U2 announce new album Carnaval de Luz, featuring final recording by Dolly Parton
Irish rock legends’ 16th studio album, described by the Edge as ‘a messy, provocative, sacred collection of songs’, to arrive in November
Julia Jacklin: The Gem review – tender, emotional storytelling of hope and hopelessness
The Australian musician’s fourth album blends mystery and intimacy with luscious pop-rock, bright, upbeat jangle and stripped-back acoustics
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at 80 review – birthday celebration champions bold creativity
Julia Fischer, Pablo Ferrández and Jan Lisiecki brought poetry and virtuosity to Beethoven’s Triple Concerto tour de force and there was vision and cohesion in Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben; Errollyn Wallen’s energetic Flare opened a special evening
George Bush, murder and nautical infidelity: the Chicks’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!
As the country trio once known as Dixie Chicks celebrate 20 years of their album Taking the Long Way, we count down the best of their catchy, sometimes controversial catalogue
Gilla Band: Pugnello review – furious originality fuelled by cathartic aggression and absurdist confessions
Your favourite band’s favourite band unleash a thrilling and relentless 42 minutes of monstrous noise whose precise instrumental source always remains discomfitingly unclear
Pete Byrne, frontman of British new wave band Naked Eyes, dies aged 74
Duo had US hits with their cover of Always Something There to Remind Me as well as Promises, Promises and more
Dance Monkey v the NRL: did Tones and I really turn down $90,000 a minute because she hates her own song?
For the first time in recent history there’ll be no pre-game entertainment at the NRL grand final. But everyone has a different story about what actually went down
Roomful of Teeth/Kahane review – twisty and tuneful songs with a darkly comic edge
Gabriel Kahane’s whimsical song cycle about grief, divorce and death brings irresistible melodies and moments of comic brilliance to the virtuoso US vocal ensemble
‘It’s about being loudly visible’: Ahadadream, the British-Pakistani dance star defanging racist slurs
Like many south Asians in the UK, he kept creativity separate from a corporate career. But after co-signs from dance music’s A-list, he’s releasing a defiant – and daringly titled – debut album
Angry Anderson dies aged 79: Rose Tattoo frontman was a ferocious rock’n’roll singer and youth advocate
The singer, songwriter, actor and advocate, who has died after a cardiac arrest while touring in Europe, kept his band’s flame burning until the end
From 50p gold hot pants to Paul Smith suits: how Kylie Minogue became one of pop’s ultimate chameleons
The star’s rise from Ramsay Street to global superstar is the subject of a new book. It’s a journey that has cleverly harnessed the power of fashion to transform, subvert – and shock
Choosin’ Texas unseats All I Want for Christmas as longest-running No 1 song on Billboard Hot 100
Ella Langley’s record-breaking song has spent 23 weeks at the top, surpassing Mariah Carey’s holiday anthem
Charlotte Church accuses Ed Sheeran of ‘choosing capitalism over doing the right thing’
Church, a prominent supporter of Palestinian causes, criticises Sheeran over removal of Macklemore from US tour
Chad Gilbert, New Found Glory’s founding guitarist, dies aged 45
Gilbert’s family says he died ‘peacefully in his sleep’ months after My Friends Over You musician shared stage four cancer diagnosis
‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic
From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music movie landmark?