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<p>‘It’s cool to be in music, so why should you also get paid?’: Billie Marten has released her fifth studio album, ‘Dog Eared’</p>

Billie Marten: ‘Mostly, artists are in financial ruin’

As the contemporary folk singer releases her fifth studio album, ‘Dog Eared’, she sits down with Helen Coffey to discuss her bold new sound, the mourning for lost childhood, and why our broken music industry means we all wind up paying Taylor Swift in the end

<p>Mirror image: Grapefruit were another Fab Four on the Sixties scene</p>

Grapefruit were tipped to be the next Beatles – what happened?

<p>Blondes have more fun: Liam Gallagher plants a smacker on Robbie Williams during the 1995 Glastonbury Festival</p>

playback

‘I’d broken out of the cult’: When Robbie Williams quit Take That

<p>‘It was a big communal event. It felt like Woodstock to me’</p>

in focus

Live Aid at 40: ‘We switched it off when Status Quo came on’

Interviews

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Sigrid: ‘I’ve been co-producing my whole career without the credit’

<p>Chuck D: ‘Public Enemy is a juggernaut – it is a locomotive of its own’</p>

Interview

Public Enemy’s Chuck D: ‘Bob Vylan ain’t got no tanks’

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Interview

Iwan Rheon: ‘Part of me was left behind when I left Wales’

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interviews

Metallica and Alice in Chains on Black Sabbath’s farewell show

On Trend

<p>Bad Bunny’s album was the first salsa-inspired record to go to Number One in the US</p>

IN FOCUS

‘People want to hear real music’: Why salsa is back in the spotlight

<p>Don’t Look Back in Anger: Oasis fans should delve into a latter-day catalogue that, while undeniably patchy, is stuffed full of gems unfairly dismissed the first time around</p>

In Focus

Music critics say Oasis only made two good albums. Gen Z disagree

The Countdown

The best Oasis songs, ranked

<p>Kneecap drew such a crowd that entrances were shuttered 45 minutes before their arrival</p>

In Focus

The Kneecap controversy is proof they’re the perfect Glastonbury band

<p>Worthy Farm was the perfect place to welcome back the charmingly genuine singer</p>

State of the Arts

Lewis Capaldi’s Glastonbury comeback tells us everything about him

<p>For upcoming bands, ‘pay to play’ can literally mean having to buy your own ticket – and working unpaid bar shifts – to perform at the festival of dreams</p>

In Focus

The uncomfortable truth about Glastonbury

<p>Kneecap drew such a crowd that entrances were shuttered 45 minutes before their arrival</p>

In Focus

The Kneecap controversy is proof they’re the perfect Glastonbury band

<p>Worthy Farm was the perfect place to welcome back the charmingly genuine singer</p>

State of the Arts

Lewis Capaldi’s Glastonbury comeback tells us everything about him

<p>For upcoming bands, ‘pay to play’ can literally mean having to buy your own ticket – and working unpaid bar shifts – to perform at the festival of dreams</p>

In Focus

The uncomfortable truth about Glastonbury

Music Box

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Samantha Crain is mesmerising in Music Box performance of ‘Gumshoe’

Watch Sam Ryder’s brilliant pared-back performance of single ‘OH OK’

<p>Annie DiRusso performs during a Music Box session</p>

Watch rising star Annie DiRusso’s electrifying pared-back session

New Sensations

<p>Lydia Night: ‘Going solo has felt the most freeing thing in the world’</p>

New Sensations

Lydia Night: ‘Being messy is excused – but only if you write about it’

<p>Star power: ‘Justin Bieber called me the other day to tell me that he is so grateful to know me, like saying, ‘I’m so proud of you’</p>

New Sensations

Jensen McRae: ‘Justin Bieber is like a big brother to me’

<p>Bea Wheeler’s observational lyricism has earned her a Rising Star nomination at the prestigious songwriting ceremony, the Ivor Novello Awards (up against the already Brit-nominated Lola Young, Liang Lawrence, LULU., and Nia Smith)</p>

New Sensations

Bea and her Business: ‘I would go to label meetings alone aged 16’

Reviews

<p>‘Dog Eared’ is the new album by Billie Marten</p>

Billie Marten’s Dog Eared is a soothing album with looming danger

The Yorkshire-born singer-songwriter changes her approach for a hypnotic new record

<p>Justin Bieber in the promotional artwork for his surprise seventh album ‘Swag’</p>

Justin Bieber’s Swag is a god-fearing, hyper-sexual slog

Live music

Mad Cool 2025 overcomes sound issues to deliver giddy thrills

<p>Stevie Wonder at BST Hyde Park 2025</p>

Stevie Wonder at Hyde Park was soulful, silly, and miraculously good

<p>Disco queen: Diana Ross reigns over Montreux Jazz Festival</p>

Diana Ross dazzles at freshly energised Montreux Jazz Festival

<p>Drake headlines the first of three nights at Wireless festival</p>

Nostalgia and Lauryn Hill only take Drake so far at Wireless Festival

<p>Neil Young rounded off an evening of stellar performances</p>

BST Hyde Park was an afternoon so fun, even Van Morrison laughed

<p>Victory lap: Billie Eilish revs up a crowd already raring to go</p>

Billie Eilish shows off an introvert’s approach to pop spectacle

Retrospectives

<p>L-R: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright at Live 8 London in Hyde Park, 2 July 2005</p>

How the Pink Floyd reunion topped a miraculous Live 8 line-up

<p>Shelley fused punk’s velocity to timeless songwriting</p>

Playback

How Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley swapped punk for queer-pop electro

<p>Supergrass: ‘We didn’t want to walk around town wearing Nike track suits. We’d probably rather wear some strange, velour, slightly wizardy outfit because it was just fun to dress up weirdly’</p>

Interview

Supergrass on ‘I Should Coco’ at 30: ‘We got even more psychedelic’

<p>Keyboardist Richard Wright plays on stage in ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII’</p>

Playback

This was Pink Floyd at their experimental zenith

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