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  • James Smith of Yard Act sings into a microphone on stage under blue lighting

    Interview
    ‘We’re really good. I don’t mean that arrogantly’: Yard Act on bullying, imposter syndrome and their heavy new sound

    The Leeds group arrived in a frenzy of post-punk energy, picking at the scabs of society – then started questioning their instant success. They talk about dodging ‘the megaband treadmill’ to make their surreal new album
  • Attendees at Rising festival’s new exhibition, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, held at Acmi in Melbourne, can manipulate four turntables to create their own live compositions.

    Feature
    Spin city: Melbourne loves records – but is it really the vinyl capital of the world?

  • Two people sit on a bed in a bright room, one holding a pen, both wearing casual clothes.

    Add to playlist
    The whimsy and warped electronics of duo Ear and the week’s best new tracks

  • A man wearing a dark blazer, a white shirt, beaded bangles, with his hands together

    ‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new album

  • Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge

    The reader interview
    ‘The biggest myth? That I left Sister Sledge’: Kathy Sledge on sibling rivalry, Chic and disco’s political power

  • Mouse on Mars with Lee Scratch Perry

    ‘We’re waiting for the plan to find us’: Mouse on Mars on working with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and 30 years of oblique adventures in sound

  • The songs have a sparkle, despite making love sound like mortal combat … Iceage.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter review – Danish punks ace sixth stellar album on the trot

  • A close-up photograph of the musician Violet Grohl holding a silver dart with a tail shaped like a feather

    Rock
    Violet Grohl: Be Sweet to Me – alt-rock arriviste aces the part

  • The musician Matías Aguayo wearing a grey sequinned top and blue eyeshadow and standing in front of a plume of smoke

    Global album of the month
    Matías Aguayo: Anenoa – the funkiest, freest singer in the business hits the dancefloor

  • The musician Kurt Vile sitting at a table in a bar

    Rock
    Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me – indie-rock’s most easygoing dude gets existential

  • Sugar performing at Kentish Town Forum, with David Barbe, left, and Bob Mould.

    Rock
    Sugar – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody

  • Doja Cat performs in red lingerie behind a wall of flame

    Pop
    Doja Cat – pop superstar or true freak? US iconoclast plays the tension to perfection

  • Kraftwerk perform at electronic consoles beneath a large laptop projection and binary code backdrop at Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

    Electronic
    Kraftwerk – after more than half a century of techno supremacy, they still sound like the future

  • Harry Styles performs on stage during his Together, Together Tour at Johan Cruijff Arena on Saturday in Amsterdam

    Pop
    Harry Styles – a genuinely charismatic performer who has pulled off one of the hardest tricks in pop

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  • Sonny Rollins performing in 1965.

    Tribute
    Magic, mastery and magisterial power: 10 of Sonny Rollins’ greatest recordings

  • Bebe Rexha in sunglasses

    Honest playlist
    ‘Growing up, you couldn’t play Bon Jovi – that’s what our parents listened to’: Bebe Rexha’s honest playlist

  • Five men clenching their fists and jaws

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    The virtuoso prog-metal-folk of Brazil’s Papangu and the week’s best new tracks

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A Day Out In History

  • Battle Abbey

    English Heritage
    From Stonehenge to Whitby Abbey: 40 fascinating historical sites in England to visit this summer

  • Garden front of Osborne House, summer residence of Queen Victoria, Isle of Wight

    Romantic retreat
    Explore Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s Osborne

  • Lewis and Richard Edwards-Middleton took their children for a day at Stonehenge.

    Historic Days
    ‘Our son thought: what if I actually move the stone?’: unlocking the mysteries of Stonehenge with a family visit

  • Stonehenge aerial

    Gallery
    From neolithic ancestors to Arthurian legend: how English Heritage sites tell the nation’s story

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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

  • Photo of Sonny ROLLINSUNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of Sonny ROLLINS (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns)

    Sonny Rollins, US jazz saxophonist regarded as a genius of improvisation

  • 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

    News
    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
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