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Your chance to ask Anderson about taking avant garde music to the pop charts with O Superman, making an AI chatbot of her late husband Lou Reed or even having her own planet
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On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’
The long read: I took a cruise with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out how this much-mocked rock band became so beloved
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‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar
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‘When The Sopranos used it, my phone blew up’: Journey on Don’t Stop Believin’
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Sound clashes are a thrilling reggae tradition. Will AI ruin them?
Has pop music got less melodic? I’ve immersed myself in 70 years of hits – this is what I’ve found
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With songs about heartbreak and capitalism, the cult pop singer is on the brink of the mainstream – but the intensity of her fandom has her fearing for her safety
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Darcus Howe’s son Darcus Beese and his activist mother, Barbara: ‘He was imbued with the spirit of the struggle’
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Hit em: how a dream about raves, graves and slime led Matmos’s Drew Daniel to a new music genre
While Daniel slept, a girl introduced him to ‘super crunched-out sounds’ at a wild tempo. After he shared the details on X, producers are making his fantasies into reality
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‘Your favourite rappers are only alive because of our sacrifices’: the secret life of rap bodyguards
From 2Pac in the 90s to XXXTentacion and more in recent years, murder is frequent in the US rap scene. The men trying to protect the artists explain the physical and psychological toll
The music industry is engineering artist popularity – listeners are right to be angry
Shaad D'Souza
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CDs sales are growing. How I wish I hadn’t given my beloved collection away
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‘It brings you back’: the suburban choir helping people living with dementia reconnect
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Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?
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