Before you even pressed play, Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee took you back in time. When it was released in March, the only way to hear
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‘I desperately wanted friends, and flings, and to understand myself’: Clairo on making one of 2024’s best albums
Claire Cottrill, AKA Clairo, has charted her life in music. The US singer-songwriter spent her teens making tunes on her laptop and gained an online
Bob ‘Slim’ Dunlap, guitarist in the Replacements, dies at 73
Bob “Slim” Dunlap, who replaced Bob Stinson on guitar in cult Minneapolis band the Replacements, has died at 73. In 2012, Dunlap suffered a stroke.
‘This is incredible’: a new generation of music lovers discovers the 70s sounds of the Lijadu Sisters
The sun is hot and traffic flows slowly as music enthusiasts make their way to Lagos’s Jazzhole, a shop that has morphed into a cultural
‘I don’t deal in nonsense’: Tulisa on ‘revenge porn’, tabloid stings, celibacy, success and survival
Why does anyone go on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!? Sometimes there’s an obvious reputation-washing agenda, which annoyingly seems to work
Move over, Mariah! The cheesiest, weepiest, silliest, booziest European Christmas bangers
Step inside a shopping centre in Catalonia or walk around a Christmas market in the Ruhr valley right now and you’ll find it impossible to
Amazon push may help Tom Grennan beat Wham! to UK Christmas No 1
Alexa, can you make a Christmas No 1? As this year’s battle for the most played and bought track of the festive season reaches its
The 50 best albums of 2024: No 3 – Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft
As with Billie Eilish’s last album, 2021’s Happier Than Ever, Hit Me Hard and Soft opens with a state of the nation that reflects her
Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) review – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty
The near transcendentally awful cover art of this 38-track compilation, released with little fanfare this week, will already be familiar to hardcore Aphex Twin fans.
The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024
10. Ezra Feinberg – Soft Power Feinberg emerged about 20 years ago as the leading member of a San Francisco psych rock band called Citay.