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‘It was not a boyband!’ Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees

He was in one of the biggest groups in the world – all without playing a note. As the last surviving Monkee turns 80, he remembers 60s fame – and what happened when the band broke free

Dig! XX review – amazing film of battling 90s psych rockers revisited two decades on

Rereleased documentary study of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre is an epic story of success and failure

From Flow to Harry Hill: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A cat survives a watery apocalypse in an Oscar-winning animated treasure, and the veteran comic takes his surreal oddities on tour

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco: I Said I Loved You First review – besotted but bland

The betrothed pop star and pop producer’s PDA pulls in big names including Charli xcx and Gracie Abrams, but it’s strangely anonymous for such a personal project

‘Emotions? They’re no big thing, man!’ Jeff Bridges on satisfaction, silver linings – and his secret life in music

As his lost 70s songs emerge, the Oscar-winner and musician explains how the magic of art keeps him upbeat even after losing homes to LA fires

‘We had even more fights than they show in the film’: how we made Dig! with the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols

‘The gig ended with onstage brawls. It was the most incredible thing I’d ever filmed but the bouncer took the tapes. It took me years to get them back’

Will Smith announces first album in 20 years, Based on a True Story

Actor-rapper will release project on 28 March, including the song Beautiful Scars which makes reference to his infamous Oscars slap

Sister Midnight review – deliciously macabre Mumbai marriage-gone-wrong black comedy

A remarkable performance from Bollywood star Radhika Apte as an unhappy new bride drives Karan Kandhari’s wildly audacious feature debut

From Last Breath to Gangs of London: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Woody Harrelson stars in a tense, claustrophobic true story, and the hyperviolent cockney-em-up returns for a third series of criminal hijinks

Iron Maiden making official documentary to mark 50th anniversary

Actor Javier Bardem and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons will be among the talking heads in a film about the British heavy metal band by director Malcolm Venville

Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’

Diggs’ harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band’s world-building – setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs – is no less dramatic

Clueless review – all back to the 90s for a musical of the movie? As if!

Amy Heckerling adapts her own iconic screenplay for a lumbering production in need of more belters from composer KT Tunstall

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to produce Oasis reunion tour film

Film will be directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the pair behind NYC music doc Meet Me in the Bathroom and LCD Soundsystem concert film

‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his big win

The defiantly anti-commercial musician had walked away from mainstream success twice by his early 20s. Will his Academy Award convince him to embrace Hollywood, celebrity, the big bucks?

Spotify is trumpeting big paydays for artists – but only a tiny fraction of them are actually thriving

The company’s latest Loud & Clear report – a relatively transparent look into a closed-off industry – shows just how skewed financial success is in music

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