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February 2025

  • Beyoncé at the 2025 Grammys, where Cowboy Carter was named album of the year and best country album.

    Beyoncé announces Cowboy Carter stadium tour, with dates in US, UK and France

    Beginning in April, singer will play 22 dates, including four at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

January 2025

  • Will Oldham, AKA Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.

    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: The Purple Bird review – Will Oldham goes country, but darkly

  • Neko Case in 2018.

    ‘Women’s rage is real. Mostly we turn it on ourselves’: Neko Case on songwriting, survival – and her mother’s faked death

  • Chappell Roan, Beyoncé and Charli xcx – three of this year’s multiple nominees.

    Chappell, chaps, Brat or rap spats: what will – and should – win at the 2025 Grammys?

  • Candi Staton in London, 2025.

    ‘He said if I divorced him, he’d kill us all’: Candi Staton on abuse, alcohol and the story of Young Hearts Run Free

  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: ‘With music, we give ourselves up. It’s when we’re allowed to be ourselves’

  • Carrie Underwood to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration

  • Billie Eilish, Sex Pistols and Beethoven’s skull: music to listen out for in 2025

December 2024

  • a man stands at a lectern featuring a MusiCares logo

    ‘A Renaissance man’: Jimmy Carter remembered for contributions to arts

  • A composite image of three different people holding acoustic guitars

    2024 in Culture
    The best songs of 2024 … that you haven’t heard

  • Beyoncé performing in Houston at half time during the NFL Christmas Day match between Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens.

    Beyoncé NFL half-time show review – country ho-ho-ho-down is playful and infectious

  • Poster girl … Tricia Paoluccio as Dolly Parton in Here You Come Again.

    Here You Come Again review – Dolly Parton musical lacks spark under the sparkles

  • Best music of 2024
    The 50 best albums of 2024: No 5 – Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter

  • Morgan Wallen sentenced to seven days for chair-throwing incident

  • Best music of 2024
    The 20 best songs of 2024

November 2024

  • Billy Bob Thornton

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Billy Bob Thornton

    The Oscar-winning actor, writer, director, musician and star of Bad Santa, Armageddon and The Man Who Wasn’t There is ready to answer your questions
  • Dolly Parton looking incredibly well preserved, and to camera

    Dolly Parton & Family: Smoky Mountain DNA: Family, Faith and Fables review – Dolly digs deep

    Ranging from archive recordings sung with departed elders to new tracks made with young relatives, the country star’s latest project is nothing if not exhaustive
  • Beyoncé dressed as Pamela Anderson in her “Beywatch” video.

    Beyoncé cosplays as Pamela Anderson in election day music video

    Singer, who has recently endorsed Kamala Harris, releases first music video since 2021 for Cowboy Carter song Bodyguard and calls on Americans to vote

October 2024

  • Dolly in starry vest, bikini top, white hotpants

    The reader interview
    Dolly Parton: ‘I was sorry when Dolly the sheep died – though I don’t want to be cloned’

  • Chris Stapleton.

    ‘Who am I voting for? America!’ Chris Stapleton on patriotism, politics and being country’s great crossover star

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