Not Mariah again! New music playlists for the Christmas party season
Whether it’s vibe-setting dance and rap for house parties or soothing dream-pop for when you’re contemplating the clear-up, reach for these ready-made playlists
Harold Offeh: Mmm Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet review – desire, despondency and disco divas
Offeh’s show blares and jostles with life as he mimics Mammy, listens to self-help advice and gets naked for Grace Jones’s anatomically impossible Island Life pose
The Session Man review – Mick Jagger joins look at amazing life of keyboards ace Nicky Hopkins
The pianist played with the Beatles, the Stones, the Who and more, but remains little known beyond insider circles. This loving doc asks why – but leaves some questions unanswered
Amyl and the Sniffers dominate 2025 Arias with four wins: ‘Probably won’t have to work at IGA ever again’
Rock band take home album of the year while electronic breakthrough Ninajirachi wins best solo artist from a leading eight nominations
Wicked: For Good review – Cynthia Erivo sweeps the field in explosive second chunk of Oz prequel
Bringing her black-belt screen presence to the role of Elphaba, Erivo leads a fine cast in a zingily scored conclusion to the hit origin story
Man who grabbed Ariana Grande at Wicked: For Good premiere sentenced to nine days in jail
Johnson Wen, who jumped over a barricade at Universal Studios Singapore and rushed at the Wicked star, has been convicted of being a public nuisance
Ninajirachi started making music because of YouTube. Now she’s up for eight Aria awards
The 26-year-old’s debut album I Love My Computer has already netted her some of Australia’s most prestigious prizes – and it’s all about the delight and depravity of growing up on the internet
Lorde review – viscerally kinetic theatrics and euphoric abandon
The New Zealand alt-pop diva’s show has shades of Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense colliding with frenetic digital glitches and moments of crowd-pleasing intimacy
‘I once said there’s no way I’ll still be playing Baggy Trousers at 30’: Suggs’s honest playlist
Prince Buster’s Al Capone changed the Madness singer’s life and Aretha Franklin is his go-to at karaoke, but what song makes him cry?
Post your questions for Peaches
As she prepares to release No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the Canadian dance-punk icon will answer your questions
Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes
Official Trump social media accounts have been using The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?
Lô Borges obituary
Singer-songwriter revered in Brazil for founding the Clube da Esquina collective and releasing two landmark albums of the 1970s
‘I can’t be silent. I’ve been through too much’: Dee Dee Bridgewater on singing with the greats – and confronting Maga with jazz
Fuelled by a loathing of Trump, the war in Gaza and anger at ‘the same old chauvinistic crap’, the 75-year-old – who cut her teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and more – has no plans to stop protesting
Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution
‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens
Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary, they’re seeing the light of day