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Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts: ‘Lady Gaga told me she wanted to be the moon for a day. I’m like: where do I go next?’

Ahead of her debut in London’s West End with the musical Hadestown, Roberts answers your questions on navigating overnight fame as a teenager and why she would drop everything to work with Kate Bush

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"I’d like to dedicate this moment to Sophie": A. G. Cook named Producer of the Year ahead of the 2025 BRIT Awards

"I’d like to dedicate this moment to Sophie": A. G. Cook named Producer of the Year ahead of the 2025 BRIT Awards

The Brat producer and former PC Music boss paid tribute to the late electronic artist Sophie in a statement on the win

“Its sounds, and the producers responsible for them, have inspired many big developments in mainstream music”: Exploding the vibrant components of hyperpop

“Its sounds, and the producers responsible for them, have inspired many big developments in mainstream music”: Exploding the vibrant components of hyperpop

This particular genre has certainly surpassed its DIY beginnings to influence a surprising number of top artists.

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The best gigs and club nights to book this week

Maddy Mussen shares her pick of the shows to see and be seen at this weekend and beyond

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Charli XCX: ‘Labels are desperate for artists to be liked, otherwise you’re bad, evil and wrong’

Straddling the underground and the mainstream, the pop star long felt like an outsider. She talks about finding her crowd, her ‘blunt’ new album, and complicated female friendships

The Guardian - UK

‘People think I hate pop’: super-producer AG Cook on working with Beyoncé and honouring his friend Sophie

As the boss of PC Music, the godfather of hyperpop confounded critics but won over Beyoncé and Charli XCX. Now, with a supersized new solo album, he’s continuing his mission to make pop more unpredictable

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How SOPHIE and her Elektron Monomachine changed the sound of contemporary pop music: "Every single thing you hear should feel like something you've never heard before"

We celebrate the genius of visionary artist and producer Sophie Xeon, who passed away three years ago this month

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Dua Lipa: Houdini review – vanishing-act anthem destined for total ubiquity

Dua Lipa: Houdini review – vanishing-act anthem destined for total ubiquity

Co-produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and PC Music alumnus Danny L Harle, Lipa’s comeback is insistent, opulent disco with another indelible lyrical concept

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The dream team? Dua Lipa’s new single Houdini features Tame Impala, PC Music alumnus Danny L Harle, Adele collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr and Dance The Night co-writer Caroline Ailin

The dream team? Dua Lipa’s new single Houdini features Tame Impala, PC Music alumnus Danny L Harle, Adele collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr and Dance The Night co-writer Caroline Ailin

If the song is at least some of the sum of its parts, it should be pretty good…

The Guide #110: The outsized influence of PC Music

The Guide #110: The outsized influence of PC Music

AG Cook’s oddball imprint founded in 2013 has had a seismic impact on the charts. Now, after ten years, it can wind down in victory

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‘To be a girl is to always be performing’: Hannah Diamond on pink, punk and making the pop album of the year

‘To be a girl is to always be performing’: Hannah Diamond on pink, punk and making the pop album of the year

As part of the PC Music collective, the singer and visual artist has helped shape today’s pop – even if she’s never had a hit herself. She explains how she learned to love her vision of exaggerated femininity

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Hannah Diamond responds to accusations she copied Zara Larsson’s album cover artwork and title

Hannah Diamond responds to accusations she copied Zara Larsson’s album cover artwork and title

Fans accused Diamond’s artwork for her new single, ‘Poster Girl’, of copying that of Larsson’s 2021 album of the same name

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Zara Larsson fans in uproar over Hannah Diamond cover art

Zara Larsson fans in uproar over Hannah Diamond cover art

Diamond releases her new single ‘Poster Girl’ two years after Larsson put out her album of the same name

The Independent UK

Barbie the Album review – a cynical exercise in corporate synergy

Barbie the Album review – a cynical exercise in corporate synergy

It falls to Sam Smith, PinkPantheress and Charli XCX to provide moments of flair on a relentlessly branded tie-in soundtrack that wears thin very quickly

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100 Gecs review – wizards of hyperpop hellbent on fun

Loud and lurid, the American duo fuse distorted vocals, synthetic pop and singalong punk in a madcap extravaganza

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