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<p>Caleb Followill: ‘The older I get, the more political I get’ </p>

Interview

Kings of Leon: ‘Nepo babies? I’m not giving my kids s***’

The ‘Sex on Fire’ singer talks to Laura Barton about ‘getting some of the dirty back’ on their new album, remembering their late mother, nepo babies and the polarisation of America

<p>Joan Baez: ‘We’re fighting uphill against an avalanche of evil, sadism and bullying’</p>

Interview

Joan Baez: ‘It feels good to have changed the world’

<p>Play with fire: Marlon Richards, son of Anita Pallenberg and Keith Richards, explores his mother’s story with directors Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill in ‘Catching Fire’ </p>

Secrets and lies of The Rolling Stones, according to Anita Pallenberg

<p>'Camp! Fun! Send her to the main show!’: Katie Price performing on ‘Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up’ in 2005</p>

Katie Price was the Eurovision winner that got away

Interviews

<p>Porter Robinson: ‘Being with my normie jock friends at school, the family PC emerged as this beacon to me’ </p>

Interview

Porter Robinson: ‘Avicii’s death was a wake-up call for many people’

<p>‘The next thing I hear, Amy’s covering our song:’ The Zutons reflect on Winehouse’s ‘Valerie’ cover ahead of their new album </p>

Interview

The Zutons: ‘People texted me money emojis when Amy Winehouse died’

<p>Jon Bon Jovi: ‘[Am I] ready to do two and a half hours at Wembley? Probably not yet’ </p>

Interview

Jon Bon Jovi on marriage: ‘I’ve never lied about being a saint’

<p>‘The first thing [Yoko Ono] said to me was, ‘You remind me of my husband, he was a singer as well’,’ recalls Lias Saoudi </p>

Interview

Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi: ‘My night out lasted 17 years’

Music Box

Jordan Rakei performs song ‘Hope And Dreams’ on Music Box

Wings Of Desire perform acoustic version of ‘Chance Of A Lifetime’

Music Box season 10 launches with indie rock band Wings of Desire

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Interview

Rachel Chinouriri: ‘I’m a Black girl making indie music’

<p>Motley blue: the band have a formidable live reputation </p>

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Blue Bendy’s Arthur Nolan: ‘I see a lot of myself in Kendall Roy’

<p>‘When I think about Madonna, Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, Britney and Gwen Stefani, I think my album has the same fundamental pop cues that those albums have had,’ says 29-year-old pop star Amaarae </p>

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Pop star Amaarae: ‘African artists are all lumped under one umbrella’

Reviews

<p>Having a ball: Kings of Leon in promotional photos for their new album</p>

Kings of Leon have dropped the dead weight on Can We Please Have Fun

A far cry from the beardy, beery bawling of previous years, ‘Can We Please Have Fun’ is surprisingly fresh and full of energy, says Helen Brown

<p>The stakes are still high on Dua Lipa’s ‘Radical Optimism’ </p>

Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism is bound to get bodies on the dancefloor

Unlike many of her pop peers, Dua Lipa doesn’t offer any diaristic glimpses into her private life

Live music

<p>A delicate dance between Mitski the artist and Mitski the idol: the singer-songwriter performs at London’s Eventim Apollo</p>

Cult musician Mitski is a cross between Beyoncé and Marcel Marceau

Beloved by screaming teenagers, the musician is lyrically open-hearted but a guarded, withholding performer – it is a spectacular magic trick

Roger Daltrey bows out from Teenage Cancer Trust with a worthy goodbye

Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Paul Weller and more accompany Daltrey as he takes his final bow as curator of the annual charity shows

Retrospectives

<p>‘They were just kids that were going out clubbing in London seven nights a week,’ says Martin Kelly of Heavenly Recordings </p>

Playback

Flowered Up were brilliant – but they were headed for tragedy

<p>New fans are discovering the music of Oakland musician Judee Sill </p>

The tragic life of Judee Sill, folk-rock’s forgotten star

<p>Those early Nirvana shows were experienced by fans as deeply communal and endlessly relatable</p>

Inside Nirvana’s final show: Kurt Cobain and a prophetic declaration

<p>Before he was famous: A young Cillian Murphy chats to Ireland’s RTE about his band, Sons of Mr Green Genes</p>

Features

How the 1990s Cork music scene helped make Cillian Murphy a star

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