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<p>Teddy Swims: ‘I’m just a blossoming flower’</p>

Interview

Teddy Swims: ‘Men should tell each other how pretty we are’

The Grammy-nominated artist is one of the world’s hottest new stars – and he also knows how to walk a red carpet. He talks to Roisin O’Connor about learning to cope with fame, why he prefers the Brit Awards and how he reckons God is definitely a woman

<p>Samia: ‘What I’m reaching for is self-certainty’</p>

New Sensations

Singer-songwriter Samia: ‘It’s easier to be an idea than a person’

<p>Lone rider: Mike Scott has been the one constant throughout The Waterboys’ 40-year career</p>

Interview

The Waterboys on Dennis Hopper: ‘At crucial moments, he’s there’

<p>Brothers in arms: At the heart of the Beatles was the fraught friendship between Paul McCartney and John Lennon</p>

Interview

Ian Leslie on John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s ‘erotic’ bromance

Interviews

<p>The Darkness’s Justin Hawkins (left): ‘Sometimes you gotta take matters into your own hands’</p>

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Justin Hawkins: ‘People saw our video and assumed I was back on drugs’

<p> Santana: ‘Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die’</p>

INTERVIEW

Carlos Santana: ‘Hostile forces tried to destroy Michael Jackson’

<p>‘I would never make someone feel like s***. But if someone crosses me? Then, no, I’m not nice’</p>

Interview

Louise: ‘I was never scrutinised. Then bang – everyone had an opinion’

<p>Sam Ryder: 'We’re building something totally new that I think is the direction the music industry is headed'</p>

Interview

Sam Ryder: ‘For the first time, I felt a pang that we didn’t win’

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Rapper Strandz stars in Music Box performance of ‘No Peace, No Time’

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Indie band Oracle Sisters star in gorgeous Music Box session

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Watch Stephen Wilson Jr sing his ‘Deathcab for Country’ songs

New Sensations

<p>Chloe Moriondo makes music for mermaids</p>

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Chloe Moriondo: ‘I’ve been embarrassed by my online past selves’

<p>‘In a world that is very loud and everything is supposed to be faster and more efficient, for me, songwriting and folk music are the opposite of that’</p>

New Sensations

Clara Mann: ‘We’re alienated from each other – live music is a remedy’

<p>Irish post punk group The Murder Capital are releasing their third album, ‘Blindness’</p>

New Sensations

The Murder Capital: ‘Irish artists aren’t so protective of their loot’

Reviews

<p>Elton John and Brandi Carlile teamed up for their new album, ‘Who Believes in Angels?’</p>

Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s album delivers old-school fun

<p>Will Smith on the cover of his new album</p>

Will Smith’s album isn’t the mask-off moment we were hoping for

Live music

<p>A group of pulsating performers surround FKA twigs at Magazine London, two-stepping to the glitchy techno beat of ‘Room of Fools’</p>

FKA twigs shows off her extraterrestrial star power at Eusexua rave

<p>Sabrina Carpenter performs at the Brit Awards in March 2025</p>

Sabrina Carpenter’s saucy O2 gig makes tweens shriek and parents blush

<p>Lamar on the hood of a classic GNX car at the start of his performance in New Orleans</p>

Review

Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-baiting at the Super Bowl was a smoke-screen

<p>Paul McCartney on stage in Manchester </p>

Paul McCartney, the last great Sixties showman, is truly breathtaking

Retrospectives

<p>Better Belieb it: Justin Bieber in concert in Germany in 2009</p>

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There’s a simple reason we owe Justin Bieber more respect

<p>‘A new breed of autonomous, self-defined and uninhibited female rock star’: Patti Smith pictured in 1976</p>

Horses at 50: How a reluctant musician made a punk-rock classic

<p>The documentarians were able to dig up once-lost footage, like a performance from 1969’s Bath International Music Festival</p>

In Focus

The inside story of Becoming Led Zeppelin

<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’

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