Music

Tangled up in Bob Dylan

In a quest to discover if Bob Dylan is his father, Sam Sussman’s Boy from the North Country reimagines his late mother’s affair with the musician

Patti Smith in her prime

Fifty years after the release of her wild and swaggering record, Horses, the spirited singer has more gravitas than ever

Cosey Fanni Tutti reveals all

An exhibition in the pioneering artist's hometown sees the Throbbing Gristle co-founder celebrating 50 years of baring her soul

Reviews: The Necks, Cheikh Lô, Jay Som, Charles Lloyd

The trio’s 20th album, Disquiet, is three hours long – a maximal, mantric work that stands out in the modern attention economy

Mexico sings against the drug cartels – but popular culture just isn’t listening

Government-sponsored TV talent show proves far too wholesome to make a dent in the country’s love of narcocorridos crime ballads

Evan Dando’s chaotic, narcotic life

The Lemonheads frontman’s riveting memoir Rumours of My Demise reveals the reality of addiction and fame

Max Martin & Shellback, superstar producers

The award-winning duo behind Taylor Swift’s new album exemplify the Swedish ‘music miracle’

Geese, Richard Ashcroft, Marta, Jacob Collier

Geese’s Getting Killed is a knockout full of swagger and tunes you can sing along to

Movers and Shakers at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

The virtuosic string ensemble explored these ambitious themes through ideas of memory

I smile only if I feel like it – and so should Victoria Beckham

In the Netflix documentary the designer wears a T-shirt that tells her critics her mood is her own business

The great Manic Street Preachers songbook

A history of the Welsh rockers in 168 songs charts their trajectory from ‘generation terrorists’ to national treasures

Oasis shocker: no fights, no chaos. Critics, don’t look back in anger

Know thyself: the lyrical power of Self Esteem

Chart-topping musician Self Esteem talks rage, love, poetry – and why she'd like to be Enya

Feeling lonely? Try getting sweaty at a gig

The more we lose touch with everything except our own little gangs, the more everyone outside our narrow frames of reference seems alien and unrelatable

‘I’m not just a musician – I’m a huge fan of music’

The south London singer-songwriter reflects on high times, burning out and her new album

The rumours are true: Stereophonic’s debt to Fleetwood Mac

It’s this year’s big West End hit but the co-producer of the classic album thinks the play is secondhand news

Cat Cohen’s cultural highlights

Beehive hairdos, reality TV and ‘grotesque’ art – just some of the US comedian’s favourite things

What I learned from returning to my teen clubbing days

At 15, clubbing was a vital part of the writer Arifa Akbar’s world. At 51, she heads to Berlin’s hottest club