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

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

The Fife-born artist has only released two songs but is already drawing comparisons to Jeff Buckley thanks to their extraordinary voice. Poised to release a new single, they speak to Roisin O’Connor about their ill-fated venture into medicine, loneliness in the queer community, and a very specific kind of romantic obsession

<p>James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, whose debut album turns 20 this week </p>

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LCD Soundsystem and the album that changed music

<p>Cult classics: Paul Brindley, David Gavurin, Harriet Wheeler and Patrick Hannan of The Sundays in 1990 </p>

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The Sundays were the dream-pop greats who disappeared without trace

<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’

Interviews

<p>Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: ‘I try not to lose it, like late-period Aretha Franklin’ </p>

Bonnie Prince Billy: ‘I wrote a song that made my legs turn to jelly’

<p>JADE: ‘I don’t mind piping up and clapping back’</p>

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JADE: ‘No one I know came off X Factor without a mental health issue’

<p>‘I would sing in public, and everyone would be like, “She’s got the voice of a divorced woman in the body of a 13-year-old girl,”’ says singer-songwriter Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir </p>

Interview

Grammy-winning jazz-pop star Laufey: ‘When I was 17, Bill Murray told me I was a very powerful woman’

<p>Evan Dando: ‘When Nirvana got big, I was like, we gotta go the other way. That’s the only way to distinguish ourselves’ </p>

Interview

Evan Dando: ‘I wanted to try heroin because of Keith Richards’

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

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

<p>Scottish band Brògeal: ‘We feel very strongly about our country and its culture'</p>

New Sensations

Scottish band Brògeal: ‘It’d be a cop-out to copy English bands’

<p>Jalen Ngonda: ‘Love is the most human thing to talk about'</p>

New Sensations

Singer Jalen Ngonda: ‘I don’t want to write something I can’t feel’

Reviews

<p>FKA twigs in artwork for her single ‘Perfect Stranger’ </p>

On Eusexua, FKA twigs reaches for new, oddity-embracing shapes

The latest record from the singer and dancer is rawly explicit; at times, it does wander around in vague search of melodies

<p>Central Cee in artwork for his debut album, ‘Can’t Rush Greatness'</p>

Central Cee makes a bold statement on his long-awaited debut album

British rapper comes through with his smartly produced debut, which sees him switching between macho posturing and surprising vulnerability

Live music

<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

Bob Dylan, folk-rock’s finest songwriter, seems to exist beyond music

Retrospectives

<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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Nirvana’s Unplugged show is hallowed now but it almost never happened

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Inside the turbulent journey to The Cure’s first album in 16 years

The bizarre history of the ‘final gig’, from Oasis to Pink Floyd

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