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  • Pop singer Nena in 1982.

    Sex, Mozart and chanting monks
    The 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!

  • In no mood to compromise … Nico in 1967.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Nico: The Marble Index/Desertshore – an unforgettable trip to a very dark place

    These two reissued solo albums from the German singer have a fearsome reputation – but they offer an experience like no other
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    How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream?

    Damon Krukowski
    The way musicians are compensated is highly unfair. A new bill in the US Congress could fix that – and it’s about time
  • Nick Cave

    Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons
    It’s against nature to bury your children

  • Mick Jagger, USA

    Rare and raw
    Never-before-seen Rolling Stones – in pictures

  • Exquisite … Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus

    Film review
    Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus – a stark, emotional finale from master musician

  • Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Allen White.

    The Bear is The Boss
    Jeremy Allen White tipped to play Bruce Springsteen

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Interviews

  • Into the pop stratosphere … Tyla in New York.

    ‘It’s sunny, with music bumping, and everyone in ripped clothing’
    How Tyla set a new pop mood

  • Gibby Haynes performs with Butthole Surfers.

    ‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’
    The weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers

  • Norah Observer

    Norah Jones
    When I met Ray Charles I couldn’t stop crying

  • Carrie Brownstein for Guardian Weekend 24 Oct 2015

    Carrie Brownstein on aliens, sandwiches and bad outfits
    Big hats are my most recurring fashion crime

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Album reviews

  • What happened to blue-sky thinking? … Shakira.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran – revenge served disappointingly tepid

  • Beth Ditto lying on her side with the two other band members behind her in semi-shadow

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    Gossip: Real Power – a welcome return that could be braver and weirder

    • Waxahatchee
      Tigers Blood – intimate Americana tackling life’s great tangle

    • Elbow
      Audio Vertigo – rhythmic, rousing reinvention conceals dark humour

    • Global album of the month
      Ganavya: Like the Sky, I’ve Been Too Quiet – ornate Tamil vocals, flutes and Floating Points

    • Shakira
      Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran – the Latin queen is back on top

    • Julia Holter
      Something in the Room She Moves – the best track is the simplest

    • Jesus and Mary Chain
      Glasgow Eyes – the Reid brothers get their mojo back

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Live reviews

  • Relatable showgirl … Caity Baserat O2 Academy, Leeds.

    Live review
    Caity Baser – cartwheeling celebration of chatty, bratty girlhood

  • Cinematic chilling … Air performing at the Coliseum, London.

    Air
    A wild, jawdropping, widescreen extravaganza

    • Throwing shapes …Jim Kerr, of Simple Minds, in full flow at Leeds.

      Simple Minds
      Stadium tour polishes 80s hitmakers’ gold dream

    • James Smith on stage at UAE Norwich, photographed from below, left knee up, looking dynamic

      Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Yard Act – a punk-funk workout for overthinkers

    • Yard Act at Norwich UEA

      Yard Act
      A band having fun in the midst of an identity crisis

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  • School of rock? … (L-R) Little Richard, Joanna Newsom and Metallica.

    Pop! goes the curriculum
    Songs to inspire primary school children

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  • Trent Reznor covered in mud, howling into a mic

    Sex, drugs and … God?
    Nine Inch Nails’ greatest songs – ranked!

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Obituaries

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From the archive

  • Lorde: ‘It’s my joy to be patient zero on a harmony virus.’

    Lorde
    I’m not a climate activist. I’m a pop star

    As Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine turns 10, revisit our interview with the New Zealand musician on the cusp of her underrated third album, Solar Power
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