Jessie Ware

Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024 – a photo essay

Day two for the photography team at Glastonbury brought the heat, the Last Dinner Party, a flypast, and an astonishing array of anthems from Chris Martin and co

Matt Fidler and Ben Beaumont-Thomas; photographs by David Levene, Jonny Weeks and Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi

30, Jun, 2024 @4:00 AM

Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival

Coldplay become act to headline most times with their fifth top slot, while Shania Twain is booked for the Sunday teatime ‘legend’ set as the lineup is announced

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

14, Mar, 2024 @8:00 AM

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

Blank space: how Taylor Swift – and an aching sense of loss – dominated music in 2023

Away from Swift’s joyous, record-breaking successes, the year’s most acclaimed albums were concerned with death and absence

Alexis Petridis

22, Dec, 2023 @5:00 AM

The 50 best albums of 2023, No 4 – Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good!

Ware’s fifth album is a strident call to embrace pleasure and liberation – and its luxe sound holds up her side of the bargain

Alim Kheraj

19, Dec, 2023 @3:00 PM

‘A reminder that life has to be lived’: the lyrics that got us through 2023

A new Youth Music survey said that 93% of young people use lyrics as a therapeutic tool for mental health. Our writers share the lines they kept close this year

Ella Creamer, Elle Hunt , Tim Jonze, Lucy Knight, Rebecca Liu, Sasha Mistlin, Laura Snapes and Imogen Tilden

30, Nov, 2023 @10:16 AM

Mercury prize 2023: London group Ezra Collective secure first ever jazz win

Band say unexpected win is ‘testimony to good, special people putting time and effort’ into helping young people to play music

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

07, Sep, 2023 @9:31 PM

Mercury prize 2023: Arctic Monkeys tie Radiohead’s record for most nominations

There are first-time nods for the likes of Fred Again, Lankum, Jockstrap and Raye, and repeat recognition for acts including J Hus and Jessie Ware

Laura Snapes

27, Jul, 2023 @10:02 AM

‘It’s like tapping into the animating energy of the universe’ – Guardian readers’ best albums of 2023 so far

From melancholy pop to jubilant rap, potent African pop and accessible jazz, Guardian readers worldwide pick out the new music that has most impressed them so far this year

Guardian readers and Alfie Packham

22, Jun, 2023 @3:00 PM