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VMAs 2024 LIVE updates: Taylor Swift sweeps VMAs, wins seven awards
The pop star took home seven awards, including artist of the year and video of the year.
- by Robert Moran, Lauren Ironmonger, Thomas Mitchell and Meg Watson
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Dave Grohl says he has a new daughter, outside his 21-year marriage
“I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness,” the Foo Fighters frontman said.
Calamity grounded these US folk icons, but now they’re heading our way
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings were feeling doubly cursed, but a new album is taking them back on the road.
- by Michael Dwyer
Chappell Roan wants her superfans to give her space. Is that fair?
Fans are the foundation of a star’s career, but does that mean they’re owed anything beyond the art?
- by Nell Geraets
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Anyone excited about the Oasis comeback has taken too many Class A drugs
Lads, Britpop’s ancient history – and you weren’t that good anyway.
- by Ben Coady
‘I might need to go to emergency’: Oasis superfans in race for tour tickets
Oasis fans are making plans to be there when Manchester’s famous Gallagher brothers are reunited on stage.
- by Martin Boulton and Frances Howe
The new album from this superstar is pop at its most fun, fizzy and sex-forward
On Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter leans all the way into her bawdy brand of frothy pop.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
‘The great wait is over’: Gallagher brothers bury the hatchet for Oasis tour
Noel and Liam Gallagher have ended several days of intense speculation, revealing Oasis will return to the stage in 2025.
- by Martin Boulton
Definitely, maybe the most rock’n’roll band ever: Why Oasis matter
Part theatre, part poetry and purely for the people. As Britpop’s self-declared kings will tell you themselves, they are really all that.
- by Karl Quinn