Run the Jewels
Brit awards nominations 2021: Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks and Celeste lead improved field for women
Women dominate British album category, while more than half the nominees in key categories are non-white
Laura Snapes
31, Mar, 2021 @3:30 PM
Kitty Empire's best music of 2020
Our critic’s picks, from righteous old-school hip-hop via euphoric retro pop to classic American songwriting
Kitty Empire
27, Dec, 2020 @8:00 AM
The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list
Our countdown is complete, topped by a mercurial work of sprawling invention by a woman who has dug deep to survive. Taken as a whole, these choices contain drama, solace, poetry and fire, a fitting selection for a turbulent year
Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes
18, Dec, 2020 @8:07 AM
On my radar: Jia Tolentino's cultural highlights
The New Yorker writer and essayist on bittersweet TV, the ‘album of the revolution’ and her favourite gathering place in Brooklyn
Kadish Morris
25, Jul, 2020 @2:00 PM
Run the Jewels: ‘I want the oppressors to know they haven’t created complete hopelessness’
After Killer Mike’s impassioned speech about the death of George Floyd went viral, he and his partner El-P explain why a mix of serious politics and surreal goofiness makes their music perfect for our times
Alexis Petridis
02, Jun, 2020 @6:23 PM
Billie Eilish, Jay-Z and more voice solidarity with George Floyd protesters
Rappers Travis Scott and Gunna join pop singers including Halsey and Ariana Grande in condemning police brutality
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
01, Jun, 2020 @9:50 AM
Coachella 2020 announced with headliners Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean
Lana Del Rey, Calvin Harris and 21 Savage to also appear at California event that kicks off festival season
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
03, Jan, 2020 @10:06 AM
How Killer Mike reinvented Thomas More for the 21st century
The rapper’s utopian attempt to secede from the US, as documented in his Netflix show Trigger Warning, is more than just clever TV
Henry Barnes
12, Jul, 2019 @9:00 AM
Trigger Warning With Killer Mike: finally, a satirist for our times
From selling ‘Crips and Bloods cola’ to using porn to teach carpentry, the Run the Jewels rapper’s activist-comedy stunts are unlike anything else on TV right now
Jack Seale
08, Feb, 2019 @1:00 PM
Run the Jewels's Killer Mike apologises for NRA interview
The rapper had also disparaged school walkouts against gun violence. In a series of tweets, he said his interview was ‘used in the wrong way’
Laura Snapes
26, Mar, 2018 @10:11 AM
Record Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full
From Abba to Zero 7, the 500 singles, EPs, LPs and cassettes released for the annual celebration of independent record shops
Guardian music
07, Mar, 2018 @2:57 PM
Miley, Morrissey and Marnie the opera: the essential pop, classical and jazz for autumn 2017
Liam goes for broke, St Vincent bounces back, Nico Muhly gets Hitchcockian, Taylor Swift defends her reputation, and Peggy Seeger pens her memoirs
Alexis Petridis, Andrew Clements, John Fordham and Robin Denselow
13, Sep, 2017 @5:00 AM
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