One to watch: Bad With Phones
After a car crash and a two-year break, the south London bassist and producer releases his trippy, redemptive debut album
Post your questions for Interpol
As they prepare to tour their classic album Antics for its 20th anniversary, frontman Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler will be taking your questions
Festival wristbands are grubby badges of honour – so Balenciaga’s £3,000 version is cringeworthy
Wearing a soggy, stinky bracelet shows you’re part of a something communal, which is the very opposite of haute couture
Cassandra Jenkins: My Light, My Destroyer review – a beautiful, brooding delight
Following her breakthrough in 2021, the singer-songwriter has overcome self-doubt to deliver a diverse album where loneliness is set against cosmic wonder
Pixar, Catholic shame, and urine-drinking podcast bros: the mixed-up rock of MJ Lenderman
Known for turns with hit US indie acts Wednesday and Waxahatchee, the singer-guitarist explains how his songs – full of sad sacks and losers – get to the heart of masculinity
‘A folk music wolf in doom metal clothing’: readers’ favourite albums of 2024 so far
Following our rundown of the best albums in the first half of the year, you responded with your own suggestions, from Kali Malone to Kim Gordon
Kasabian: Happenings review – newfound concision and big choruses
Minus disgraced former frontman Tom Meighan the band are tighter, but their realignment feels like a work in progress
Glastonbury live: Sunday with SZA, Shania Twain, Burna Boy and more – as it happened
Pictures, reviews and more, after Glastonbury’s final day and sets by Avril Lavigne, Janelle Monáe, Steel Pulse, Kim Gordon, the National and others
The Breeders review – effortless pop gems from the grunge era
Undimmed by the decades, the Deal sisters mark the 30th anniversary of their classic album Last Splash with a masterclass in off-kilter melody
Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything review – aggressive and transcendent
On their first album in 12 years, Warren Ellis and co fuse violin, guitar and drums to create wistful beauty out of distortion
The Last Dinner Party on misogyny, maximalism and making it big: ‘Men think they’re the arbiters of rock’
The London five-piece are due to have this year’s Glastonbury moment – the cherry on four years of hard work. But from accusations about their authenticity to the speed of their rise, they say success has been ‘disturbing’
Kings of Leon review – mesmeric power from masters of the restrained anthem
The newly invigorated band have a rare gift for stadium-sized rock that is refreshingly understated, delivering a 27-song set of triumphs
‘The body was the drums, the brain was the synthesiser’: darkwave, the gothic genre lighting up pop
Emerging from the gloomiest corners of the 80s underground, this synth-driven, nihilistic sound is now getting billions of streams. Its past and present creators explain why they turn to the dark side
It’s a Hard Life for band changing their name after objection from easyGroup
British indie band no longer known as Easy Life after saying they did not have money to defend lawsuit
Glastonbury announces full 2024 lineup, adding James, Tems, Squeeze and more
Femi Kuti, Seasick Steve and Birmingham Royal Ballet among other artists added as festival announces full range of stage times