O come out ye faithful: a joyful roundup of UK culture this Christmas

Beauty and the Beast or Wolf Alice? Queen Marie Antoinette or Count Arthur Strong? Come and behold: the holiday season offers stage, film, music and art that’s worth singing about

Olivia Dean fans refunded by Ticketmaster after singer criticises ‘vile’ resale practices

Ticketmaster said they would ‘lead by example’ after Dean called out companies when tickets for her North American tour appeared on resale sites at prices in excess of $1,000

Add to playlist: Storefront Church’s cinematic baroque pop and the week’s best new tracks

Californian singer-songwriter Lukas Frank is picking up rave reviews for his second album’s epic choruses and lush orchestrations

‘How am I still going?’: the everlasting appeal of Cliff Richard

Despite being exiled from pop’s mainstream, he’s outlasted his contemporaries and is still selling out big rooms – what’s the secret to the national institution’s success?

Pam Hogg obituary

Fashion designer whose idiosyncratic mix of glam and DIY couture was worn by Björk, Siouxsie Sioux and Taylor Swift

Peaches: ‘We need lube to smooth out the friction of the world’

The Canadian electroclash icon on No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the state of global politics, the ‘punk energy’ of the older generation and her love of ping-pong

Pam Hogg, fashion designer with a rock’n’roll spirit, dies at 66

‘100% party girl’ and key part of 1980s London club scene designed for Rihanna, Björk, Kylie Minogue and Debbie Harry

My Bloody Valentine review – shoegaze pioneers find prettiness in pulverising noise

Earplugs safely distributed, the band proceed to rattle ribcages with a two-hour show that showcases their unique ability to mesh the dreamlike with the apocalyptic

Jimmy Cliff’s charisma and fearless creativity expanded the horizons of reggae

Cliff, who has died aged 81, took every opportunity that he was presented with, and created plenty more himself. It resulted in a career path like no other

The Hives review – veteran punk’n’rollers fizz with megawatt energy

Twenty-five years on from their first UK tour, the Swedish band are at their cartoonish, snarling best, eager to prove themselves rather than wallow in nostalgia

Bad Omens review – anthemic songs and pillars of fire dampened by arena nerves

Noah Sebastian’s vocals switch deftly from croon to scream to whisper, but the genre-hopping US metalcore band lack chemistry on the big stage

Still Pushing Pineapples review – Black Lace trouper on sad disco circuit from Blackpool to Benidorm

Kim Hopkins’ documentary follows Dene Michael, of 1980s novelty pop act Black Lace, as he belts out the band’s hits – though it misses out a key part of his life

Diaries, artworks and more to be auctioned from Marianne Faithfull’s personal belongings

Late singer’s personal effects up for sale including a trunk gifted to her by Carrie Fisher, and artworks by Anita Pallenberg and Marlene Dumas

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

‘The world is such a nice thing!’: Matt Maltese, the songwriter for pop’s A-list … and Shakespeare

After getting dropped by a major label, the Leonard Cohen-influenced south Londoner kept going, and has now won fans in Rosalía, Sabrina Carpenter and more. But writing for the Bard is best of all, he says