Bladee's party lifestyle almost ended in disaster. Now, after a spell working in a shampoo factory, Sweden's dark teen icon is back with a furious and euphoric new sound.
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‘It’s like, wow. I was really deranged’: stars and repentant stans on the terror of toxic fandom
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Iceland's famous music venues swallowed by tourism – thriving music scene that gave world Björk, Sigur Rós and Ólafur Arnald under threat from Reykjavík's popularity
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The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked
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Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government
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Dutch singer and rapper Joost Klein disqualified from Eurovision song contest because of incident involving female member of production crew
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Reindeer skins and sonic looms – Borealis music festival dives into Sámi culture in the Norwegian city of Bergen
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Johan Röhr's 2,700 songs have been streamed 15bn times – Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
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Olof Dreijer on the Knife, Swedish nationalism and dancefloor activism
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Danish man on trial over accusations he fraudulently made more than £502,000 in royalties on music streaming sites
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New York Times faces backlash for [5,000 word] essay speculating on Taylor Swift’s sexuality
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ABBA stars Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have shared in a dividend of nearly £1m after a surge in profits at their production company Littlestar Services
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Far from their girl-power namesakes, deadpan Finnish pop duo Maustetytöt have topped the charts at home – and found a kindred spirit in director Aki Kaurismäki
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Shane MacGowan obituary - lead singer and masterful songwriter for the Pogues who brought punk style and attitude to Irish folk music
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‘It was a way to share your musical experiences’: Two new books explore the cassette tape's contribution to music
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Björk: ‘I always wanted to be David Attenborough’
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Agnetha Fältskog recalls the stress and sadness in ABBA, their blockbuster Voyage project, and the music she never lets the world hear
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Björk and Rosalía have collaborated on a new song to benefit activists fighting against industrial salmon farming in Björk's native Iceland
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‘The love for music is still there’: saving the sounds of Afghanistan one cassette at a time
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Now a trio, Sigur Rós explain their search for beauty with their first album in a decade
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She makes music that shifts from barely-there sonorities to viscera-quaking climaxes – the thrilling Icelandic soundscapes of Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
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Denniz Pop turned Sweden into a pop powerhouse, but then died tragically young from cancer – his peers reflect on an underrated legacy
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ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus believes avatars are the future after greeting one millionth attender at the group's hit show, Voyage
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Outstanding new composers and genre-hopping experiments – why Iceland has become a classical music powerhouse
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Fever Ray's Karin Dreijer on romance, ageing and kink – third solo album finds them swapping edge for the ‘peaceful sadness’ of age
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‘Oh my God, this is big!’ How The Cardigans went stratospheric with Lovefool.
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Modest Mouse founding member Jeremiah Green dies at age 45
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Wilko Johnson: Dr Feelgood guitarist and punk forebear dies aged 75
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Darren Hayes looks back: ‘What you can’t see is how unhappy I was’
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How grief, going home and gabber built Björk's new album – Fossora will be released this autumn
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Sia, Robyn and Anohni are among those interpreting Neneh Cherry's back catalogue, but the new album works best when it strays from the big hits
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Can ABBA really recreate the feel of a live concert using holograms forty-one years after their last set?
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"This is a crazy, unjust attack": Pink Floyd re-form to produce single in support of Ukraine
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Jenny Hval: ‘I was a bit of a brat about marriage’
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ABBA on fame, divorce, ageing backwards – and why they've returned to rescue 2021
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Billie, Lorde, Lizzo: Pop stardom has never seemed less aspirational
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‘I had no confidence, no money’: The pop stars kept in limbo by major labels
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Björn Ulvaeus: ‘Today's pop industry cheats songwriters – and deters the risk-taking that made ABBA’
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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Carnage review – vivid visions of apocalypse and absolution
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‘Right now I’m into Libyan reggae’: The music label delving into the Arab world's back catalogue
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Zara Larsson: ‘The more hate I got, the louder I became’
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Kyrgyzstan ballads, Okinawa folk, Ugandan hymns … the album rewriting global music history
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Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós have claimed they face financial ruin or even jail following an 'unjust and draconian' second prosecution for tax evasion
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Jimmy Cobb, drummer on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, dies aged 91
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Neneh Cherry: ‘Rap is a kind of freedom’
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Ahead of her ambitious Cornucopia tour reaching the UK in November, we select the greatest work by the Icelandic pop-polymath Björk
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Woman arrested for threatening to blow up Swedish embassy in Washington DC over A$AP Rocky case
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Rapper A$AP Rocky charged with assault over fight in Sweden
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