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  • Producer Clive Langer.

    Music
    ‘My job was making hits’: Clive Langer on taking Bowie, Dexys and Madness to No 1 – and why he turned Madonna down

  • Chappell Roan, Beyoncé and Charli xcx – three of this year’s multiple nominees.

    Predictions
    Chappell, chaps, Brat or rap spats: what will – and should – win at the 2025 Grammys?

    It’s tough to call the quality-stacked top categories, featuring Academy darlings such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift alongside pop’s new tyros
  • Candi Staton in London, 2025.

    Interview
    ‘He said if I divorced him, he’d kill us all’: Candi Staton on abuse, alcohol and the story of Young Hearts Run Free

    A star at 11, and still going strong 73 years later, the Queen of Southern Soul looks back on a life of hits, hurt and endless reinvention
  • ‘If you wanted to fall in love you let Luther do the work’ … Vandross

    Film review
    Luther: Never Too Much – the mystery and brilliance of ‘love doctor’ Vandross

  • Ozzy Osbourne on stage with red background

    News
    Ozzy Osbourne ‘shocked’ as Birmingham votes to honour Black Sabbath

  • ‘It’s relentless’ … from left, Mike Kellie, Alan Mair, John Perry and Peter Perrett.

    How we made
    ‘It was triggered by a Fellini-esque woman who pulled a knife on someone’: how the Only Ones made Another Girl, Another Planet

  • A man wearing a suit holds a guitar and smiles while performing onstage

    Broadway
    Hugh Jackman: From New York, With Love review – the showman hits Broadway again

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Best music of 2024

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Interviews

  • Lunch with Alex Kapranos illustration

    Lunch with...
    Alex Kapranos: ‘It took me a few years to realise that I didn’t have to drink everything on the rider’

  • Sean Moore, James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers sitting on a sofa

    Rock
    Manic Street Preachers: ‘The band feels like something you can go into battle with against the world’

    Miranda Sawyer
  • Portrait of Alison Goldfrapp with her hands on her hips

    On my radar
    Alison Goldfrapp’s cultural highlights

  • Perfume Genius AKA Mike Hadreas lying down with a boat in the background.

    Indie
    Perfume Genius: ‘I want to feel extremes – but I’m not as self-destructive now’

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Album reviews

  • Confidence and confusion … Central Cee.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Central Cee: Can’t Rush Greatness – conflict and contradiction underpin justly confident rap debut

  • FKA twigs looking to camera, wearing big earrings and sleeveless, high-necked black PVC dress

    Pop
    FKA twigs: Eusexua – she feels good

    • Rock
      Mogwai: The Bad Fire – a flame that still burns bright

    • Experimental album of the month
      Davis Galvin: Prism – shape-shifting soundscapes for the horticulturally minded

    • Pop
      Teddy Swims: I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) – retro soul with a retro lyrical attitude

    • Metal
      Wardruna: Birna – numbing Norse nature-metal better suited to Netflix scores

    • Rap
      Central Cee: Can’t Rush Greatness – a tantalising debut of hits and misses

    • Folk
      Sam Amidon: Salt River – huddled round the laptop, but where’s the spark?

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Live reviews

  • Floating Points perform at the Outernet venue in Central London. 22/1/25

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Floating Points – an unclassifiable triumph

  • Cunningham with her guitar

    Folk
    Madison Cunningham – complex new tunes from a folk singer with a knack for a twist

    • A trombonist, a man banging a huge gong and a saxophonist

      Avant garde
      Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners/Ensemble Klang – anarchic energy

    • Havoc of Mobb Deep on stage.

      Rap
      Mobb Deep – New York rap duo can still keep the temperature rising

    • Jesus Lizard’s David Yow in action at Manchester’s Academy 2.

      Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      The Jesus Lizard – US rockers relive past glories, with added phlegm

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  • Heartworms

    One to watch
    Heartworms

  • Potent … Tina Turner on her tour for the Private Dancer album.

    Review
    Tina Turner: Hot for You Baby – she’s in fine voice, but this lost 1984 song is no classic

  • FKA twigs portrait - Jan 2025

    Ranked
    ‘In her own out-there world’: FKA twigs’ 20 greatest songs

  • Head and shoulders portrait of Brooke Combe

    One to watch
    Brooke Combe

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Obituaries

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From the archive

  • The Smiths in 1987.

    Feature
    A light that never goes out: why the Smiths are eternally influential

    As Meat Is Murder turns 40, revisit our feature in which fans including Andy Burnham and Connie Constance consider how and why the band have endured
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    Books
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