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
October 2022
Oona Doherty: ‘I wasn’t the best dancer in the class. My ego couldn’t handle it’
Kicked out of conservatoire during her hard-partying years, Doherty has gone on to become one of the most exciting choreographers of her generation. Now she’s teaming up with Jamie xx for a dread-filled new work
April 2022
Ranked
Florence + the Machine’s 20 best songs – ranked!
As Florence Welch prepares new album Dance Fever and heads out on tour, we appraise the best of her torrid, maximalist songwriting
January 2018
Liam Gallagher, Skepta and the xx to headline Manchester's Parklife festival
Big-name pop, rap and R&B stars flock to Heaton Park weekender, with Lorde, NERD and J Hus also joining the bill
October 2017
Tree of Codes review – Wayne McGregor's modern ballet fails to find heart
In troubled times art gives us solace, but McGregor’s dazzling collaboration with Jamie xx, Olafur Eliasson and the Paris Opera Ballet lacks warmth
December 2016
Destruction, daydreams and dystopia: the music videos that summarised 2016
From Grimes’ cyber-goth takeover to Radiohead’s ominous animation, crying supermodels to dictator politicians, music videos this year have mirrored a disruptive world
July 2016
This week's best culture
Five of the best... rock & pop gigs
Florence + the Machine / Kendrick Lamar at BST review – sublime, riotous clash of heavyweights
December 2015
Best albums of 2015
The best albums of 2015 – readers' picks
We’ve had our say – but what did you think were the best albums of 2015? Here’s what you voted for
Best albums of 2015
The best albums of 2015
The Guardian music critics’ favourite albums this year, counting down to reveal 2015’s best release
Music blog
The best albums of 2015 – so far
Collating the best albums released in 2015, updated monthly
November 2015
Music blog
Their darling Clementine: Mercury prize judges opt for obscure artist
Alexis Petridis
Panellists defy critics who argue the best music is commercially successful by choosing piano-playing vocalist unburdened by mainstream fame
Music blog
Benjamin Clementine wins the Mercury music prize 2015 - as it happened
Who made the best British album of the last 12 months? A panel of music people decided it was Benjamin Clementine with At Least For Now
Jamie xx is bookies' favourite to win the 2015 Mercury prize
William Hill give the electronic music producer odds of 4/1 to triumph in this year’s award, with singer-songwriter Benjamin Clementine following closely
October 2015
Jamie xx review – twiddler on the loose
Live, the south London producer’s low-key approach to dance music can end up short-changing his fans
Jamie xx review – unremittingly joyous DJ set from a club alchemist
The painfully hip the xx alumnus brings his warm, pulsing beats and introspective reflection to this intoxicating two-hour set
Music blog
Mercury prize 2015 : 'A shortlist that offers no sense of a prevalent trend in British music'
Alexis Petridis
Music blog
The 2015 Mercury prize shortlist: hear all the albums – and see what our critics thought of them
This week’s best live music
September 2015
Tree of Codes review – a jerky locomotion of sound, light and color
This collaboration between Jamie xx, Wayne McGregor and Olafur Eliasson may not be profound, but it has a historical precedent in attempting to combine art forms to create a stirring of the soul
