Features
The annotated Lady Gaga: A field guide to the wildest wardrobe in pop
One woman has transformed the red carpet from a catwalk for bland frocks into a backdrop to the strangest outfits ever seen. Harriet Walker deciphers some of the singer's wildest wardrobe moments
Inside Features
Massive Attack - 'We've always been into telling a story'
Friday, 12 February 2010
Trip-hop act Massive Attack have their first stand-alone album for seven years. Here one half of the band, 3D, gives an exclusive inside view of the record that also features Damon Albarn and Martina Topley-Bird
Madchester: the resurrection
Friday, 12 February 2010
Manchester's new Haçienda has opened. Benjamin Halligan attends and finds much more than the ghosts of Tony Wilson
Indy Choice: Best of the new music
Friday, 12 February 2010
Ease your ears into the weekend with a selection of tasty new albums.
The Barometer: Jukebox the Ghost; Liars; The XX; Owen Pallett; Flying Lotus; Bob Dylan
Friday, 12 February 2010
What's hot on our playlist
Observations: A sporting chance for Devo
Friday, 12 February 2010
Ski Sunday's stirring theme-tune apart, winter sports and credible music have rarely gone together. Snowboarders seem to exist on an aural diet of skate punk and pumping dance anthems. All this is set to change, though, with the musical diet of the 2010 Winter Olympics that open in Vancouver, Canada, tonight.
Cultural Life: Antonio Pappano, musician
Friday, 12 February 2010
Idris Elba - Tapping into a sound new direction
Friday, 12 February 2010
The British actor Idris Elba, who starred in The Wire, is launching his music career with an EP. Can a 37-year-old British-born Hollywood actor make it in the rap game as Big Driis? Matilda Egere-Cooper meets him
Caught in the Net: Lynch mob boosts Ariani
Friday, 12 February 2010
With a string of wonderful records Cat Power near perfected the indie female singer-songwriter sound.
Hits of the Brits
Friday, 12 February 2010
Next week's Brit Awards include a category commemorating the most memorable performance of the show's past 30 years, writes Elisa Bray
Long live rock! The Who at the Super Bowl
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Their generation? Bus-pass holders heading for the Zimmer. Yet tonight, resurgent in the US after five decades in the business, they play the Super Bowl.
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1 Three gongs, countless outfits, but only one Lady Gaga
3 BANNED: The most controversial films
4 BANNED: Books you could be jailed for reading
6 Best albums of 2009 – chosen by the stars
8 The architecture firm that reached for the sky
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11 Florence & The Machine and Dizzee Rascal collaboration to be released
13 Alex Horne - How to invent a word
14 World famous Abbey Road recording studios up for sale
15 Scissors at dawn: The BBC's new fashion drama Material Girl is another battle of good versus evil
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1 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rose Theatre, Kingston
2 World famous Abbey Road recording studios up for sale
3 Class acts but no surprises at last night's Brits
4 The price of fame: pop stars are more likely to die young
5 Japan probes Apple's iTunes over bogus credit bills
7 Spin doctors: the independent record stores are bouncing back
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9 Fear the Worst: a novel, By Linwood Barclay
10 THE SACRED REPUBLIC OF CHINA
11 The secret blood-sucking world of Mr Darcy
13 Dylan canvases unveiled in London art show
Commented
1Robert Fisk: Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret
2Ciao, baby! Why Italy just can't say no to Silvio
3Football accused in homophobia row
4The secret army still fighting Vietnam war
5Bruce Anderson: We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty
6Sense of humour failure as BBC boycotts its own comedy show
7Stop locking up asylum children, ministers told
8700,000 Britons swell the ranks of 'underemployed'
9Mark Steel: No escape from the curse of 'easy-listening' radio
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