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Ever since the Tumblr-scrolling days of my youth, my ultimate goal in life has always been to be seen as someone who is undoubtedly, undeniably, unquestionably…

On a video call from his Gothenburg apartment, Jens Lekman is contemplating the 132 weddings at which he has performed. “When you play a normal show,…

It hardly needs saying but I’ll say it anyway: we live in hard times. Things that some of us thought could and should have been solved…

Lady Gaga is the latest to join the slate of performers for the MTV VMAs, taking place on Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. ET and airing…

The Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who created the celebrated ballets Anna Karenina and the Carmen Suite, has died in Germany at the age of 92, Moscow’s…

Norman Harris’s career as a guitar dealer went stratospheric one day in 1973, when he received a phone call from a friend. “He said he was…

Like many bad teenage ideas, it began with a friend I admired a little too much. He was my best friend – he seemed sure of…

One mark of whether someone has the boldness to be a good pop star is how they respond to overhearing someone slagging them off. A few weeks ago, the…

As Drake’s lawsuit continues against his record label’s parent company, Universal Music Group (UMG), his lawyers have claimed that UMG’s British chair and chief executive Lucian…

In April 2024, Hannah, a teacher in a Kent primary school where she is in charge of music, thought she had successfully set up weekly drum…