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<p>Porter Robinson: ‘Being with my normie jock friends at school, the family PC emerged as this beacon to me’ </p>

Porter Robinson: ‘Avicii’s death was a wake-up call for many people’

The electronic beatsmith left behind the club scene for pop stardom. He opens up to Annabel Nugent about sobriety, his ‘meltdown’ in Australia, and why he used to fantasise about ‘alienating all my rave fans’

<p>The boss of the Southbank Centre said this week that £50m would be needed for building repairs </p>

Has the North stolen London’s arts crown?

<p>‘The next thing I hear, Amy’s covering our song:’ The Zutons reflect on Winehouse’s ‘Valerie’ cover ahead of their new album </p>

The Zutons: ‘People texted me money emojis when Amy Winehouse died’

<p>Jon Bon Jovi: ‘[Am I] ready to do two and a half hours at Wembley? Probably not yet’ </p>

Interview

Jon Bon Jovi on marriage: ‘I’ve never lied about being a saint’

Interviews

<p>The sound of strength in numbers: Idles, front left to right: Jon Beavis, Mark Bowen, Joe Talbot, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernan </p>

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Idles: ‘Our old lyrics were not the words of a healthy man’

<p>Girl in Red (aka Marie Ulven Ringheim) shot to fame after her lovesick tune ‘i wanna be your girlfriend’ was discovered on Soundcloud </p>

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Norway’s Girl in Red: ‘One journalist asked me what meds I’m on’

<p>MGMT rose to fame with their seminal 2007 debut album ‘Oracular Spectacular’ </p>

Interview

MGMT are all grown up: ‘This sounds whack to say, but drugs are bad’

<p>Sheryl Crow: ‘I didn’t mean to make a record’ </p>

Interview

Sheryl Crow: ‘I’m saying the same thing about guns, 30 years later’

Music Box

Watch Dylan John Thomas perform his single ‘Fever’ on Music Box

Watch the beautiful performance of ‘the author’ by Luz on Music Box

Damian Lewis sings ‘Down On The Bowery’ for Music Box

On Trend

New Sensations

<p>Motley blue: the band have a formidable live reputation </p>

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Blue Bendy’s Arthur Nolan: ‘I see a lot of myself in Kendall Roy’

<p>‘When I think about Madonna, Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, Britney and Gwen Stefani, I think my album has the same fundamental pop cues that those albums have had,’ says 29-year-old pop star Amaarae </p>

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Pop star Amaarae: ‘African artists are all lumped under one umbrella’

<p>NewDad released their Pixies-indebted debut album ‘Madra’ last month</p>

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Irish alt-rock band NewDad: ‘It’s no wonder bands don’t always last’

Reviews

<p>‘All Born Screaming’ is the seventh album from St Vincent</p>

St Vincent’s All Born Screaming is pop that thrills in lush bursts

Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album is smart, cohesive and refreshingly tight

<p>Pet Shop Boys release their 15th album ‘Nonetheless’ on 26 April</p>

Pet Shop Boys’ canny cultural commentary remains right on the money

Neil Tennant spins intoxicating tales of dancefloor liberation and queer trailblazers

Live music

Roger Daltrey bows out from Teenage Cancer Trust with a worthy goodbye

Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Paul Weller and more accompany Daltrey as he takes his final bow as curator of the annual charity shows

<p>Their generation: the two remaining band members saw off Roger Daltrey’s 24 years organising the yearly charity gigs with a bang only they could deliver </p>

The Who remain the punchiest act of their vintage at Royal Albert Hall

Fumbled microphone twirls and malfunctioning hearing aids only add to the charm of a momentous, turbo-charged set for the Teenage Cancer Trust

Retrospectives

<p>‘They were just kids that were going out clubbing in London seven nights a week,’ says Martin Kelly of Heavenly Recordings </p>

Playback

Flowered Up were brilliant – but they were headed for tragedy

<p>New fans are discovering the music of Oakland musician Judee Sill </p>

The tragic life of Judee Sill, folk-rock’s forgotten star

<p>Those early Nirvana shows were experienced by fans as deeply communal and endlessly relatable</p>

Inside Nirvana’s final show: Kurt Cobain and a prophetic declaration

<p>Before he was famous: A young Cillian Murphy chats to Ireland’s RTE about his band, Sons of Mr Green Genes</p>

Features

How the 1990s Cork music scene helped make Cillian Murphy a star

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