Grace Ives: Girlfriend review – bedroom-pop auteur goes widescreen for a gorgeous sobriety epic
The New Yorker’s third album leaves behind her DIY origins to channel cult pop classics by Lorde and Sky Ferreira
Underscores: U review – ultra-imaginative auteur has pop’s most brilliant brain
Performing, writing and producing everything herself, April Grey pares back her hyperpop electronics for an LP in thrall to 90s pop-R&B, with songs that big stars would die for
James Blake: Trying Times review – platitudes about politics and Kanye can’t detract from an excellent album
Amid the stylistic shifts of Blake’s seventh record come samples of Dusty Springfield and Dizzee Rascal: gripping distractions from some preachy sentiments
The Black Crowes: A Pound of Feathers review – pathos and profanity elevate peerless rock’n’roll pastiche
With Keef-style riffs and full-blooded commitment to the bit, resurgent brothers Chris and Rich Robinson resurrect the rocker lifestyle of eras past
Golden Plains 2026 review – Basement Jaxx turn a regional farm into a surreal and heaving club
With standout sets from Cut Copy, Marlon Williams and Water From Your Eyes, the cult favourite Victorian music festival has become the hottest ticket in town
Echo and the Bunnymen review – Ian McCulloch leaves it to the crowd to sing these timelessly great songs
The frontman struggled to get through most of the band’s choruses but that left space for Will Sergeant’s glorious psychedelic shapes and a supportive sing along
Harry Styles review – Netflix concert is a communal love-in with some big pop moments
Recorded for the streaming giant, this performance wrestles songs from the star’s new album into more interesting shapes
Morrissey: Make-Up Is a Lie review – nostalgic, sentimental and dull, he is a shadow of what he once was
Dodgy conspiracy theories are thankfully kept to one track, but the rest is not much better, lacking insight even when Morrissey returns to his specialist subjects
Waterbaby: Memory Be a Blade review – stellar singer-songwriter pieces post-breakup life back together
The Stockholm musician’s debut album is a fascinating character study with improvised lyrics and a light, pretty sound that belies its emotional depth
Mitski review – pop meets performance art in a masterful spectacle
The Shed, New York CityAt a six-night residency, the singer creates an immersive world filled with wry humor and big emotions
Squeeze: Trixies review – finally completed first album proves teenage dreams are hard to beat
Squeeze’s first new album in nearly a decade is based on material written when they were teenagers. It’s endearing but callow
10cc review – 70s legends reprise a dazzling string of pop classics
Fifty years since the band fractured with the departure of Godley and Creme, songs from Donna to I’m Not in Love are in prime condition on what is billed as ‘another bloody greatest hits tour’
Harry Styles: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally review – nice all the time. Good, occasionally
The music on Styles’s new album is muted, subtle and pleasant – but from the title downwards, he has a real problem with words
David Byrne review – in life during wartime, this show will restore your faith in humanity
Byrne again reimagines the possibilities of the live gig, creating a vision of egalitarianism backed by elastic bass and polyrhythms
Lily Allen review – pop star makes much-anticipated comeback – but where is the West End Girl?
Allen isn’t in the first act of her own show, only coming on after 45 minutes of a string ensemble to stiffly deliver her acclaimed album in full