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Indie

April 2025

  • ‘All of a sudden, they exploded’ … Prodan, centre, with his band Sumo.

    ‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

  • Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.

    ‘Have the courage to walk away’: Bon Iver on romance, retirement and his rapturous new record

  • The 2025 iteration of Pulp.

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

  • BILLY CORGAN

    Honest playlist
    ‘Goths don’t have sex – we just stare into the black sun’: Billy Corgan’s honest playlist

  • ‘This weird dream just keeps going!’ Wet Leg on overnight success, sexual epiphanies and facing fears

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

March 2025

  • Lucy Dacus photographed at the Foundling Museum in London by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review.

    ‘I would never be able to sing a song that a robot wrote’: Lucy Dacus on her new album’s themes of artistry and intimacy

  • ‘A master of strange lyrical koans’ … Dan Bejar AKA Destroyer.

    Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie review – darkness haunts a gorgeous ruined palace of a record

  • Pleasant … Lucy Dacus.

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

  • Barry Hyde at the Peacock Pub, Sunderland.

    ‘They’re still under there, they never got out’: the Futureheads’ Barry Hyde commemorates his mining heritage

  • ‘Saying you’re in a jangle-pop band is a red flag’: the Tubs talk speed, squalor and their glorious second album

  • A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I was an excruciatingly shy teenager. Then Courtney Love roared into my life

  • ‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans

  • Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions review – as ever, Kristin Hersh is astonishing

  • One to watch
    One to watch: Divorce

  • Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen review – a quirky move to the mainstream

  • The Tubs: Cotton Crown review – a blistering, joy-to-heartbreak masterpiece

  • PJ Harvey review – part folklore, part fever dream

  • ‘Together in creativity for peace!’ Sain, the indie label pushing Welsh music forward for 56 years

  • ‘I don’t want to retreat any more’: guitarist William Tyler on grief, alcoholism and his claustrophobic new album

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