Music

Jay-Z among rappers backing legislation to stop defendants’ verses from being used against them

Featuring Run to the Top, Room 5, Rethink Population and Hunting Ghislaine

Streaming is on the up but MPs say most artists make ‘pitiful’ incomes from services

From tear-jerkers to star-making pop anthems

Featuring Bed of Lies, Parenting Hell, The Scummy Mummies and Operator

Featuring Jon Ronson’s Things Fell Apart, Bad Cops, The Genius Recipe Tapes and Honey & Co

Featuring Sweet Bobby, Slow Radio, PleinAir, Sleep With Me and Goodnight, World!

Civil lawsuits also under way after festival stampede leaves eight dead

Robin Swann’s lawyer says defamation proceedings against music legend are ‘at an advanced stage’

Featuring Uncanny, Nolan Investigates: Stonewall and Yours Sincerely with Labour MP Jess Phillips

This is a perfect staging point to explore Spanish capital’s Golden Triangle of Art

Featuring Science Clear+Vivid, Insult My Intelligence, In Our Time and Why Do I Feel?

Featuring Power Corrupts, Siblings in Session, Scratching the Surface, Circular with Katie Treggiden and 99% Invisible

Singer found guilty of sexually abusing multiple fans during 30-year career

Investors are betting heavily that the ‘boom’ in music streaming ‘still has a long way to go’

Featuring Forever is a Long Time, The Breakup Monologues and Love is a Crime

From next May, digital avatars of the foursome will be performing concerts in east London

Featuring Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets, Finding Q and The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra

The famously mild-mannered rock star has died aged 80

The Nobel-winning folk songwriter is accused of abusing 12-year-old girl in 1965

Featuring Scotland Outdoors, The Skewer, The Boring Talks, Get Flushed and Ways to Change the World

Featuring Blind Landing, Fogo: Fear of Going Outside, Fun Kids, Wild Crimes and more

This year’s festival line-up includes Isle of Wight, Creamfields, Reading and Leeds

#LetTheMusicMove campaign is launched by 200 acts to save touring in the EU

Spin your favourite records on these devices which range from £230 to £1,390

What are the critics saying about Flora Fauna, Sour and Rodelinda?

Featuring The Graham Norton Book Club, The Deep-Sea Podcast and Rolling Stone Music Now

New releases from Sons of Kemet, Paul Weller, and Les Vents Français

New releases from Squid and St. Vincent

Bookmakers have a clear favourite to claim the title - with the UK as a rank outsider

New releases from Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis, The Coral, and Freddie De Tommaso

New releases from Flyte, Schubert, and Peggy Seeger

Clinton Heylin’s 528-page tome – which only takes us as far as 1966 – proves the singer to be a ‘fibber’ 

New releases from Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the LSO; Lise Davidsen; and Dry Cleaning