Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024 – a photo essay
The reader interview
The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’
March 2024
Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival
Coldplay become act to headline most times with their fifth top slot, while Shania Twain is booked for the Sunday teatime ‘legend’ set as the lineup is announced
October 2023
‘I thought: how hard can it be?’ Mike Skinner on making a film – and the first Streets album in a decade
The era-defining musician spent a decade making his first feature film almost entirely by himself. He discusses creativity, avoiding musical nostalgia – and why he loves the National Trust
February 2021
The fandom that made me
The Streets: how my mum's ban fuelled my future pop obsessions
Continuing our series on music fandom, Jazz Monroe celebrates the kind adult who laboured over a clean tape edit of the Streets debut – call it Original Pirated Material
July 2020
The Streets: None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive review – a banging return
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
The Streets: None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive review – from lad to dad
March 2020
The G2 interview
Mike Skinner: 'It's not cool to be 40 in a nightclub, getting off your face. But it happens'
The former Streets man reflects on the advice his father gave him, the power of psychiatry and why he thinks his career is only a ‘7/10’
September 2019
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
June 2019
Parklife review – rap, reggae and rave under gallons of northern rain
A younger crowd means older acts like Christine and the Queens and David Rodigan are ignored – but Mabel, Khalid and George Ezra get a huge response
January 2019
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman
O2 Academy, Leeds A dislocated shoulder can’t stop Mike Skinner pushing the Streets forward. And new material suggests he’s far from a spent force
February 2018
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: songs about rendezvous
Artists ready to meet up for this week’s date include Basement Jaxx, Canned Heat, Frank Zappa and the Rolling Stones
October 2016
30 minutes with …
Mike Skinner: 'It's like I've retired, being a DJ – I'm just doing what I want'
Why the ex-Streets man is chattier than Stephen Fry, more selfish than Noel Gallagher and happier than Thom Yorke
September 2016
Cultural revelation
Matt Okine: the Streets were my gateway into hip-hop
Matt Okine
As a half-African kid growing up in middle-class suburban Brisbane, the comedian found it hard to connect with hip-hop. Until he found Mike Skinner
April 2014
Classic album covers in Google Street View – in pictures
From Pink Floyd to PJ Harvey, our Street View specialist Halley Docherty shows us the world's cities through the lens of famous album covers
November 2013
Booooo: Mike Skinner on the glory days of UK garage
The Patrick Cox loafers, the mad Moschino shirts and the jean suits … Ewen Spencer's photographs bring back London's garage scene in all its innocence – before the MCs took over
October 2013
The Guardian's Music Podcast
Music Weekly podcast: the musical dynasty of Lal Waterson
Marie Waterson on how Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley helped celebrate her mother Lal's music. Plus Mike Skinner, James Blake and Matthew E White in Singles Club.
May 2013
Mike Skinner and Rob Harvey: halves of the Dot
Mike Skinner is relinquishing the frontman role in his new project, the DOT – to former the Music singer Rob Harvey. Dan Martin talks to them about sincerity, their surreal sitcom – and why they might be the new Human League
