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Live review Burna Boy – all hail the graceful king of Afrobeats
5 out of 5 stars.Given gloss from special guests Wizkid, Dave and Stormzy, this was a coronation for a Nigerian pop star bringing Africa to the world -
The bassist’s new autobiography lifts the lid on a difficult, violent childhood and a conflicted relationship with Anthony Kiedis
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Singer tells fans that Pearl’s death has been ‘incredibly painful’ and has profoundly affected her -
Mike Pannett set up late-night car park meeting to return Stephen Morris’s 1709 Tecchler -
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Live review Bruce Hornsby – intense and exhilarating
4 out of 5 stars.From boogie-woogie to avant-garde classical, this virtuosic tour of Hornsby’s talent was richly rewarding
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From Dry Cleaning to Sinead O’Brien and Talk Show, today’s hottest indie artists often sound like they’re at a poetry reading -
Two decades after losing her brother, Rain Phoenix is finally able to share his music. She talks about ‘the wild animal’ of grief – and learning to sing with River on street corners -
The singer-songwriter is releasing his sixth album in three years – his best since 1997. Would he like to expand on how he made it, or why he chose his collaborators? He would not
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The singer-songwriter talks candidly about her friendship with Jackie Onassis, being humiliated by Harvey Weinstein and why she has no time for the US president
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Sunn O))) Gods of noise build a colossal drone henge
4 out of 5 stars.Anyone can play loud, but the Seattle masters of slow metal turn noise into an overwhelming physical experience -
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Charli XCX Laser sharp star burns her own path
4 out of 5 stars.Charli XCX knows how to party, replacing the galaxy of star collaborators on new album Charli with her own vocals and raging through pop-vulnerable hits
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OMD Clap-along electropop sounds even better with age
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John Legend A neo soul love-in
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Tricky A bizarre but brilliant enigma
4 out of 5 stars.
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Alexis Petridis's album of the week Gang Starr: One of the Best Yet – rap duo stand tall beyond the grave
4 out of 5 stars.Though rapper Guru died in 2010, DJ Premier avoids the usual pitfalls of posthumous releases, deploying neat verses and brilliant production tricks -
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Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka – retro soul with an Afrocentric air
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30 years after Nirvana released their debut album, Bleach, we revisit Jonathan Freedland's 1994 report from the aftermath of Cobain's death
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From Selena Gomez’s devastating balladry to Lanark Artefax’s squirming electronics, check out 50 new tracks and read about our ten favourites -
Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why kung fu references crop up so much in black culture
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Feldman’s Triadic Memories are an interminable low, but much of the rest of this exploration of minimalism through an alternative largely female canon was cerebral and quietly compelling
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Thunderdome launched with a giant octopus on an ice rink – and created the Netherlands’ biggest youth culture movement. Three decades on, it’s stronger and tougher than ever -
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The songwriting storyteller recorded thousands of cassettes for visitors to Cahuita, his paradise town in Costa Rica. Now the race is on to rediscover them
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The man behind two decades of hits for Britney, Ariana, Taylor and more is ‘thankful’ singers still put themselves out there. Now, 30 of his songs are getting a second life from Shakespeare -
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