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Green Man festival review – Kneecap and CMAT lead the charge in a utopian Welsh idyll

Progressive, independent and more sonically diverse than ever, the Brecon Beacons festival offered sterling sets from MJ Lenderman to Mike, Jasmine.4.t to Joshua Idehen

Wet Leg: Moisturizer review – Doritos, Davina McCall and dumb fun from British indie’s big breakout band

After winning multiple Grammys and Brits, the Isle of Wight band explore love and sexuality on their second LP – but there’s still room for some barbed put-downs

Reading and Leeds festival review – Billie Eilish and the Killers thrill at bucket-hatted blowout

The post-GCSE audience is suitably boisterous at a festival that is keeping its remit admirably broad, from Foals’ intense rock to Bicep’s beautiful techno

Wet Leg review – 2022’s breakout indie stars on comically good form

Despite having fans in Iggy Pop and Barack Obama, the Isle of Wight duo are sticking with small venues for now – and enlivening them with joy and hilarity

Glastonbury 2022 review: stunning moments, special singalongs and a rumour mill in overdrive

Billie Eilish, Self Esteem, Paul McCartney, Olivia Rodrigo, Noel Gallagher, AJ Tracey, Sam Fender and Wet Leg were all electrifying. But where was Harry Styles?

‘Miraculously we’re here’: St Vincent, Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish and more meet biggest Glastonbury crowd in years

McCartney sealed an unforgettable Saturday night after a Friday during which female performers called all the shots

Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – going beyond the chaise longue on nuanced debut

With millennial angst and humour to spare, the duo’s quarter-life crisis album has a much broader remit than their repetitive breakout single
  • Alim Beisembayev review – intimacy and conviction in programme of Romanticism
  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/ Candillari review – Simpson’s oratorio shrieks; Elgar and Sibelius stay polite
  • LPO/Tan Dun review – a full battery of drums, dramatic inhalations and hints of Mongolian throat singing
  • The Turn of the Screw review – gripping and unsettling water-logged staging of Britten’s ghost story
  • Tamerlano review – Trump, Freud and a Bridgerton escapee struggle to get a handle on Handel
  • Miroslav Vitous: Mountain Call review – double bass duets balance muscularity with mellowness
  • Flea: Honora review – Chili Pepper turns piper, taking up trumpet for a soulful jazz odyssey
  • Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios album review – Andris Nelsons’ prodigious talent on full display
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter: East Meets West album review – diverse, bold and brand new
  • Paul McCartney: Days We Left Behind review – this wistful, lovely song is as McCartney-esque as it’s possible to be
  • Rigoletto review – strong revival of Mears’s violent take, with Elder revelatory in the pit
  • Fcukers: Ö review – hyped Harry Styles-supporting NYC hedonists have the hooks to merit the hoopla
  • The Passion of Mary Magdalene review – Tansy Davies’s score is taut and intriguing
  • Imeneo review – Handel in mischievous mood handled with wit and care
  • Robyn: Sexistential review – pop doyenne returns with emotional grenades and a new philosophy
  • Raye: This Music May Contain Hope review – a wildly ambitious epic of unbridled self-expression
  • FKA twigs review – an Olympian display of pop prowess
  • Pagliacci review – Leoncavallo’s grand guignol staged with insight and commitment
  • Geese review – all hail the new saviours of rock’n’roll
  • The Gondoliers review – brilliantly barbed Gilbert and Sullivan is a feast for the eyes and ears
  • BTS review – having lost none of their chemistry, this is a comeback of epic proportions
  • BTS: Arirang review – the world’s biggest pop band return with dumb fun and downright weirdness
  • Grace Ives: Girlfriend review – bedroom-pop auteur goes widescreen for a gorgeous sobriety epic
  • Huw Marc Bennett: Heol Las review – exhilarating Welsh folk injected with synths, sitars and surf rock
  • Johannes-Passion album review – Pygmalion are razor sharp in theatrical new recording
  • Through the Centuries: Songs of Madeleine Dring album review – puts paid to any idea that she was not a serious composer
  • Underscores: U review – ultra-imaginative auteur has pop’s most brilliant brain
  • Siegfried review – invigorating and mesmerising staging, with Schager outstanding as Wagner’s hero
  • Wu-Tang Clan review – still bringing the ruckus even on their farewell tour
  • The Kingdom: Oxford Bach Choir, BSO/Nicholas review – Elgar’s unloved oratorio sounds expansive and convincing

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