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The hard right channel reported on 'fury' about Jools Holland's 'woke' annual jamboree - from a lone X account

Nothing has been quite the same in the decade since he made his final transformation. Except, that is, our appreciation of his genius

To survive the club culture of Buenos Aires, you need stamina and a willingness to let go of British ideas about bedtime

She may be a global superstar, but in her homecoming to Cali, it was Grupo Niche and the city’s centuries-old salsa culture that stole the show

Feeling not quite Greek but not quite British, a young Georgios went down the route of many uncertain teenagers – he chose Top of the Pops as his guide

Our writers on their cultural highlights of the year

Back in Berlin 24 years after their 9/11 gig, the band’s blistering paranoia is still in very much in evidence

A review of the latest efforts by Mumford and Sons focusses on one band member in particular

The clarity of emotion she expressed over strings and a rhythm and blues beat came as naturally to her as breathing

The Swiss want their unique singing tradition to be given prized status as part of the world’s cultural heritage – but some nations are struggling to join in

The movement may have exploded 50 years ago with the Sex Pistols, but the fuse was lit by rebels way back in history

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

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