Is Harry Styles losing his ‘Mr Perfect’ image? Six things you need to know

After a three-year hiatus, the former One Directioner has announced a record-breaking tour. But this week he’s facing a backlash. Will his big comeback go to plan?

Add to playlist: the boundless bedroom-made black metal of Powerplant and the week’s best new tracks

Theo Zhykharyev, the Ukrainian wizard working low-profile under this brand since 2017 has pivoted to a new realm which blends ferocious energy with freewheeling fun

Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost to Kindness review

(Nettwerk)The quartet edge away from their trademark sound with louder guitars and bolder intentions – but their reinvention is more gradual than radical

Tyler Ballgame: For the First Time, Again review

(Rough Trade)The much-hyped LA singer – who has been compared to Tim Buckley, Elvis and more – certainly has a beautiful voice, though he can lean too eagerly on his influences

Blood, butter and boys in luv: BTS’s 20 best songs

As the superstar K-pop boyband prepare for their first album in three years – after its members completed their military service – we count down the best of their toothsome pop

David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod review

An exhilarating account of Bowie’s spirituality and the quasi-religious nature of his work, from Space Oddity to Blackstar

TikTok virality gives Jeff Buckley his first US Top 100 hit 29 years after his death

Lover, You Should Have Come Over enters charts at No 97, after becoming popular on social media platform

Gonna be golden? Who will

The top categories are stacked with quality, from Bad Bunny to Kendrick Lamar, Chappell Roan and K-pop hits – but here are the artists who most deserve to triumph

‘If you want to nuke your life, do crack’: raw Courtney Love documentary hits Sundance

Antiheroine, a new film about the musician’s tumultuous life and career, premiered at the festival with some frank admissions but the star not present

Know the score? I don’t read music, but that’s no hindrance to reimagining great classical works

Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest strength

Natalia Lafourcade reflects on memorable moments in music career and rise to fame

Natalia Lafourcade is the most awarded woman in Latin Grammy history with 20 awards. This year, she's up for best Latin pop album at the Grammys, which would be her fifth Grammy if she wins. Lafourcade spoke to Anthony Mason about her music journey and rise to fame.

‘We get a lot of requests for it be used in sex scenes’: how Goldfrapp made Ooh La La

‘I couldn’t think of a line for the chorus – but we had just been to France. I got Baudelaire into the lyrics somewhere, too’