Plus: The rapturous return of FKA twigs
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Picks of the week
‘It’s ended up being nothing to no one’
Can K-pop overcome crisis?
It looked destined to take over the world. But after misfiring albums, a legal drama involving bright hopes NewJeans and with domestic fans getting bored, the South Korean music industry is nervous
‘It was not a boyband!’
Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees
Interview
The rapturous return of FKA twigs: ‘I grew up feeling my body could do anything’
‘They’re still under there, they never got out’
The Futureheads’ Barry Hyde commemorates his mining heritage
Reviews
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling – Boygenius singer turns timidly tasteful
Folk album of the month
Savina Yannatou, Primavera en Salonico and Lamia Bedioui: Watersong – aquatic hymns
Destroyer
Dan’s Boogie – darkness haunts a gorgeous ruined palace of a record
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Arcadia – a fresh start
Yukimi
For You – sweet solo debut for Little Dragon singer
Mumford & Sons
Rushmere – back to dreary basics
Spotlight
Chic, Missy and Bryan Ferry’s wallpaper
75 years of Atlantic Records
Founded with a $10,000 loan from a dentist, the label has had an extraordinary array of groundbreakers from Aretha Franklin to the Drifters, from Abba to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Classical
Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works – momentum and drive from the Master of the King’s Music
Album review
Dvořák and Price String Quintets – a pairing of passion and sparkle
Live review
Britten Sinfonia/Berman – haunting premiere about memories of the Holocaust
Live review
Alexandros Kapelis/Berliner Barock Solisten – ravishing period immersion in Bach’s keyboard concertos
Add to playlist
Raw, romantic and radical
Joan Baez’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
‘I was too shy to tell Bieber how much I loved him’
Lisa from Blackpink’s honest playlist
One to watch
Sebastian Schub
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‘It’s so politically loaded’
Marlon Williams on ‘finding the gall’ to write an album entirely in Māori
Te Whare Tīwekaweka is being released at a tumultuous time for te reo and race relations in Aotearoa
Thank you Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor
How my 1990s teenage self found somebody to love
In her new book, music writer Kate Mossman looks back at her favourite type of encounter – interviews with charismatic, ageing, male rockers. Here she remembers the band – and specifically drummer – who electrified her as a girl growing up in Norfolk
‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’
How Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother
Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleys
Ravers, Rastas and rugby league stars
Why the story of Black British culture is about more than just London
Black Britons altered the DNA of music, fashion and sport in this country. But why is it framed as a London story? Bradford-born writer Lanre Bakare explores how it reaches far beyond the capital – and farther back in time
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