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December 2022

  • Pharrell Williams.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Pharrell Williams

    Do you want to know more about the huge hat he wears, the secret to that perfect skin or what it’s like working with Snoop Dogg? Get your questions in for the rapper and producer extraordinaire

March 2022

  • No 1 … Pharrell Williams in 2014

    Ranked
    Pharrell Williams’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

    It’s 20 years since his band NERD released their debut album – but the rapper-producer-singer-songwriter has been responsible for an avalanche of hits. As he and co-pilot Chad Hugo get inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, we count down Williams’s 30 greatest bangers

September 2019

  • Image composite for best of the century - Music 100 04

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best albums of the 21st century

    We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. Read our countdown of passionate pop, electrifying rock and anthemic rap – and see if you agree

January 2018

  • Gallagher at California’s Cal Jam festival, October 2017.

    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

December 2017

  • First use in the Guide 9 December 2017 please! N.E.R.D (NERD) - 2017 press publicity portrait Credit: "Driely S"

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    NERD: No_One Ever Really Dies review – Pharrell's band finally find their groove

    Urgent, harsh, but also consistent – come album five, NERD have made the starry collaborations stick, galvanised by US politics. Even Ed Sheeran sounds cool
  • Haley, Williams and Hugo: back to refresh the NERD brand.

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    NERD: No_One Ever Really Dies review – it’s Pharrell with bells on

    NERD’s comeback sounds very much like Williams’s show – and it’s brimming with killer tracks and star guests
  • (Left to right) Shay Haley, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo

    Pharrell Williams: ‘It rains and they shoot black people’

    N.E.R.D are back with a politically charged new album featuring Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Ed Sheeran and cosmic synths

November 2017

  • Young Fathers

    This week's new tracks
    Young Fathers’ Lord: gospel gorgeousness backed by a bass that burns

    Also this week: Denis Sulta’s new one channels Africa and acid, while Clean Bandit are back with more classical/dance nonsense

April 2015

  • Tyler the Creator

    Tyler, the Creator: Cherry Bomb review – fizzy sonics and a splurge of ideas

    Is the rapper’s multi-layered fourth album a bid for serious-musician status or just a facetious entertainment? It’s a joy to deconstruct, either way

January 2015

  • Members of the music group N.E.R.D. Pharrell Williams, left, Shay Haley and Chad Hugo stand on Park Avenue in New York, March 3, 2002.

    NERD mark return with three songs for SpongeBob film soundtrack

    Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shae Haley unveil details of their first set of songs in five years

September 2014

  • Pharrell Williams iTunes festival 2014

    Pharrell Williams review – dazzlingly executed songcraft

    The late-period rebirth of the former Neptune, NERD and super-producer Pharrell is resplendent, writes Kitty Empire

March 2014

  • Pharrell Williams

    Pharrell Williams: 'My music is so much bigger than me, and what I am'

    Pharrell Williams wrote three of 2013's biggest tunes, and has made music with everyone from Daft Punk to Miley Cyrus. So why does he think he'll never be as big as Jay Z? Simon Hattenstone meets the man with the golden touch (and the very big hat)

October 2011

  • New music
    New music: Buddy – Awesome Awesome

    Forgotten about N*E*R*R? Here's a reminder of their brilliance...

November 2010

  • Bryan Ferry

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly: Bryan Ferry and Ariel Pink

    Bryan Ferry explains how art inspired his new album Olympia, plus LA psych-popper Ariel Pink on cross-dressing

October 2010

September 2010

  • Pharrell Williams

    Soundtrack of my life
    Pharrell Williams: Soundtrack of my life

    The N*E*R*D and Neptunes frontman tells Luke Bainbridge why he owes his existence to Earth, Wind and Fire

June 2009

  • Best of the fest: the great big Glastonbury music roundup

  • Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D. performs at Glastonbury

    NERD at Glastonbury 2009

November 2008

  • Pharrell Williams

    My sporting life
    My sporting life

    The rapper and car-lover Pharrell Williams on skateboarding, sports fashion and the day that Lewis Hamilton asked him for a race

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