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The 13 biggest gigs and festivals to book tickets for this Spring
Take That, Taylor Swift, and the poppiest line-up in Glastonbury festival’s history. These are the hottest tickets this Spring
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Ovation: Roger Daltrey bows out of Teenage Cancer Trust with dad rock by the campfire
This was a fitting salute to a great rock star, who rang the registers one last time for a life-changing charity
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Kurt Cobain: unseen family photographs of Nirvana’s broken idol
Thirty years after the troubled musician joined rock’s most tragic club, he is adored by a generation who weren’t yet born when he died
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Gossip are superb, Waxahatchee processes the scourge of addiction – the week’s best albums
Beth Ditto has retained all her vocal power, with some added sweetness, while Waxahatchee reveals a remarkable young country talent
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With Raye’s record Brits success, the music industry is gorging itself on humble pie
The star is getting the recognition she deserves, but this year’s awards show how neglectful the business is of homegrown talent
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Norah Jones: ‘Going on tour without my kids is like a vacation – it’s a double life’
She made the best-selling jazz album of all time – now the secretive star opens up about balancing fame with family
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Liam Gallagher and John Squire channel psychedelic Beatles, Yard Act thrill – the week’s best albums
The Oasis and Stone Roses rockers are still a potent union, while the Leeds post-punkers prove great bands can still be made in Britain
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Olly Alexander’s Dizzy is not the Eurovision banger the UK needs
The singer and actor’s slick UK entry does a decent job of copying the Swedes. But is this the best a once-great pop superpower can do?
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Imelda May interview: 'I don’t think women have support within the arts'
As the Irish singer champions The Forgotten Yeats Sisters for Sky Arts, she talks about women in history and the thrill of rock'n'roll
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Rod Stewart with Jools Holland: Swing Fever – this album of swing standards is utterly joyous
They may well be in golden oldies territory with this new album – but the pair are clearly having the time of the lives
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The original punk? How William Blake became rock’s favourite poet
Unrecognised in his lifetime, Blake has finally achieved immortality – as a proto-rock star
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Jennifer Lopez, This is Me... Now, review: Rapping about prenups? How romantic
The star delivers a competent but underpowered album of slick pop inspired by Ben Affleck – but where's the Latin flavour?
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Laufey: this Gen Z Karen Carpenter is going to be huge
Jazz's answer to Taylor Swift is on a dizzying ascent and it seems unlikely we'll see her in venues as intimate as this ever again
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The secret to Paul McCartney’s genius? It’s all about that bass
The Beatle is the finest – and most famous – bass player in pop history. And now he's been reunited with his beloved 1961 Hofner
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Music mogul Chris Blackwell: ‘I’m glad I didn’t sign Led Zeppelin. They were too dangerous’
The rock hitmaker behind Bob Marley on his biopic worries, hosting James Norton at Goldeneye and why he didn't sign the Rolling Stones
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Usher, Coming Home, review: this Super Bowl star might have scored himself a comeback
Ahead of his Super Bowl show, RnB’s former golden boy couldn’t have chosen a better time to release his cheesy but exuberant comeback album
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