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

‘It was an I Will Survive for the 1990s’: how McAlmont & Butler made Yes

‘David only had words for one verse. “Just sing it twice,” I said. “We can worry about that later.” But we never got around to it – and people don’t seem to notice’

James Lowe, singer of psychedelic rock trailblazers the Electric Prunes, dies aged 82

The band’s early single I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) was their biggest hit, featuring on the compilation Nuggets, and has influenced generations of musicians

Pulp: More review – anthems and rage for the next life stage

Jarvis Cocker and the band’s first album in 24 years delivers a refreshing take on middle age, with all the the skewed observation and joyful melodic flourishes of old