Womad festival review – wildly entertaining treasure trove for adventurous music fans

Radically inclusive global lineup includes Sampa the Great’s feminist pizzazz, Young Fathers’ twisted genre-splicing and Bixiga 70’s full-tent conga

Watch me work it, I’m perfect! The return of electro-house, pop’s trashiest, brattiest sound

Mutating out of trance and electroclash in the 00s, the subgenre soon topped the charts – and thanks to Charli xcx, Saltburn and more, it’s back for another round of alcopops

VR show takes ravers old and new back to early UK acid house scene

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is set in the West Midlands and will embark on eight-city tour starting in Birmingham

Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’

Sparhawk spent four decades with Parker, three of them as the core of alt-rock legends Low, before she died from cancer aged 55. He discusses finding his new, digitally-altered voice amid grief – and why he’s channelling Cher

‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis

For over 150 years this rural Cuban area has been home to changüí: hyperlocal music holding out against an embattled economy. We join an all-night festival to find out how

Kiasmos: II review – will have you crying tears of joy on the dancefloor

The Icelandic-Faroese duo follow their 2014 cult debut with a second album of meticulous, majestic, simply beautiful electronic music

South Asians have been insultingly ignored by most music festivals – so thank you Glastonbury

Despite being a huge part of the British population, South Asian musicians rarely feature on festival lineups. So it was joyous to have an entire area dedicated to our cultural vibrancy

Why Bronski Beat’s anthem of gay culture resonates 40 years on

What it is about the the haunting classic, Smalltown Boy, that still compels teens to join older generations on the dancefloor?

‘We were the bridge between indie and dance’: Glastonbury icons Orbital on 30 years of breaking barriers

In conversation with the Guardian at the festival, Paul and Phil Hartnoll recalled their culture-changing sets of the 90s – and whether they killed off Top of the Pops

The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’

As he plays Glastonbury and prepares a Fabric mix, Skinner answers your questions on his film debut, dinners with Chris Martin and the secret to true happiness

‘Women have always been sidelined. So we’re radical’: the Zawose Queens go from Tanzania to Glastonbury

The multi-talented musicians were held back in their home country where even certain instruments were off limits – but they’re ready to take centre stage at Worthy Farm

‘I’m getting 500 DMs a day’: Fish56Octagon, the dressing gown-wearing viral DJ sensation

He’s a 44-year-old marketing professional – and the toast of clubland thanks to his passionate TikToks. Ahead of three Glastonbury sets, ‘Fish’ explains how he’s defying the snobs

Post your questions for Orbital at Glastonbury

The Hartnoll brothers will be in conversation with the Guardian at Glastonbury this weekend – and we want your questions for them

From Coldplay to KMRU: who to see at Glastonbury 2024

From A-list pop names such as SZA and Dua Lipa to rising stars and leftfield oddities, here’s who to try and catch at this year’s festival

James Chance, key figure in New York’s no wave music scene, dies aged 71

Singer and saxophonist known for confrontational stage persona had experienced ill health for a number of years