The Guide #260: From Oasis to K-pop, music is going mad for the big-screen documentary
A new wave of concert films and career retrospectives is drawing fans to cinemas – but why now?
‘Somewhere to be themselves, and be kind’: the Filipino folk-popper creating a hand-drawn world for gen Z to escape to
What started as a school project about plucky fictional kids in animal masks sparked an obsessive fanbase and a major label deal. Now the Icelandic-Filipino artist behind it all is ready to reveal themself
Add to playlist: Grumpy’s weirded-up country celebration of trans joy and the week’s best new tracks
Sometime Zach Bryan backing vocalist Heaven Schmitt started Grumpy as a solo project. It’s now a six-piece band, blending alt-country with jubilant solidarity
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Second Song review – shaky album occasionally strikes gold
The 80-year-old continues his tireless output, delving into the past for inspiration to variable results – though two lengthy brand-new songs are real showstoppers
Haruomi Hosono: Yours Sincerely review – slight songs with huge hearts from the Japanese pop pioneer
Unpredictable and utterly beguiling, the septuagenarian beloved by Harry Styles brings a hint of mischief to his innocently charming songs
Angine de Poitrine review – mind-boggling math rock mastery from freaky Québécois duo
The brilliantly strange band’s live show is a must-see spectacle powered by glorious noise and wild flair
The Tubs: Hard Life review – indie’s Larry David spins self-loathing into glorious jangle-rock
Britain’s best indie-rockers hold fast to their defiantly old-school sound, slipping wry sideways looks at despair in among hooky melodies that always sound like a good time
Todd Rundgren review – try-anything veteran doesn’t let his freak flag fully fly
The 78-year-old has astonishing range but gets bogged down in middling rock, though later delivers some gorgeous acoustic songs – and a slinky Marvin Gaye cover
Evanescence review – devastating power and range from one of rock’s great vocal talents
The titanic choruses and stormy metal riffs of latest album Sanctuary are the perfect foundation for Amy Lee’s astonishing, skyscraping vocal range
Even better than the Real Thing? The overlooked Black music scene of 1970s Liverpool
Despite the city’s backdrop of deprivation and racism, vibrant nightclubs and daring artists thrived – but after No 1 success for the Real Thing, why was the scene ignored?
‘Would they fight or hug?’ The Oasis comeback film’s makers on shooting fans, vicars, police – and the Gallaghers
The crowds wept and prayed, police used their song lyrics for briefings and a vicar gave a sermon about brotherly forgiveness. The directors of Don’t Look Back in Anger relive their wildest ride ever
Don’t Forget Me review – Eddie Cochran bio-doc boasts top-notch roster of talking heads
Director Kirsty Bell alternates archival footage with tacky dramatised filler, but it’s the breadth of appreciation, from Keith Richards to Kiefer Sutherland that impresses
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger: what we learned from the year’s biggest rockumentary
Capturing the band’s 2025 global comeback tour, this two-hour film reveals the tense first rehearsal with Liam, Noel being a big softie and the Gallaghers’ politics – just don’t expect any mention of ticket prices
Bugs’ Jordan Brunoli is 30 and may have weeks to live – but the band are making the most of their time together
With their bassist in palliative care for colorectal cancer, the group have a new album and two live shows to play. They reflect on friendship, facing terminal illness and ‘taking each day as it comes’
‘The more famous I got, the bigger my beehive got’: how Mari Wilson made Just What I Always Wanted
‘I was trying to bring back some glamour. The backcombed hair was like architecture really. It took more than 45 minutes to style’