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  • Madra Salach

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    The snarling Irish folk of Madra Salach and the week’s best new tracks

    With a feral energy and a Liam Gallagher growl, the Dublin band’s beguiling music is a great evolution of a venerable genre
  • Kneecap: DJ Provai, Móglaí Bap and Mo Chara.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Kneecap: Fenian – their new album is terrific, triumphant yet tortured

  • Anne Hathaway in Mother Mary.

    Feature
    Out of tune: why does Hollywood struggle to capture pop stardom?

  • Music trio Late Transmissions – from left, Dave Hughes, Balfe and Eve Quartermain of Late Transmissions at Arts Club nightclub in Liverpool.

    ‘It’ll be in my Guardian obituary’: David Balfe on inspiring Blur’s Country House and tripping on Top of the Pops

  • Linett Kamala with her Basstone Maypole.

    Hey-nonny-bo! The woman reclaiming maypole dancing with dancehall and drum’n’bass

  • Knats. L-R: King David Ike-Elechi, Ferg Kilsby, Stan Woodward.

    ‘Geordie optimism is this rigorous spirit of hard graft’: Newcastle jazz band Knats break out of the north-south divide

  • The musician Noah Kahan standing against a dusky sky

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Noah Kahan: The Great Divide – Stick Season turns Groundhog Day in stadium folkie’s endless autumn

  • The musician Walter Smith III wearing a white shirt, black suit jacket and holding a saxophone against a brown backdrop

    Jazz album of the month
    Walter Smith III: Twio Vol 2 – classic jazz is vividly alive in the hands of this incisive saxophonist

  • Carla dal Forno.

    Pop
    Carla dal Forno: Confession – spartan, sunlit post-punk strikingly contrasts the desperation of desire

  • A group of women in traditional dress, wearing headphones and singing into a microphone

    Folk album of the month
    Various artists: Asili ya Mama – Tanzanian field recordings tell women’s stories with an energetic trill

  • Akon, left, and Ne-Yo performing in Dublin earlier this month.

    R&B
    Ne-Yo and Akon – joyous joint tour is like time-travelling to a messy night out in 2010

  • A woman in a black robe performs on stage with a huge swan projected on a screen behind her.

    Experimental
    Anohni – masterful songbook reinventions are an out-of-body experience

  • Singer Olivia Dean performing on stage at Glasgow Hydro

    Pop
    Olivia Dean – soul-pop superstar shimmies into a classy and commanding first arena tour

  • BESTPIX - 2026 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 1 - Day 3INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 12: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (NOT TO BE LICENSED FOR ANY STANDALONE OR SPECIAL INTEREST BOOK PUBLISHING USE CONCERNING THE COACHELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL AND/OR STAGECOACH MUSIC FESTIVAL) Karol G performs at the Coachella Stage during the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2026 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)

    Coachella 2026
    Coachella 2026 highlights: big stars, boisterous energy and millennial nostalgia power windy year

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    ‘We can be pioneers’: how art school creators are adapting to the age of AI

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    ‘We attract very entrepreneurial students’: the art and design university that backs startup success

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  • Jon Batiste wrapped in taffeta like a red rose

    Honest playlist
    ‘I don’t believe in song shaming!’: Jon Batiste’s honest playlist

  • Strangely distorted photo of Taupe

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    The disaster-baiting jazz-rock brinkmanship of Taupe and the week’s best new tracks

  • Everything But The Girl, Ben Watt, Tracey Thorn(1995)

    Ranked
    What’s missing? Everything But the Girl’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

From the archive

  • The Sherlocks

    Feature
    Made of steel: how South Yorkshire became the British indie heartland

    As Arctic Monkeys' debut album turns 20, revisit Dave Simpson's feature on the long shadow they cast over the region's indie scene

Obituaries

  • The Ronettes in 1964: Nedra Talley Ross, right, with Estelle Bennett Vann and Ronnie Spector.

    Nedra Talley Ross helped make the Ronettes the platonic ideal of a girl group

    Michael Hann
  • Dave Mason performing live with electric guitar in Los Angeles

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    Dave Mason, co-founder of Traffic who had a star-studded solo career, dies aged 79

  • Moya Brennan performing with Clannad in Dublin in 2011.

    Clannad’s Moya Brennan had a dazzling, distinctive voice that lifted spirits until the end

    Jude Rogers
  • Asha Bhosle, who has died aged 92.

    Feature
    Bollywood classics, rave bangers and Michael Stipe duets: 10 of Asha Bhosle’s greatest recordings

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