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Mogwai

May 2024

  • ‘He showed me the studio could be approached like a guitar or any other instrument’ … Albini at Electrical Audio.

    ‘He’d offset the intensity by setting his feet on fire’: PJ Harvey, Mogwai and more on Steve Albini

    Artists from the Wedding Present to Sunn O))) and Jon Spencer recall a kind yet acerbic genius who was a true champion of artists’ intentions – and a fiend for chocolate Hobnobs

October 2023

  • ‘The way they could play with so little was really inspiring to me’ … (L-R) Tjinder Singh of Cornershop, Courtney Marie Andrews and Emily Haines of Metric.

    ‘I’ve been waiting all my life to shed light on them’: musicians on their unsung home-town heroes

    From gigs in sketchy Toronto buildings to Punjabi folk in Birmingham, musicians including Mogwai, Nakhane and Cornershop champion the local acts who never hit the big time

February 2023

  • Mogwai at the Garage, Highbury, London.

    Mogwai review – ferocious rockers show sublime range

  • Teesside's Benefits … ‘uncompromising and brutal’.

    Benefits review – brutal punk sincerity rages against Britain’s dying light

January 2023

  • ‘It was like nothing I’d ever heard’ … Brainiac (L-R) Tyler Trent, John Schmersal, Tim Taylor and Juan Monasterio.

    Brainiac on life after Tim Taylor: ‘He used to walk offstage with bruises in the shape of his effects pedals’

    One of the most distinctive bands of the early 90s, Brainiac were broken by the accident that killed their founder in 1997. The surviving members explain why they have reformed

October 2022

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

September 2022

  • Stuart Braithwaite: ‘Raking over the pain wasn’t the easiest thing.’

    Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: ‘It’s even easier for weirdos to find each other now than in the 90s’

  • Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai as a teenager.

    Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on Iggy Pop: ‘It was hard to believe the music was made by humans’

May 2022

  • Nina Nastasia in Los Angeles.

    ‘I want people to listen’: songwriter Nina Nastasia on surviving abuse, grief and psychosis

    A favourite of John Peel and Laura Marling, Nina Nastasia gave up music as she endured a controlling partner and botched drug therapy – then even greater tragedy struck. After 12 years away, she returns with a tough, beautiful album

December 2021

  • Best albums of 2021 - No 1 Self Esteem.

    Best music of 2021
    The 50 best albums of 2021

    And finally – a deserving winner, whose second solo album is a truly relatable, pin-sharp pop classic. We reveal our No 1 album of 2021

September 2021

  • Arlo Parks at the 2021 Mercury prize ceremony.

    Mercury prize 2021: Arlo Parks wins for Collapsed in Sunbeams

    21-year-old singer-songwriter adds to Brit award win earlier in the year
  • Mercury prize nominee Celeste at the launch party in July.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: who will win the 2021 Mercury prize?

    Celeste, Sault, Arlo Parks, Mogwai and Wolf Alice are among the nominees. Plus: the National Television awards. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • ‘Crowds now are really engaged – they’ve been planning for this ...’ Jayda G.

    ‘A summer of love!’ Musicians on the awesome, tearful return of gigs

    From Sleaford Mods in London to Mogwai in France, bands and performers talk about the strange and wonderful experience of returning to the stage after 16 months of deprivation

August 2021

  • Real ale and tears ... Nadine Shah.

    Green Man festival review – magical return for this psychedelic carnival

    Mogwai, Nadine Shah, Fontaines DC and more mesmerise in the festival’s overwhelming, glorious comeback

July 2021

  • Berwyn, Arlo Parks and Floating Points, three of the first-time musicians to have an album nominated for the Mercury prize.

    Mercury prize 2021: first-time nominees dominate shortlist

    No 1 albums by Wolf Alice, Mogwai and Celeste are joined by leftfield artists such as Hannah Peel and Nubya Garcia in race for prestigious music award

June 2021

  • ‘The more I listen to it, the more satisfaction it gives me’ ... (L-R) Olivia Rodrigo, Ghetts, Julien Baker.

    ‘One hell of a party’: readers on their albums of 2021 so far

    From the sunny vibes of rapper Topaz Jones and guitar anthems of Du Blonde to the deep introspection of Fears and Julien Baker, here are the records that have really grabbed our readers over the last six months

March 2021

  • Christine and the Queens at Hammersmith Apollo, November 2018.

    'Magic happens, often': Christine and the Queens, Haim, Nile Rodgers and more on the joy of live music

    Musicians on the thrill of playing live – and what we can expect when gigs return

February 2021

  • Mogwai with their award for their No 1 album As the Love Continues, with Stuart Braithwaite second right.

    Mogwai score first No 1 album after 25 years: 'It's totally surreal'

  • Stuart Braithwaite, right, with Dominic Aitchison, fronting Mogwai’s As the Love Continues playback at Tramway, Glasgow.

    Lockdown culture
    Mogwai: As the Love Continues review – extremely loud and incredibly close

June 2020

  • BTS, whose Bang Bang Con: The Live played to 756,000 viewers across 107 regions globally last weekend.

    The future of music: ‘No one has anything positive to say about physically distanced gigs. At all’

    Lockdown livestreams and drive-in gigs may be flourishing, but small venues and artists will struggle in coming months
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