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<p>A SZA album isn’t really a genre piece: it’s a bird floating on a heat column, it’s a writhing existential question mark, it’s the afterglow of a really good kiss</p>

Don’t know Glastonbury headliner SZA? Here’s why you should

The Grammy and Brit winner has earned widespread acclaim for her two studio albums ‘CTRL’ and ‘SOS’ – yet, based on the confusion sparked when she was announced as a Glastonbury headliner this year, many still don’t know her name. Here’s why you should absolutely dive into her work, writes Kate Solomon

<p>The band’s hit song ‘Rock’n’roll Star’ made for a customarily dazzling opening – but things quickly went downhill</p>

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Was 2004 the worst Glastonbury? If you were an Oasis fan, then yes

<p>News that Coldplay will once again headline Glastonbury next month has been met with sneers by many ticket holders </p>

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Coldplay have always been cool, and it’s ludicrous to claim otherwise

<p>Billie Eilish releases her third album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ on 17 May</p>

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Billie Eilish has all the reason in the world to scream

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<p>Caleb Followill: ‘The older I get, the more political I get’ </p>

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Kings of Leon: ‘Nepo babies? I’m not giving my kids s***’

<p>Joan Baez: ‘We’re fighting uphill against an avalanche of evil, sadism and bullying’</p>

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Joan Baez: ‘It feels good to have changed the world’

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

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

<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>

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

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Jordan Rakei performs song ‘Hope And Dreams’ on Music Box

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Wings Of Desire perform acoustic version of ‘Chance Of A Lifetime’

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Music Box season 10 launches with indie rock band Wings of Desire

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Rachel Chinouriri: ‘I’m a Black girl making indie music’

<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’

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<p>Lenny Kravitz releases his 12th studio album ‘Blue Electric Light’ on 24 May </p>

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Lenny Kravitz hides behind platitudes and cowbells on his new album

About to enter another decade at the mic, the musician still knows how to strut his rock stuff – but his latest outing lacks heart

<p>At 22 years old, nine-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish releases her third album on 17 May</p>

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Billie Eilish whispers her way to big emotions on Hit Me Hard and Soft

Are we finally seeing the artist behind the baggy-goth avatar? Interrogating her public image and fan culture, Eilish delivers a restless album that is equal parts sighing and squalling