Maroon 5

Maroon 5: Jordi review – pop at its most shallow and calculating

Adam Levine and co’s seventh album is business as usual, reliant on an army of songwriters and producers, plus guest artists to inject personality. Auto-Tuned Stevie Nicks, anyone?

Alexis Petridis

10, Jun, 2021 @11:00 AM

Where have all the bands gone? Well, he’s in one

The Maroon 5 singer ruffled feathers with comments about the decline of groups, but going it alone is easier and cheaper

Rebecca Nicholson

06, Mar, 2021 @5:30 PM

‘Record companies have me on a dartboard’: the man making millions buying classic hits

Hit songs can be a better investment than gold – and by snapping up the rights, Merck Mercuriadis has become the most disruptive force in music

Dorian Lynskey

27, Feb, 2021 @12:00 PM

Mickey Madden, Maroon 5 bassist, arrested on domestic violence charges

Group say they are ‘deeply devastated’ by allegations

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

01, Jul, 2020 @9:08 AM

Don't pillory Maroon 5 – they're the perfect band if you're too tired to feel anything

The LA pop-rockers bombed at the Super Bowl, but to knock them for being too smooth is to misunderstand the most radically inoffensive band in US pop history

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

04, Feb, 2019 @3:49 PM

Super Bowl 2019: everything but the football – as it happened

Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi appear at half-time – plus, see the biggest ads as they air

Benjamin Lee and Jake Nevins

04, Feb, 2019 @3:26 AM

Maroon 5's Super Bowl performance: Adam Levine's torso can't save tedious affair

Maroon 5’s half-time show, aided by appearances from Travis Scott and Big Boi, was an utterly conventional rundown of the band’s biggest hits

Jake Nevins

04, Feb, 2019 @2:29 AM

2018: the year in pop culture

Featuring Cardi B, Sting and Shaggy, Sharp Objects, Teddy from Atlanta, bad sex, Hereditary, Black Panther’s influence, and... dogs

Issy Sampson, Steve Rose, Fiona Sturges, Ellen E Jones, Michael Cragg, Gavin Haynes and Rebecca Nicholson

22, Dec, 2018 @7:00 AM

Celebrity boycotts and half-time headaches: is the Super Bowl already in crisis?

Sports and advertising’s biggest night has tried to rise above politics, but has recently been dragged into the culture wars

Luke O'Neil

29, Oct, 2018 @8:12 PM

More synthetic bamboo! The greatest preset sounds in pop music

Christine and the Queens has been criticised for using prefabricated loops from software, rather than coming up with new sounds herself. But from Kate Bush to Kendrick Lamar, these presets are actually the foundation of modern pop

Dave Simpson

14, Aug, 2018 @3:49 PM