Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024 – a photo essay
Day two for the photography team at Glastonbury brought the heat, the Last Dinner Party, a flypast, and an astonishing array of anthems from Chris Martin and co
March 2024
Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival
Brit awards 2024 – full list of winners
December 2023
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
From Suede to quiz whiz Carol Vorderman: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in December 2023
Best music of 2023
Blank space: how Taylor Swift – and an aching sense of loss – dominated music in 2023
Away from Swift’s joyous, record-breaking successes, the year’s most acclaimed albums were concerned with death and absence
Best music of 2023
The 50 best albums of 2023, No 4 – Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good!
Ware’s fifth album is a strident call to embrace pleasure and liberation – and its luxe sound holds up her side of the bargain
November 2023
‘A reminder that life has to be lived’: the lyrics that got us through 2023
A new Youth Music survey said that 93% of young people use lyrics as a therapeutic tool for mental health. Our writers share the lines they kept close this year
September 2023
Mercury prize 2023: London group Ezra Collective secure first ever jazz win
Band say unexpected win is ‘testimony to good, special people putting time and effort’ into helping young people to play music
July 2023
Mercury prize 2023: Arctic Monkeys tie Radiohead’s record for most nominations
There are first-time nods for the likes of Fred Again, Lankum, Jockstrap and Raye, and repeat recognition for acts including J Hus and Jessie Ware
June 2023
Best culture of 2023 so far
‘It’s like tapping into the animating energy of the universe’ – Guardian readers’ best albums of 2023 so far
Best culture of 2023 so far
The best albums of 2023 so far
April 2023
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! review – 21st-century disco packed with personality
The retro mood of Ware’s brash pop never feels like a costume, as her tight melodies, killer choruses and dry humour wear vintage details with style
December 2021
Jessie Ware review – steamy and scintillating grown up pop
Leaning into the disco sound of her last album and her older, understated R&B, Ware performs with fun and finesse
November 2021
Lennie and Jessie Ware’s recipe for podcast success
How do musician Jessie Ware and her mother Lennie get everyone from popstars to politicians to tell all on their podcast? They cook them lunch
March 2021
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
February 2021
This much I know
Jessie Ware: ‘I miss dancing and sweat, touch and body odour’
The singer, 36, on not going raving, her inspirational mum – and being licked by Dave Chappelle
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
June 2020
Jessie Ware: What's Your Pleasure? review – rooted in lustful disco
The singer-songwriter swaps luxe pop for the energy of the dancefloor on her heady fourth album
Culture webchats
Jessie Ware webchat: your questions answered on sweaty clubs, table manners and activism
The soulful singer and food podcaster talked about collaboration, future sounds – and why, post-lockdown, the drive-in gig might be a thing
Jessie Ware: What's Your Pleasure? review – dancefloor diva back where she belongs
Without the burden of reinvention, Ware’s fourth album of defiantly sexy, plush post-disco is a flirtatious joy
