups were anthems for emotionally bruised youth. Now she’s happy, I look forward to hearing yet more poundingly relatable lyrics – based on real, lasting love

As Putin’s bombs fall on Ukraine, the Royal Opera House had a call to make about Anna Netrebko. It made the wrong one

The Russian soprano says she has condemned the war and has no affinity with this Kremlin. But hosting her still seems unwise, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Sting sued by former Police bandmates over alleged lost royalties

Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland claim they did not receive songwriting credits for hit Every Breath You Take

Tems is uplifting women to smash sexism in music. Can the industry change its tune?

The Grammy-winning singer has launched a pioneering platform to empower the next generation of African talent

Leipzig Gewandhaus/ Nelsons review – poignancy, poetry and powerful Sibelius in wide-ranging Prom

The venerable orchestra – among the world’s oldest – brought Pärt, Sibelius and Dvořák to the Proms. Isabelle Faust’s sensitive reading of the latter’s Violin Concerto was sleek and organic; the Sibelius well-paced and weighty

Tell us: have late-night venues or clubs closed in your town in recent years?

We’re interested in hearing about club closures in your town – and about any signs of growth

No need to calm down: how Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement broke the internet

Surprise Instagram announcement has caused online chaos with everyone from Donald Trump to Shrek weighing in

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce engagement on social media

‘Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,’ the couple wrote on Instagram