Pulp review – Jarvis Cocker’s captivating comeback turns a rapt crowd rapturous
On a kitschy 1970s chatshow set, the Sheffield band play hits from across their career – and fans welcome their just-released album tracks like old friends
‘The breakup was like an amputation that saves you’: Cate Le Bon on healing from heartache and her heavy new album
After a long relationship ended painfully, the acclaimed singer-producer swapped the Californian desert for south Wales – and set to work on her most emotionally direct record yet. ‘It’s been discombobulating,’ she says
Rodeo drive: Beyoncé UK tour spurs cowboy fashion craze
Singer’s western-inspired Cowboy Carter tour is reminder of pop culture’s sway over shopping behaviour
Want to see Oasish play GlastonBarry? Well, you can! How tribute festivals ‘grew into a monster’
More than 30 outdoor music events including Tribfest and Big Fake Festival are taking the UK by storm
Addison Rae: Addison review – 2025’s most refreshing star revels in pop’s shallow pleasures
The one-time TikTok dancer’s remarkably cohesive debut spans Jersey club to R&B, and defies an obsession with ‘lore’ to suggest that the best pop isn’t that deep
Add to playlist: the genre-swerving chaos of eight-piece collective Parade and the week’s best new tracks
Determined to dodge every pigeonhole, the band’s forthcoming mixtape veers from lulling acoustic to nightmarish noise, free jazz to prog post-rock
Witch: Sogolo review – Zamrock originators in joyously punchy form
After the band’s 2023 reunion and a revamp of members comes this imaginative and playful set showing 74-year-old Emmanuel ‘Jagari’ Chanda’s undiminished vocal power
CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’
Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than ever
Lionel Richie review – larger-than-life legend delivers a lesson in charm
The perfectly ’tached singer rolls out some raw and funky versions of his hits, from Hello to Brick House to All Night Long, with a roaring-along crowd
The ones we love: all 16 of REM’s albums – ranked!
As their album Fables of the Reconstruction turns 40, we assess REM’s hugely varied discography, from mysterious masterpieces to commercial failures
Ahead of Glastonbury, Rod Stewart cancels two concerts because of flu
Eighty-year-old singer has another health setback, following cancelled concerts earlier this year
A-ha frontman Morten Harket shares diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease
The singer announced the news on the band’s website urging fans not to worry about him and ‘spend your energy and effort addressing real problems’
‘Faith is light, and we turn that light into sound’: Afro-Adura, the music uplifting Nigeria amid financial crisis
Facing electricity blackouts and rampant inflation, Nigerians are turning to what is also called ‘trenches music’ to vent their frustrations and find joy and hope in life
‘British feminism needs reshaping’: Kate Nash on her new single about trans rights
The British pop musician questions the gender-critical movement in her new song GERM, and argues that cis women need to stand up for the trans community