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  • Jordan, Shuayb, Sadiq and Idris at the Other Stage

    Photo essay
    ‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury – photo essay

  • Ros Atkins at the Stonebridge bar

    ‘A younger generation has grabbed it’
    BBC pips composer on his tune’s Glastonbury remix

    After drum’n’bass version proves a hit with festivalgoers, David Lowe tells the Guardian an album of iconic theme music updates may follow
  • Composite for Tory years music piece

    Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again
    The songs that sum up each year of Tory government

    Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule
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Glastonbury 2024

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Interviews

  • ‘I thought everyone in music had a really glamorous life. So I tried to make normality feel glamorous’ … Mike Skinner of the Streets.

    The reader interview
    The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’

  • Stevie Van Zandt attends the "Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple" premiere during the Tribeca Festival at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 8, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

    Stevie Van Zandt
    My religion switched right over to rock’n’roll

  • Cyndi Lauper

    ‘Want to be a real artist? Keep going!’
    Cyndi Lauper at 71 on self-doubt, success – and surviving sexual assault

  • Rachel Stevens, photographed in London for G2, June 2024

    ‘I was nervous. Worried. Insecure. I just didn’t feel safe’
    Rachel Stevens on her life in S Club 7

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Album reviews

  • Disappearing act … Camila Cabello.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Camila Cabello: C,XOXO – Havana star​’s bad​-girl reboot​ is totally unconvincing

  • Stefflon Don

    Stefflon Don
    Island 54 – seamless summer playlist

    • Johnny Cash
      Songwriter – posthumous patchwork is a pleasant surprise

    • Dirty Three
      Love Changes Everything – aggressive and transcendent

    • Linda Thompson
      Proxy Music – rueful songs of love and ageing with an all-star cast

    • Contemporary album of the month
      QOA: Sauco – electro-acoustic jewels incorporate the sounds of nature

    • Kate Nash
      9 Sad Symphonies – from first dates to crying in a car park

    • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
      Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes – rich, rewarding, spellbinding music from a true original

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Live reviews

  • Patti Smith, with a long braid over her right shoulder and wearing a suit jacket, closes her eyes and points her thumb and first two fingers as she sings into a microphone

    Patti Smith – utterly transformed by the power of music

  • Eddie Vedder, with a long thin moustache and wearing a T-shirt labelled "34" and baseball cap, closes his eyes as he points in the air while singing

    Pearl Jam – Manchester audience rescues a stricken Eddie Vedder

    • Doja Cat, in a yellow body suit and leggings, crouching next to a mic stand wrapped in blond hair extensions

      Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Doja Cat – hair-raising US rapper puts on a fiery display

    • A rare bright moment … Creeper.

      Download festival – the rock fest’s most cursed year ever

    • ‘We came here to electrify!’ … the Killers.

      The Killers review – anthemic XL rock goes from epic to even more epic

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Add to playlist

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Obituaries

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From the archive

  • Mitski

    Mitski, the US’s best young songwriter
    I’m a black hole where people dump their feelings

    With songs about heartbreak and capitalism, the cult pop singer is on the brink of the mainstream – but the intensity of her fandom has her fearing for her safety
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