Music How Janis Joplin set the template for rock’s outcasts The Sixties icon, who would be turning 80 in January, belonged to an era when personal suffering was viscerally bound up in music. By Kate Mossman
The Kate Mossman Interview Nick Cave: “I don’t think art should be in the hands of the virtuous” By Kate Mossman
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The Spiceworld generation Twenty-five years ago, the Spice Girls told Gen X to “move over” – and whispered feminist slogans to nascent… By Kate Mossman
How Arctic Monkeys succumbed to solipsism On The Car, Alex Turner sounds increasingly like a man who doesn’t need his band any more. The resulting record… By Kate Mossman
How Homogenic brought Björk into focus Twenty-five years after its release, the Icelander’s third album sounds as urgent as ever. By Kate Mossman
Sheku Kanneh-Mason: “The cello is a part of you” The 23-year-old has already played for the royals and tackled the Elgar Cello Concerto. Where does he go from… By Kate Mossman
Lisa Nandy: “I disliked the cults around Blair and Corbyn: one man doesn’t change things” On the road in Wigan, the shadow minister talks levelling up, the Tory leadership – and how Labour can… By Kate Mossman
When Joni Mitchell surprised the world In her first full live show in 20 years, her voice was rich and brown with age and fags. By Kate Mossman
Britain’s best chef Clare Smyth: “My team are like robots – you can’t stop the machine” Her mentor Gordon Ramsay has called her the Margaret Thatcher of cooking. Where does the only British woman with… By Kate Mossman
Jarvis Cocker’s book Good Pop, Bad Pop reveals the sentimental side he hid in the Nineties Taking us through the contents of his attic, the Pulp frontman shows there was always more to him than… By Kate Mossman