Jake Bugg
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The musician on football, TV and ice-cream
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Eclectic global talent take to the festival stages this summer as Nashville’s finest hit Edinburgh and African retro-pop comes to Wiltshire. Here are our picks
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Jamie T’s Zombie wins best song and video, Royal Blood are best newcomers and Nigel Farage named villain of the year
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4 out of 5 stars.The 20-year-old Nottingham singer-songwriter barely acknowledged the crowd, but so hypnotic were his tumbling rhythms and wrong-side-of-the-tracks observations that it didn’t matter, writes Ian Gittins
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The video for God Only Knows is replete with visual symbolism, but is it meant to bring to mind Rousseau, Degas and Van Gogh? Or is it a jumbled mash of nonsense?
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The BBC’s new promo clip was unveiled on Wednesday night. But who brought the starpower? Who fell flat? And was the BBC taking the mickey out of Chris Martin?
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Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Chris Martin, Lorde and Florence Welch are among the performers on the corporation’s latest celebrity promo effort
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Who inspires Faris Badwan, New Order and Jake Bugg? From a north London rapper to a Turkish protest singer, these are the musicians who influence the stars
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3 out of 5 stars.The Nottingham phenomenon has been rushed up the bill, but is showing an unfortunate fondness for boogie-woogie filler, writes Mark Beaumont
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'Hotplate is rough around the edges, but it shows how the oft-derided womp of EDM can be a force for good in the right hands'
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Max Marshall | Jake Bugg | Rudimental | Tiësto | Erasure
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BBC Introducing presenter Jen Long chats to Karen Pirie about the need for new models of music touring and commissioning
Record Store Day: why vinyl gimmicks alone won't save local shops