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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

In Iceland, where the boundaries of what’s possible are often pushed, Thermal Beets is ditching the harmful plastic ordinarily used to make records

HUNTR/X – stars of Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters – are female, fictional and seemingly unstoppable

London’s Laptop Orchestra is reinventing classical music by teaching computers to play

From politicians and A-listers to Jägermeisters at 2am, our big three festivals have all bases covered

The most-performed living composer celebrates his 90th birthday

As Ozzy Osbourne bows out, rock’s other shock legend returns to his roots – and reminds us who did it first

At Wembley Stadium, Liam and Noel Gallagher served up pure sonic energy, proving that the best things in life can live forever

The singer left the most famous soul label in music history almost as quickly as she’d arrived

In the capital city’s abandoned temples and underpasses, Taiwan’s youth are reclaiming their space – and culture

In the game of he said, she said, the former still wins. Until principles can trump money, MeToo’s survival is fighting a losing battle

The Beeb linked to a 'leaked' setlist for Oasis's comeback gig - except it was a spoof which claimed the band had set aside time for a fight

Growing up in an abusive household, the Gallagher brothers became two very different personalities. Together, they made one great rock’n’roll star

The Reform leader has a new, surprising area of expertise

The protest band got an ecstatic welcome in Dresden, the city where a young Vladimir Putin was stationed as KGB officer

Very few people have ever been famous the way Armstrong was. He released music almost every year from 1923 to 1970, selling four million records

At Glastonbury, the punk-rap duo played to one crowd – and their critics followed by playing to another

The concept was developed by feminist thinkers in the 1970s. Finally, two female artists have come along to blow it to pieces

The British establishment has given the Irish rap group the two greatest gifts of all: legal trouble and a moral panic