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Dual lingo: why UK rappers like Central Cee and Dave are embracing the EU

British MCs are increasingly making bilingual tracks with their European peers – and, they explain, it’s not just to attract new audiences

Sophie van Well Groeneveld

25, Sep, 2024 @12:56 PM

Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government

Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule

Dorian Lynskey

02, Jul, 2024 @4:00 AM

‘He’s never worked a day in his life!’: Paul McCartney honours Bruce Springsteen at Ivor Novello awards

Springsteen receives Academy fellowship as Raye named songwriter of the year, and Yussef Dayes, Victoria Canal and Speakers Corner Quartet pick up major awards

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

24, May, 2024 @7:10 AM

Pop! goes the curriculum: songs to inspire primary school children

Keir Starmer is on a personal mission to promote music to the under-11s. From rock’n’roll to Jonathan Richman, our writers suggest songs for an alternative schooling

Lanre Bakare, Shaad D'Souza, Simon Hattenstone, Phil Hebblethwaite, Tim Jonze, Matt Mills, Alexis Petridis, Chal Ravens, Laura Snapes, Jenny Stevens and Ciaran Thapar

20, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

Brit awards 2024 – full list of winners

The winners of every category at the 2024 Brits, updated as the ceremony progresses

Guardian music

02, Mar, 2024 @8:19 PM

Mobo awards 2024: Central Cee tops winners thanks to megahit Sprinter

London MC wins best male and song of the year, while Potter Payper beats stiff competition to win album of the year

Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Robyn Vinter

07, Feb, 2024 @11:10 PM

Female pop stars celebrate record-breaking year on UK singles chart

Women claimed an unprecedented 31 weeks atop the Top 40 and accounted for 48.5% of all songs that reached the Top 10 – plus seven of the year’s 10 biggest songs

Laura Snapes

03, Jan, 2024 @12:01 AM

Reading festival review – vibrant pop takeover leaves rock in the shade

Dominated by the likes of PinkPantheress, Little Simz and Megan Thee Stallion, it’s left to Arctic Monkeys and Wolf Alice to remind revellers of Reading’s still-beating rock heart

Grace Medford

29, Aug, 2022 @3:05 PM

Dave crowned songwriter of the year at Ivor Novello awards

Rapper wins fourth Ivor in five years after album We’re All Alone in This Together topped UK charts

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

19, May, 2022 @4:13 PM

Stormzy review – victory lap for the big dog

Two years after he was due to tour his second album, the rapper makes the most of arena-sized spectacle – though arguably, he could carry the show without the special effects

Alexis Petridis

16, Mar, 2022 @12:45 PM