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<p>Euro stars: (from left) Doja Cat, Dave Grohl, Janelle Monáe, Lana Del Rey, and Raye </p>

summer guide 2024

The 14 best music festivals in Europe, from Nos Alive to Montreux Jazz

From city breaks to islands in the sun, there are loads of options to get your music fix abroad this summer. The Independent’s culture team pick the best of the bunch

Interview

Rachel Chinouriri: ‘I’m a Black girl making indie music’

<p>Is the back catalogue of The Beatles really as infinite as a recent series of releases and projects suggests? </p>

Comment

Is there any ‘lost’ classic rock still worth hearing?

summer guide 2024

The 15 best UK music festivals, from Lost Village to Boardmasters

Interviews

<p>Porter Robinson: ‘Being with my normie jock friends at school, the family PC emerged as this beacon to me’ </p>

Interview

Porter Robinson: ‘Avicii’s death was a wake-up call for many people’

<p>‘The next thing I hear, Amy’s covering our song:’ The Zutons reflect on Winehouse’s ‘Valerie’ cover ahead of their new album </p>

Interview

The Zutons: ‘People texted me money emojis when Amy Winehouse died’

<p>Jon Bon Jovi: ‘[Am I] ready to do two and a half hours at Wembley? Probably not yet’ </p>

Interview

Jon Bon Jovi on marriage: ‘I’ve never lied about being a saint’

<p>The sound of strength in numbers: Idles, front left to right: Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Joe Talbot, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernan </p>

interview

Idles: ‘Our old lyrics were not the words of a healthy man’

Music Box

Watch Dylan John Thomas perform his single ‘Fever’ on Music Box

Watch the beautiful performance of ‘the author’ by Luz on Music Box

Damian Lewis sings ‘Down On The Bowery’ for Music Box

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New Sensations

<p>Motley blue: the band have a formidable live reputation </p>

interview

Blue Bendy’s Arthur Nolan: ‘I see a lot of myself in Kendall Roy’

<p>‘When I think about Madonna, Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, Britney and Gwen Stefani, I think my album has the same fundamental pop cues that those albums have had,’ says 29-year-old pop star Amaarae </p>

interview

Pop star Amaarae: ‘African artists are all lumped under one umbrella’

<p>NewDad released their Pixies-indebted debut album ‘Madra’ last month</p>

interview

Irish alt-rock band NewDad: ‘It’s no wonder bands don’t always last’

Reviews

<p>The stakes are still high on Dua Lipa’s ‘Radical Optimism’ </p>

Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism is bound to get bodies on the dancefloor

Unlike many of her pop peers, Dua Lipa doesn’t offer any diaristic glimpses into her private life

<p>‘All Born Screaming’ is the seventh album from St Vincent</p>

St Vincent’s All Born Screaming is pop that thrills in lush bursts

Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album is smart, cohesive and refreshingly tight

Live music

<p>A delicate dance between Mitski the artist and Mitski the idol: the singer-songwriter performs at London’s Eventim Apollo</p>

Cult musician Mitski is a cross between Beyoncé and Marcel Marceau

Beloved by screaming teenagers, the musician is lyrically open-hearted but a guarded, withholding performer – it is a spectacular magic trick

Roger Daltrey bows out from Teenage Cancer Trust with a worthy goodbye

Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Paul Weller and more accompany Daltrey as he takes his final bow as curator of the annual charity shows

Retrospectives

<p>‘They were just kids that were going out clubbing in London seven nights a week,’ says Martin Kelly of Heavenly Recordings </p>

Playback

Flowered Up were brilliant – but they were headed for tragedy

<p>New fans are discovering the music of Oakland musician Judee Sill </p>

The tragic life of Judee Sill, folk-rock’s forgotten star

<p>Those early Nirvana shows were experienced by fans as deeply communal and endlessly relatable</p>

Inside Nirvana’s final show: Kurt Cobain and a prophetic declaration

<p>Before he was famous: A young Cillian Murphy chats to Ireland’s RTE about his band, Sons of Mr Green Genes</p>

Features

How the 1990s Cork music scene helped make Cillian Murphy a star

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