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Tupac Shakur murder trial: jury begins deliberations after hearing closing arguments

Former gang leader Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, 63, is accused of ordering the killing of the hip-hop star in 1996

Gabrielle Canon and Roque Planas31 Aug

Dolly Parton laid to rest in private Nashville funeral

The queen of country was interred next to her late husband in an intimate ceremony attended by close family

Owen Myers31 Aug

Reading and Leeds festival review – post-GCSE blowout shows how dominant dance music now is

Charli xcx and Fontaines DC are spellbinding and there’s an awesome array of genres, but the biggest turnouts are for tech house names like Kettama and Josh Baker

Archie Forde31 Aug

A$AP Rocky review – arena spectacular has plenty of helicopters but little sense of direction

The polymath rapper’s stage show, which also features SWAT teams and a warship, is truly bravura stuff – but you can’t help feeling this is an artist at a creative crossroads

Stevie Chick31 Aug

Les Siècles/Lehmann La Damnation de Faust review – vivid colour, soaring solos and a sharp-suited demon

Period instrument grain and an energised Jakob Lehmann did a fair job with Berlioz’s concert setting of the drama, but the hall’s murky acoustic buried some of the sparkle

Erica Jeal31 Aug

Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat

Performances from Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan and Sarah McLachlan raise $20m for charity yet are marred by poor planning for heatwave

Paula Mejía30 Aug

Simon Clarkson obituary

Other lives: Organist and composer with a strong commitment to teaching

Duncan Honeybourne30 Aug

Oslo Philharmonic/Gražinytė-Tyla/Kopatchinskaja review – weapons-grade charisma and anarchic delight

Patricia Kopatchinskaja hurls herself into Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, while conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla brings precision and intensity to Prokofiev

Flora Willson30 Aug

The Waterboys review – Steve Earle joins a gloriously unruly return to Fisherman’s Blues

The Nashville singer-songwriter is among the guests joining Mike Scott for a sprawling, exuberant revue that finds new life in the Waterboys’ rootsy past

Peter Ross30 Aug

‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist

The Black Bananas singer knows all the words to Rapper’s Delight and relates to AC/DC, but which song reminds her of a heartbreaking theft?

Priya Elan30 Aug

Kevin Mitchell: ‘90% of us are loving, peaceful people. A few bad eggs are making us all look bad’

The musician also known as Bob Evans talks about Suburban Songbook turning 20, believing in aliens and his ‘pretty decent legs’

Andrew Stafford29 Aug

Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton

Bill Lee says he favors proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singer

Edward Helmore29 Aug

Charli xcx, Reading festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it

There’s not much time to dig into her deep catalogue of future-facing pop, but she satisfies the hardcore

Chal Ravens29 Aug

‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham

Country star came to South Yorkshire town in 2007 for UK launch of the Imagination Library, her book donation scheme

Esther Addley29 Aug

‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’: inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @

Their un-Googlable, very online name is the antithesis of this earthy duo’s sublime art-folk. Like their emotionally ambiguous music, the pair don’t give up their mysteries easily

Quinn Moreland29 Aug

Another beloved live music venue is closing. Is Australia’s precarious rental market killing the vibe?

With Lazy Thinking in Sydney the latest venue to shut its doors, the once-vibrant grassroots music scene is becoming increasingly vulnerable

Kat Wong29 Aug

Eilidh Urbach obituary

Other lives: Soprano whose professional engagements in the 1950s included working with Benjamin Britten and performing on BBC radio

Bernard Tannett28 Aug

Focus on Paul McCartney’s feet down below his knee

Letters: Abbey Road | Putin is no Marxist | Nort a homophone | 35mm film canisters

28 Aug

Reading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?

As R&L replace the BBC’s unsigned artists stage with one filled with rock scions and a Simon Cowell boyband, many are decrying disappearing opportunities for grassroots acts

Daniel Dylan Wray28 Aug

Bigmouth strums again: was Andy Burnham’s Smiths jam in Kyiv the perfect soundtrack to a Britain in freefall?

The UK prime minister clearly still adores the band. Perhaps he’s attracted to songs about sham justice and murderous meat factories, shot through with nihilism and exquisite despair

Zoe Williams28 Aug

Add to playlist: the spectral, fathoms-deep folksong of June McDoom and the week’s best new tracks

Rich harmonies mix with synth, harp and aquatic grace on the intriguing first single from the New York songwriter’s debut album

Jasper Willems and Laura Snapes28 Aug