Pulp top UK charts for the first time since 1998 with new album More
Sheffield band were last at the top with This Is Hardcore, while Sabrina Carpenter is at No 1 in the singles chart and breaks an album chart record
The best albums of 2025 so far
Bon Iver straddles stark indie-folk and poppy R&B while PinkPantheress makes an unarguable case for going out out as we revisit six months of the music you mustn’t miss
Add to playlist: the genre-swerving chaos of eight-piece collective Parade and the week’s best new tracks
Determined to dodge every pigeonhole, the band’s forthcoming mixtape veers from lulling acoustic to nightmarish noise, free jazz to prog post-rock
Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn review – this brilliant post-punk racket sounds like a trip to a rivet factory
The Chicago threepiece’s bold debut is a blast of circular-saw guitars, baffling lyrics and effervescent melody
The ones we love: all 16 of REM’s albums – ranked!
As their album Fables of the Reconstruction turns 40, we assess REM’s hugely varied discography, from mysterious masterpieces to commercial failures
AI, bot farms and innocent indie victims: how music streaming became a hotbed of fraud and fakery
Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services – but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al?
Pulp: More review – anthems and rage for the next life stage
Jarvis Cocker and the band’s first album in 24 years delivers a refreshing take on middle age, with all the the skewed observation and joyful melodic flourishes of old
Cloud Control review – Australian 2010s indie darlings reunite for a joyfully nostalgic tour
Northcote theatre, Melbourne; then touringThe band is back together on a 15-year anniversary tour for their debut album Bliss Release – and their sound is immediately transportative
Add to playlist: GB’s open-hearted pop and the week’s best new tracks
The latest innovator to emerge from the RMC, Copenhagen’s music school and alt-hothouse, Gustav Berntsen combines off-kilter rock with unabashed yearning
Jacob Alon: In Limerence review – dreamy story songs of myth and melancholy
The Scottish songwriter delivers a confident, well-expressed debut even if their songs sometimes stray into overfamiliar indie-folk territory
‘Blur were so obnoxious!’: 35 years of epic gigs at Glasgow’s King Tut’s, from Oasis to Lewis Capaldi
It’s where Oasis were discovered – and where Radiohead only ever drew 150 people. Insiders and regulars like KT Tunstall explain why the live music venue is so loved by audience and artists
Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film review – after 15 years, the retro-futurists make a radiant return
Motorik grooves, Marxist critique and vintage synths – in their first album since 2010, Laetitia Sadier et al pick up where they left off yet sound more timely than ever
Guy Garvey on Elbow’s One Day Like This: ‘Every week, someone tells me they got married to it’
‘We threw strings at the track and it exploded into Lion-King-esque euphoria. I once got sent footage of a few hundred people on either side of a tube track singing it at each other’
‘I’ve met people with tattoos of it’: Andy Vella on shooting the Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry cover
‘The guitar, the hair, the mystery – I think I captured who the Cure are with this picture. When I showed it to Robert Smith and the band’s manager, they jumped up and down’
‘People think I’ve gone crazy’: indie sensation Cameron Winter on leaving crowds in tears with his wild lyrics and supernatural voice
He is just 22 yet he is already being compared to Dylan, Cohen and Waits. The Geese frontman talks about the joys of going solo, employing a five-year-old bassist – and why God deserves a shout out