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Taylor Swift performs in the pouring rain in her final Nashville show

‘A professional in true sense of the word,’ one fan wrote

The Independent UK

Apple Music Live will stream Ed Sheeran's London concert live this week

Apple Music Live is back for a second season and will kick off with Ed Sheeran at the Eventim Apollo in London

iMore

Ed Sheeran says talking to Taylor Swift is 'like therapy' as she 'truly understands'

Ed Sheeran has opened up about his decades-long friendship with his unlikely close pal, pop star Taylor Swift, as he claims she's the 'only one who truly understands me'

Daily Mirror

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On my radar: Aaron Dessner’s cultural highlights

The producer and musician from rock band the National on an inspirational Ethiopian pianist, a great Icelandic book on the climate crisis, and the cuisine of the Hudson Valley

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran: Subtract review – a grownup record that swings from coping to not coping

Framing his recent grief and depression in a gauzy wash of sound, the embattled songsmith continues to deal in powerful universals

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran to perform 'Subtract' album on Apple Music Live

Ed Sheeran will put his new album on full display with the help of Apple Music

The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran: Subtract review – easily his best ever album

Grief and his wife’s brush with cancer inspired Sheeran to make this insular record with Aaron Dessner of the National. It’s downcast yet full of new ideas – but will fans take to it?

The Guardian - UK

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Ed Sheeran review, Subtract: Aaron Dessner collaboration proves that less is definitely more

The final album in the singer-songwriter’s ‘maths’ series includes some beautifully pared-back musicianship, and Sheeran at his most vulnerable

The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran explains why ‘long conversations’ with Taylor Swift feel like ‘therapy’

“I feel like she’s one of the only people that actually truly understands where I’m at,” he said about Swift

The Independent UK

‘He was so emotional’: the inside story of Ed Sheeran’s new album – and his US copyright trial

As he defends himself in a New York court, Sheeran is preparing to release Subtract, a stark album informed by grief. Its producer Aaron Dessner explains how it was made

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran listening bench pops up in Dublin park

The bright yellow bench allows fans to listen to Ed's music and exclusive voice notes about his new tracks

Dublin Live

Ed Sheeran’s new track ‘Boat’ is a metaphor for depression

Track will appear on his forthcoming album ‘Subtract’

The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran reveals wife Cherry inspired him to cut his drinking before birth of daughter Lyra

Ed Sheeran has revealed his wife encouraged him to curb his alcohol consumption shortly before the birth of their first child.

Evening Standard

Post your questions for Matt Berninger of the National

The lead singer of the acclaimed indie band is available to take questions on everything from their new album First Two Pages of Frankenstein to working with Taylor Swift

The Guardian - UK

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Dublin Live

Ed Sheeran chokes back tears during emotional 3Arena gig moment

The 32-year-old singer fought back the tears as he performed his new single Eyes Closed in tribute to a close friend who died suddenly last year

Irish Mirror

Ed Sheeran holds back tears during emotional moment at Dublin show

He performed his new single Eyes Closed to 14,000 fans, in tribute to a friend he lost last year

The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran: You have to take yourself out of reality sometimes to numb the pain of loss

The singer’s latest song is about grief and loss.

Wales Online

Ed Sheeran shares tragic heartbreak behind new single Eyes Closed

The track comes after a series of events that the singer said affected his mental health, including a tumour scare and death of a close friend

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Evening Standard

Ed Sheeran’s new Eyes Closed single about inescapable sadness, singer says

The new track comes after the death of Sheeran’s friend Jamal Edwards and learning that his wife had a tumour

The Guardian - US

Ed Sheeran: Eyes Closed review – the most unradical of reinventions

Teaming with Taylor Swift’s recent producer, Aaron Dessner of the National, Sheeran strips things back – but only a little, and the chorus of this new single is as insistent as ever

The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran review, Eyes Closed: Emotional, candid songwriting that hits home

Singer-songwriter’s collaboration with The National’s Aaron Dessner distils some of his grief over late friend Jamal Edwards

The Orange County Register

5 songs to listen to by rising pop star Gracie Abrams

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Gracie Abrams is certainly shaping up to be the next big thing in Gen Z pop, a subgenre currently led by acts like Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Khalid and Lil Nas X.

MusicRadar

Ed Sheeran's final album will be "perfect" and released "after I die"

Star reveals he wants to build the posthumous album "for the rest of my life"

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran ‘didn’t want to live any more’ after deaths of friends Jamal Edwards and Shane Warne

Singer tells Rolling Stone he sought therapy in wake of grief – and that as well as his forthcoming sixth album, he has two more records ready for release

The Guardian - UK

New Ed Sheeran album, Subtract, informed by ‘fear, depression and anxiety’

Wife’s illness, plagiarism court case and death of music entrepreneur friend Jamal Edwards all came to bear on Sheeran’s sixth studio album, made with the National’s Aaron Dessner

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