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Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII review – mesmerically peculiar portrait of band on cusp of greatness

Gilmour, Waters, Wright and Mason are space rock whippets in the burning Italian sun in this outrageously indulgent yet vivid and beguiling music documentary

A high school singing audition inspired by Flashdance haunted me for years – until I found my voice again

My singing voice is rarely tested, except for the occasional Happy Birthday. But a music festival choir singalong changed everything

Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen to bring 10 Things I Hate About You to Broadway

The 1999 teen hit is set to become a Broadway musical with the Girls creator and pop singer-songwriter teaming up

‘I did things I cringe at’: Alex Warren, rough-sleeper, viral prankster and now No 1 pop sensation

He slept in cars, found notoriety on social media and could be pop’s next superstar. The singer of Ordinary, the longest-running No 1 of the year, talks about his journey to breakout success

My petty gripe: we need nature, not Nickelback – please put on your headphones

I get that the noise in your head is so unbearable it must be drowned out by Mambo No 5. I just don’t think it should be inflicted on the rest of us

Views of TikTok posts with electronic music outgrow those using indie

Videos tagged #ElectronicMusic attracted more than 13bn views worldwide last year, an increase of 45% on 2023

From Sinners to Étoile: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Michael B Jordan faces down evil in a prohibition-era southern horror, and Charlotte Gainsbourg pliés into a fun new ballet comedy-drama

Super spicy! Jack Black’s Minecraft song Steve’s Lava Chicken becomes shortest ever UK Top 40 hit

At 34 seconds, the spectacularly silly song from A Minecraft Movie beats the previous record by two seconds

Spotify running again after users around world report problems

Audio streaming app confirms service restored following more than five hours of disruption

‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the still-worshipped frontman

‘One minute it’s “would you like to listen to Galaxie 500?”, the next humanity’s enslaved’: can anyone escape Spotify?

As a new book skewers Spotify’s effect on music, two Guardian music writers spent a week assessing the limits of living with and without it

Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah

Hannah’s second feature about her husband follows him on tour, but the offstage footage is rather less compelling than the music

Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story review – original rude girl is still impossibly cool

The Selecter frontwoman recounts her own astonishing personal journey interwoven with her pioneering presence in 70s musical history

Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez and four others arrive back on Earth after space flight – as it happened

Pop star kisses ground after landing and all-female crew describes feelings of joy, camaraderie and connection to our planet post space flight

‘The Citizen Kane of rock movies’: glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness

Fifty years ago, the Black Country legends made Slade in Flame, about a band screwed by the music business. It tanked and almost finished them. Now, as it’s re-released, the film is being seen as a prescient gem

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