Kendrick Lamar raises the bar and lays down the gauntlet, writes Ben Lomax

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Alister Pearson looks back at the life of the controversial writer William S. Burroughs, who was born a century ago this year

“Achtung Baby was the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree for good”

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