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Antony and the Johnsons

May 2023

  • ANOHNI

    Anohni on anger, empathy and trans rights: ‘The UK is one of the most misogynist countries in the world’

    The spellbinding singer returns with an album of warm, empathic folk-soul – plus a screaming lemur – to salute LGBTQ+ trailblazers, Lou Reed and more. She explains why we must embrace forgiveness if we are ever to make change

July 2018

  • Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, PJ Harvey and Dizzee Rascal

    Ranked
    Every Mercury prize-winning album – ranked!

    Following the announcement of this year’s nominees, we run the rule over the 26 albums that have earned the crown, from Klaxons and James Blake to M People and Talvin Singh

August 2017

  • Top to bottom: Future Feminism artists Kembra Pfahler, Johanna Constantine and Anohni.

    Anohni on Future Feminism: 'Trump is just a distraction from the core issues'

    The transgender musician is bringing her Future Feminism project to Europe, putting feminine values first – and argues that our very ecology depends on them

March 2017

  • Julie Cunningham, Hannah Burfield, and Harry Alexander in Returning

    Julie Cunningham & Company review – words get in the way

    Julie Cunningham’s first works as head of her own company have passion and subtlety, but struggle to compete with a forceful spoken accompaniment

February 2017

  • Illustration of heart-shaped guitar strings with Johnny Mathis, One Direction, Anohni, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

    A history of the love song in 10 tracks

    From gay anthems to online romance, love songs have charted our changing times. Here’s our guide to seven decades of swooning in pop

December 2016

  • Anohni’s new album is called Hopelessness.

    Anohni urges Barack Obama to free Chelsea Manning: 'She poses no threat'

    Musician posts YouTube message urging Obama to release Manning, who is serving a prison sentence for leaking state secrets, before President-elect Trump takes office

September 2016

  • Mercury Prize 2016 David Bowie, Laura Mvula, Anohni  and Skepta

    Music blog
    Bowie? Skepta? Radiohead? Our critics decide who should win the Mercury prize

    Ahead of the Mercury prize ceremony, our writers argue the case for the albums they think deserves the coveted gong

June 2016

  • Anohni

    'An act of solidarity': Anohni treks 100km across Australian desert to protest against uranium mine

    The force behind Antony and the Johnsons joins more than 100 activists and traditional owners in walk through east Pilbara in Western Australia to raise awareness of threat posed by proposed Kintyre mine

May 2016

  • FIRST USE IN THE GUIDE SPRING 2016 PLEASE Anohni (Antony Hegarty) for the Guide. 
Photo by Linda Nylind. 4/2/2016.

    Anohni: Hopelessness review – a radical album for a time of crisis

    The singer formerly known as Antony Hegarty’s debut as Anohni exploits muscular electronica to tackle the tragedies of our age

April 2016

  • Anohni

    Anohni, the artist once known as Antony Hegarty, on life beyond the Johnsons

    The force behind Antony and the Johnsons has returned with a new name and a new album denouncing Obama and climate change. She explains how pop is her political vehicle

March 2016

  • Anohni performing at Primavera Sound music festival in Spain.

    Music blog
    Green days: why outsider musicians are putting eco-consciousness on record

    Anohni and THEEsatisfaction are in the vanguard of artists using their music to challenge ecocide and resist big business on behalf of minorities

February 2016

  • Anohni.

    Oscars 2016: Anohni boycotts 'degrading' ceremony

    The first transgender performer to receive an Academy Award nomination says she felt unable to attend after being declined the opportunity to perform

January 2016

  • Ringo

    Ringo was the only good Beatle … so what is your most unpopular music opinion?

    With Twitter users getting views off their chests at #UnpopularMusicOpinionHour, we asked Guardian staff to share what opinion they’ve been shouted down at the pub for

December 2015

  • Angel Haze, Miley Cyrus and Shamir

    Music blog
    Gender fluidity went pop in 2015 – and it's not just a phase

    Alex Macpherson
  • Primavera Sound Music Festival<br>epa04773136 Frontman of US band 'Antony and the Johnsons' Antony Hegarty (L) performs  during the first day of the Primavera Sound Music Festival at Parc Forum of Barcelona, Spain, 28 May 2015. Primavera Sound will run from 28 to 30 May.  EPA/ALEJANDRO GARCIA

    Music blog
    Antony Hegarty's 4 Degrees: a climate change anthem for our doomed planet

October 2015

  • Musician Antony Hegarty performing live

    Antony Hegarty attacks pope for 'shameful and pathetic' meeting with Kim Davis

    Artist says Pope Francis is ‘causing harm and burning witches in the name of Christ’ for meeting the woman who was jailed after refusing to perform same-sex marriages

July 2015

  • The artist Marina Abramovic whose work is being exhibited at MONA in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, from June 2015. Abramović is pictured inside the gallery. Photo supplied as PR without restrictions by Remi Chauvin / MONA

    Marina Abramović reveals plans for her funeral, 'the artist’s last piece'

    Performance artist, 67, wants three bodies – one real, two fake – buried in the cities she has lived in the longest, and singer Antony Hegarty to perform

June 2015

  • Zaky Mallah on QandA

    ABC says allowing former terrorism suspect on Q&A was an 'error in judgment'

    Zaky Mallah, acquitted of terrorism offences in 2005, clashed with Coalition MP Steve Ciobo on live TV over plans to strip citizenship from foreign fighters
  • the jacksons

    Cerys Matthews, Dr Crotchety
    Cerys Matthews: music for family occasions

    Love, home, cruelty – a riff on family dynamics calls for dynamic tunes, from 70s pop and reggae to a darker turn from Antony And The Johnsons
  • Avant garde singer Antony Hegarty (second on right) with artists in the Martu community in Parnngurr in Western Australia's Pilbara region in 2013. The Martu will have an exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art in July 2015 to voice their objections to a uranium mine proposed for their lands. Video still from Always Walking Country: Parrngurr Yarrkalpa.

    Postcolonial
    Antony Hegarty, the Martu and the mine: land custodians fight corporate might

    The New York avant garde transgender singer joins the Martu people of Parnngurr in Western Australia to oppose a uranium mine 80km away
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