Plus: Can Laura Marling's crowdless gig rescue live music?
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Picks of the week
The protest songs of Black Lives Matter 2020
YG, Che Lingo, Kendrick Lamar / The protest songs of Black Lives Matter 2020
The demonstrations against the killing of George Floyd have brought a wave of powerful protest music, with new tracks and revisited classics
'I loved the weirdness' / Can Laura Marling's crowdless gig rescue live music?
Listener's digest / Patti Smith: where to start in her back catalogue
Music / Bonnie Pointer: from country to disco, this Sister did it for herself
Alexis Petridis
Reviews
Alexis Petridis's album of the week / Paul Weller: On Sunset – warm, wise and still capable of surprise
Paul Weller: On Sunset – warm, wise and still capable of surprise
Jehnny Beth / To Love Is to Live – solo Savage defiant and intimate
Chloe x Halle / Ungodly Hour – classy R&B from precocious all-rounders
Contemporary album of the month / Tamar-kali: Shirley Original Soundtrack – fascinatingly eerie and claustrophobic
Spotlight
The US is still segregated – but is our democracy up to the challenge?
Music / The US is still segregated – but is our democracy up to the challenge?
Wynton Marsalis
We’re seeing the same problems with race that Abraham Lincoln once complained about, but blackness is threaded into the heart of America’s identity and can never be erased
Classical
Coronavirus pandemic / UK orchestras may not survive, conductors warn
UK orchestras may not survive, conductors warn
Verdi / Otello – Kaufmann captains the drama but Pappano steers
Otello – Kaufmann captains the drama but Pappano steers
Adam Walker/James Baillieu / Remarkable playing but recital lacked real centre
Remarkable playing but recital lacked real centre
Add to playlist
This week's new tracks / Rosalía ft Travis Scott, Diplo, Rak-Su
Rosalía ft Travis Scott, Diplo, Rak-Su
Raye's lockdown listening / Nina Simone tears your skin and burns your eardrums
You may have missed
Steve Priest: the outrageous Sweet bassist who presaged heavy metal
Steve Priest: the outrageous Sweet bassist who presaged heavy metal
He was cartoonish – once warned by David Bowie to tone down his makeup – and ‘built like a hod-carrier’, but Priest’s camped-up performances defined glam rock
Listener's digest / Miles Davis: where to start in his back catalogue
In Listener’s digest, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Next up: the jazz pioneer who stepped outside of genre to revolutionise music as a whole
Transvision Vamp / How we made Baby I Don't Care
‘We stomped into EMI and told them we were going to be the biggest band in the world’
'A reconsideration of the white male cowboy' / The rise of ambient country
Underground scenes like noise and vaporwave are reaching for their ten-gallon hats, musically speaking – and soothing their pets in the process
Guardian Live events
Fresh Voices: Iman Amrani talks to George the Poet / Online: 15 June
Iman will be talking to George about his career to date, his inspirations, challenges, and life in lockdown.
Online: 15 June
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