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Feminist musical trailblazers the Stepney Sisters: 'We changed what happened next'

They turned down an offer to be Bob Marley’s backing singers to write songs about toxic masculinity and speculum exams. Thirty years after breaking up, they are releasing a debut album

Dutch clubbers hit the dancefloor for study into easing lockdown

1,300 people take part in music event designed to aid decisions on how to reopen country despite coronavirusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt wasn’t quite one of the great carefree, hedonistic nights of the past, but clubbers in Amsterdam were given a short reprieve from lockdown at the weekend as part of an examination of the risks attached to getting people back on the dancefloor.

Bicep: Live Global Stream II review – 90 minutes of pure throwback pleasure

Saatchi Gallery, London; live streamMarking the release of their acclaimed second album, Isles, the duo transmit a steady stream of rapturous, 21st-century rave nostalgia into living rooms around the world

Poly Styrene's inspiring sensitivity should be the true legacy of punk

Mixed race, with braces on her teeth, Poly broke the mould of UK punk. A new documentary explores her struggle to find meaning in the Day-Glo chaos of modern life

The Notorious BIG: his 20 greatest tracks – ranked!

As Netflix airs an intimate documentary about the late hip-hop legend, we pick his finest moments, from sublime braggadocio to gripping storytelling

Guedra Guedra: Vexillology review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

(On the Corner)Abdellah M Hassak integrates the rhythms of north African folk music with a bassline-heavy electronic pulse

The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list

Our countdown is complete, topped by a mercurial work of sprawling invention by a woman who has dug deep to survive.

Rian Treanor: the producer hacking a smarter, kinder future for music

The Rotherham electronic musician is using his skills to tackle dementia, teach children and collaborate across the globe – and dreams of a club where the dancers play the drum machines

Danny L Harle: Harlecore review – big, dumb escapist fun

(Mad Decent)Go clubbing from room to virtual room with this dizzyingly immersive affair from the producer and assorted mystery guests

Ian Brown pulls out of music festival over Covid vaccination row

Brown, a noted Covid sceptic, has withdrawn from the Neighbourhood Weekender festival in Warrington in September

Chris Barber, British trad jazz bandleader, dies aged 90

Multi-instrumentalist helped forge the skiffle craze with Lonnie Donegan and recorded with Paul McCartney

Isle of Wight festival moves to September as Download and Primavera cancel

Events originally scheduled for June are postponed and cancelled, as sector continues to press UK government for insurance scheme

‘Record companies have me on a dartboard’: the man making millions buying classic hits

Hit songs can be a better investment than gold – and by snapping up the rights, Merck Mercuriadis has become the most disruptive force in music

One to watch: Katy Kirby

An evangelical upbringing devoid of pop music has given this Texas singer-songwriter a sound all her own

Mogwai score first No 1 album after 25 years: 'It's totally surreal'

Scottish post-rockers reach top with 10th album As the Love Continues, with frontman Stuart Braithwaite saying, ‘It’s not the kind of thing that enters into our orbit’

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry review – a fascinating look at an artist and idol

RJ Cutler’s two-hour-plus Apple documentary on the pop phenom reveals an exceptional artist grappling with both superstar fame and lame parent jokes

'They left an indelible mark on my psyche': how Daft Punk pushed pop forward

Skrillex, Erol Alkan and those close to the French duo chart how they went from being industry outsiders to defining the trajectory of dance music

'I take music seriously': Drag Race stars begin crossover chart success

The Eurovision homage UK Hun has entered the charts ahead of Rita Ora and Pink, and leads a new wave of drag queens sashaying away from novelty pop

'It was tribal and sexual': Alice Cooper on the debauchery of Detroit rock

When the shock-rocker returned to the place of his birth in the 60s, he found a raw paradise of unsegregated rock’n’roll. As Cooper releases an album celebrating the city, he and his peers relive one of the US’s greatest music scenes

Smerz: meet the Scandi-pop duo who can read each other's minds

The Norwegian group are so close that they write songs from their bandmate’s perspective. ‘It feels like a secret diary,’ they say

Billie Eilish's film shows post-Britney pop pressures are as tough as ever

The first digital-native superstar has far more music industry power than her pop predecessors, but she still faces toxic levels of scrutiny

Is this the worst year ever for the UK music industry? - podcast

Guardian music writer Laura Snapes, singer-songwriter Arlo Parks and musician Nitin Sawhney discuss the impact that Covid, Brexit and the ‘streaming economy’ are having on the sector

Emma Swift, Blake Scott, the Avalanches and others: the best Australian albums of 2020

Guardian Australia’s music critics and staff bring you their favourite records of the year – in no particular order

From Daft Punk and Beyoncé to the Band: the best ever live albums

Can’t get to a gig? No problem. Here’s a collection of classics that evoke the sweaty euphoria of the real thing

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Carnage review – vivid visions of apocalypse and absolution

