Stormzy

Stormzy to receive honorary Cambridge University doctorate

Rapper is honoured for his philanthropic work alongside the likes of John Rutter, Angela Davis and Simon Russell Beale

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

19, Mar, 2025 @5:05 PM

Charli xcx, Jade and Ezra Collective’s Brit awards cap a vintage year for adventurous pop | Alexis Petridis

Playing music that is as smart as it is successful, Brit winners made articulate calls for artist development – while host Jack Whitehall was brilliantly risky

Alexis Petridis

02, Mar, 2025 @5:00 AM

Brit awards 2025 – full list of winners

The nominees and winners of every category at this year’s Brit awards, including Charli xcx’s five wins

Guardian music

01, Mar, 2025 @11:04 PM

Brat awards! Charli xcx wins five Brits for zeitgeist-conquering album

Dance-pop artist picks up album and artist of the year prizes, while Ezra Collective see off big names to become first jazz artists to win British group

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

01, Mar, 2025 @11:00 PM

Stormzy denies he ‘compromised beliefs’ with McDonald’s partnership

Rapper is a vocal supporter of Palestine but has received criticism over restaurant’s links to Israeli military

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

21, Feb, 2025 @11:48 PM

Charli xcx leads male-dominated Brit awards nominations – with first Beatles nod since 1977

Brat scores the British pop star five nominations, while male acts make up 53% of the overall field and mixed acts 12%

Laura Snapes

23, Jan, 2025 @5:30 PM

‘Adversity can ruin your life. Or give you resilience’: Maya Jama on grit, growing up, and bringing good vibes to primetime tv

She’s the charismatic TV host known for her bombshell struts into the Love Island villa, but Maya Jama didn’t have an easy start. She talks about her tough teenage years, being a ‘late bloomer’, and why the tabloids are fascinated with her love life

Simon Hattenstone

04, Jan, 2025 @7:00 AM

From Elton John at the piano to Stormzy at Glastonbury and Madonna snogging Britney: 41 era-defining music photos

Icons, rock stars – and divas behaving badly: these photographs of musicians struck a chord around the world

Alexis Petridis, Michael Cragg and Gabrielle Schwarz

28, Sep, 2024 @6:00 AM

Make a playlist, buy in some nice crisps and save the house party from extinction

Everyone wants to go to a house party, as Stormzy says, but no one wants to host one. But it is time to make the effort…

Eva Wiseman

18, Aug, 2024 @7:00 AM

Headie One: The Last One review – rueful memoir with party tunes attached

The north London rapper’s gritty honesty is his strongest suit on a guest-packed second album that juggles dance tracks with his troubled past

Kitty Empire

05, Jul, 2024 @10:00 AM

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