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  • Bebe Rexha in sunglasses

    Honest playlist
    ‘Growing up, you couldn’t play Bon Jovi – that’s what our parents listened to’: Bebe Rexha’s honest playlist

    The chart-topping star makes a strong case for Livin’ on a Prayer and opts for TLC at karaoke. But which song reminds her too much of her ex to listen to?
  • Boards of Canada

    Album review
    Boards of Canada: Inferno – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointment

  • Five men clenching their fists and jaws

    Add to playlist
    The virtuoso prog-metal-folk of Brazil’s Papangu and the week’s best new tracks

  • Kathy Sledge in a leather jacket and white vest top, stood against a white wall

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Sister Sledge’s Kathy Sledge

  • Doja Cat performs in red lingerie behind a wall of flame

    Live review
    Doja Cat – pop superstar or true freak? US iconoclast plays the tension to perfection

  • L-r: Tove Lo, Slayyyter and Cobrah.

    Feature
    Trash hits! Why a wave of hedonistic, feral female pop stars are rejecting respectability

  • Compo Bill Orcutt and Mabe Fratti

    Album review
    Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt: Almost Waking – cellist and guitarist unite for tender harmonies and torrid tangles

  • Two of the band singing into a microphone on stage, looking happy

    ‘We tell the truth!’ Meet the NaNaz, the over-50s punks raging about pensions, recycling bins and menopause

  • Fabio Rizzo, Donato Di Trapani and Alessio Bondì of Lero Lero.

    Carters’ cries, lullabies and tales of errant crocodiles: Lero Lero and the battle for Sicily’s soul

  • Ecca Vandal

    Guardian Australia's headline act
    Ecca Vandal, the genre-defying punk-rap star on getting offline and having tea with Flea: ‘It constantly spins me out’

  • Aldous Harding in profile wearing a dark textured coat looks to the right in black and white.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Aldous Harding: Train on the Island – even whimsy-resistant listeners will love these lucid, luminous songs

  • Drake performs at Wireless festival in London, July 2025.

    Rap
    Drake: Iceman / Maid of Honour / Habibti – ​triple-album comeback is a boring, bloated disaster

  • A woman with long hair and glasses stands surrounded by tall corn plants

    Folk album of the month
    Marisa Anderson: The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music – Harry Smith’s archives light up again

  • A woman standing in the desert

    Pop
    Dua Saleh: Of Earth and Wires – ambitious confrontation of global catastrophe is surprisingly cautious

  • Kraftwerk perform at electronic consoles beneath a large laptop projection and binary code backdrop at Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

    Electronic
    Kraftwerk – after more than half a century of techno supremacy, they still sound like the future

  • Harry Styles performs on stage during his Together, Together Tour at Johan Cruijff Arena on Saturday in Amsterdam

    Pop
    Harry Styles – a genuinely charismatic performer who has pulled off one of the hardest tricks in pop

  • A person in a polka dot outfit and crown plays an electric guitar surrounded by falling confetti.

    Rock
    Angine de Poitrine – alien rock duo’s UK debut is hypnotic, harebrained and 100% worth the hype

  • from left Guto Pryce on bass, Dafydd Ieuan drums and Huw Bunford guitar, in multicoloured lighting on stage

    Indie
    Super Furry Animals – stirring reunion showcases immaculate songcraft

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  • A young man in a sweater vest standing in an underpass

    Add to playlist
    Rian Brazil’s Björk-beloved sounds of Brighton youth and the week’s best new tracks

  • A black and white portrait of Charli xcx wearing heavy eye makeup and a fur coat

    Single review
    Charli xcx: Rock Music – is she really pivoting from pop? Don’t be so sure …

  • A black and white photo of a woman standing outside

    Add to playlist
    The magnetic, uncanny songwriting of Frances Chang and the week’s best new tracks

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A Day Out In History

  • Battle Abbey

    English Heritage
    From Stonehenge to Whitby Abbey: 40 fascinating historical sites in England to visit this summer

  • Garden front of Osborne House, summer residence of Queen Victoria, Isle of Wight

    Romantic retreat
    Explore Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s Osborne

  • Lewis and Richard Edwards-Middleton took their children for a day at Stonehenge.

    Historic Days
    ‘Our son thought: what if I actually move the stone?’: unlocking the mysteries of Stonehenge with a family visit

  • Stonehenge aerial

    Gallery
    From neolithic ancestors to Arthurian legend: how English Heritage sites tell the nation’s story

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From the archive

  • The Sherlocks

    Feature
    Made of steel: how South Yorkshire became the British indie heartland

    As Arctic Monkeys' debut album turns 20, revisit Dave Simpson's feature on the long shadow they cast over the region's indie scene

Obituaries

  • The Ronettes in 1964: Nedra Talley Ross, right, with Estelle Bennett Vann and Ronnie Spector.

    double quotation markNedra Talley Ross helped make the Ronettes the platonic ideal of a girl group

    Michael Hann
  • Dave Mason performing live with electric guitar in Los Angeles

    News
    Dave Mason, co-founder of Traffic who had a star-studded solo career, dies aged 79

  • Moya Brennan performing with Clannad in Dublin in 2011.

    double quotation markClannad’s Moya Brennan had a dazzling, distinctive voice that lifted spirits until the end

    Jude Rogers
  • Asha Bhosle, who has died aged 92.

    Feature
    Bollywood classics, rave bangers and Michael Stipe duets: 10 of Asha Bhosle’s greatest recordings

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