Most pop stars are minted through trial by fire: are you really an A-lister if you haven’t weathered some kind of scandal, tragedy or faux-cancellation?
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‘I puked virtually every morning’: inside the stressful life of a festival organiser
Fiona Stewart, the owner and managing director of Green Man festival in Wales, compares launching a festival to opening your own restaurant. You love eating
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The list goes on and on … ’
Born in Nottinghamshire, Dickinson, 65, became lead singer of the band Iron Maiden in 1981. In 1982, The Number of the Beast became the first
Post your questions for Interpol
Of all the buzz bands to emerge from early 00s New York, Interpol have been one of the most distinctive and enduring – and as
Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much review – immaculately polite, Coldplay-lite pop-rock
How do you follow up the biggest international hit by a British artist since the mid-1990s? That was the conundrum facing Oxford four-piece Glass Animals
Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South Vol 2 review – annoyingly irresistible
Sometimes it’s unclear why an artist calls one collection of songs a mixtape and another an album. There’s little confusion here. Rapper Curry’s last album,
Beyza Yazgan: Human Cocoon review – from Middle Eastern classical to American minimalism
Born in Busan, Turkey, trained in Warsaw and, since 2016, based in New York City, Beyza Yazgan is a pianist whose compositions seem to have
VR show takes ravers old and new back to early UK acid house scene
You’re at a house in Coventry in 1989 placing the needle on a vinyl record. The grooves of the record suddenly swell up around you
Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’
‘One of my deepest hopes is that Mimi can continue to be the light …” Alan Sparhawk pulls his arms up tight around his head,
The ‘brat’ summer takeover – podcast
The Guardian’s music editor Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Hannah Moore discuss Brat by Charli XCX, which is set to be the defining album of 2024 and