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  • Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso.

    Interview
    ‘Pop music can be so scared to offend’: Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, the Argentine duo subverting machismo

    After going viral with their Tiny Desk concert, the impish pair are heading to Glastonbury. They explain their ‘no shame, no fear’ approach – and their ridiculous muscle suits
  • two men speaking

    News
    Prosecution and defense rest case in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex-trafficking trial

  • ‘Artistically true and honest’ … from left, Jack Callan, Sam McCann, Karla Chubb and Zac Stephenson.

    Interview
    ‘I get idiot men calling me arrogant’: Irish post-punks Sprints confront the mansplainers and misogynists

  • Diana Ross.

    Live review
    Diana Ross – glittering Motown royalty still sounds supreme

  • Lana Del Rey on stage at Cardiff Principality Stadium.

    Live review
    Lana Del Rey – mid-century melodrama as mindblowing stadium spectacle

  • a man looking at a camera

    News
    Bobby Sherman, 60s teen idol and singer of hit Little Woman, dies aged 81

  • Stu Mackenzie and Joey Walker of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard performing at Lukiškiu prison, Vilnius, Lithuania.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘We have a high appetite for risk’: inside King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s historic EU tour

Interviews

  1. Hard Fi pictured in 2025- Richard Archer (lead vocals and guitar), Ross Phillips (guitar and backing vocals), Kai Stephens (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Steve Kemp (drums and backing vocals)

    Flashback
    ‘People thought I was off my face’: indie rockers Hard-Fi look back at adrenaline, addiction and a life of excess

  2. Portrait of Alanis Morissette wearing a dark jacket with her hand on her hip and her long hair blowing across her.

    Addiction, midlife liberation and the predatory 90s
    Alanis Morissette: ‘If men couldn’t have sex with me, they didn’t know what to do with me’

  3. Wednesday band members sit close together on a red staircase framed by a doorway

    The year's best alt-rock album
    Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman on her wild, dark stories: ‘You’re lying if you don’t acknowledge death’

Album reviews

  1. Loyle Carner Press publicity portrait

    Album of the week
    Loyle Carner: Hopefully! – rap sweetheart faces family, fear and the feels

  2. Impressive articulacy … from left: Haylen Trammel, Lucky Hunter, Will Anderson and Michael Ralston.

    Indie
    Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon – love lights melodies through the fuzz

  3. Sweet but sharp … from left: Ann-Lisett Rebane and Katariina Kivi of Duo Ruut.

    Folk album of the month
    Duo Ruut: Ilmateade – Estonian duo’s soulful look to the skies

  4. three women in sparkly dresses in a changing room

    Album of the week
    Haim: I Quit – the messiest breakup album of recent times, in every sense

Live reviews

  1. Short and sharp … Iron Maiden.

    Metal
    Iron Maiden – 50th anniversary tour as near as uncompromising band get to greatest hits show

  2. The wait is over … Brandi Carlile.

    Country
    Brandi Carlile – country for the marginalised excels on the big stage

  3. a woman in a white leotard

    Pop
    Dua Lipa – dance-pop icon keeps the energy hotter than hell

  4. J Hus performing at Royal Albert Hall

    Rap
    J Hus – rapper touched by genius can’t quite channel his energy

Add to playlist

  1. Ana Matronic

    Honest playlist
    ‘I find it sad and difficult to listen to the Smiths’: Ana Matronic’s honest playlist

  2. Bad Bunny.

    Best of 2025 so far
    ‘I’ve never been so obsessed with a band’: readers’ best albums of 2025 so far

  3. Enveloping … James K.

    Add to playlist
    James K’s downtempo dream pop and the week’s best new tracks

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From the archive

  • Compilation of various moments in Glastonbury history

    From Bowie to Beyoncé
    Glastonbury's 50 greatest moments

    As Glastonbury returns this week, revisit Michael and Emily Eavis picking the best bits of the world's greatest music festival for its 50th anniversary

Obituaries

  • Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks in 1986.

    Tribute
    ‘His music documented an America that no longer exists’: Brian Wilson’s brilliance, by key collaborator Van Dyke Parks

  • close-up of person behind microphone

    Alexis Petridis
    Whether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson made pop’s most overwhelmingly beautiful music

    Alexis Petridis
  • Brian Wilson performing in Glasgow in 2002.

    Brian Wilson
    ‘I yearned to be a California Girl – but I lived in Burnley’: readers on their love for Brian Wilson

  • Brian Wilson performing during at T In The Park festival in Scotland in 2007.

    News
    ‘He taught the world how to smile’: Brian Wilson bandmates pay tribute along with Bob Dylan, Elton John and more

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