Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024 – a photo essay
Increase in Black artists on Glasto bill reflects cultural shift
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
January 2024
‘I’d take a mediocre album rather than nothing!’: the new music readers want to hear in 2024
Guardian readers are longing for returns by artists from Ariana Grande to Archie Shepp –and even possibly Kate Bush?
August 2022
Green Man festival review – the absurd, the wonderful and the otherworldly
From the magisterial glam rock of Yves Tumor to the comedy surf-pop of Melin Melyn, Green Man froths with positivity and subversion
May 2022
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography
Michael Kiwanuka review – patience is golden
January 2022
Brit awards 2022: Inflo is first non-white winner of producer of the year
Sault co-founder, who has worked with Adele and Little Simz, thanks ‘all the Black producers before me – I am you’
December 2021
2022 culture preview
Abba to Zappa: pop, rock and classical music to look forward to in 2022
UK rap’s biggest star goes on tour, Wet Leg drop a deadpan debut and Rosalía gets into reggaeton. Here are the albums, concerts and tours the big hitters have in store
July 2021
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Sault: Nine review – a masterclass in anger and balm
The enigmatic collective’s fifth album in two years is another masterclass in confounding expectations
May 2021
Club culture
Live at Worthy Farm: follow along with Glastonbury’s livestreamed festival
With a lineup including Coldplay, Michael Kiwanuka, Haim and Wolf Alice, Glastonbury’s livestreamed show is the next best thing to being there. Follow along here as it airs online
The Guardian picture essay
Behind the scenes at Glastonbury’s Live at Worthy Farm – photo essay
We joined Wolf Alice, Michael Kiwanuka, Haim, Jorja Smith, the Mutoid Waste Company and others as they made the film that replaces the Glastonbury festival this year
Culture in peril
Glastonbury: PJ Harvey, Jarvis Cocker, George Ezra and Róisín Murphy join livestream bill
A narrative by Harvey, Cocker, Michael Eavis and others will link musical performances from around the site
March 2021
Culture in peril
Glastonbury live-stream festival: Coldplay, Michael Kiwanuka and Haim to perform
Damon Albarn, Idles, Jorja Smith, Kano, Wolf Alice and Honey Dijon will also appear at Live at Worthy Farm, a ticketed virtual event on 22 May
December 2020
My perfect Christmas playlist, by Michael Kiwanuka, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Tim Burgess
Best music of 2020
The 50 best albums of 2020, No 5: Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
September 2020
Michael Kiwanuka's Mercury win is well deserved: his is a sincere, superb album
Alexis Petridis
Michael Kiwanuka wins 2020 Mercury prize
July 2020
Mercury prize 2020: Stormzy, Dua Lipa and Michael Kiwanuka among nominees
Mercury prize 2020: where are the albums dragged from the fringes?
