‘Kills me every single time’: readers on their favourite breakup songs
For Valentine’s Day, Guardian writers picked their favourite breakup songs and here are some of your picks, all the way from sadness to fury
August 2023
Notebook
Our favourite restaurants are vanishing, but some memories can be salvaged
Tim Adams
‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy
December 2022
Best films 2022
Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 5 – Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson’s funniest film yet makes stars of newcomers Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim as unlikely lovers in 1970s LA
April 2022
Wrappers delight: The best album cover shoots – in pictures
From the Beatles crossing a zebra to a naked Prince, via Grace Jones attempting the anatomically impossible and Led Zeppelin’s New York tenements, these cover designs became as famous as the music they enclosed
April 2021
Rickie Lee Jones: ‘I had lived volumes long before I was famous’
A fractured childhood, years as a hippy drifter… the musician’s new memoir tells of her incredible adventures before she found fame
December 2020
'All that mattered was survival': the songs that got us through 2020
Mariah with butterflies, Bronski Beat in the Peak District, Snoop Dogg on a food delivery ad … our writers reveal the tracks that made 2020 bearable
December 2019
Ranked
The 50 greatest Christmas songs – ranked!
From John Fahey, the Sonics and the Waitresses to Slade, Wizzard and Mariah Carey, we count down the best festive numbers
November 2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review – the Coens go way out in the west
The six accomplished short stories run the gamut from comic to downbeat
August 2018
First look review
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review – the Coens' brutal salute to the western
James Franco, Liam Neeson and Tom Waits traipse across the prairie in a lovingly crafted collection of vignettes spattered with bloody violence and inky humour
June 2018
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: songs about volume
Turning it up this week we have Tom Waits, Oasis and AC/DC – balanced out by some more subdued fare from Jim Reeves
April 2018
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: songs about road trips
A reader takes a trip through your suggestions, with Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney and the McGarrigle sisters making the list
March 2018
Record Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full
From Abba to Zero 7, the 500 singles, EPs, LPs and cassettes released for the annual celebration of independent record shops
July 2017
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: songs about chaos
Chaos and confusion reign this week, with Bob Dylan, the Temptations, Devo and Philip Glass all making this week’s reader-curated playlist
February 2017
Sound and vision
What should I watch this week? The Brits, Ross Kemp, SS-GB
From Skepta adding some grime to the awards to the BBC’s new alt-history war drama, here’s your must-watch list
December 2016
Reeperbahn rendezvous: the glorious dive bar photos of Anders Petersen
Cafe Lehmitz is one of the most revered photobooks of all time, capturing life in a Hamburg dive at the fag-end of the 1960s. The Swede behind it explains why he is releasing new shots of its characters
October 2016
Tom Waits vents fury in row with avant-garde French circus star
Cult singer-songwriter pursues French circus star in court over ‘unauthorised’ use of songs
September 2016
Tom Waits loses court bid to stop French show using his songs
The singer wanted €500,000 from the Paris production On Achève Bien les Anges, but the company says it paid royalties
April 2016
Merle Haggard biopic is in development
Tom Waits to star in Hulu's supernatural drama Citizen
