Music

Traditional English music is booming again, but extremists are trying to jump on the bandwagon

Their new EP shows the band can be hackneyed and tokenistic. But they’re on the right side.

A royal massacre, a deadly quake and student protests have left a country in crisis

Enough! Just stop using ‘til when it should be till

His new album is merely OK - but the former Smith is now more saga than singer

The rapper is defending himself against claims of antisemitic workplace discrimination by claiming artistic expression

The new Gorillaz album is a triumph. It also landed its chief creator with more accusations of cultural appropriation

With the classics now available without pops and clicks, today’s musicians are engaged in the unequal task of battling the past

The Puerto Rican’s halftime show appearance riled MAGA – but impressed everyone else

MAGA opponents Bad Bunny and Green Day will provide the entertainment for the NFL’s big game - and the president is staying away

The Australian singer turned right wing activist was censored by the channel for using an offensive term

A rebuilt concert hall delivers mid-century style with a dose of EU symbolism – but with big queues, and a heavy price

Donald Trump's administration has dismissed as "irrelevant" a hit Bruce Springsteen song attacking ICE's actions in Minnesota

A Telegraph columnist claimed, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, that the Thin White Duke supported the Conservatives

As bombs fall and homes are destroyed, the country’s vinyl collectors risk everything to save the music that tells their life stories

Living so close to a huge unfriendly neighbour has made our politics intense – but it has also done the same for our music culture

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