Azealia Banks: ignore the controversies, this rap provocateur has real talent
The forthright star brought vigour and a mischievous smile to her Brixton Academy gig, leaving her fans inspired
The forthright star brought vigour and a mischievous smile to her Brixton Academy gig, leaving her fans inspired
The twerking Texan hip hop artist gave it her all at London’s O2 Arena – but at times the music itself felt monotonous
Musicians once used religious imagery to make meaningful political statements. But today’s pop stars simply revel in meaningless provocation
The rapper, whose music has to be vetted by the police, looked at home on stage in the historic venue
The Brit-nominated star’s set at XOYO was as witty and playful as ever. But a mainstream debut album might have blunted his underground edge
Revisit David Bowie’s Hunky Dory, Fleetwood Mac release a collection for diehard fans, and isomonstrosity fuses classical music with drill
Weyes Blood despairs over climate change, Jimi Hendrix is the whirling dervish of rock, Dermot Kennedy probes his own narcissism
The Black Eyed Peas push pop to its soulless extreme, Nas is re-energised, The White Buffalo makes his finest work at the age of 48
The new Italian PM once dressed as a hobbit and has written Middle-earth fan fiction. What does this say about Tolkien?
Crawford’s most terrible film became her swansong. Kim Braden, who played her daughter, recalls how Hollywood had ‘sucked the life from her’
Björk goes Björkers, Gabriels is the band we need right now, Slipknot retain their nihilism, Yeah Yeah Yeahs resist the indie-sleaze revival
With his appropriation of blackness and ludicrous persona, the scandal-hit DJ should never have been allowed to become the face of hip hop
The fanatical fans of megastars such as Adele and Taylor Swift are making some artists unassailable
White's latest LP speaks of personal heaven and Nastasia’s of hell, while there are indie revenants and rap surrealists all around
The political musician branded a ‘foreign agent’ by the Kremlin describes how violence pervades Russian culture
A tribute to his late brother is filled with guitar supremos; Digga D plays with censorship; John Zorn refuses to conform to genre