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  • Dua Lipa.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism – a banger-filled missive from dating land

  • Sabrina Carpenter performing at Coachella in April.

    Sabrina Carpenter
    How the Espresso singer became a piping hot pop prospect

    She’s set to depose Taylor Swift from No 1 and has the most-streamed song in the world this week – the culmination of a decade of slow-burn success
  • Dua Lipa wearing a bodysuit with hook and eye fastenings all the way up the sides

    ‘When I became a meme it was humiliating and hurtful’
    Dua Lipa on pop, psychedelics and proving her haters wrong

    For two years, a viral joke mocking the singer’s dancing threatened to overshadow her record-breaking success – but the laser-focused star had the last laugh. And now she has her sights set on building a media empire
  • Tom Chaplin and Tim Rice-Oxley in 1988

    Keane’s Tom Chaplin and Tim Rice-Oxley look back
    Long friendships are like a marriage. You have to adapt to each other’s madness

  • Sharleen Spiteri

    Sharleen Spiteri
    I love getting old – I love the freedom it allows you

  • five people, three with unsmiling faces visible, one wearing a dog face mask, one with a bandana tied round their face. one of the unmasked ones is holding a small dog

    One to watch
    Fat Dog

  • Yaya Bey

    ‘I was sad in a way I never knew possible’
    Yaya Bey on grief, poverty and using music as therapy

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Interviews

  • the Lemon Twigs (left to right) Michael and Brian D’Addario

    ‘Who wants to stare at a computer?’
    Pop duo the Lemon Twigs on the joys of analogue life

  • Ludmilla performing at Coachella 2024.

    ‘I wasn’t worried about what gringos wanted!’
    Ludmilla, Brazil’s next pop superstar

  • Billy Bragg.

    Billy Bragg
    There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed

  • Rick Astley by the Thames River in Hampton, west London.

    This much I know
    Rick Astley: ‘I’m boring away from the spotlight – that’s why my life works’

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Album reviews

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Live reviews

  • No stranger to theatrics … Mitski’s performances have grown increasingly conceptual.

    Mitski
    Unusual, enigmatic and utterly compelling

  • Brett Anderson, hands on his mic stand, looking down, at the roundhouse

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Paraorchestra: Death Songbook – bittersweet ballads with Brett Anderson and friends

    • Howard Donald, Gary Barlow and Mark Owen of Take That performing at the O2 Arena.

      Take That
      Oddly packaged pop still packs a wallop

    • Olivia Dean performing at SWG3.

      Olivia Dean
      Pop-soul singer proves she was born for big stages

    • Romy singing on stage at the Roundhouse.

      Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Romy – a masterclass in bittersweet feeling

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Add to playlist

  • Zoh Amba, Central Park, New York, NY.

    ‘Scalding emotional intensity’
    Geoff Dyer on the spiritual power of saxophonist Zoh Amba

  • Gabrielle

    Gabrielle’s honest playlist
    The song I wish I’d written? Wonderwall

  • The Cavemen

    One to watch
    The Cavemen

  • Annie-Claude Deschênes

    One to watch
    Annie-Claude Deschênes

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Obituaries

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From the archive

  • Lorde: ‘It’s my joy to be patient zero on a harmony virus.’

    Lorde
    I’m not a climate activist. I’m a pop star

    As Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine turns 10, revisit our interview with the New Zealand musician on the cusp of her underrated third album, Solar Power
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