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<p>Bowie endured a number of critical and commercial failures in the Nineties</p>

In focus

A new Bowie documentary reassesses one of his most maligned periods

A new Channel 4 documentary aims to provide a fresh perspective on the most critically and commercially tumultuous period of Bowie’s career, and reflect on how this led to his swansong, ‘Blackstar’. Roisin O’Connor speaks with director Jonathan Stiasny

<p>Songwriter Chloe Angelides and Lily Allen in the studio working on West End Girl</p>

In Focus

Meet the songwriter who helped Lily Allen make her most personal work

<p>Chris Rea at the London Film Festival in 1996</p>

In focus

The late Chris Rea on the ‘hope’ of ‘Driving Home for Christmas’

<p>Top of the pops: (L-R clockwise from bottom left) Brandi Carlile, Perfume Genius, Turnstile, JADE and PinkPantheress</p>

JADE, Brandi Carlile and McKinley Dixon on their cultural highlights

Interviews

<p>Music and moral agency are inseparable for Aurora</p>

Interview

Aurora: ‘We’re more scared of activists than the world dying or war’

<p>Celeste: ‘You don’t really have much of a choice not to give all of yourself to your music and to your performance’</p>

Interview

Celeste: ‘It can be exhausting, fighting for yourself to be heard’

<p>Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood and Ashton Irwin: a boyband all grown up </p>

Interview

5SOS: ‘The boyband label was emasculating. How could we grow up?’

<p>Jon Bon Jovi: ‘I’m only half-joking when I say, lemme just get my feet wet’</p>

Interview

Jon Bon Jovi: ‘There have been days where I thought I was done’

Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast

Good Vibrations with KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall reflects on the ‘unwelcome side’ of her early fame

Ella Eyre is a guest on Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations podcast

Ella Eyre: ‘I’ve had to unlearn what I was shown early in my career’

Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi: ‘There have been days where I thought I was done’

Zara Larsson is the latest guest on Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations podcast

Zara Larsson ‘didn’t expect’ reaction to support slot for Tate McRae

Latest features

New Sensations

<p>Stephen Wilson Jr: ‘I spent four years making this record about my deceased father, and I went through hell doing it, so it’s really profound for me to see the effect it’s had on people’</p>

Interview

Country music newcomer Stephen Wilson Jr on grief, loss and redemption

<p>‘Everybody has a very similar social media personality and when I joined social media for the first time it was very obvious to me,’ remarks Sofia Isella</p>

Interview

Singer-songwriter Sofia Isella: ‘I got called demonic the other day’

<p>Star power: ‘Justin Bieber called me the other day to tell me that he is so grateful to know me, like saying, ‘I’m so proud of you’</p>

Interview

Jensen McRae: ‘Justin Bieber is like a big brother to me’

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

Interview

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

Music Box

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Samantha Crain is mesmerising in Music Box performance of ‘Gumshoe’

Watch Sam Ryder’s brilliant pared-back performance of single ‘OH OK’

<p>Annie DiRusso performs during a Music Box session</p>

Watch rising star Annie DiRusso’s electrifying pared-back session

Reviews

<p>Celeste</p>

Celeste offers raw declarations of selfhood on Woman of Faces

<p>Orchestral grandeur: Rosalia reaches new heights with her ambitious fourth album</p>

Rosalía’s Lux is a masterpiece ruminating on sainthood and longing

Live music

<p>Lorde has always zig-zagged between self-reflective, seen-it-all gloom and a primal, perma-adolescent urge to freak out and dance</p>

Lorde’s O2 gig had energy, cringe and teens pining for Melodrama cuts

<p>Thom Yorke performs during the first night of Radiohead’s 2025 tour in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday 4 November</p>

In Madrid, Radiohead deliver a transcendent return to live shows

<p>Ethel Cain performing at London’s Eventim Apollo</p>

Ethel Cain at London’s Apollo was an evening of doom-laden anti-pop

<p>Lady Gaga performs during her Mayhem Ball tour at the O2 Arena in London</p>

Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball is the concert of the year

<p>Liam and Noel Gallagher hug during a Wembley Stadium show for the Oasis reunion tour</p>

Oasis summon a euphoric and almost sad last hurrah at Wembley Stadium

<p>Get Your Brits Out: Kneecap are a cause as much as they are a wild night out</p>

Kneecap triple down on Starmer and Palestine at pounding Wembley show

Retrospectives

<p>Bruce Springsteen photographed for the release of his album 'Nebraska' in 1982</p>

Tragic history behind dark Springsteen album that inspired new biopic

<p>Bob Dylan followed reports on the case of Hattie Carroll, who died after being attacked by farm owner William Zantzinger</p>

The story behind Bob Dylan’s ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’

<p>Back-to-back: Bruce Springsteen insisted that his longtime bandmate and friend, Clarence Clemons, be included in the shot</p>

Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run cover could’ve looked very different

<p>Mirror image: Grapefruit were another Fab Four on the Sixties scene</p>

The strange story behind one of John Lennon’s favourite bands

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