Music

The bass legend believes music is becoming a middle-class hobby

The rapper turned politician gave young people a voice – so the military had to silence him

The Proms is a reminder that the stirring quality of organised sound defies all reason

Biographer Sathnam Sanghera on our unresolved problems with the late singer

The problem for the hip outsider is that, if you suddenly become the most powerful person in the country, your old ways don’t look the same any more

Patrick Freyne’s creations The Heathens star in a book that’s hilarious and heart-wrenching

The PM-in-waiting’s playlist choices are sound. But then so were Boris Johnson’s

The extremist thug, agitator and convicted fraudster has somehow managed to get his show on to Spotify. If his first episode is anything to go by, it’ll be a downpour of race-baiting poison

A dash from a scrapped concert to a Scotland match has piled on the disappointment for ticket-holders. What would Mark E Smith have made of it all?

As the singer-songwriter tours his early material, it's starting to sound like prophecy

The problem is that Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and the others all offer the same thing. The infinite jukebox is useful and fun, but a change could be on the horizon and it could come from the musicians themselves

Once derided as a ‘singing budgie’, the actor turned pop megastar has redefined what it means to be Australian, and made Britain happier too

Gary Stewart was brilliant, briefly revered and doomed by drug addiction. Now a new biography finally gives him his due

Angélique Kidjo takes back the African sounds borrowed by western artists – and makes better records from them

The Reform leader is furious he hasn’t been on Radio 4’s castaway show. But when asked in 2025 what music he likes, he replied: ‘None’

Relatable but unadventurous – and why has he snubbed artists from Liverpool?

New records by old musicians like Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones suddenly sound vital. Why?

How did the future M People founder make Manchester dance? He says it’s all about the attitude

The singer had been living in quiet retirement – then one night changed everything

A fearless, restless pioneer, the jazz legend was an imperfect man, but a musician of unique genius

Her blend of pop, opera, goth, techno and Catholicism, performed in over a dozen languages, requires a huge effort of will to hold it all together. She was more than up to the task

The Slovenian band used to satirise dictators. Now their targets are tech bros and algorithm-controlled music

If the VP ever becomes president, there is truly no hope for America

The son of GB News co-owner Paul Marshall has developed a solution to the small boats problem: laying mines in the world’s busiest shipping lane

‘Michael’ avoids the claims of child abuse by the King of Pop – and falls into the same old cliches

Fifty years ago, writer John Ingham was chatting to three musicians. Then their singer Johnny Rotten opened his mouth, and everything changed

Sharon Osbourne plans to join a far right protest in London next month

The ‘charming, cool’ winner of best male newcomer at France’s Grammys wants his eclectic style to cross the channel

A performance in Japan meant the end of the Revolution – and began a new chapter in the life of an eccentric genius

The Reform leader and his GB News colleague Bev Turner have railed against the decision not to allow the controversial rapper into Britain

Calls for Ye’s London gigs to be cancelled over his racism and bigotry are causing a backlash on social media

The Fab Four’s leading historian Mark Lewisohn is trying to finish his definitive trilogy – just as AI and algorithms start to rewrite their story