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Indie pop star Connie Constance: ‘People play with your career as if it’s not your entire life’
She was on a major label, hanging out with Dua Lipa – but being sidelined behind the scenes. Now independent and thriving, the UK musician has a cautionary tale for women in the music industryThe pandemic temporarily spelled game over for emerging pop …
Nao: And Then Life Was Beautiful review – joy and hope amid the pandemic
(Little Tokyo Recordings/Sony Music)Plenty of new albums are considering life with Covid, but few of them are as sensual and gorgeous as thisNo sooner had lockdown begun than the musical responses came. Over the last 18 months, we’ve had everything fro…
Britney Spears says she agrees with father that conservatorship should end
Singer’s lawyer says in court filing that she consents to move but the first step should be her father’s removal from arrangementBritney Spears has said that she agrees with her father that the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money sin…
First trailer lands for Netflix’s explosive Britney Spears documentary
Film, directed by Erin Lee Carr and due 28 September, will explore legal and ethical issues of singer’s conservatorshipThe first full trailer of Britney vs Spears, the Netflix documentary by Erin Lee Carr that will explore the legal battle over the pop…
Norman Bailey obituary
Bass-baritone who excelled as Wagner’s Wotan, Hans Sachs and Flying Dutchman, and in big Verdi rolesThe generation of British opera lovers who got to know Wagner’s works in the late 1960s and 70s was fortunate indeed that Sadler’s Wells (from 1974 Engl…
Rick Astley on his Smiths covers gigs: ‘I’ll use a karaoke machine if I have to’
Ahead of his two Morrissey-channelling gigs with Blossoms, the singer talks Twitter, his London pub and how he once followed Andy Rourke around the Arndale centreLast Monday, Rick Astley (as in 80s, bequiffed, Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley) made …
The Tape review – Cornish-set folk musical bobs along like a floating flip-flop
A disillusioned musician stumbles upon inspiration in a charming film debut from folk singer Martha TilstonEnglish folk singer Martha Tilston pulls off an impressive hat-trick of debuts as writer, director and star of this sweet-natured and gently char…
Jacques Peretti on clubbing: ‘Lockdown saw the return of the illegal underground rave – I could have cried’
The Guide’s former club columnist (who hated clubbing) reflects on the shifts in dance culture and hopes for a renaissance in revelryThe Guide only offered me the clubs column because they knew I hated clubs. And in 1993, there was plenty to loathe. Co…
Mathematicians discover music really can be infectious – like a virus
New music download patterns appear to closely resemble epidemic curves for infectious disease, study finds Pop music is often described as catchy, but it seems you really can infect friends with your music taste. The pattern of music downloads after th…