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Pop and rock

March 2026

  • Harry Styles performing at the Brit awards

    Harry Styles, fake stage invaders and a censored Peter Mandelson joke: the biggest moments at the Brit awards

    The ITV censors had their work cut out in a protest-filled, relatively edgy ceremony that hosted ultra-expressive performances from Rosalía, Wolf Alice and more
  • Olivia Dean receives the pop act award at the 2026 Brit awards.

    Brit awards 2026: full list of winners

  • SOH Grace JonesGrace Jones performs at the Sydney Opera House forecourt on 28 February 2026

    Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all

  • BRIT Awards 2026Olivia Dean receives the artist of the year award during the Brit Awards 2026 at Co-op Live, Manchester. Picture date: Saturday February 28, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Doug Peters/PA Wire

    Olivia Dean sweeps the board at 2026 Brit awards, winning four including artist, song and album of the year

  • The Brian Jonestown Massacre in BrightonPortrait of Anton Newcombe, founder of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, on Brighton seafront. Brighton, East Sussex, UK. 31st January 2023.

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe: ‘I feel like I have to work very hard to redeem myself’

  • How did I believe that? A cult survivor looks back at his lost years

  • From Amarillo to Stockport: 15 of Neil Sedaka’s greatest songs, and their extraordinary stories

  • Hard work, romance and bell hooks: how Olivia Dean became British pop’s newest megastar

  • Baz Luhrmann: ‘There’s the image of Elvis and then there’s the man’

  • Cruz Beckham review – son of David and Victoria transcends nepo-baby tag with intriguing psych-pop

  • Neil Sedaka, pictured in 2012

    Neil Sedaka, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do singer and pop song hitmaker, dies aged 86

    Musician died after being taken to hospital in Los Angeles, with his family remembering him as a ‘true rock and roll legend’ and ‘inspiration to millions’
  • Glaringly obvious … Bruno Mars.

    Bruno Mars: The Romantic review – you’re better off listening to the songs he’s blatantly imitating

    (Atlantic)
    Harking back to Oye Como Va, Move On Up and other 20th-century classics, Mars’s homages are beautifully performed but bereft of new ideas
    • ‘It’s good music, not a guilty pleasure’: how Bruno Mars embraced cheese to become pop’s most popular star

    • Lala Lala: Heaven 2 review – brooding alt-popper fights the urge to run

    • ‘Everybody wants a bestie like this guy!’ Rush on rock’s most anticipated reunion – and its greatest bromance

  • Lily Allen.

    Ranked
    Dead-end boys and West End girls: Lily Allen’s greatest songs – ranked!

    Ahead of her UK tour and her three nominations at this weekend’s Brit awards, we appraise Allen’s sharp, candid songcraft
  • Gorillaz
2026 press publicity portrait
Credit: Gorillaz & Reuben Bastienne-Lewis

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Gorillaz: The Mountain review – a late career peak haunted by ghosts yet glowing with life

    Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon band mark 25 years with an album inspired by India and shaped by loss, featuring collaborators living and dead
  • Two men standing in front of a graffiti-covered venue, with an awning saying CBGB and OMFUG.

    ‘The bathrooms were rank, but we didn’t care’: how the grimy-but-great CBGB changed rock for ever

    Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track box set
  • Willie Colon in concert at Hard Rock Live in Los Angeles, America - 25 Nov 2012Willie Colon
Willie Colon in concert at Hard Rock Live in Los Angeles, America - 25 Nov 2012

    Willie Colón obituary

  • Melania Trump promoting the documentary in New York in January.

    Source close to Rolling Stones disputes Melania producer’s claim Mick Jagger ‘gave his blessing’ to use song

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