Radiohead’s 2025 tour: the opening night setlist
From The Bends to A Moon Shaped Pool, nearly the whole album discography was accounted for at the art-rockers’ first gig since 2018
Womad festival returns and moves to new Wiltshire site
Festival championing global music was founded by Peter Gabriel, who said it ‘seems all the more precious’ in a time when ‘hatred, racism and division’ are being stoked
Lily Allen’s new album shows the pain behind the ‘cool girl’ myth – that’s why women are obsessed with it
The singer’s lyrics about an open marriage gone sour resonate with many women her age. They’re sick of pretending to be fine with relationships that are not, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
A sprawling global family: The Long Wave turns one
As we celebrate our first anniversary, we reflect on the stories that connect us across the diaspora
Is London’s next superclub this warehouse by a sewage works in Barking?
The 4,000-capacity Eutopia is independently owned and run by clubland veterans – and despite being on the city’s eastern fringe, clubbers say they’re prepared to trek
Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here
Poet laureate pays tribute to ‘message in a bottle tied to a life buoy thrown from a ghost ship’ released when he was 12
Keir Starmer shares post-punk passion and revisits musical past
Prime minister praises Scottish post-punk band and shares details about his family life in Radio 3 interview
British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview
Airline says singer’s defiant interview breached its policy on politically sensitive or controversial subjects
The Supremes, Marcus Garvey, Tupac Shakur: the cultural figures who inspired our Black History Month panel
At the end of Black History Month, our panel reveal the influences that helped them shape their beliefs and identities
Dave Ball obituary
One half of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell best known for its No 1 single Tainted Love
What’s the story? British peer says Oasis will play Knebworth – then rows back
Exclusive: Lady Taylor of Stevenage says suggestion band would perform over five days in July 2026 was ‘hypothetical’
Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66
Synth player and producer had huge success with Tainted Love and other Soft Cell hits, and later returned to UK Top 10 with dance project the Grid
The Spin review – laughter and vinyl in wacky Irish road movie as pals try to save their record store
Bizarre dialogue riffs add flavour to this likable film about two friends on a road trip to track down some super rare records
Bob Vylan ‘not regretful’ about IDF chant at Glastonbury: ‘I’d do it again tomorrow’
In first interview since Glastonbury, frontman Bobby Vylan tells Louis Theroux the backlash was ‘minimal’ compared to the plight of Palestinians
‘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