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  • Abandon preconceptions … Rosalía.

    Album review
    Rosalía: Lux – a demanding, distinctive clash of classical and chaos that couldn’t be by anyone else

    Alexis Petridis
    The Catalan star’s monumental fourth LP features lyrics in 13 languages, references to female saints, the London Symphony Orchestra – and Björk on ‘divine intervention’
  • Ravyn Lenae at the Albert Hall, Manchester.

    Live review
    Ravyn Lenae – art-school dreamer at ease with her own melancholy

  • Geoff Barrow.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Geoff Barrow, of Portishead, Beak> and more

  • Richard Ashcroft.

    Interview
    Richard Ashcroft: ‘Why not Sir Liam and Sir Noel?’

  • ‘I’m getting goosebumps talking about it’ … Joyce with the Manchester skyline behind.

    Interview
    ‘I took mushrooms before my audition’: Smiths drummer Mike Joyce on wild gigs, Marr’s jim-jams and Morrissey’s genius

  • Romesh Ranganathan

    Honest playlist
    Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I Want Your Soul by Armand Van Helden is so relentlessly catchy I’m sick of it’

  • Rosalía rubbing shoulders with smiling fans

    Report
    Rosalía’s Berghain is a thunderous goth-pop hit – but is it opera?

Interviews

  1. Sudan Archives wearing a sci-fi-style bodysuit with a tech tool belt, posing as if dancing, with her braids flung upwards.

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Sudan Archives: ‘My favourite fact? I’m 100% that bitch’

  2. Teen Jesus and the Jean TeasersAustralian rock band Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers. The group consists of vocalist Anna Ryan, guitarist Scarlett McKahey, drummer Neve van Boxsel and bassist Jaida Stephenson. Canberra, Australia. Monday 29 September, 2025.

    Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: ‘We don’t want to be the biggest band in the world. It’s just fun playing with our besties’

  3. Mavis Staples.

    The reader interview
    ‘It’s dark in the US right now. But I turn on a light, you know?’: Mavis Staples on Prince, Martin Luther King and her 75-year singing career

Album reviews

  1. Anna von Hausswolff.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Anna von Hausswolff: Iconoclasts – exhilarating, euphoric goth songcraft

  2. ‘I crawled up from under the earth’ … Florence Welch.

    Pop
    Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream – alt-rock survivor surveys her kingdom with swagger

  3. Katie and Allison Crutchfield.

    Indie
    Snocaps: Snocaps – Katie and Allison Crutchfield reunite with a little help from MJ Lenderman

  4. Alpha Maid.

    Experimental album of the month
    Alpha Maid: Is This a Queue – Mica Levi collaborator pairs scuffed production with superb songwriting

Live reviews

  1. Sananda Maitreya at O2 Academy, Liverpool.

    Pop
    Sananda Maitreya – the former Terence Trent D’Arby returns in astonishing vocal form

  2. ‘Do I have to tell a joke now?’ … David Rawlings and Gillian Welch at the O2 Apollo, Manchester.

    Americana
    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – perfectly paired talents at the peak of their powers

  3. Little Simz Manchester© Joel Goodman for the Guardian - 07973 332324 - all rights reserved . 16/10/2025 . Manchester, UK. Little Simz ( Simbiatu Abisola Abiola Ajikawo ) performs at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester. Photo credit: Joel Goodman

    Rap
    Little Simz – hip-hop visionary radiates joy and Gallagher-level swagger

  4. A woman poses on stage under the letters JADE

    Pop
    Jade – pop’s quirkiest star transcends manufactured past

Add to playlist

  1. Sister Irene O'Connor.

    Add to playlist
    The long-lost lo-fi pop of Australian nun Sister Irene O’Connor and the week’s best tracks

  2. Lively … Laura Ann Singh.

    Add to playlist
    The spiky, playful free jazz of Laura Ann Singh and the week’s best new tracks

  3. Joanna Newsom Performs In Berlin

    Ranked
    Where’s her Pulitzer already? Joanna Newsom’s 20 best songs

From the archive

  • Grace Jones in a black dress, black gloves and black hat, her head on one side with wild staring eyes

    This much I know
    Grace Jones: ‘Even if I stand on my head, I still can’t do it. How these young girls twerk, I don’t know’

    As her album Slave to the Rhythm turns 40, revisit our interview with the actor and singer on working as a go-go dancer, hanging out with Keith Haring and dropping LSD

Obituaries

  • A black man with grey hair closes his eyes as his plays drums

    Jack DeJohnette was more than a jazz drummer – his staggering range made him a superhuman force in music

    Philip Clark
  • Dave Ball fn Soft Cell in the group’s 1980s heyday.

    Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound

    Alexis Petridis
  • a man looks off to the side

    D’Angelo’s music was imbued with the influence of Black women

    Danielle Amir Jackson
  • The late Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, pictured here with the rest of the band, was the most proficient musician in the band's original line up

    Without Ace Frehley, Kiss could not have achieved their extraordinary greatness

    Michael Hann
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