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Alexis Petridis

Alexis Petridis is the Guardian's head rock and pop critic

April 2025

  • ‘I have mp3s of anything I care about’ … Laura Snapes and Alexis Petridis try giving up/living with Spotify.

    ‘One minute it’s “would you like to listen to Galaxie 500?”, the next humanity’s enslaved’: can anyone escape Spotify?

  • The 2025 iteration of Pulp.

    Pulp: Spike Island review – Jarvis Cocker and co’s joyous second coming

  • Bassey in silver sequin gown, singing at the mic, looking fabulous

    Ranked
    She’s got the Midas touch: Shirley Bassey songs – ranked!

  • Mark Hoppus looking pensive in a red sweater

    ‘I thought I was going to die – and it was so freeing’: Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus on stardom, breakups and surviving cancer

  • Ed Sheeran: Azizam review – a cross-cultural Persian experiment … which sounds incredibly English

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong review – revamped alt-rockers take a newer, weirder road

March 2025

  • The first of 10 sold-out nights … Usher performs at the O2.

    Usher review – glitzy Vegas-style spectacle is completely preposterous and preposterously entertaining

  • Joan Baez playing guitar on the Beach in California, 1962.

    Ranked
    Raw, romantic and radical: Joan Baez’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

  • Pleasant … Lucy Dacus.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling review – Boygenius singer turns timidly tasteful

  • from left, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Peter Tork in the opening title sequence of The Monkees.

    ‘It was not a boyband!’ Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees

  • Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco: I Said I Loved You First review – besotted but bland

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk review – Roxy demos remade, remodelled as eerie duets

  • Ranked
    Everybody dance: Nile Rodgers’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked!

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Annie and the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review – a gospel masterpiece to drag you out of despair

  • ‘Everyone knew who he was’: James Hamilton, the ‘eccentric aristo’ who catalysed British club culture

  • King Charles’s Apple Music playlist: are they really his favourite songs?

  • Everybody Loves the Sunshine is just one point of perfection in Roy Ayers’ astonishing catalogue

    Alexis Petridis

  • ‘I ate acid for two months straight. It was the best time of my life’: Americana anarcho-punk Sunny War on booze, drugs and the KKK

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a fabulous return to her freaky first principles

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole review – stunning sax melodies to silence the cynics

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