The Cure have scored their first UK No 1 album in 32 years, with Songs of a Lost World. The band’s frontman Robert Smith said:
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Beyoncé leads Grammy award nominations with 11 nods
Beyoncé is out in front with the nominations for the 67th Grammy awards in what promises to be another female-heavy year. The star has scored
‘Leave your ego at the door’: from Thriller to Sinatra, Quincy Jones collaborators tell the stories behind his songs
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Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny on crafting hits with Joni Mitchell and David Bowie: ‘I had to keep telling myself it was real’
Pat Metheny is pretty much everywhere. For the past four decades, the 70-year-old guitarist has been crisscrossing the globe, playing an average of 150 shows
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A self-titled record can be significant, signalling a reset or autobiographical candour. Neither quite applies here, if only because UK electronic producer Darren J Cunningham
Distant Voices, New Worlds review | John Lewis’s contemporary album of the month
Musical invocations of Englishness can mean anything from Elgar to Davey Graham to the Sex Pistols. They can be nostalgic and pastoral, mournful or dystopian.
Anger is an energy! Stars and writers on the songs that define punk spirit
Patti Smith – Pissing in a River (1976) Chosen by Phoebe Lunny, singer/guitarist of Brighton duo Lambrini Girls This is so beautiful and heartfelt, but
Three people charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death in Argentina
Three people have been charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death in Argentina for supplying narcotics and the abandonment of a person followed by death.
Top of the pips: Fiona Apple’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
20. Across the Universe (1998) You could easily fill a Top 20 with Apple’s original compositions, but this Beatles cover deserves recognition for arguably besting
Linkin Park: From Zero review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
In September, Linkin Park’s comeback single The Emptiness Machine entered the UK singles chart at No 4. You could see that as an extraordinary state