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Lesbians are reclaiming Madonna as we await her new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II | Tiff Bakker https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/19/madonna-confessions-on-a-dance-floor-part-ii-lesbians-gay-men #Madonna #PopAndRock #LgbtqRights #Music #Culture #UkNews

Lesbians are reclaiming Madonna as we await her new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II

The singer is not only a hero for gay men. For a young lesbian like me in the 1990s, she was an object of desire and an inspiration, says Tiff Bakker, a New York-based writer

The Guardian

Culture | The Guardian US 1d ago

Olivia Rodrigo: Drop Dead review – a maximalist rush of infatuation that’s just a bauble short of festive https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/17/olivia-rodrigo-drop-dead-review-single #OliviaRodrigo #Music #Culture #PopAndRock

Olivia Rodrigo: Drop Dead review – a maximalist rush of infatuation that’s just a bauble short of festive

On this giddy first taste of the US pop star’s third album, she sets aside her rock bona fides to revel in the opulent flush of a crush-come-true. But why does it seem so doomed?

The Guardian

Culture | The Guardian US 1d ago

Add to playlist: the sweaty, unvarnished electropop of Punchbag and the week’s best new tracks https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/17/add-to-playlist-punchbag-best-new-tracks #Music #Culture #PopAndRock

Add to playlist: the sweaty, unvarnished electropop of Punchbag and the week’s best new tracks

The sibling duo’s follow-up EP spikes their off-kilter pop with new darkness, adding atmospheric balladry to their glorious racket

The Guardian

Culture | The Guardian US 1d ago

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/17/gaze-stars-gonna-be-up-there-one-day-prince-those-who-knew-him-best-10-years-after-death #Prince #PopAndRock #Music #Culture #GeorgeClinton #Film

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death

From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most majestic and mercurial performers

The Guardian

Culture | The Guardian US 3d ago

‘A feeling of ecstasy’: how Anne Hathaway and FKA twigs created the thunderous Mother Mary soundtrack https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/16/mother-mary-soundtrack-anne-hathaway-fka-twigs-david-lowery #AnneHathaway #FkaTwigs #Culture #Film #Music #PopAndRock #Musicals #CharliXcx #JackAntonoff

‘A feeling of ecstasy’: how Anne Hathaway and FKA twigs created the thunderous Mother Mary soundtrack

The stars of David Lowery’s psychodrama on the secrets behind creating music for a fictional pop diva

The Guardian

Culture | The Guardian US 3d ago

Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/16/massive-attack-boots-on-the-ground-ft-tom-waits-review-first-single-in-a-decade-is-a-dark-hymn-for-our-times #MassiveAttack #Music #ElectronicMusic #PopAndRock #ExperimentalMusic #TomWaits #Culture

Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times

Unsettling breathing, arrhythmic clatter, gloomy piano and military snares underpin a Beefheartian portrayal of a boorish warmonger on the band’s ominous return

The Guardian

Culture | The Guardian US 3d ago

90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/16/sugar-reunion-bob-mould-interview #Music #PopAndRock #Culture #Punk

90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’

Mould’s fearsomely loud power trio Sugar rode the wave of grunge, but called it quits when the scene lost its innocence. Now the band are reuniting – before it’s too late

The Guardian

World news | The Guardian 3d ago

Madonna announces sequel to her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/15/madonna-confessions-ii-confessions-on-a-dance-floor-album #Madonna #Music #PopAndRock #Culture #UkNews #WorldNews

Madonna announces sequel to her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor

Confessions II reunites her with producer Stuart Price and is billed as a study of the dancefloor as ‘a ritualistic space where movement replaces language’

The Guardian

World news | The Guardian 5d ago