Music

In fact, it’s a total abomination, dreamed up by the company’s marketing department as a way of appealing to your inner narcissist

The Irishman had a rare ability to write about mood and place, to capture the rawness of what it is to be alive

I love the band. But this incessant anthologising, dismantling and rebuilding is straining things

She won’t talk politics, but her career speaks volumes - and it shows her city is a multicultural success

Eugene Hütz and his band turn the Council of Europe into a carnival of defiance

The country’s love of detail and discipline finds its purest expression in Tokyo’s tiny clubs and vinyl cafes

Thirteen years after the ‘punk prayer’ that saw her jailed, Maria Alyokhina’s new book details how the art collective continues the fight against Putin

In my pre-enlightened days, I joined a Billy Joel fan club. When I left the piano man behind, his life descended into despair

Wolfgang Flür, once part of the band’s classic line-up, on putting humanity into electronic music

Sally Wainwright’s punk requiem for the invisible offers a loud argument that rage can bring change

Nava Golchini dreams of the day she can go home and perform. Gabbeh, her debut album as NAVA, turns hyperpop into protest

His fans love his humour, his cheerful self-deprecation, his gritty gentleness, his ability to make sense of the brittleness of the world

Rock Against Racism’s joyous free concerts beat back the far right in 1970s Britain. That defiant blend of politics and music remains an inspiration – but its playbook may be obsolete

The singer’s remarkable new album West End Girl reveals a world in which women are gaslit into accepting their partners cheating

Scott Cooper’s superior biopic is a nuanced and absorbing account of a very particular cultural and personal moment in time

Deliver Me From Nowhere shows The Boss doing the work that politicians won’t – and telling the truth about a nation seduced by lies about itself

In true Milei fashion, the launch of his book, The Construction of the Miracle, was turned into a rock concert to a crowd of 15,000 diehard supporters

Carlos Acosta’s ballet celebrates a band that is woven into Birmingham’s cultural soul

The new David Bowie Centre fails when it reduces his ambiguities to tidy lessons – and soars when it simply shows off stagewear and possessions

The guitar took Jimi Hendrix to stratospheric heights; first as a backing musician for the Isley Brothers and Little Richard, then to swinging London

Music made with artificial intelligence is funny, viral and quietly insidious

Folklore still fascinates at Iceland’s pan-Nordic jazz mash-up

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Major Tom may be gone, but the new David Bowie Centre at V&A East displays the extraordinary treasures he left behind

The bureaucratic demands put on artists touring the continent are so great that many acts are simply giving up. And the government is doing nothing about it

From Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap to Danish jazz band Alawari, artists took to the stage in Helsinki to condemn “Israel’s horrifying genocide”

Anything she releases is devoured by her millions of fans. But what, really, is she selling?

For pretty much his entire life, Mendes was either in style or on the verge of being back in vogue, such is the world’s enduring love of Brazilian music

Formed at the height of punk and revered by fans like Kurt Cobain, the Raincoats are the band that refused to die

The controversial band defied local critics and pro-Israeli protestors at a riotous gig in Paris

From a backyard shack in Kingston, Perry reinvented the idea of the recording studio – before burning it to the ground

Considering the battles that raged within her, perhaps the thing about the singer that commands most respect is not her genius, but her persistence