The Surge review – a wild and haunting wake for Sinéad O’Connor
The late singer gets a thrilling tribute from a cast of 10 dancers in Sonya Tayeh’s heartfelt show
‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield
Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising the roundabout and why she hates cover versions of her songs
David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies aged 84
The Canadian musician, who achieved major hits such as Spinning Wheel and You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, died peacefully at a Toronto hospital
Muse: The Wow! Signal review – stupendous space-rock silliness … yet somehow surprisingly subtle?
From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial life
‘It’s giving me carnival vibes’: how Fête de la Musique became a must-visit event for the Black diaspora
Begun in 1982, the festival is now a magnet for Black Britons, who spill across Paris enjoying genres from amapiano to zouk. But can it resist commercialisation – and is it getting too big?
‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes
Fed up with expensive tickets and omnipresent branding, some festival fans are creating their own anarchic, ticketless events full of glitter and silliness. They explain how it’s done
‘I carry the pain of the world’: Oscar-winning singer Camille on her tumultuous triple album about motherhood
She has won acclaim and countless awards for her body-tapping, raspberry-blowing music. Now she has spent 15 years making her boldest work yet – an epic about birth, infancy and adolescence
Clive Davis obituary
One of the most powerful men in the American recording industry who promoted Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Barry Manilow
‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio
‘Maybe they just didn’t believe in me,’ the pop star said of Universal, which was set to make a film about her life starring Julia Garner
Clive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no one else
The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry forever
Bad Bunny sparks UK’s Latino moment as 100,000 fans line up to see him perform
Rapping in Spanish used to be a hard sell to Britons – but the Puerto Rican star is making the Latin American community visible
‘Guys would think I was a girl then get aggressive when they found out my name was Brian’: how Placebo made Nancy Boy
‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’
Hayley Williams review – punk and R&B expertly intertwine on first solo tour for Paramore star
In her first European jaunt outside of her headbanging band, the singer uses humour to turn angsty songs into rowdy collective catharsis
Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man
Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard Sumner
Gorillaz review – a staggering hi-tech mini-festival from the magpie mind of Damon Albarn
A stream of high-profile guest stars included Johnny Marr, Little Simz, Shaun Ryder, Sparks, Yasiin Bey, Bootie Brown and Fatoumata Diawara