Red Hot Chili Peppers: ‘I thought we’d implode at some point, like most bands do’
Why does Anthony Kiedis hang up after a difficult question about his past?
Patrick Freyne’s TV of 2021: More Sally Rooney ridey stuff and a return to Middle Earth
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The hottest talent in politics, fashion, food, sport, activism, culture, tech and entrepreneurship
The Strokes: The New Abnormal review – Pleasantly disappointing
The New Yorkers finally make another good album, but not as good as the first two
The Strokes: ‘There was conflict, fear, and we got through it and made records’
New York’s coolest band had faded. How did they come back with a brilliant new record?
Adam Cohen: ‘Dad, I know you’re not happy with this . . .’
Leonard Cohen’s son on his dad’s final days and being his late father’s producer
Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons review – Potent spoken words matched with vibrant music
Poet’s vivid third album is personal and political
Golden years: 10 pop stars who made great music in their sixties and beyond
How much harder it is for a star to deliver records that matter when, like Madonna, they have passed their 60th birthday?
Soul of a Woman: Sharon Jones’s final, funky masterwork, a year after her death
With her band the Dap-Kings, Jones was a ball of pure soul power. Her band and colleagues say farewell with one last record
Kate Tempest: ‘I’m in love with human beings’
The poet/ rapper/ playwright/ novelist is in full flow as she talks about her novel ‘The Bricks that Built the Houses’, her new album ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’ and her firm belief in love
Managing chaos: ‘Guns N’ Roses were really out of control’
‘They felt dangerous and edgy. You knew you were watching a train wreck, but you couldn’t keep your eyes off it,’ says former Guns N’ Roses manager Vicky Hamilton
Neil Strauss: ‘I look at the pickup-artist world like college. I went there and learned a lot and left’
Strauss made his name with ‘The Game’, his account of the art of picking up women – and of group sex. Now he’s married with a baby and has been treated for his sex addiction. So what’s his new life like?
Damien Rice: Fading back into view
On the eve of the release of My Favourite Faded Fantasy, Reykjavik resident Rice talks to us
Press play: 20 unmissable online gigs
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