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What led Eddy Grant down to Electric Avenue?
Eddy Grant on The Music That Made Me
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What led Eddy Grant down to Electric Avenue?

How one festival is keeping musicians going until live gigs return
Live gigs haven't returned yet: Trombonist Liam Shortall from Glasgow based jazz collective corto.alto Photo Glasgow Jazz Festival
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How one festival is keeping musicians going until live gigs return

Record Store Day and the secrets of the vinyl sleeves
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Record Store Day and the secrets of the vinyl sleeves

Robert MacFarlane and Johnny Flynn discuss making an album in lockdown
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Robert MacFarlane and Johnny Flynn discuss making an album in lockdown

Singing in the rain: This summer's festival line up
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Singing in the rain: This summer's festival line up

Fran Healy: 'Blondie is connected with really traumatic memories'
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Fran Healy: 'Blondie is connected with really traumatic memories'

The Rolling Stones, Kate Bush, The Cure: Great albums’ cover stories revealed
Album cover stories: The Rolling Stones, Kate Bush, The Cure
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The Rolling Stones, Kate Bush, The Cure: Great albums’ cover stories revealed

Bob Dylan: Celebrating a career that changed the world
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Bob Dylan: Celebrating a career that changed the world

Eurovision: As apolitical as it is beige
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Eurovision: As apolitical as it is beige

The 80 best Bob Dylan songs – with not a greatest hit in sight
Dylan at 80
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The 80 best Bob Dylan songs – with not a greatest hit in sight

Sons of Kemet’s new album redefines what it means to struggle for Black power
Shabaka Hutchings (right) says Sons of Kemet’s new album redefines what it means to struggle for Black power. Photo: Udoma Janssen
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Sons of Kemet’s new album redefines what it means to struggle for Black power

Eurovision 2021: Everything you need to know about this year's song contest
Eurovision 2021 favourite Destiny, from Malta
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Eurovision 2021: Everything you need to know about this year's song contest

Aloe Blacc: 'Working with Avicii was huge’
Aloe Blacc on The Music That Made Me
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Aloe Blacc: 'Working with Avicii was huge’

Artificial intelligence: Is AI about to rewrite music history?
Is artificial intelligence about to start rewriting music history? Original photo: Getty/ Frank Micelotta.
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Artificial intelligence: Is AI about to rewrite music history?

The orchestra determined to thrive in a Covid world
The orchestras determined to thrive in a Covid world. Image credit: Supplied
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The orchestra determined to thrive in a Covid world

My comfort in these trying times? Spiritual Jazz
Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders is moving with the times. Photo: Sam Polcer
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My comfort in these trying times? Spiritual Jazz

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Fela Kuti is long overdue for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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Fela Kuti is long overdue for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

How Mark E Smith's DIY ethic let him do what he pleased
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How Mark E Smith's DIY ethic let him do what he pleased

Tim Booth: 'I carried too much responsibility in James'
Tim Booth said his 16-year-old self would be surprised
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Tim Booth: 'I carried too much responsibility in James'

Beyond the soundtrack: Musicians in film
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Beyond the soundtrack: Musicians in film

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