Fierce, frantic and loaded with menace: Fontaines DC’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
Ahead of the Irish alt-rockers’ highly anticipated fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, we count down their potent, occasionally political, catalogue
Freddie Jackson, romantic US singer with 10 R&B chart-toppers, dies aged 70
Celebrated for his earnest, dextrous voice, Jackson crossed into the pop charts with the hits Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) and You Are My Lady
The west has a blinkered view of African music – and it’s hurting the whole continent’s culture
The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop
Olivia Dean review – a powerful, affirming night with a pop star at the height of her powers
The singer’s first stop on her Australia and New Zealand tour is a fun but sincere demonstration of the power of pop to get at what love’s all about
Sass Jordan, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, dies aged 65
Musician who had hit albums with Racine and Rats later became a judge on six seasons of Canadian Idol
The Undertones review – silver-haired fans get Teenage Kicks once more
Derry’s answer to the Ramones play 30 songs in a breakneck and breathless ride through the punk humour and new-wave surrealism of their repertoire
‘I can’t listen to Pink Floyd – I find their music dreary’: Elvis Costello’s honest playlist
The singer-songwriter owes a lot to Georgie Fame and likes the romantic side of Jimi Hendrix – but which ringtone song can put him in a bad mood?
Ella Hooper: ‘Most embarrassing celebrity encounter? I said the classic thing you don’t ever say to Billy Bragg’
The Australian singer-songwriter on misheard Killing Heidi lyrics, going solo after a chat with Stevie Nicks, and being a shit secret keeper
‘My hips can’t help but move’: readers on the songs that always get them dancing
From Northern soul and 90s bangers to disco classics and indie anthems, readers share the floorfillers that never fail to start the party
Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s sumptuous recording is an immediate classic
The Geese frontman mesmerizes in a concert film that is both swoony and austere
No one could terrify like Cronos, the black metal innovator who reignited rock’s hellraising attitude
As frontman of Venom, Conrad Lant made an impact on metal to rival Black Sabbath, inspiring a whole new subgenre with his diabolical grandstanding, unruly spirit and heretic noise
‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about supporting one another through bereavement, being happily uncool and battling the resurgence of homophobia
Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant, frontman of UK heavy metal band Venom, dies aged 63
Singer and bassist helped turn Newcastle band into hugely influential force on thrash and black metal subgenres
‘Shane was rascality personified’: the Pogues on their late frontman, anti-Irish prejudice and the feud over Fairytale of New York
The Celtic punk band’s co-founders Spider Stacy and James Fearnley take your questions about Shane MacGowan, ruffling the feathers of trad musicians and putting Laurence Fox in his place
Meshell Ndegeocello: Synonym review – vivid all-star reinventions of everyone from Bob Dylan to J-Lo
In the jazz-soul singer’s ‘expression of queer liberation’, stars from Chaka Khan to Bill Callahan to Cynthia Erivo duet on equally varied songs from Cher to the Human League and beyond