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  Will the Oasis reunion usher in a Britpop summer – or is it just a marketing ploy?

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  The critical response to Miley Cyrus’s Something Beautiful exposes pop’s gender double standards

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  Four records that embody the joy of the double album – from the Beatles to Outkast

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  Who Believes in Angels? by Elton John and Brandi Carlile shows the power of true collaboration

• Radiohead’s The Bends at 30: this fraught, compassionate, violently disturbed record remains one of their best

• Five Things I’ve Learnt about Leadership

• Obsessing over the ‘true’ meaning of lyrics misses the point of songwriting

• Three pop beefs that were more cutting than Matty Healy and Taylor Swift’s

• Six covers of Bob Dylan songs that were better than the originals