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How to make the perfect running playlist, according to science
Music

How to make the perfect running playlist, according to science

Here’s how to pick your ideal soundtrack for busting a gut

Marc Almond on being the antidote to Thatcher and why he’s probably a queer icon after all
Music

Marc Almond on being the antidote to Thatcher and why he’s probably a queer icon after all

Marc Almond speaks to Big Issue on the heels of his 27th solo LP – yes, really

Glastonbury 2024: There’s a place for everyone on Worthy Farm
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Glastonbury 2024: There’s a place for everyone on Worthy Farm

Electronica and jazz fans were well catered for at this year’s Glastonbury festival

Travis frontman Fran Healy on unfinished business and why being working class is a superpower
Music

Travis frontman Fran Healy on unfinished business and why being working class is a superpower

RuPaul’s Drag Race star Thorgy Thor on injecting stuffy symphony orchestras with big queer energy
Music

RuPaul’s Drag Race star Thorgy Thor on injecting stuffy symphony orchestras with big queer energy

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Walt Disco: ‘Politicians would rather talk about trans people than things affecting everyone’
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Walt Disco: ‘Politicians would rather talk about trans people than things affecting everyone’

How REM helped The Bear go from very good to one of the all-time greats
Culture

How REM helped The Bear go from very good to one of the all-time greats

Spades, moustaches and 3D Tetris: The secrets of Glastonbury’s legendary Block9 revealed
Glastonbury 2024

Spades, moustaches and 3D Tetris: The secrets of Glastonbury’s legendary Block9 revealed

‘It’s not boring s**t for old people’: How Glastonbury is trying to get festivalgoers to use their vote
Glastonbury Festival

‘It’s not boring s**t for old people’: How Glastonbury is trying to get festivalgoers to use their vote

Overgrown lads should act their age – even at a Liam Gallagher gig
Sam Delaney

Overgrown lads should act their age – even at a Liam Gallagher gig

Even though I have Down’s syndrome, I know how to party. I’m the first and last on the dance floor
Learning Disability Week 2024

Even though I have Down’s syndrome, I know how to party. I’m the first and last on the dance floor

‘No song written about football is actually any good’: The best and worst Euro 2024 songs, ranked
Euro 2024

‘No song written about football is actually any good’: The best and worst Euro 2024 songs, ranked

Blue Note Records opens first ever Glasgow store as jazz festival fever hits town
Glasgow International Jazz Festival

Blue Note Records opens first ever Glasgow store as jazz festival fever hits town

Blur: To The End review – poignant new music film shows a band of brothers reunited
Film

Blur: To The End review – poignant new music film shows a band of brothers reunited

‘This country is run by idiots and fools’: Paul Weller on politics, God and the state of everything
Music

‘This country is run by idiots and fools’: Paul Weller on politics, God and the state of everything

This is what happens to a local economy when Taylor Swift comes to town
Music

This is what happens to a local economy when Taylor Swift comes to town

How the UK’s jazz explosion led to a rebirth of cool
Music

How the UK’s jazz explosion led to a rebirth of cool

Paul Weller: ‘Keir Starmer’s just a slightly softer version of the Tory party, isn’t he?’
Politics

Paul Weller: ‘Keir Starmer’s just a slightly softer version of the Tory party, isn’t he?’

Washed Out music video controversy shows the hardest part is accepting AI is here to stay 
Music

Washed Out music video controversy shows the hardest part is accepting AI is here to stay 

‘Queer women aren’t for the male gaze’: Girli on queerness and why Tories ‘don’t give a s**t’ about Gen Z
Music

‘Queer women aren’t for the male gaze’: Girli on queerness and why Tories ‘don’t give a s**t’ about Gen Z

Bikini Kill star and riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna: ‘I was singing to my younger self on Bikini Kill’s early songs’
Letter to my Younger Self

Bikini Kill star and riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna: ‘I was singing to my younger self on Bikini Kill’s early songs’

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Bob Vylan: ‘Is it OK for me to cry? As a man you can feel there’s not space to be vulnerable’
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Bob Vylan: ‘Is it OK for me to cry? As a man you can feel there’s not space to be vulnerable’

‘Whose voices have the right to be heard?’: Censorship of Black culture has existed for decades
Theatre

‘Whose voices have the right to be heard?’: Censorship of Black culture has existed for decades

Soweto Kinch on ripping up the jazz rulebook and how his new BBC show is building community
Music

Soweto Kinch on ripping up the jazz rulebook and how his new BBC show is building community

How the Northern Ballet’s empty orchestra pit perfectly sums up UK’s arts crisis 
Naomi Pohl

How the Northern Ballet’s empty orchestra pit perfectly sums up UK’s arts crisis