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

Interview

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

The well-turned-out singer of ‘Girls’ and producer of ‘Guess’ for Charli XCX more than lives up to his party animal persona. He talks to Annabel Nugent about his debut album and upsetting the Daily Mail

<p>Joan Armatrading: ‘I still get the same thrill, writing a song from beginning to end. It’s quite a thing, you know?’</p>

Interview

Joan Armatrading: ‘I love gossip – but my private life is off limits’

<p>Art Garfunkel (right) with his son, Art Garfunkel Jr</p>

Interview

Art Garfunkel: ‘I’m in the mood to work with Paul Simon again’

The Countdown

The 20 best songs of 2024, ranked

Interviews

<p>Warmduscher’s Ben Romans Hopcraft: ‘None of us are rich, we’re still struggling every day’</p>

Interview

Meet Warmduscher, the UK’s most eccentric band

<p>Robin Campbell: ‘They always talk about Oasis and how big they are, but they can’t catch a cold outside of England, really’ </p>

Interview

UB40: We should be as big as Oasis – we’ve sold twice as many records

<p>Babydaddy, Del Marquis and Jake Shears of the newly reformed Scissor Sisters</p>

interview

Scissor Sisters on their reunion tour: ‘We didn’t make sense anywhere but the UK’

<p>‘We’re making intellectual and factual improvements, but when the old basic instinct kicks in? We get pulled back into the cave’ </p>

Interview

Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James: ‘I was the leader and never a victim’

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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>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’

<p>Fat Dog are the latest band to burst out of the south London post-punk scene</p>

New Sensations

Fat Dog: ‘Fans have tattoos of us now. My mum said they’re not well’

Reviews

<p>Father John Misty in a promotional image for his new album</p>

If Mahashmashana is an elegy for Father John Misty, it’s a great one

On his sixth record, the alter-ego of Josh Tillman finds himself swilling around queasy questions of mortality and self-obsession

Album reviews this week: Shawn Mendes, Flo and Warmduscher

Flo have got the vocals down, but the British trio need more than stunning harmonies if they want to come anywhere close to their professed heroes

Live music

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

<p>Elton John joins Dua Lipa on stage at the Royal Albert Hall</p>

Dua Lipa’s strange Royal Albert Hall show shouldn’t work – but it does

<p>David Gilmour performs as part of his six-night residency at the Royal Albert Hall in London, October 2024</p>

David Gilmour’s Royal Albert Hall residency is momentous and moving

Chester Bennington would approve of Linkin Park’s ferocious new era

Retrospectives

playback

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

in focus

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

Playback

The hidden chapter of Joni Mitchell that shows her risk-taking side

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