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Voces8 review – agile and poised vocal group celebrate 20 years, with a little help from their friends

silverguide.site – The choir’s birthday concert focused mainly on 20th and 21st-century music with a contemplative bent. Joined in the second half by members old and potentially new, and also the BBC Singers, the sound was thrilling…
Voces8 review – agile and poised vocal group celebrate 20 years, with a little help from their friends
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New Music Biennial review – sitars, thorax-quaking bass and vibrators

silverguide.site – A varied weekend in the UK City of Culture showcased a huge range of energetic, imaginative and boundary-crossing new music…
New Music Biennial review – sitars, thorax-quaking bass and vibrators
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‘I watched Bob Dylan play tennis with three of the Beatles’: how we made the Isle of Wight festival

silverguide.site – ‘It’s a myth that Jimi Hendrix played while the stage was on fire. It was a firework’…
‘I watched Bob Dylan play tennis with three of the Beatles’: how we made the Isle of Wight festival
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Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio

silverguide.site – Barrie Kosky’s remarkable 2015 production returns to the summer festival with Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies superb in the lead roles…
Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio
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Pitbull review – like a children’s party, but with loads of booze

silverguide.site – With a hedonistic seize-the-day message, the pop-rapper resembles a cult leader or motivational speaker – and his followers are willing to overlook the faults in his live show…
Pitbull review – like a children’s party, but with loads of booze
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Brit awards swap London for Manchester to ‘invigorate’ show

silverguide.site – Organisers say move to Co-op Live as part of 50th anniversary plans honours city’s legendary music heritage…
Brit awards swap London for Manchester to ‘invigorate’ show
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Pulp review – Jarvis Cocker’s captivating comeback turns a rapt crowd rapturous

silverguide.site – On a kitschy 1970s chatshow set, the Sheffield band play hits from across their career – and fans welcome their just-released album tracks like old friends…
Pulp review – Jarvis Cocker’s captivating comeback turns a rapt crowd rapturous
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Snoop Dogg wants to open ‘Paradise’ burger van at Celtic Park

silverguide.site – Hip-hop star says he wants to show food at sports stadiums can be good – and ‘Celtic fans are gonna love it’…
Snoop Dogg wants to open ‘Paradise’ burger van at Celtic Park
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Così Fan Tutte review – country house remix offers fresh farce and energy

silverguide.site – Misogynist Don Alfonso is at the centre of things in this opera-within-an-opera benefiting from a witty translation into English, formidable arias and scene-stealing acting…
Così Fan Tutte review – country house remix offers fresh farce and energy
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‘The breakup was like an amputation that saves you’: Cate Le Bon on healing from heartache and her heavy new album

silverguide.site – After a long relationship ended painfully, the acclaimed singer-producer swapped the Californian desert for south Wales – and set to work on her most emotionally direct record yet. ‘It’s been discombobulating,’ she says…
‘The breakup was like an amputation that saves you’: Cate Le Bon on healing from heartache and her heavy new album
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‘Billy Bragg makes me cry’: Will Best’s honest playlist

silverguide.site – The Big Brother presenter spent his pocket money on Babylon Zoo and was wowed by the Streets, but which grime banger did he butcher at karaoke?…
‘Billy Bragg makes me cry’: Will Best’s honest playlist
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Lil Wayne review – chaotic but charismatic race through greatest hits

silverguide.site – The hitmaker’s latest album might receive a pass from most but his eclectic tour opener proves why he’s still standing…
Lil Wayne review – chaotic but charismatic race through greatest hits
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The manosphere seizes on the Diddy trial to undermine alleged victims: ‘I don’t see no crimes committed’

silverguide.site – Commentators on Black masculinity are popular pundits on Sean Combs’s case – but they’ve taken a clear side…
The manosphere seizes on the Diddy trial to undermine alleged victims: ‘I don’t see no crimes committed’
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Rod Stewart cancels US tour dates with Glastonbury legends slot weeks away

silverguide.site – Singer tells fans he is recovering from flu after various health setbacks this year including strep throat and Covid…
Rod Stewart cancels US tour dates with Glastonbury legends slot weeks away
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Little Simz on breakthroughs, betrayal and becoming one of the UK’s best-ever rappers: ‘I don’t want to shy away from how I feel’

silverguide.site – Critics’ favourite and curator of this month’s Meltdown festival, the British artist is flying high. But a nasty legal battle with her closest collaborator and a crisis of confidence left her close to calling it quits. Instead, she put it all on the new album…
Little Simz on breakthroughs, betrayal and becoming one of the UK’s best-ever rappers: ‘I don’t want to shy away from how I feel’
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Ex-girlfriend of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs says she was pressured into sex with escorts

silverguide.site – Alleged victim identified as ‘Jane’ testifies she felt obliged to participate in drug-fueled ‘hotel nights’…
Ex-girlfriend of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs says she was pressured into sex with escorts
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Turnstile review – punk crossover quintet bring the heat to Brooklyn

silverguide.site – On the year’s hottest day, the band of the moment celebrated their new album with a buoyant live show featuring a surprise special guest…
Turnstile review – punk crossover quintet bring the heat to Brooklyn
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Addison Rae: Addison review – 2025’s most refreshing star revels in pop’s shallow pleasures

silverguide.site – The one-time TikTok dancer’s remarkably cohesive debut spans Jersey club to R&B, and defies an obsession with ‘lore’ to suggest that the best pop isn’t that deep…
Addison Rae: Addison review – 2025’s most refreshing star revels in pop’s shallow pleasures
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Add to playlist: the genre-swerving chaos of eight-piece collective Parade and the week’s best new tracks

silverguide.site – Determined to dodge every pigeonhole, the band’s forthcoming mixtape veers from lulling acoustic to nightmarish noise, free jazz to prog post-rock…
Add to playlist: the genre-swerving chaos of eight-piece collective Parade and the week’s best new tracks
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Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn review – this brilliant post-punk racket sounds like a trip to a rivet factory

silverguide.site – The Chicago threepiece’s bold debut is a blast of circular-saw guitars, baffling lyrics and effervescent melody…
Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn review – this brilliant post-punk racket sounds like a trip to a rivet factory
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