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The Independent celebrates musical pioneers including Millie Small, Tricky, Roots Manuva and Tippa Irie, rappers Kano, Stormzy and Little Simz, and vocal talents such as Shirley Bassey, Emeli Sande and Michael Kiwanuka

London five-piece are the first jazz band to win the award for best British or Irish album of the year

EDINBURGH band Young Fathers have been nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize for their 2023 album Heavy Heavy.

Winner for best album will be crowned on Thursday 7 September

Eleven musicians, including Al Greenwood, Ellie Rowsell, and Rachel Chinouriri, banded together to record ‘Call Me A Lioness’ for the England women’s football team. They chat with Helen Brown about the changing attitudes to football – and why it might just be coming home (again)

Here is the dream XI singing to bring glory to the Lionesses

Exclusive: 11 British female artists have joined forces for a new anthem to give young girls ‘something to shout and sing together’

The fedora-sporting MacGuffin-chaser gets one last crack of the whip, and the bequiffed 80s pop greats get the Netflix documentary treatment

This debut album is strongest when going off-kilter – hopefully next time she’ll explore her experimental side