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Fresh from two nights at BST Hyde Park with Sabrina Carpenter and Beabadoobee, Clairo talks partying with Ayo Edebiri, learning to trust her instincts and never giving up

The 26-year-old singer-songwriter isn’t here for your approval

SARAH DITUM

Iron Maiden tours. Black Sabbath shows. Judas Priest documentaries. Times Square billboards. Lzzy Hale is everyone’s favourite go-to rock star. But it’s taken a rock-bottom moment and some existential soul-searching to get here

Uncomfortable realities and alternative realms at Venice’s contemporary dance festival

LAST YEAR, IN the middle of a solo on stage, Ally Venable had a revelation. “I was playing so many shows that it started to become kind of a monotonous blur,” she says. “I noticed I was playing to my