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<p>Covid-era cowhands: Mackenzie Scott and Julien Baker’s country project started during lockdown</p>

Interview

Boygenius’s Julien Baker and Torres on their queer country album

After putting their cowboy duo on hold while boygenius toured the world, the Tennessee pair are releasing the music they wrote before Post Malone and Zayn made country records. They talk to Hannah Ewens about how they met, strained feelings about religion and taking on Beyoncé

<p>Sports Team: ‘You can’t judge [the gun situation in the US] in the same way you would here’</p>

Interview

Indie band Sports Team: ‘They pointed a gun at our tour manager’

<p>‘I feel so much more confident in my taste and the way I am as a person,’ says pop star Tate McRae</p>

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Tate McRae: ‘I find the Britney Spears comparisons scary’

<p>Don’t Stop the Party: the Cuban American artist has had No 1 hits in 15 countries</p>

The cult of Mr Worldwide: How Pitbull started a global movement

Interviews

<p>Turning point: 20 February marks the 20th anniversary of Edwyn Collins’s stroke</p>

INTERVIEW

Edwyn Collins: ‘If I come across awkwardly – so what?’

<p>‘I can sing if I want to, or I can stay at home for the rest of my life because the cheques keep coming in’</p>

Interview

Candi Staton: ‘I told him, If you kill me, you’ll die too’

<p>The Wombats’ Matthew Murphy (centre): ‘I’m not trying to put something between me and life any more. I feel like I popped my head above the clouds’</p>

Interview

The Wombats’ Matthew Murphy: ‘My wife hears that Kate Moss song’

<p>Sharon Van Etten: ‘From my late teens through my early twenties, my roots in music were it being my survival’</p>

Interview

Sharon Van Etten: ‘Live forever? I want to get old and die’

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Music Box

Boston trio Tiny Habits perform ‘Wishes’ for Music Box session

The Mysterines perform ‘The Last Dance’ for Music Box

Rita Ora performs new single ‘Ask And You Shall Receive’

New Sensations

<p>Irish post punk group The Murder Capital are releasing their third album, ‘Blindness’</p>

The Murder Capital: ‘Irish artists aren’t so protective of their loot’

<p>Jacob Alon: ‘I always felt that being a musician wasn’t possible for someone like me’</p>

New Sensations

Singer Jacob Alon: ‘A cardiologist wanted to make an example of me’

<p>“I was definitely a “Perks of Being a Wallflower”-style individual’ </p>

New Sensations

The Dare: ‘People want to return to a dirtier, less fashionable era’

Reviews

<p>The singer’s latest release has him rhapsodising on his hometown and mortality over washed-out production</p>

On People Watching, Sam Fender is a mild imitation of his former self

<p>Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory</p>

Sharon Van Etten’s new record is an early Album of the Year contender

Live music

<p>Lamar on the hood of a classic GNX car at the start of his performance in New Orleans</p>

Review

Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-baiting at the Super Bowl was a smoke-screen

<p>Paul McCartney on stage in Manchester </p>

Paul McCartney, the last great Sixties showman, is truly breathtaking

<p>Suede are beloved in Hong Kong for being one of the first Britpop-era bands to visit the then-colony</p>

Hong Kong music festival Clockenflap punches well above its weight

Charli XCX brings her brazen, bass-heavy Brat Summer to Manchester

Retrospectives

<p>The documentarians were able to dig up once-lost footage, like a performance from 1969’s Bath International Music Festival</p>

In Focus

The inside story of Becoming Led Zeppelin

<p>Sinéad O’Connor’s lustrous, synthetically orchestrated version of the song broke the world’s heart</p>

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The wild drama behind Sinéad O’Connor’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’

<p>Marianne Faithfull with Anita Pallenberg at Heathrow airport, 1967</p>

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Unique, compelling and bonkers: My 24 hours with Marianne Faithfull

<p>You’ve got a friend in him: The songwriter’s musings on racism, poverty and the American struggle have resonated through the years </p>

In Focus

Randy Newman’s scathing satire of America has never been more relevant

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