Fontaines DC: ‘We can generate ideas that sound like they’ve been carved in stone for a thousand years’
Influenced by Korn and moving beyond their native Ireland, the band are ready to be one of the biggest in the world. They explain how panic attacks and parenthood came to bear on a bold new LP
March 2024
Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival
Coldplay become act to headline most times with their fifth top slot, while Shania Twain is booked for the Sunday teatime ‘legend’ set as the lineup is announced
July 2023
Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly review – the Fontaines DC frontman gets personal
Chatten dials down the rollicking post-punk of the Dublin band with a solo debut of haunted, Leonard Cohen-esque songs
June 2023
‘He tells you it’s all right to be miserable’: why Nick Drake enchants every new generation
Almost 50 years after his death, an official biography and a forthcoming album of artists reinterpreting his songs are to be celebrated – as is the fact that he still remains an enigma
April 2023
Harry Styles, Cleo Sol and Inflo top nominations for 2023 Ivor Novello awards
British songwriting awards also acknowledge Florence + the Machine, Wet Leg, Central Cee and more
Brit awards 2023: Stormzy, Shania Twain and Stanley Tucci – in pictures
From Wet Leg’s morris dancers to Lizzo’s resplendent fluff and flute: here’s the best of British music’s biggest night
The trouble with Harry Styles’ triumph at the Brits? His teen fans weren’t watching
Alexis Petridis
It’s hard to argue with the uber-successful star carrying all before him. But attempts to lure younger viewers are doomed
Harry Styles sweeps male-dominated Brit awards with a quartet of wins
Fresh from Grammys triumph, the star towered over the British music industry’s annual bash, where 60% of winners were male
December 2022
Best music 2022
The 50 best albums of 2022: No 9 – Fontaines DC: Skinty Fia
The Dublin five-piece relinquished rabble-rousing post-punk to create their most introspective and unexpected album yet
June 2022
Sunday at Glastonbury: Kendrick Lamar, Diana Ross and Jack White – as it happened
The US rap star headlined the main stage on the last night of the festival, while Pet Shop Boys, Charli XCX, Jarvis Cocker and a host more brought the festival to a close
April 2022
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Fontaines DC review – ire, tenderness and very good moshpit
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Fontaines DC: Skinty Fia review – boldly embracing a state of confusion
January 2022
The Guide newsletter
The Guide #18: livestreamed gigs have changed music – for the better
In this week’s newsletter: streamed events were once only for global stars at the top of the tree. Now they’re proving accessible for smaller artists too
October 2021
Fontaines DC review – sparks fly for once-in-a-generation post-punk poets
The Dubliners burst brilliantly back on stage with literary-hearted rock that’s up there with the Smiths or the Pogues
August 2021
Autumn arts preview 2021
From Ghetts to Genesis, Nick Cave to Arlo Parks: autumn 2021’s essential music
From Fontaines DC to the Valkyrie, a techno Halloween to Little Simz, this is the unmissable music of the next few months
March 2021
By recognising UK rap and women's creativity, the Brits are finally in tune
Alexis Petridis
Following criticism for being too white and too male, it seems the Brits have listened with this year’s wider-ranging nominees
Brit awards nominations 2021: Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks and Celeste lead improved field for women
Women dominate British album category, while more than half the nominees in key categories are non-white
Why bands are disappearing: 'Young people aren’t excited by them'
Maroon 5’s Adam Levine was scoffed at for suggesting there ‘aren’t any bands any more’ – but if you look at the numbers, he’s right. Wolf Alice, Maximo Park and industry insiders ask why
December 2020
Best music of 2020
The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list
Our countdown is complete, topped by a mercurial work of sprawling invention by a woman who has dug deep to survive. Taken as a whole, these choices contain drama, solace, poetry and fire, a fitting selection for a turbulent year
November 2020
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Fontaines DC review – post-punk in 360-degree VR
O2 Brixton Academy, London; via MelodyVR live stream The Dublin band’s empty livestreamed gig perfectly suits their alienated second album
