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<p>‘I just tell the truth all the time, and I can’t help it. It upsets people sometimes. But hell, if the truth upsets you I can’t really help that’ </p>

Chaka Khan: ‘I found ways to hang on’

The ‘Ain’t Nobody’ singer talks to Stevie Chick about the rap at the start of ‘I Feel for You’, her years battling drug addiction and alcoholism and her collaboration with Sia

<p>Moby: ‘I’ve simply stopped seeing music as a job’</p>

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Moby: ‘I haven’t gone on a date in 10 years’

<p>Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on their rooftop in New York City on 28 November 1980</p>

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Blondie’s Chris Stein on Debbie Harry and a life of love and loss

<p>Taylor Swift performing the Eras Tour in Lisbon on 24 May 2024</p>

Three-hour Taylor Swift gigs aren’t ‘psychotic’ – but that’s too long

Interviews

<p>J Balvin: ‘Latinos can be whatever we want, we don’t just work in construction’ </p>

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J Balvin: ‘In the super macho man reggaeton world, I looked weak’

<p>Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill: ‘There was no HR in punk rock. Nobody is here to step in, step up for you’</p>

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Bikini Kill: ‘There is nothing more punk than a menopausal woman’

<p>Caleb Followill: ‘The older I get, the more political I get’ </p>

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Kings of Leon: ‘Nepo babies? I’m not giving my kids s***’

<p>Joan Baez: ‘We’re fighting uphill against an avalanche of evil, sadism and bullying’</p>

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Joan Baez: ‘It feels good to have changed the world’

Music Box

Jordan Rakei performs song ‘Hope And Dreams’ on Music Box

Wings Of Desire perform acoustic version of ‘Chance Of A Lifetime’

Music Box season 10 launches with indie rock band Wings of Desire

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

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

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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>

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

Reviews

The Stream

Tems’ sprawling debut proves the Nigerian star is no flash in the pan

The artist born Temilade Openiyi is resolutely confident in her own allure – and rightly so

<p>‘BRAT’ is Charlotte Aitchison’s 10th album, released under the moniker Charli XCX </p>

Charli XCX is her best brattish self on these clever, anarchic beats

Poised at the precipice of mainstream, the Essex artist gets busy untangling the contradictions of her ‘cult classic’ status

Live music

<p>Doja Cat performing in New York on 2 June 2024</p>

Doja Cat’s UK arena tour showcases her charisma and her growing pains

The rapper proves a captivating presence throughout a set that sometimes wants for a little more variety

<p>Taylor Swift onstage at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh during the first UK date of her record-breaking Eras Tour</p>

Taylor Swift’s Eras tour is like mainlining dopamine for three hours

Swift pushes past a painful hand cramp to deliver a sprawling, 45-song set that doesn’t miss a beat

Retrospectives

<p>The band’s hit song ‘Rock’n’roll Star’ made for a customarily dazzling opening – but things quickly went downhill</p>

Was 2004 the worst Glastonbury? If you were an Oasis fan, then yes

<p>'Camp! Fun! Send her to the main show!’: Katie Price performing on ‘Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up’ in 2005</p>

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Katie Price was the Eurovision winner that got away

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

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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

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