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Furious, funny and potentially fatal: hip-hop’s 20 greatest diss tracks – ranked!

As Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more continue their high-profile beef, we run down the most inspired – and vicious – attacks in rap’s history

Published: 25 Apr 2024
5 out of 5 stars.

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St Vincent: All Born Screaming review – the unmasking of a great American songwriter
5 out of 5 stars.

Published: 25 Apr 2024
4 out of 5 stars.

Jovial, randy and anything but dark: Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 23 Apr 2024

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Fabiana Palladino: Fabiana Palladino review – sublime 80s pop innovation meets 21st-century chaos
5 out of 5 stars.

Published: 4 Apr 2024

4 out of 5 stars.

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Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter review – from hoedown to full-blown genre throwdown
4 out of 5 stars.

The musician’s eighth album straddles the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the blues – and Becky with the Good Hair via Dolly Parton’s Jolene

Published: 28 Mar 2024
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Sex, Mozart and chanting monks … the 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!

As Nena’s 99 Red Balloons turns 40, we look back at the best continental foreign-language songs that achieved cross-Channel success

Published: 28 Mar 2024
5 out of 5 stars.

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Nico: The Marble Index/Desertshore review – an unforgettable trip to a very dark place
5 out of 5 stars.

These two reissued solo albums from the German singer have a fearsome reputation – but they offer an experience like no other

Published: 28 Mar 2024
2 out of 5 stars.

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Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran review – revenge served disappointingly tepid
2 out of 5 stars.

Despite a hit diss track so withering it affected the stock market and enlivening turns from Cardi B and leading regional Mexican musicians, the Colombian’s wan 12th album washes out her adventurous spirit

Published: 22 Mar 2024

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Gwen Stefani and No Doubt’s greatest songs – ranked!

As No Doubt reform for Coachella, we pick out the best of their lead singer’s variously romantic and splenetic oeuvre – from Don’t Speak to Hollaback Girl

Published: 9:00 AM
4 out of 5 stars.

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Sheer Mag: Playing Favorites review – euphoric expansion by one of today’s great American bands
4 out of 5 stars.

What started life as a disco EP designed to help the band through personal difficulties has evolved into a refined, joyful take on their distortion-lagged rock

Published: 7:00 AM

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