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  • Taylor Swift at the 2024 Grammy awards.

    Taylor Swift
    Equals Madonna’s record of 12 UK No 1 albums

  • Eminem appearing at the NFL Draft this week.

    ‘It was only a matter of time for Slim’
    Eminem to kill off Slim Shady alter ego on new album

    Rapper trails summer release of The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) with a fictional crime report suggesting that the antic character will meet a violent end
  • AG Cook

    ‘People think I hate pop’
    Super-producer AG Cook on working with Beyoncé and honouring his friend Sophie

    As the boss of PC Music, the godfather of hyperpop confounded critics but won over Beyoncé and Charli XCX. Now, with a supersized new solo album, he’s continuing his mission to make pop more unpredictable
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Interviews

  • ‘An exhale’ … (L-R) Mathieu Ball, Robin Wattie and Tasy Hudson of Big Brave.

    ‘We’re sick as a species’
    Montreal metallers Big Brave on doom, despondency and Emily Dickinson

  • ‘It was crazy and it was freezing’ … Lil Nas X’s tastefully pixelated Industry Baby video.

    ‘I want to show more crotch!’
    Sean Bankhead on his raunchy dances for Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lil Nas X and more

  • Lauren Mayberry photographed in London by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review, February 2024.

    Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry
    I was fixated with death… I needed to live in reality

  • #youtoo? Creating a More Inclusive Music Industry - 2019 SXSW Conference and Festivals<br>AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 15: Shirley Manson attends #youtoo? Creating a More Inclusive Music Industry during the 2019 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center on March 15, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Mike Jordan/Getty Images for SXSW)

    Sunday with Shirley Manson
    I impersonate my mother by making a chicken dinner

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Album reviews

  • Back to black … St Vincent

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    St Vincent: All Born Screaming – the unmasking of a great American songwriter

  • David Crowell.

    Contemporary album of the month
    David Crowell: Point/Cloud – minimalism that sparkles with joy

    • Porij
      Teething – dance music without drama or daring

    • Alexis Petridis' album of the week
      Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department – fame, fans and former flames in the firing line

    • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department – a whole lotta love gone bad

    • Global album of the month
      Lord Spikeheart: The Adept – Duma star’s relentless metal isn’t for the fainthearted

    • A Certain Ratio
      It All Comes Down to This – punk-funk stalwarts on a euphoric high

    • Pearl Jam
      Dark Matter – the faithful will rejoice

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Live reviews

  • Romy singing on stage at the Roundhouse.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Romy – a masterclass in bittersweet feeling

  • Uncomfortable in the spotlight … Sky Ferreira performing in 2022.

    Sky Ferreira
    Roughed-up stadium glam from pop’s prodigal daughter

    • Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators at Resorts World Arena, Birmingham.

      Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
      Boisterous, blues-soaked rock’n’roll

    • Ghetts on stage.

      The Observer's artist of the week
      Ghetts – a founding father of grime commands the stage

    • Relatable showgirl … Caity Baserat O2 Academy, Leeds.

      Caity Baser
      Cartwheeling celebration of chatty, bratty girlhood

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Add to playlist

  • four members of the band english teacher around a table, two seated, two standing, including lead singer lily fontaine

    One to watch
    English Teacher

  • Glass Beams

    One to watch
    Glass Beams

  • six young korean people in mathcing red jackets and trousers standing in a line, one in front of the other

    One to watch
    Balming Tiger

  • School of rock? … (L-R) Little Richard, Joanna Newsom and Metallica.

    Pop! goes the curriculum
    Songs to inspire primary school children

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Obituaries

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From the archive

  • Lorde: ‘It’s my joy to be patient zero on a harmony virus.’

    Lorde
    I’m not a climate activist. I’m a pop star

    As Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine turns 10, revisit our interview with the New Zealand musician on the cusp of her underrated third album, Solar Power
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