Fred Again: Ten Days review – pop house with unfulfilled pretensions
An album of lofty intentions and muttered musings from the dance artist de jour is saved by a gift for a nagging hook and uplifting melody
Leeds indie band English Teacher win Mercury prize
The band take home the £25,000 prize for their debut album, This Could Be Texas, beating artists including Charli xcx and the Last Dinner Party
‘We were exhausted – mentally unwell’: Empire of the Sun on the downside of success – and rising again
In the eight years since Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele’s last album, there have been hits, clashes, babies and illness – and a new appreciation for one another
Danielle Moore, lead singer with Crazy P, dies aged 52
Band members say she died in ‘sudden and tragic circumstances’ and pay tribute to ‘a life driven by love, compassion, community and music’
Leeds festival review – Lana Del Rey and Liam Gallagher are sublime after the storm
An eclectic line-up – from Lambrini Girls to Fontaines DC and Fred Again – defied Storm Lilian to deliver a fiery, heartfelt festival
Rally festival review – thrilling blend of cult DJs and indie darlings
Mount Kimbie’s electro-acoustic jams capture the ethos of this celebration of the boundary pushing that included sets from Two Shell, Nilüfer Yanya and bar italia
‘You should be partying when you write party music’: pop hedonists Confidence Man on their super-sweaty new album
They want to hurl cash over their audiences, fire lasers, and make pantomime horses sexy. But, the Australian band say, there’s a dark side to their DayGlo dance-pop
All for you! Janet Jackson, Snõõper, Bob Dylan and more: the best music of autumn 2024
From Chat Pile’s apocalyptic noise to Nala Sinephro’s celestial bliss, plus posthumous releases from MC5 and Sophie, here are the albums and tours not to miss – while in classical, Kahchun Wong takes over at the Hallé
Mura Masa: Curve 1 review – relentlessly above par
The Grammy-winning UK producer’s first album on his new label is a masterclass in hardcore dancefloor and bittersweet feeling
Critic’s pick: X Club, the hard and fast DJ duo raving around the world
Since breaking out in the early pandemic, the Brisbane pair have captured dancers globally craving raucous, strobing techno. They’ll leave you breathless
‘Identifying as underrated isn’t healthy’: Tinashe on staging the pop comeback of the year
The raw sexuality of her track Nasty made it a viral sensation, moving the singer out of major label hell. But she says the industry is still toxic and racially segregated
Matt McBriar of Bicep treated for ‘large and pretty rare’ brain tumour
Acclaimed Northern Irish dance music producer says he has had operation on craniopharyngioma tumour and is in recovery
Hit em: how a dream about raves, graves and slime led Matmos’s Drew Daniel to a new music genre
While Daniel slept, a girl introduced him to ‘super crunched-out sounds’ at a wild tempo. After he shared the details on X, producers are making his fantasies into reality
Womad festival review – wildly entertaining treasure trove for adventurous music fans
Radically inclusive global lineup includes Sampa the Great’s feminist pizzazz, Young Fathers’ twisted genre-splicing and Bixiga 70’s full-tent conga
Watch me work it, I’m perfect! The return of electro-house, pop’s trashiest, brattiest sound
Mutating out of trance and electroclash in the 00s, the subgenre soon topped the charts – and thanks to Charli xcx, Saltburn and more, it’s back for another round of alcopops