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  • ‘Some Ibiza magic’ … ravers at The Trip in London in 1988.

    ‘We handed out raw fish to clubbers’
    The mind-bending acid house tour of London

  • Ludmilla performing at Coachella 2024.

    ‘I wasn’t worried about what gringos wanted!’
    Ludmilla, Brazil’s next pop superstar

    Already the most listened-to Black artist in Brazil and a favourite of Beyoncé, Ludmilla has a whole new audience after her viral Coachella show. She discusses the racism and homophobia she’s had to face getting this far
  • MC Conrad

    MC Conrad
    Acclaimed drum’n’bass vocalist dies aged 52

    Rapper and singer was acclaimed for partnership with producer LTJ Bukem, and went on to become a producer and label head in his own right
  • Lawrence Rothman in black clothing leaning on a black car

    ‘Bowie told me it’s OK to be messy’
    The starry life and strife of singer-songwriter Lawrence Rothman

  • Hands Up<br>Large party group of people holding their arms and hands high in the air during an Outdoor Concert

    Tell us
    What are you experiences of making a living from music?

  • The boombox that appears on the artwork for Everyone Knows That.

    Everyone Knows That
    Internet music mystery solved via 1986 adult movie

  • Zoh Amba, Central Park, New York, NY.

    ‘Scalding emotional intensity’
    Geoff Dyer on the spiritual power of saxophonist Zoh Amba

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Interviews
  • Billy Bragg.

    Billy Bragg
    There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed

  • Rick Astley by the Thames River in Hampton, west London.

    This much I know
    Rick Astley: ‘I’m boring away from the spotlight – that’s why my life works’

  • Headshot of Carol Decker in 2024

    T’Pau’s Carol Decker looks back
    We went ballistic when we got to No 1. Our screaming annoyed Bryan Adams

  • AG Cook

    ‘People think I hate pop’
    Super-producer AG Cook on working with Beyoncé and honouring his friend Sophie

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Album reviews
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Live reviews
  • No stranger to theatrics … Mitski’s performances have grown increasingly conceptual.

    Mitski
    Unusual, enigmatic and utterly compelling

  • Brett Anderson, hands on his mic stand, looking down, at the roundhouse

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Paraorchestra: Death Songbook – bittersweet ballads with Brett Anderson and friends

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  • four members of the band english teacher around a table, two seated, two standing, including lead singer lily fontaine

    One to watch
    English Teacher

  • Glass Beams

    One to watch
    Glass Beams

  • six young korean people in mathcing red jackets and trousers standing in a line, one in front of the other

    One to watch
    Balming Tiger

  • School of rock? … (L-R) Little Richard, Joanna Newsom and Metallica.

    Pop! goes the curriculum
    Songs to inspire primary school children

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Obituaries

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From the archive
  • Lorde: ‘It’s my joy to be patient zero on a harmony virus.’

    Lorde
    I’m not a climate activist. I’m a pop star

    As Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine turns 10, revisit our interview with the New Zealand musician on the cusp of her underrated third album, Solar Power
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