Wolf Alice

Mura Masa: RYC review – so mediocre, it's not even entertainingly bad

Clairo, Tirzah and Slowthai and other guests can’t polish the turds on producer Alex Crossan’s profoundly awful second album

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

10, Jan, 2020 @8:00 AM

Down with the kids in Tunbridge Wells | Brief letters

Brief letters: Music in Tunbridge Wells | Film review | The Boulevardier | WI cliches | King William’s College quiz

Letters

30, Dec, 2019 @5:17 PM

British cultural figures urge BBC to boycott Eurovision in Israel

Vivienne Westwood, Mike Leigh and Julie Christie are among those calling for coverage to be cancelled, citing human rights violations

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

29, Jan, 2019 @4:59 PM

Wolf Alice review – sweetness and snarl from indie-rock revolutionaries

Capping a banner year in which they won the Mercury prize, Wolf Alice swerve rock cliche with counter-intuitive songcraft

Rachel Aroesti

20, Dec, 2018 @11:56 AM

What to see this week in the UK

From Lizzie to Wolf Alice, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days

Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Mark Cook and Lyndsey Winship

14, Dec, 2018 @9:00 AM

Wolf Alice are worthy winners – but the Mercury prize must think bigger

The quartet’s shapeshifting blend of shoegaze, grunge and folk was rightly loved by the Mercury judges, but this is a prize fewer and fewer people care about – so something needs to change

Alexis Petridis

20, Sep, 2018 @10:07 PM

Mercury prize 2018: Wolf Alice win for Visions of a Life

Genre-hopping rockers claim £25,000 prize for an album the Guardian called ‘an exuberant jumble’

Laura Snapes

20, Sep, 2018 @9:20 PM

Wolf Alice on the Mercury prize and on-stage marriage proposals

The Mercury prize nominees weighed in on their favourite films, their next album and dressing up for Halloween as Liam Gallagher

Laura Snapes

11, Sep, 2018 @12:39 PM

Reading and Leeds festival review – glittery GCSE blowout has most diverse lineup yet

From Dua Lipa’s choreographed pop to Kendrick Lamar’s rap blitzkreig, R&L expanded beyond the indie faithful – but Sex on Fire still got the biggest singalong

Dave Simpson

27, Aug, 2018 @12:02 PM

Safe Mercury shortlist once again raises questions about prize's purpose

After grime was properly recognised at last year’s Mercury, the album prize is back to playing it safe, rewarding commercial success rather than creative innovation

Laura Snapes

26, Jul, 2018 @10:14 AM

Mercury prize 2018: Noel Gallagher, Florence and Arctic Monkeys shortlisted

Other nominees for the prestigious album award include Lily Allen, Jorja Smith and Wolf Alice, jazz group Sons of Kemet, and experimental acts Nadine Shah, Everything Everything and King Krule

Laura Snapes

26, Jul, 2018 @10:09 AM