1 November 2025 From left: Melanie Blatt, Natalie Appleton, Shaznay Lewis and Nicole Appleton as All Saints performing at The Mobo awards in 1997. Photograph: JMEnternational/Getty Images The new documentary series Girlbands Forever warps us back into the glittery, high-stakes world of 1990s British and Irish all-girl pop groups, offering a sharp-edged blend of nostalgia, ambition and the messy reality behind the choreography and chart-toppers. Among the bands spotlighted are

29 October 2025 The ninth-century Latin manuscript. Photograph: The Raab Collection In an unexpected twist of history one of the most delicate yet profound revelations in the story of Western music has come from a private collection in Pennsylvania. A leaf from a ninth-century Latin sacramentary has turned up not just as a relic of the devotional rites of the early Middle Ages but as a key to rethinking when and how music took visible form. The vellum page includes tiny symbo

25 October 2025 Ariana Grande on the Shut Up Evan Podcast. Credit : Evan Ross Katz/Youtube In a wide-ranging conversation on the “Shut Up Evan” podcast, Ariana Grande revealed that her experience filming the musical film adaptation of Wicked triggered a fresh surge of musical creativity and a deep reconnection to her art. Grande, who portrays the character Glinda in the movie, said simply “[I] felt like a genuine spark, like a reconnection and inspiration and something I mean

24 October 2025 Shakira at Paris Fashion Week on July 6, 2023; Bad Bunny performing during 'SNL50: The Homecoming Concert' on Feb. 14, 2025. Credit: Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty; Kevin Mazur/Peacock via Getty Shakira has stepped into the spotlight to back Bad Bunny’s upcoming headline performance at the Super Bowl LX halftime show, calling his selection “about time” and framing it as a breakthrough for Spanish-language music at the world’s largest stage. In an interview with Var

18 October 2025 From left: Quincy Jones, Madonna, Herbie Hancock, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Idol and Tina Turner Illustration by Barbara Gibson The pulse of music video culture may be slowing to a whisper as MTV prepares to pull the plug on its five UK-based music channels at the end of 2025, raising a very real question about the future of the genre itself. When MTV burst onto the scene in 1981, it rewrote how artists were discovered, songs were promoted and pop culture was consum

16 October 2025 Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley performs at Alice Cooper's 19th Annual Christmas Pudding Fundraiser in Phoenix, Arizona in 2021. He has died aged 74, after a fall in his recording studio. Photograph: Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Ace Frehley, the guitarist and co-founder of Kiss whose cosmic persona and blistering solos helped define an era of theatrical hard rock, has passed away following complications from a fall. The news was first confirmed by his family, who s

14 October 2025 ‘Back then, cocaine was just another way of waking up’ … Stereophonic, the play about a 70s band. Photograph: Marc Brenner It begins as a conceit of fiction: a band that exists only on the page, or the stage, or in cinematic imagination. But in recent years something curious has happened. These invented ensembles have begun to transcend their fictional origins, releasing music, drawing crowds, and taking on a life of their own. The Guardian’s recent account tr

13 October 2025 Taylor Swift during her Eras Tour. Credit : Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Taylor Swift has just announced a landmark two-part release on Disney+ that promises to peel back the curtain on the most ambitious chapter of her career: a six-episode docuseries called The End of an Era and a concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show. The docuseries will debut December 12, 2025, with two episodes released weekly over three weeks, and it will chart the design,

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12 August 2025 Chance the Rapper. Credit : Keeley Parenteau Chance the Rapper has orchestrated a moment fans won’t soon forget,...

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