Brit awards 2024: women dominate as Raye scores record-smashing six wins
Brit awards 2024 – full list of winners
February 2024
The breadth and depth of female dominance at the Grammys is heartening
Alexis Petridis
Grammys set to celebrate female musicians as Taylor Swift eyes a record-breaking win
January 2024
Grammys 2024: who will win the big categories – and who should
Can Taylor Swift sweep the board after an astonishingly successful year, or will strong songwriting from the likes of SZA and Olivia Rodrigo be acknowledged?
September 2023
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
From clean water activists to Nessie hunters and Chrissie Hynde to Phoebe Bridgers: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in August 2023
August 2023
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Boygenius review – emotional sucker-punches and superb harmonies
Boygenius review – Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus meet hysteria with humour
April 2023
Let’s go round again: the ridiculous rise of fifth-anniversary vinyl reissues
Boygenius: The Record review – Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus blaze with feeling
March 2023
Indie supergroup Boygenius: ‘Anything that starts a fire in you is the stuff of life’
Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker are three of the best – and most obsessed-over – songwriters today. Ahead of a debut album together, they explain why they go to group therapy
November 2022
£3m defamation action against musician Phoebe Bridgers is dismissed
Los Angeles court rules against lawsuit filed by producer Chris Nelson
October 2022
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
July 2022
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Phoebe Bridgers review – a truth-telling phenomenon
Phoebe Bridgers review – cathartic indie superstar helps her young fans emotionally purge
June 2022
‘It’s everyone coming back together’: why 200,000 of us couldn’t wait to get back to Glastonbury
‘Miraculously we’re here’: St Vincent, Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish and more meet biggest Glastonbury crowd in years
‘Back to the Middle Ages’: Glastonbury stars rail against Roe v Wade decision
Phoebe Bridgers on Taylor Swift, her boyfriend Paul Mescal and speaking out on Roe v Wade: ‘I want to show everybody what I believe in’
March 2022
Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar to headline Glastonbury 2022
As the festival returns from Covid-enforced hiatus, over half of the acts announced so far feature women