(Goliath Records Ltd)Cave’s rich writing and Ellis’s dense sounds form a reliably potent picture of locked-down end-times and the fantasy of redemption

New Cue the music: former Q editors join newsletter publishing boom

After the Bauer Media music title’s pandemic-triggered demise last July, Q’s former staff are launching a weekly direct-to-inbox publication

Taylor Swift countersues Evermore theme park over use of her music

Dispute continues following February lawsuit against singer, whose most recent album shares its name with Utah attraction

Non-British citizens now eligible for Brit awards and Mercury prize

Artists who have been permanently resident in the UK for five years will qualify for British categories

Archie Shepp on jazz, race and freedom: 'Institutions continue to abuse power'

At 83, the saxophonist has somewhat mellowed his funkily avant-garde music – but his anger at the racial injustice he has fought all his life remains undimmed

The best songs of 2020 ... that you didn't hear

In an unusual year that’s kept us most of us away from live music venues, Guardian writers pick the songs that deserve to have made more impact Continue reading...

REM: how the arty pop gods taught a shy south Wales girl to be herself

For a teenager stifled by Welsh choir music, Michael Stipe’s kaleidoscope of artistic influences – and mega-success – were too irresistible not to follow

When Daft Punk went to Wee Waa: the strangest album launch of all time

The tiny Australian town was surprised but got into the spirit, selling daft pork sausages and random access rissoles while celebrating a dusty agricultural show it will never forget

ENO announces bold plan to stage Ring Cycle from the autumn

Richard Wagner’s four-part opera epic will play at London’s Coliseum over several years

Daft Punk were the most influential pop musicians of the 21st century

By resurrecting disco, soft rock and 80s R&B, and bringing spectacle to the world of dance music, the French duo changed the course of pop music again and againNews: Daft Punk split up after 28 yearsIt’s hard to think of an act who had a greater impact on the way 21st-century pop music sounds than Daft Punk.

Mick Jagger narrates film to mark Royal Albert Hall anniversary

Venue kicks off 150th birthday celebrations with footage dating back to 1933, some of it unseen

Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen team up for new podcast

Former president talks with rock legend about their backgrounds and vision of America in Renegades: Born in the USA

Katy Perry found me my first friends – they were online, and in Brazil

Finding devotees on the other side of the world let me escape from school, though my misbegotten responsibility soon became too much like hard workRead more from The fandom that made me seriesRaising a child is always a burden – though not all mums are terrorised by their pre-schooler’s obsession with the video for Hung Up by Madonna.

‘Right now I’m into Libyan reggae’: the music label delving into the Arab world's back catalogue

Jannis Stürtz has trawled Casablanca and rooted around a factory in Sousse for music. The Habibi Funk founder talks about his passion for Tunisian disco, Sudanese jazz and Lebanese soft rock

Bands rally to help as jobless roadies turn to food banks

Stage crews laid off as a result of the pandemic are ‘falling through the cracks’ in government aid for the self-employed

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: All the Good Times review – lockdown covers of Dylan and Prine

(Acony Records)The pandemic hangs heavy in the long-term duo’s first album to share joint billing, and thrives when Welch leads

Lael Neale: Acquainted With Night review – music to feel absently blue to

(Sub Pop)The folk-pop songwriter meanders between memory and fantasy on her concertedly quiet Sub Pop debut

Obama and Springsteen chat about feeling like 'outsiders' growing up in new joint podcast

Spotify has launched a new podcast centered around chats between two good buddies: one a music legend and the other a former president.

From Massive Attack to Miley Cyrus: Adam Curtis’s favourite cover versions

Radical rewirings and weird new realms – reinterpretations of old classics can give us hope for the future, says the film-maker

Listen to the world: Radio Garden app brings stations to millions in lockdown

Free app allowing access to 30,000 stations proves hit for audiences stuck at home

Enrico Pieranunzi and Bert Joris: Afterglow review – prepare to be charmed

(Challenge)Italy’s top jazz pianist and one of Belgium’s leading trumpeters have nothing to prove on this effortlessly breezy set of originals

Bum rush the show!: Jarvis Cocker's Britpop celebrity moment

Twenty-five years ago, Cocker found global notoriety after his 1996 Brit award protest went viral: but what actually happened?

Zappa review – under the skin of the wild man of American rock

Alex Winter weaves the early experiences of eccentric musician Frank Zappa into a portrait of the artist as a flawed man

'You could call the show Love Will Tear Us Apart': Russell T Davies on the music of It's a Sin

The series creator and director Peter Hoar on the uncoolest anthems of the 80s, being given the nod by Kate Bush and how a soundtrack can make or break a storyContains spoilers! Continue reading...

U-Roy, legendary reggae toaster, dies aged 78

‘The originator’ of toasting on record helped revolutionise soundsystem culture in Jamaica – and inspire the birth of hip-hop

'A one-man mosh pit': Big Jeff on the art of surviving lockdown

Famed Bristol music fan Jeff Johns is staging a virtual exhibition of his paintings inspired by his love of live shows

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