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<p>Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar with their awards at the 2025 Grammys </p>

This year’s Grammys felt like one big apology to the artists they snub

The Grammys had quite a bit to be sorry about when it came to recognising and celebrating diversity. In 2025, they decided to make up with the best artists in the world before it was too late, writes Hannah Ewens

<p>Inhaler: ‘A lot of people look at our band and think, “Oh, they were put together by Louis Walsh”’</p>

Interview

Inhaler singer Elijah Hewson: ‘I’m 25 now – I’m getting old’

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

in focus

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

<p>The soulful singer’s estate has been picky about his legacy – even turning down Brad Pitt’s offer to play him in a film</p>

State of the Arts

Finally, a Jeff Buckley film that handles his legacy with grace

Interviews

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

Interview

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>

Exclusive

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>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’

<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’

Reviews

<p>With ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’, The Weeknd offers a spectacular ‘final’ flourish as his alternate self</p>

On Hurry Up Tomorrow, The Weeknd delivers a spectacular final chapter

It would be easy to dismiss this 22-track album as indulgent – but the Canadian artist born Abel Tesfaye has created a fitting and astonishingly ambitious final score for his brooding alter ego

<p>Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, in the video for his track ‘London May’</p>

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s new album goes down smooth as Southern Comfort

Will Oldham surrounds himself with seasoned Nashville locals on a lovely, lullsome country-pop album

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>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>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

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