Fridayz Live Sydney review – Mariah Carey is impeccable but Pitbull steals the show
Dual headliners capped a R&B festival with fever-dream energy, including self-help sermons and Pitbull cosplayers everywhere you looked
Ruel: ‘A fan gave me one of their teeth on a necklace – I was definitely a little freaked out’
The pop star on the craziest thing he has done for love, his strong opinions about kids wearing sunglasses and the movie that scarred him as a child
I can’t stop watching videos of people discovering Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil. Send help
Like all good addicts, I couldn’t tell you how much time I’ve spent with First Time Hearing clips on YouTube. They sucked me in and didn’t let me go
‘No one makes money from them’: with MTV channels switching off, is the music video under threat?
Five MTV channels will close at the end of the year in the UK, leaving just one –which mostly plays reality TV. And with budgets pinched, directors say they are struggling
My cultural awakening: The Specials helped me to stop fixating on death
After several people close to me died I became obsessed with fitness and gripped by panic attacks. But then a ska cover taught me life doesn’t have to be serious all the time
Ace Frehley obituary
Compelling guitarist with the rock band Kiss whose ‘Spaceman’ persona matched his otherworldly performances
Pop star Reneé Rapp delivers expletive-filled rant against Ice and Donald Trump
Chart-topping singer protested the presence of Ice in Portland, Oregon, where she was performing
Tame Impala: Deadbeat review – ‘bush doof’ bangers can’t hide how downbeat Kevin Parker seems to be
The producer combines an uneasy marriage of four-four beats with catchy hooks and candid lyrics suggesting his rise to pop’s upper echelons may have come at a cost
The Last Dinner Party: From the Pyre review – baroque’n’roll band’s speedily released second album is overheated
The London five-piece throw the kitchen sink at these dizzyingly dense songs, often crushing their melodic pleasures in the process
Rumours of My Demise by Evan Dando review – eye-popping tales of drugs and unpredictability
An indie-pop darling details his rise to fame and subsequent public humiliations with appealing frankness
Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism
Maybe they should have given the award to an album that wasn’t already a huge hit – but Fender’s blend of kitchen-sink drama and stadium choruses is expertly done
Without Ace Frehley, Kiss could not have achieved their extraordinary greatness
The guitarist was the most proficient musician in the original lineup and his bludgeoning ‘monster plod’ was central to their sound
Ace Frehley, Kiss lead guitarist and band’s co-founder, dies aged 74
The musician died following injuries suffered during a fall in his recording studio last month
Pop-rock wizard Todd Rundgren: ‘When I met John Lennon, he was a bundle of rags with nothing to say’
As he tours the UK, the musician answers your questions on making Bat Out of Hell with Meat Loaf, squabbles with XTC and the Band, and wiring his studio while high
‘Chuck was breaking beer bottles over his own head’: thrash metal legends Testament on 40 years of mayhem
After their lead singer shed his glam rock spandex, the band became rivals to thrash’s Big Four. Still releasing potent high-octane riffage, they retread their path through cancer scares and jazz detours