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  • The Pet shop Boys perform at the Royal Opera House, London.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Pet Shop Boys – always never being boring

  • composite of Tony, Des and Bruce

    Feature
    ‘It brings you back’: the suburban choir helping people living with dementia reconnect

    Music is stored in different parts of the brain than other memories, experts say, and potentially for longer. For choristers in the Good Life Chorus, communal singing offers benefits beyond memory
  • A total mosh-out … Ceremony’s Ross Farrar.

    Feature
    Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?

    The success of Manchester’s Outbreak festival shows the appetite for the genre isn’t just healthy, it’s on the rise. Its organisers discuss the scene’s evolution, its fragility, and its (very loud) future
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Glastonbury 2024

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  • Friends hanging out at big music festival

    Get ready for Glastonbury 2024
    11 essentials to pack, plan and download

  • Jill Ratoff and family

    ‘It’s my 18th consecutive Glastonbury'
    The three generation family attending the festival

  • Yeshi and Julie from Taste Tibet

    ‘Like winning a golden ticket’
    How Glastonbury’s traders thrive off of good vibes

  • Refugee charity stand

    ‘We’re reaching people who wouldn’t get to go’
    The volunteer scheme taking first-timers to Glastonbury 2024

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Interviews

  • Crossover hit … from left, Brinsley Forde, Drummie Zeb and Tony Robinson in 1988.

    How we made
    ‘I thought the chorus was wicked’: Aswad on how they made Don’t Turn Around

  • ‘We didn’t get to properly rage’ … with Dua Lipa at Glastonbury.

    ‘I was in Dua Lipa’s dream’
    Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker on his surprise Glastonbury duet – and launching a fashion line

  • Portrait of Alan Sparhawk, who wears a dark denim shirt.

    Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker
    If you fall in love, you know this could happen

  • Bruce Dickinson with his hair pulled back and wearing a black leather jacket, against a mid-blue background

    The Q&A
    Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The list goes on and on … ’

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Album reviews

  • Jack White performing at Glastonbury 2022.

    Jack White
    No Name – terrific surprise album is his most White Stripes-esque solo release

  • Glass Animals 2024 press publicity portrait

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much – bland bathos from one-time biggest band in the world

    • Contemporary album of the month
      Beyza Yazgan: Human Cocoon – from Middle Eastern classical to American minimalism

    • Soft Play
      Heavy Jelly – songs of love, loss and leaking bin bags

    • Denzel Curry
      King of the Mischievous South Vol 2 – annoyingly irresistible

    • Sturgill Simpson
      Johnny Blue Skies: Passage du Desir – heartache all the way

    • Pop
      Glass Animals: I Love You So F***ing Much – immaculate but unengaging indie rock

    • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
      Cassandra Jenkins: My Light, My Destroyer – a beautiful, brooding delight

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Live reviews

  • Megan Thee Stallion at the O2 Arena.

    The Observer's artist of the week
    Megan Thee Stallion – like a self-confidence boot camp

  • Arooj Aftab at Omeara, London.

    The Observer's artist of the week
    Arooj Aftab – crackling wit and songs of elegiac beauty

    • Travis Scott at Tottenham Hotspur stadium, London.

      Travis Scott
      Rap’s commander puts the mosh pit through its paces

    • Robbie Williams Performs At BST Hyde Park

      Robbie Williams
      Slick and saucy end-of-the-pier pop

    • Smooth … Skepta on stage at the Big Smoke festival.

      Skepta
      Grime royalty broadcasts London to the world

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Add to playlist

  • James Martin.

    Honest playlist
    James Martin: ‘I learned to play guitar so I could perform Don’t Stop Believin’ every night’

  • Bad With Phones

    One to watch
    Bad With Phones

  • Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child in Melbourne, 2005

    So good, so good, so good
    Destiny’s Child’s greatest songs – ranked!

  • Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Chappell Roan

    Feature
    Song of the summer 2024: writers pick their tracks of the season

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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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