Forty years since her pioneering concert film Home of the Brave, and ahead of a European tour, we count down the best of a surprisingly poppy avant garde catalogue
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AI lectures, Old West folk heroes and Mark Twain: what is Bob Dylan up to joining Patreon? ⊕⊕
By far the biggest musician to have joined the membership-based platform, Dylan’s posts have so far been puzzling – and therefore entirely in character
A couple of years back, the august music writer …
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‘Life is such a pain in the ass’: what Talk Easy host Sam Fragoso has learned in a decade of grilling celebs ⊕
The presenter of hit series Talk Easy has pioneered a style of candid chat that has seen the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Salman Rushdie squirming in their seats – so far only one guest has stormed o…
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Harry Styles: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally review – nice all the time. Good, occasionally ⊕⊕
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The music on Styles’s new album is muted, subtle and pleasant – but from the title downwards, he has a real problem with words
Everything about the launch of Harry Styles’s fourth solo album…
‘By 18 I was having sex to the music of Brian Eno’: Tim Booth’s honest playlist ⊕⊕
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The James frontman fell for Leonard Cohen as a child and would do Val Doonican at karaoke. But which singer taught him that ‘music could be medicine’?
The first song I fell in love with
My older sist…
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Books to look out for in 2026 – nonfiction ⊖
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Memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Lena Dunham, essays by David Sedaris and Alan Bennett’s diaries are among the highlights of the year ahead
Over the past year we’ve been spoiled for memoirs from high-wa…
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Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith review – a wild ride with the poet of punk ⊕
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Smith’s incantatory voice shines through in this surprisingly revelatory follow up to Just Kids and M Train
The post-pandemic flood of artist memoirs continues, but Patti Smith stands apart. The poet …
9 months ago
Defiance, desire and devastation: Patti Smith’s 20 greatest songs – ranked! ○
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As the punk poet prepares to tour and reissue Horses for its 50th anniversary, we count down the best of her rich, rabble-rousing work
Not all the politicking on Gung Ho landed right – Stange Messenge…
A new start after 60: I read out my old diaries online – and my youthful secrets went viral ○
When Betsy Lerner began her unfiltered readings, she found an unexpected following and a new sense of connection
Betsy Lerner doesn’t see herself as a TikTok star – though the New York Times described…
11 months ago
Lorde secret set at Glastonbury review – new album playthrough is bold but a little foolhardy ○
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Lorde resembled Patti Smith as she introduced her entire new album, but the lack of well-known hits let the energy drop
It would be misleading to call Lorde’s performance at Glastonbury a “sec…