The Who fire drummer Zak Starkey after Royal Albert Hall performance
Move described as ‘a collective decision’ follows reports that Roger Daltrey was unhappy with ‘drums going boom, boom, boom’ at recent gig
‘The goal of a protest song is to make people feel strong and alive’: Ani DiFranco on Broadway, Fugazi and 30 years of activism
The singer-songwriter answers your questions about 90s gigs with Tori Amos, her ‘humbling’ run in Hadestown and keeping hope alive in the Trump era
Mike Berry obituary
Singer, songwriter and actor who had two UK Top 10 hits and played Bert Spooner in Are You Being Served?
‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god
He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the still-worshipped frontman
Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah
Hannah’s second feature about her husband follows him on tour, but the offstage footage is rather less compelling than the music
The love that dare not speak its name: why I’m coming out as a gay man who loves Taylor Swift
She is tragically mainstream, allergic to ‘serving’ on the red carpet and certainly hasn’t thrived against the odds. It’s the antithesis of gay culture – so why do I love her?
Post Malone at Coachella review – chameleonic megastar wows in the desert
The 29-year-old singer travelled through his genre-shifting back catalogue in a charming and energetic 90-minute headliner set
‘The Citizen Kane of rock movies’: glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness
Fifty years ago, the Black Country legends made Slade in Flame, about a band screwed by the music business. It tanked and almost finished them. Now, as it’s re-released, the film is being seen as a prescient gem
‘I’ve pulled myself out of a very dark abyss’: Garbage’s Shirley Manson on depression, sexism, dodgy hips and happiness
The press loved her – but also hated her. Her band was huge – and then it fractured. She started two tours – and had to abandon them. The singer talks about 30 years of heaven and hell
Green Day at Coachella review – fun but muddled set pokes fun at American Idiots
The weekend’s legacy headliner offered some cathartic punk pop rebellion but the awkward setlist lacked coherence and thought
One to One: John & Yoko review – Lennon and Ono storm Manhattan in intimate post-Beatles doc
Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’s spry study of the couple in early 70s New York is as much as jittery collage of the era’s culture as it is a revealing portrait
Olly Alexander review – part night creature, part light entertainer
The singer and actor hints at an outre new synth-heavy sound, drawn largely from latest album Polari. He stops short, though, of scaring his daytime TV fans
Post your questions for Bonnie Raitt
As she heads out on a European tour, the 75-year-old US musician will answer your questions about her platinum-selling songcraft
Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – Justin Vernon’s most easy-going record yet
This companion album to last year’s Sable EP gives those sorrowful songs a soulful lift, with Vernon’s beautiful falsetto vocals to the fore
Valerie June: Owls, Omens and Oracles review – a soul-recharging exercise in radical positivity
The Tennessee singer-songwriter’s joyful new album pushes back against the bleakness of doomscrolling