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  • No stranger to theatrics … Mitski’s performances have grown increasingly conceptual.

    Live review
    Mitski – unusual, enigmatic and utterly compelling

  • Billy Bragg.

    Billy Bragg
    There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed

    The activist singer-songwriter on fighting for trans rights, his 40 years in the music business and his forthcoming tour with his son
  • White woman with blond hair in early middle age, with lots of black mascara and dark peach-red dress smiles.

    Britney Spears
    Settles legal dispute with estranged father over conservatorship

    Singer’s attorney says agreement gives his client the ‘freedom’ that ‘she desired’
  • Rick Astley by the Thames River in Hampton, west London.

    This much I know
    Rick Astley: ‘I’m boring away from the spotlight – that’s why my life works’

  • Brett Anderson, hands on his mic stand, looking down, at the roundhouse

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Paraorchestra: Death Songbook – bittersweet ballads with Brett Anderson and friends

  • Billy Idol performing with Generation Sex at Glastonbury 2023.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Billy Idol

  • Headshot of Carol Decker in 2024

    T’Pau’s Carol Decker looks back
    We went ballistic when we got to No 1. Our screaming annoyed Bryan Adams

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Interviews

  • AG Cook

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

  • ‘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

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Album reviews

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Live reviews

  • Howard Donald, Gary Barlow and Mark Owen of Take That performing at the O2 Arena.

    Take That
    Oddly packaged pop still packs a wallop

  • Olivia Dean performing at SWG3.

    Olivia Dean
    Pop-soul singer proves she was born for big stages

    • 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

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  • 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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