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  • Victoria Rose and Stone Rosenberg

    Autumn arts preview
    ‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’: inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @

    Their un-Googlable, very online name is the antithesis of this earthy duo’s sublime art-folk. Like their emotionally ambiguous music, the pair don’t give up their mysteries easily
  • Gene Gallagher of Villanelle performs during All Points East at Victoria Park on August 2026 in London.

    Report
    Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?

  • Andy Burnham jamming in a mobile recording studio near Ukraine’s front line, in Kyiv on 24 August.

    Feature
    Bigmouth strums again: was Andy Burnham’s Smiths jam in Kyiv the perfect soundtrack to a Britain in freefall?

  • Close up of a woman in a suit with straight, shoulder-length hair

    Interview
    ‘I’m an ever-changing vessel’: Erykah Badu on defying definition, life as a birth and death doula and her first album in 11 years

  • June McDoom.

    Add to playlist
    The spectral, fathoms-deep folksong of June McDoom and the week’s best new tracks

  • Dolly Parton plays banjo in front of a crowd

    💬 ชาวเน็ตแห่แชร์: music - Kapook Update 2025Dolly Parton brought divided Americans together. What can we learn from her?

    Margaret Sullivan
  • KATSEYE Performs At The Today Show Citi Concert Series In New York, USA - 14 Aug 2026KATSEYE members, DANIELA AVANZINI, MEGAN SKIENDIEL, LARA RAJ and YOONCHAE JEUNG perform at the Today Show Citi Concert Series on NBC at Rockefeller Plaza in New York. 14 August 2026 KATSEYE Performs At The Today Show Citi Concert Series In New York, USA - 14 Aug 2026

    Report
    How Katseye became the world’s biggest girl group – while falling apart

  • A black-and-white photograph of Dolly Parton taken in August 1978

    Feature
    ‘9 to 5? She was full-on round the clock!’ Dolly Parton celebrated by kd lang, Peggy Seeger, Annie Lennox and more

  • DollywoodPIGEON FORGE, TN - 1993: American singer and songwriter Dolly Parton poses for a portrait with her guitar at Dollywood circa 1993 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. (Photo by Ron Davis/Getty Images)

    Report
    ‘It’s sad to lose a really nice person’: mourners flock to Dollywood after death of Dolly Parton

  • Dolly Parton onstage at the 2011 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation awards, gesturing widely against a mottled purple background

    💬 ชาวเน็ตแห่แชร์: music - Kapook Update 2025‘Find out who you are, and do it on purpose’: unabashedly herself, Dolly Parton was an icon to LGBTQ fans

    Joe Stone
  • Dolly Parton performs at halftime during a game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Commanders in 2023 in Arlington, Texas.

    💬 ชาวเน็ตแห่แชร์: music - Kapook Update 2025Dolly Parton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside out

    Alexis Petridis
  • Adam and the Ants members in flamboyant costumes and face paint play electric guitars on stage

    ‘We met Princess Margaret and she was paralytic!’ My wild life onboard the Adam and the Ants Antmania rollercoaster

  • The four members of Westside Cowboy pictured smiling against a red wall

    Breakout indie band Westside Cowboy on rejecting tech and loving imperfection: ‘We’re not hermits!’

  • Jorja Smith lying down lokoing at the camera

    ‘So many people say things about my appearance – it’s not normal’: Jorja Smith on burnout, body-shaming and finding freedom

  • The musician Billy Strings leaning against a tree

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass

  • Musician Kurt Wagner with a beard and a hat and glasses, sitting on a sofa

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Lambchop: Punching the Clown – spectral, spellbindingly ambiguous stirring of US history

  • A portrait of Gaia Wilmer in white jacket, against a striking red and blue background

    Global album of the month
    Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble: Parabólico – gorgeous reinvention of Gilberto Gil’s grooves

  • Musician Stella Lefty wearing a grey vest stands with her hands in the back pockets of her jeans looking at the camera

    Country
    Stella Lefty: Long Way Home – Boston singer’s debut is bland, boilerplate and beyond banal

  • Wolf Alice performs on stage, with the singer holding a microphone under concert lighting

    Festival
    Green Man – Wolf Alice, Shame and secret sets keep the Welsh festival’s flame burning

  • Woman on stage

    Pop
    Slayyyter – raucous show announces a new princess of sleaze-pop

  • Phoebe Bridgers performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, sitting on a stool

    Indie
    Phoebe Bridgers – high priestess of ambiguity turns grief Technicolor in intimate church show

  • Ariana Grande playing keyboards onstage, surrounded by starry lighting

    Pop
    Ariana Grande: pop illusion at its most effective – for good and bad

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  • Dolly Parton performs with a guitar in 1976. The singer died on 25 August in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 80

    Playlist
    Backwoods Barbie and the ‘God almighty’ PMS Blues: Dolly Parton’s 10 best deep cuts

  • The four members of Jawdropped photographed standing around a lamb

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    The righteous jangle and snaking melodies of Jawdropped and the week’s best new tracks

  • NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

    Honest playlist
    ‘Have I tried having sex to my own music? God, no!’: Natalie Imbruglia’s honest playlist

From the archive

  • Audrey Hobert sits on a stage reading a magazine next to an antique table with a turned off computer screen. In the background is a propped up guitar

    Interview
    ‘The beast inside me wants to move!’ The smart, slapstick world of Audrey Hobert, the Steve Martin of pop

    She co-wrote Gracie Abrams’ hit album then struck out solo, winning a fervent cult for her funny, wordy songs. As she's climbing the UK charts, revisit our interview

Obituaries

  • William Orbit standing on a ladder and waving an object

    Tribute
    Prince to Madonna, Blur to Beth Orton: William Orbit’s 12 greatest recordings

  • Bonnie Tyler performing in 2021.

    💬 ชาวเน็ตแห่แชร์: music - Kapook Update 2025Bonnie Tyler totally eclipsed her power-ballad peers, and created an astonishingly wide variety of pop

    Alexis Petridis
  • Bonnie Tyler performing at the 2013 Eurovision song contest in Malmö, Sweden.

    News
    Bonnie Tyler, 80s pop legend known for Total Eclipse of the Heart and more, dies aged 75

  • Brian Potter.

    News
    Brian Potter, British songwriter behind hits for Glen Campbell, Take That and more, dies aged 87

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