Pop music

Feeling lonely? Try getting sweaty at a gig

The more we lose touch with everything except our own little gangs, the more everyone outside our narrow frames of reference seems alien and unrelatable

‘I’m not just a musician – I’m a huge fan of music’

The south London singer-songwriter reflects on high times, burning out and her new album

The rumours are true: Stereophonic’s debt to Fleetwood Mac

It’s this year’s big West End hit but the co-producer of the classic album thinks the play is secondhand news

Cat Cohen’s cultural highlights

Beehive hairdos, reality TV and ‘grotesque’ art – just some of the US comedian’s favourite things

Will Young: ‘Famous people go on about their bloody dogs’

The Pop Idol star, actor and podcaster on getting banned from Tinder, and advocating for dogs

The 1975, Charli XCX and the headline act in the age of streaming

Glastonbury’s imperial couple reveal how festival bookings have been complicated in recent years

The real Glasto rebels? Me and Jacob Rees-Mogg

Glastonbury has gone mainstream – and surely it cannot survive this bland consensus

Relax, Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover is just savvy publicity

To insist that every woman in the public eye must be a beacon of feminist virtue is always going to be an exercise in disappointment

Album review: Finn Wolfhard – ‘Happy’

The ‘Stranger Things’ star celebrates lo-fi on succinct solo debut

One to watch: Annahstasia

Years after being discovered in her teens, the American singer-songwriter’s strikingly rich voice has finally found its true expression

Pop album reviews: Lido Pimienta, Stereolab, Sports Team, James Brandon Lewis

Album reviews: Billy Nomates, Ezra Furman and more

By Kitty Empire, Phil Mongredien, Shaad D’Souza, Neil Spencer and Damien Morris

Springsteen sings the body politic

The Boss punctuates an impassioned set full of protest anthems and elegies for a dying homeland