Grim ole opry
Singing the sad song of Nashville, Tennessee, the Music City that gained the world and lost its soul

Man and machine get in the Moog for love
Synthesizers changed pop music for ever. T2 pays tribute to the pioneers

Can we have our bar back, please?
Raise your glass to a new book that reminds us of what our pubs once were and what they could be again

Puppets on a whim
As viewers choose the UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow, T2 looks at a show that is always more about political choices than pop

How drink and the Devil did for his best
The novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton, the subject of a new NFT tribute, went to his early grave unfulfilled but no less a genius

Kitsch and tell: bedroom secrets and home truths
Outlandish wallpapers from the past century bring back warm childhood memories

A bitter draught
Patrick Hamilton's London finds an outlet at last

Brethren of the glam rock revolution
Screen recalls the days of glam rock, as Marc Bolan's greatest celluloid hit is re-released

My band's bigger than your band...
The weedy spat between the Killers and the Bravery brings back memories of the days when pop could produce a real scrap

Corrugated iron, windblown timberwork ... nostalgic gems from football history are disappearing
WHILE the Hillsborough tragedy and the Taylor report meant Britain's dilapidated senior football grounds had to modernise or face the wrecking ball, grassroots grounds - home to the country's once-thriving amateur scene - were largely unaffected.

How does it feel?
Amazing Grace By Steve Turner

Hit and myth
In his weekly column our correspondent recalls the tragic life and death of a genius

Hit & Myth: Bob Stanley
LISTENING to their biggest hits - Happy Together or She’d Rather Be with Me — it's hard to tell that the Turtles were a bunch of misunderstood Dadaists.

She's just a melancholy baby
The Dutch singer Keren Ann is more than happy to be sad

Times writers re live their memories of Live Aid

Hip hop: the real Bronx tale
The early days of hip-hop were a mystery until the urban archaeologist Johan Kugelberg began to dig

Number One gets the bullet
As Top of the Pops is put out to pasture on BBC Two, our correspondent says don't forget its past hits

More new releases: Alanis Morissette, Jacko, Bjork and calypso

The return of Roobarb
Richard Briers is delighted to be resurrecting one of his favourite television characters

More new albums

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: The Bootleg Series Volume 7
A collection of early Dylan outtakes recalls his explosive impact on pop. Well, he was so much older then

Les Paul
Best of the Capitol Masters / Les Paul and Friends (EMI)

When Babs and Barry were disco's platinum couple

Pop Albums

Sweet soul music my compliments to the Cooke

Women hear them roar in numbers too big to ignore

The (young soul) rebel without a band

The brothers win, then the brothers grim

He came from Sasnak to change New York (Ok, the corner of 54th and 6th)

Whaddya mean groupies? We're the group
They're hairy, loud and love to rock but these tribute bands are strictly for the chicks

The strange sounds of soul rebels