Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government
The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top
May 2024
‘He’d offset the intensity by setting his feet on fire’: PJ Harvey, Mogwai and more on Steve Albini
From Big Black’s noise to Joanna Newsom’s hush: 10 of Steve Albini’s greatest recordings
April 2024
London Tide review – Dickens and PJ Harvey team up for a melodrama as murky as the Thames
With its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimagining of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir
March 2024
Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival
Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens
September 2023
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
PJ Harvey review – Dorset ghosts come alive
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography
PJ Harvey review – haunting journey into a fantastical Dorset world
The reader interview
Tricky: ‘I was less nervous going to prison than I was getting on stage’
July 2023
PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying review – challenging yet fascinating
‘Am I still any good? Have I still got it?’: PJ Harvey on doubt, desire and deepest, darkest Dorset
June 2023
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying review – a disquieting escape into the wilds of Dorset
Enigmatic and occasionally disturbing, the songwriter adapts her own book of poetry into a rough-edged LP full of potency and atmosphere
May 2023
Touts to remain ‘rampant’ on resale sites after UK government avoids crackdown
Campaign group backed by artists including Ed Sheeran criticises decision not to prevent bulk buying and speculative selling
March 2023
Forget Take That – here’s the music Charles should have for his coronation
As reports swirl on the big stars playing or snubbing the upcoming coronation, here’s a few numbers that would actually sum up king and country in 2023
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
Down the rabbit hole
What links Marilyn Monroe to Nick Cave and Vincent Gallo?
With Blonde coming to Netflix soon, follow the ultimate bombshell down the rabbit hole to find unlikely links to the singer and the actor
June 2022
Honest playlist
‘Nine Inch Nails is inappropriate for a Christmas party’: St Vincent’s honest playlist
The art-pop star was raised on Pearl Jam, wants Jacques Brel played at her funeral and thinks Iggy is sexy. But which song would she interrupt a haircut for?
April 2022
Book of the day
Orlam by PJ Harvey review – musician’s vision of a curious childhood
Set in a magical realist outpost of the West Country, the singer-songwriter’s novel-in-verse delights in Dorset dialect and folklore
