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  • Pos and Maseo from De La Soul

    Honest playlist
    ‘It seems weird for an MC – but lyrics have never been a thing for me’: De La Soul’s honest playlist

    Rapper Pos of the hip hop greats favours Barry White for the bedroom and sobs to Stevie Wonder, but which cheese-rock hit does he love on the sly?
  • Skepta, in a beanie and jacket, stares intensely at the camera against a green backdrop

    Interview
    ‘Ignorance towards immigration is horrible. It’s not British’: Skepta on his long-awaited return – and his anger at the racist right

  • A blue-lit shot of Bombstrap frontperson Eva Kah onstage.

    Add to playlist
    The week’s best new tracks and the act you need to know: Dutch squat-punks Bombstrap’s uncompromising racket

  • A close-up shot of Radie Peat, wearing a black leather jacket, gold chain and gold earrings, with short cropped strawberry blonde hair

    Folk album of the month
    Radie Peat: No Human Tongue Can Tell – Lankum singer’s solo debut is the year’s best folk album

  • A black and white close-up portrait of Kali Malone against coastal rocks

    Album review
    Kali Malone: Burning Song – drone composer wields Bach’s organ to breathtaking effect

  • A man with short brown hair looking into the camera with trees and sky behind him

    Feature
    ​‘He buckled. I could hear his bass ringing out ...’ The luminous rise and tragic end of US alt heroes Morphine

  • The four members of the Big Moon standing in a close huddle, with frontperson Juliette Jackson wearing voluminous red frills

    Album of the week
    The Big Moon: Forever – the hell of hearing loss inspires a defiantly hopeful pop-disco marvel

  • Underscores

    Pop prodigy Underscores: ‘I don’t think Gen Z is a loveless generation’

  • The musician Peven Everett sitting at a cafe table with his hands clasped, wearing a grey baker boy cap and shiny blue puffer jacket

    ‘I knead the audience, like a baker!’ House music legend Peven Everett on life after cancer and vanquishing the ‘Disco Sucks’ movement

  • A black and white photo of David Bowie on stage on the Isolar II tour, holding the microphone away from his face and staring off at the crowd

    ‘How on earth is this man not sweating?’ The director who spent 10 years painstakingly remastering Bowie’s ‘greatest filmed performance’

  • Nine members of Shovel Dance Collective lined up against a tall brick wall, dappled by shadow from a tree

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Shovel Dance Collective: Everything in Readiness – ecstatic, dissonant folk music fighting for sonic and spiritual freedom

  • A flashed-out photo of singer Basma and Temir Alcy performing onstage.

    Experimental album of the month
    Basma and Temir Alcy: NAD – skulking, sultry French-Moroccan crew evoke this shifting season

  • Loidis, AKA Brian Leeds, in a black and white portrait of him leaning on a bed frame

    Electronic
    Loidis: From the Toolkit of Lovers – epic 111-minute album is a teeming universe of detail

  • Michael Kiwanuka in the studio recording Fudge.

    Soul
    Michael Kiwanuka: Fudge – rough and instinctive, but also lush and alive with melody

  • Macklemore onstage in Dublin, wearing a lime green Kneecap band T-shirt, against

    Pop
    Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour – a triumph of a show with performances from Hozier, Kneecap and more

  • Jorja Smith smiles while holding a microphone on stage at the Roundhouse

    Soul
    Amy Winehouse: Back to Black 20 – trying an all-star Amy tribute show is a losing game

  • Stevie Wonder wearing a black beret sits at a keyboard in front of a microphone

    R&B
    Stevie Wonder – playing ​his greatest album in full, he knocks everyone sideways

  • Charles Hendy of the Mary Wallopers sings fiercely into a microphone

    Folk
    The Mary Wallopers – legs and pints go flying to the sound of rowdy folk ragers

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  • Katherine Ryan gestures with both hands near an ornate collar on a plaid blouse, smiling

    Honest playlist
    ‘I’m not someone who has sex to music. I like uncomfortable silence’: Katherine Ryan’s honest playlist

  • Portrait of Leonard Cohen in a suit and fedora, singing into the mic, looking upwards

    Ranked!
    Heartbreak, hope and human imperfection: Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs

  • Native James, smiling widely with sunglasses, a grille, and ringed fingers touching his face

    Add to playlist
    The gloriously boisterous grime-metal of Native James and the week’s best new tracks

From the archive

  • Audrey Hobert sits on a stage reading a magazine next to an antique table with a turned off computer screen. In the background is a propped up guitar

    Interview
    ‘The beast inside me wants to move!’ The smart, slapstick world of Audrey Hobert, the Steve Martin of pop

    She co-wrote Gracie Abrams’ hit album then struck out solo, winning a fervent cult for her funny, wordy songs. As she's climbing the UK charts, revisit our interview

Obituaries

  • Donal Lunny, in a checked shirt, tilts his head while performing on stage with a guitar

    News
    Dónal Lunny, ‘colossus of Irish music’, dies aged 79

  • John Anderson performing in Nashville in 2024.

    News
    John Anderson, five-time US country chart-topper, dies aged 71

  • A black and white photo of Venom frontman Cronos holding a snake by the throat as they both stick their tongues out at one another

    No one could terrify like Cronos, the black metal innovator who reignited rock’s hellraising attitude

    Matt Mills
  • Lant gives a grimacing smile as he plays the bass

    News
    Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant, frontman of UK heavy metal band Venom, dies aged 63

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