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When David Bowie headlined the festival in 2000, the BBC cut him off – and switched to Michael Eavis singing Elvis instead. As the channel finally airs the show in full, the man responsible fesses up
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Expletives are funny and creative, and telling performers not to use them is highly unimaginative, says Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore -
The former Pavement frontman on the Jicks' metrosexual revolution, fly-fishing and getting slated by Beavis and Butthead -
5 out of 5 stars.
Album of the week Robyn: Honey – beautifully personal pop perfection
5 out of 5 stars.By manipulating the modern pop palette to craft a complex heartbreak album, Robyn shows her imitators how it’s done
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Between breaks from goofing around, the two surviving members of the band talk about writing a new memoir, their rollercoaster career and coming to terms with the loss of Adam Yauch -
A combination of energy, cheer and her message of self-love has brought the Minneapolis musician to the brink of international recognition
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Milan’s most chi-chi restaurant is shut on Monday lunchtimes – unless you’re very special. Observer Food Monthly spends an afternoon in Byrne’s world -
The singer on wanting to be a drummer, why he’s never had a proper job and why fame is a disappointment
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4 out of 5 stars.
Smashing Pumpkins – still miles ahead of their rivals
4 out of 5 stars.The sheer inventiveness and breadth of their back catalogue makes this 30th-anniversary tour a joy -
5 out of 5 stars.
Lankum – dark, raucous poetry from Irish folk miscreants
5 out of 5 stars.Lankum deal in murder ballads, drinking songs and originals about the world’s terrors as if they were in a Coen brothers’ folk-horror movie -
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4 out of 5 stars.
BTS – warmth and wonder from world's biggest boyband
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4 out of 5 stars.
Hardy Caprio – skilful pop-rapper hypes up the hype
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4 out of 5 stars.
Jeff Lynne's ELO – interstellar joys from prog's enduring astronaut
4 out of 5 stars.
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Album of the week Yoko Ono: Warzone – name another 85-year-old making music this combative
3 out of 5 stars.Ono rages through an album that is part rehabilitation of 1985’s Starpeace, part call to arms – and wholly unique -
2 out of 5 stars.
Mø: Forever Neverland – stuck on the verge of a breakthrough
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Forty years after its chart peak, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the classic Pride anthem and the subject of academic symposia. Not bad for a drag queen who was ‘just trying to get on to the radio’
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In music, the joy of sex has been supplanted by nihilism and melancholy. Has the digital age made pop lose its loving feeling? -
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Kendrick Lamar Reading and Leeds festival review – glittery GCSE blowout has most diverse lineup yet
4 out of 5 stars.From Dua Lipa’s choreographed pop to Kendrick Lamar’s rap blitzkreig, R&L expanded beyond the indie faithful – but Sex on Fire still got the biggest singalong -
5 out of 5 stars.
Taylor Swift Robyn: Honey review – beautifully personal pop perfection
5 out of 5 stars.By manipulating the modern pop palette to craft a complex heartbreak album, Robyn shows her imitators how it’s done -
Sheeran’s single Shape of You is the music platform’s most-streamed song since it launched
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The former Pavement frontman answered questions on his fly-fishing exploits, Berlin’s nightlife and getting slated by Beavis and Butthead
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The French-Canadian producer’s new album turns her disenchantment with clubbing into hard-won creative autonomy – with wit and a kick drum -
The hip-hop trio are equally at home discussing depression and suicide as they are the slow demise of the Brooklyn neighbourhood they are named after
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Sharing the credits on Calvin Harris and Sam Smith’s recent chart-topper is just the beginning for this distinctive Canadian singer-songwriter -
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence make music composition easier than ever – because a machine is doing half the work. Could computers soon go it alone? -
A steady decline in circulation of the music press, epitomised by the closure of NME this year, has created new opportunities for stalwarts and niche titles alike
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