Music

‘Anastacia is a big inspiration for me – raspy, raw and heartfelt’: Ella Eyre’s honest playlist

Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations

Grammy awards 2026: Kendrick Lamar leads nominations with nine nods

‘I was the only out queer guy in rock’: Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum

The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan review – shipwreck songs from a master storyteller

Sara Ajnnak and the Ciderhouse Rebellion: Landscapes of the Spirit, Parts 1-4 review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

‘It’s impossible not to have contradictions in a contradictory world’: Catalan pop visionary Rosalía on critics, crisis and being ‘hot for God’

Hatchie: Liquorice review – dizzying dreampop with welcome flashes of depravity

‘A shot of adrenaline’: readers pass on 90s club classics to new generations

Radiohead review – bards of the apocalypse return for a brutal bacchanal

Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime

‘I want to ride out on a unicorn every night’: swords’n’sorcery heavy metal band Castle Rat

Ravyn Lenae review – art-school dreamer at ease with her own melancholy

Rosalía: Lux review – a demanding, distinctive clash of classical and chaos that couldn’t be by anyone else

Richard Ashcroft: ‘Why not Sir Liam and Sir Noel?’