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Dance music

September 2024

  • Roaring and rousing … Moby performing at Manchester Apollo.

    Moby review – full of teenage energy on first tour in over a decade

  • Flipping the script … Jamie xx.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Jamie xx: In Waves review – bright, blissful bangers for 3am on big speakers

  • the Watergate Club beside the river Spree at twilight.

    Club culture
    Berlin’s Watergate nightclub will close with New Year’s Eve last dance

  • Neneh Cherry photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review, August 2024.

    You ask the questions
    ‘My whole life’s interconnected’: Neneh Cherry on the relationships that inspire her, leaving home at 15, and the joy of a trashy box set

  • Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Jungle review – like a puzzle with a piece missing

  • One to watch
    One to watch: Friedberg

  • ‘This janitor’s daughter became a state deputy’: Leci Brandão, the Brazilian samba star turned communist lawmaker

  • Caribou review – small-scale sweaty return showcases potent pivot to pop

  • Fred Again: Ten Days review – pop house with unfulfilled pretensions

  • Leeds indie band English Teacher win Mercury prize

  • ‘We were exhausted – mentally unwell’: Empire of the Sun on the downside of success – and rising again

  • Danielle Moore, lead singer with Crazy P, dies aged 52

August 2024

  • Hauntingly elegiac … Lana Del Rey at Leeds festival.

    Leeds festival review – Lana Del Rey and Liam Gallagher are sublime after the storm

  • Hazy guitars … bar italia at Rally festival.

    Rally festival review – thrilling blend of cult DJs and indie darlings

  • Throwing shapes … Confidence Man performing on the Other stage at Glastonbury 2024.

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    ‘You should be partying when you write party music’: pop hedonists Confidence Man on their super-sweaty new album

  • From left to right; Playboy Carti, Janet Jackson, Wendy Eisenberg.

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    All for you! Janet Jackson, Snõõper, Bob Dylan and more: the best music of autumn 2024

  • Mura Masa: Curve 1 review – relentlessly above par

  • Australian critic's picks
    Critic’s pick: X Club, the hard and fast DJ duo raving around the world

  • ‘Identifying as underrated isn’t healthy’: Tinashe on staging the pop comeback of the year

  • Matt McBriar of Bicep treated for ‘large and pretty rare’ brain tumour

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