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Echo and the Bunnymen review – Ian McCulloch leaves it to the crowd to sing these timelessly great songs

Sun

Harry Styles review – Netflix concert is a communal love-in with some big pop moments

Sat

‘Someone’s paid a grand in cash’: fans camp out in Manchester for first Harry Styles concert since 2023

Fri

Morrissey: Make-Up Is a Lie review – nostalgic, sentimental and dull, he is a shadow of what he once was

Fri

Post your questions for Kim Gordon

Fri

Waterbaby: Memory Be a Blade review – stellar singer-songwriter pieces post-breakup life back together

Fri

‘The beast inside me wants to move!’ The smart, slapstick world of Audrey Hobert, the Steve Martin of pop

Fri

Mitski review – pop meets performance art in a masterful spectacle

Thu

Squeeze: Trixies review – finally completed first album proves teenage dreams are hard to beat

Thu

Bright and beautiful? The man causing millennial rapture with his school hymn singalongs

Thu

10cc review – 70s legends reprise a dazzling string of pop classics

Thu

Can you watch without wincing? Seven times Australian politicians burst into song

Thu

‘At first, she couldn’t come off the oxygen long enough’: the film that gives Marianne Faithfull one final thrilling performance

Thu

Harry Styles on Liam Payne’s death: ‘It’s so difficult to lose a friend who is so like you in so many ways’

Wed

‘I owe Iron Maiden my English A-level!’ The great literature our writers discovered through pop music

Wed

Harry Styles: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally review – nice all the time. Good, occasionally

Wed

From David Bowie to Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton, Mike Vernon’s ear was invaluable to British pop and blues

Tue

David Byrne review – in life during wartime, this show will restore your faith in humanity

Tue

Lily Allen review – pop star makes much-anticipated comeback – but where is the West End Girl?

Tue

‘My guitar was mangled – like my life!’ Goo Goo Dolls on how they made epic ballad Iris

Mon

‘Do what you really want to do while you’re still alive’: Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese guitar hero surfing a second wave in his 70s

Mon

How Courtney Barnett made her new album by retreating to the desert: ‘It nearly drove me mad’

Mar 1

Morrissey review – classic Smiths songs meet GB News-style talking points

Mar 1

Harry Styles, fake stage invaders and a censored Peter Mandelson joke: the biggest moments at the Brit awards

Mar 1

Brit awards 2026: full list of winners

Mar 1

Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all

Feb 28

Olivia Dean sweeps the board at 2026 Brit awards, winning four including artist, song and album of the year

Feb 28

Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe: ‘I feel like I have to work very hard to redeem myself’

Feb 28

From Amarillo to Stockport: 15 of Neil Sedaka’s greatest songs, and their extraordinary stories

Feb 28

Hard work, romance and bell hooks: how Olivia Dean became British pop’s newest megastar

Feb 28

Baz Luhrmann: ‘There’s the image of Elvis and then there’s the man’

Feb 28

Cruz Beckham review – son of David and Victoria transcends nepo-baby tag with intriguing psych-pop

Feb 28

Neil Sedaka, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do singer and pop song hitmaker, dies aged 86

Feb 27

Bruno Mars: The Romantic review – you’re better off listening to the songs he’s blatantly imitating

Feb 27

‘It’s good music, not a guilty pleasure’: how Bruno Mars embraced cheese to become pop’s most popular star

Feb 27

Lala Lala: Heaven 2 review – brooding alt-popper fights the urge to run

Feb 27

‘Everybody wants a bestie like this guy!’ Rush on rock’s most anticipated reunion – and its greatest bromance

Feb 27

Dead-end boys and West End girls: Lily Allen’s greatest songs – ranked!

Feb 26

Gorillaz: The Mountain review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

Feb 26

‘The bathrooms were rank, but we didn’t care’: how the grimy-but-great CBGB changed rock for ever

Feb 26

Source close to Rolling Stones refutes Melania producer’s claim Mick Jagger ‘gave his blessing’ to use song

Feb 25

‘We’re a pub friendship – with songs attached’: deadpan dazzlers Black Box Recorder return, thanks to Billie Eilish

Feb 25

Temple of boom! Why Taiwan’s religious sites are becoming unlikely rave venues

Feb 24

‘Musicians drank too much and slept on my barn floor’: Andrew Bird on making cult album The Mysterious Production of Eggs

Feb 23

Willie Colón was an explosive energy source who took salsa into the stratosphere

Feb 23

‘We watched 9/11 from the rooftop, blasting the music out’: how The Disintegration Loops became a requiem for the attacks

Feb 23

The best songs of 2025 … you may not have heard

Dec 27

Soul-baring ballads, alt-rock fury and neon-lit techno: five-star albums you may have missed this year

Dec 26

The best old music we discovered this year

Dec 25

Made of steel: how South Yorkshire became the British indie heartland

Feb 2 2018