Peaches: ‘Who should play me in the biopic? Amy Taylor from Amyl and the Sniffers’
The electroclash musician on living with Feist, her love of stinky hard cheese, and an embarrassing encounter with Kelis
Paul McCartney review – a dizzying, bittersweet, life-encompassing journey through time
An eras tour of a different kind finds the 82-year-old former Beatle on tremendous form, packing a three-hour show with hits, flashbacks and real emotion
Wham!’s Last Christmas is Christmas No 1 for second year running
Duo’s Andrew Ridgeley celebrates success of song that is ‘almost as much a part of Christmas as mince pies, turkey and pigs in blankets’
The 50 best albums of 2024
Topped with Charli xcx’s swaggering yet vulnerable Brat, here are the year’s finest LPs as decided by 26 Guardian music writers
You and I are gonna live forever: why 2024’s pop was all about sharing the moment
Pop may be full of solo artists and individually tailored streams, but the Eras tour, Brat summer and Oasis reunion showed we still long to be part of a crowd
The 50 best albums of 2024: No 2 – Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee
The mysterious and theatrical singer’s monumental 32-track album is a parallel dimension of nostalgic pop, its pristine tunes rivalling the greats of the 20th century
Bob ‘Slim’ Dunlap, guitarist in the Replacements, dies at 73
The well-loved ‘replacement Replacement’ joined the band after being a janitor at a local music venue where they played early shows
The 50 best albums of 2024: No 3 – Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft
Stepping aside from her role as pop’s conscience, Eilish looks inward to tell murky love stories on her third album, and returns to her teenage flirtations with the macabre
‘Like Depeche Mode, but evil’: the sweaty, sexual music of 80s EBM
As documented in a new book, electronic body music swept Belgium and Germany as its artists strove to make something entirely new – but their militaristic look became controversial
The 50 best albums of 2024: No 4 – Clairo: Charm
The singer-songwriter’s best album yet conjures low-lit jazz bars with swelling, sultry songs of attraction and desire, fleshed out with flurries of brass and vintage Wurlitzers
Matt Goss on love, loss and his brother Luke: ‘I don’t want to lie any more. We’re completely estranged’
The Bros frontman is back touring the UK after an 11-year Vegas residency. He discusses mega-fame, political correctness, loneliness and the joy of long-term success
‘That’s the Christmas No 1!’ How East 17 made festive favourite Stay Another Day
Brian Harvey said, ‘I’m not singing this shit!’ – and threw his headphones on the floor. It took two days to get the performance out of him
Tortured by an earworm? How to get it out of your head
Scientists explain why the music of Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga and Wicked sticks in our minds – and the best ways to ditch an unshakeable tune
The 50 best albums of 2024: No 5 – Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter
This freewheeling embrace of the singer’s roots was also a triumphant reclamation of a genre that had long shunned its Black origins
Paul McCartney review – extraordinarily sublime and humblingly beautiful
Stretching an almost three-hour set from the Quarrymen through to the ‘final Beatles single’ this is like an arena-sized Last Night at the Proms, with Beatlemania