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Is Taylor Swift currently the world’s best pop star?

Look at this live TV performance.

LOOK AT IT

(kindly bought to our attention by @paulblades)

Fans wearing Daft Punk helmets arrive at a venue in Australia’s tiny town of Wee Waa prior to the French band’s album launch this morning. Wee Waa, better known for cotton-picking than culture, was relishing the limelight as thousands of electo-pop fans descended on it. The cotton town’s population will more than double for the event.

Photograph: Shanna Whan/AFP/Getty Images

Beyoncé performs at London’s O2 Arena on her Mrs Carter Show World Tour. From our Beyoncé O2 arena review.

Photograph: Yosra El-Essawy/Invision

Laura Marling: ‘Americans – they’re just a lot more poetic’

Singer-songwriter Laura Marling talks to Tom Lamont about lyrics, love, her new album and why she decided to move from London to LA

Photograph: Steve Schofield for the Observer

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SUEDE ON RECORD STORE DAY

It’s Record Store Day on Saturday. And here’s Suede chatting about record shops (with a bit of performance chucked in for good measure). CS

This electro-soul duo have raised eyebrows since their vocalist came out as a man but still won’t show their faces, preferring to let their sensual sound do the talking

Photograph: Dan Monick