‘Should not be played indoors’: writers on their all-time favourite summertime songs
As the weather heats up, Guardian writers pick their defining summer tracks, from Phoenix and Donna Summer to Stevie Wonder
December 2022
Best music 2022
The 50 best albums of 2022
In an unprecedented year of change in music, albums of all genres confounded expectations – from vulnerable rap to pop with gravitas. Listen your way to our No 1 album of the year
November 2022
Phoenix review – pop-rock stalwarts deliver a spectacular show
Phoenix: ‘Every political cycle France has an existential crisis’
June 2019
Cassius's Philippe Zdar dies in fall from Paris building
French producer worked for acts including Phoenix, Kanye West and the Beastie Boys
March 2018
Record Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full
David Bowie, Prince and Courtney Barnett among Record Store Day exclusive releases
September 2017
The ten best things to do this week
The 10 best things to do this week: Blade Runner 2049 and Heisenberg
The star-studded sequel to the cult sci-fi film hits cinemas, while Simon Stephens’s two-hander transfers from Broadway
June 2017
Glastonbury 2017: Saturday evening with Katy Perry, Solange and Foo Fighters – as it happened
Katy Perry sparkles and crowdsurfs, Solange gives us a birthday surprise, Stormzy signs in, and Foo Fighters bring on the fireworks
Phoenix: Ti Amo review – from France to Italy, avec fromage
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Phoenix: ‘The purity of French identity is an illusion; it’s never existed'
France’s princes of gauzy soft rock are back with a new album Ti Amo. Despite recording amid two years of terror and division, they’ve managed to keep it sunny
December 2016
Aliens, sequels and even stranger things: predicting 2017's cultural highlights
The new year promises a long-awaited Blade Runner sequel, the return of Phoenix, an umpteenth Star Trek reboot and an ongoing sense of FOMO
December 2015
Bill Murray meets Phoenix – hear their festive single Alone on Christmas Day
Hear what happened when the comedian and the French band joined David Johansen and Jason Schwartzman to take on a Beach Boys song
June 2014
Tehran Bureau
Iran's rock stars and their underground scene
Photographer Jai Brodie meets some of the capital's biggest stars, in a country where rock music is illegal
and brandishing an electric guitar could land you in trouble with the
police
March 2014
Australia culture blog
Future Music Festival – review
It’s the dance acts who dominate and the rock bands who are the sideshow at this testosterone-drenched touring festival, discovers Everett True
February 2014
This week's new live music
Phoenix, Forest Swords, Fat White Family: this week's new live music
Phoenix | Forest Swords | Fat White Family | Zara McFarlane | Avishai Cohen: The New Trio | King Priam
January 2014
30 minutes with …
Phoenix's Thomas Mars: 'I'm starting to like the funky Seinfeld slap bass'
Music blog
Phoenix: win a meet-and-greet with the band
July 2013
This week's new tracks
The Strypes, DJ Khaled, MØ: this week's new tracks
