Sharon Van Etten on making her latest album: ‘We were trying to conjure as many ghosts as we could’
The New Jersey native talks from her parents’ basement about Sinéad O’Connor, growing older and being an angsty teen
Joy Division
Alex Kapranos: ‘I saw a guy in a band being extremely predatory with underage girls. He was exploiting his position’
Franz Ferdinand are back with The Human Fear, perhaps their best album yet. The band’s frontman talks about two decades in the music business
Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order – An impressive tribute to the bands’ miraculous, affecting art
Podcast review: A sharp and expansive account of the making of music, the forging of friendships and the origin of portentous arbitrary decisions and serendipity
Peaky Blinders, never a great drama, returns without the electrifying Helen McCrory
TV review: The BBC show is still a triumph of style over plot but it hasn’t lost its swagger
Pat Nevin: I was the normal one, it was the rest of football that was weird
‘It’s okay to be an outsider. You can still have a football career without having to fit in’
Sean Moncrieff: Am I middle-aged? What is ‘middle-aged’ anyway?
Most people who are older don’t feel much different than they did when they were 25 or 40
‘The way many of these songs have been embraced by queer people is incredible’
It’s a Sin creator Russell T Davies and director Peter Hoar on the 1980s’ uncoolest anthems
Stuart Staples: ‘The wrench of leaving a small town was very defining’
Tindersticks singer on Nottingham, TV Personalities cover, Eimear McBride and new lp
The best 50 Irish music acts right now – in order
It’s a particularly thrilling time for Irish music – here’s our countdown of the finest
LA Witch: Play with Fire review – Punk with pyrotechnics
The whole of this album is more persuasive than the sum of its parts
Rainbow Milk: Bracing debut on racism, rent boys and religion
Book review: Paul Mendez’s semi-autobiographical novel is vibrant and original but sometimes a little uneven in its telling
Normal People: Putting Sally Rooney’s novel on the small screen
The project marries two of Ireland’s most talented artists – Rooney and director Lenny Abrahamson
Calm the house down with these sound for self-isolating
At times like these, we can turn to music to soothe our souls and restore equilibrium
Simon and Garfunkel for people who don’t like Simon and Garfunkel
Donald Clarke: Never cool, Bridge over Troubled Water spans tastes half a century on
Burial: Tunes 2011–2019 review - Mindblowing compilation by the producer of the century
This collection constitutes arguably the finest compilation of the last 10 years
Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’
New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring
Burt Bacharach and Macy Gray: This week’s best rock and pop gigs
The KnockanStockan festival and Mac DeMarco are among the other highlights
New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes review – Euphoric Manchester elegy
Ambitious and joyous work to remind us that New Order are best behind the synthesizer
Wild garlic: A herb good enough to bring Europe back together
There doesn’t seem to be a country in Europe that doesn’t have a wild garlic dish
Avicii: ‘I had to honour him’ – the friends who finished his final album
The collaborators behind finishing the EDM star’s album Tim on their sensitive task
The Cranberries: In the End review – Dolores O’Riordan’s remarkable swansong
The Cranberries final album is an unexpected late career high for the band
Is Mark Fisher this century’s most interesting British writer?
Rob Doyle on k-punk, an unmissable, 800-page collection of the late thinker’s work
Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley: Master of the three-minute punk anthem
Singer crafted some of the defining songs of the punk era
How Pete Shelley and the Buzzcocks invented indie
The Manchester band’s first release reshaped pop music. With no industry support, they pressed and sold the EP themselves, and kickstarted a revolution
Kate Bush to publish book of lyrics in December
‘How to Be Invisible’, a collection of lyrics from across the singer’s 40-year career, will have introduction by novelist David Mitchell
No more heroes: how music stopped meaning everything
Technology and hyperanxiety have diluted the dissident power of pop music
The best rock and pop this week: Queens of the Stone Age, Nelly, James Arthur and Mac Demarco
There’s some guitar-slinging, ear-busting bands ready to rock this week – and some gentle pop and banging dance
Matthew d’Ancona: The Tories need the shock therapy of absolute candour
Theresa May has lost control, but she’s correctly identified the fundamental challenge faced by the Conservatives
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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