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<p>Gass and Black have been making music together since 1994 </p>

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The Tenacious D outrage is ludicrous pantomime politics at its worst

Jack Black has said that bandmember Kyle Gass’s unpleasant Trump gag at a Tenacious D gig ‘blindsided’ him. But, writes Laura Barton, he ought to slow down, look back and learn from The Chicks, who had their own ‘outrage moment’ back in 2003

<p>‘I’m into druidism. I’m a druid-lite’ </p>

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Marc Almond: ‘I got a pin badge and – tah-dah! – I was a satanist!’

<p>The Beatles (and The Hollies) may have been the first, but each generation has had its own guitar heroes</p>

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Why England’s North West is guitar hero utopia

<p>Fronted by Dave Bayley, Oxford outfit Glass Animals broke chart records with their 2020 hit ‘Heat Waves’ </p>

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Glass Animals: ‘I had hoped Rihanna would sing Heat Waves’

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<p>Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez: ‘Emotionally, it was the worst time to record the album’ </p>

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Cigarettes After Sex: ‘I’m not bitter. I don’t write from that place’

<p>Former girl group star and ‘X Factor’ contestant Camila Cabello released her fourth album in June</p>

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Camila Cabello: ‘If this doesn’t work, I’m not out on the street’

<p>Brazilian electropop group CSS: ‘We were so tired after shows, and we weren’t going to do drugs just to go to an afterparty’ </p>

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Indie sleaze icons CSS: ‘We’re reuniting for fun – not money’

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John Grant: ‘Some of this trauma stuff is like a chronic disease’

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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’

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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>Donald Glover’s is retiring Childish Gambino with an ambitious final album, ‘Bando Stone & the New World'</p>

Childish Gambino’s Bando Stone is an enormous, overgrown opus

Actor and musician says goodbye to his musical persona with a 17-track album that’s as great as it is unwieldy

<p>Marshall Mathers clashes with his problematic alter-ego on his 12th studio album </p>

Eminem punches downwards, joylessly and without inspiration

Rapper maintains his signature sharpness of diction throughout – it’s the content that’s at fault

Live music

<p>RAYE performs at the Montreux Jazz Festival </p>

Sting and RAYE shine over a hedonistic Montreux Jazz Festival 2024

<p>Avril Lavigne carries the Noughties torch at Mad Cool 2024</p>

Avril Lavigne dominates nostalgic (and not overcrowded) Mad Cool 2024

<p>Kylie Minogue performs at BST Hyde Park on Saturday</p>

Kylie Minogue at BST Hyde Park was a reminder of her undeniable cool

<p>Stevie Nicks at BST Hyde Park</p>

Harry Styles cameo jars in Stevie Nicks’ tremendous Hyde Park show

Retrospectives

<p>Early triumph: the Oscar-winning actor and singer Cher in 1973</p>

Cher determination: The scandal and survival of an immortal star

<p>The band’s hit song ‘Rock’n’roll Star’ made for a customarily dazzling opening – but things quickly went downhill</p>

Was 2004 the worst Glastonbury? If you were an Oasis fan, then yes

<p>Pretty, calming and aggressively OK: Dido’s 1999 album ‘No Angel’ </p>

The pleasure and tedium of Dido’s No Angel at 25

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

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Katie Price was the Eurovision winner that got away

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