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Alexis Petridis

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

January 2025

  • Abel Tesfaye, AKA the Weeknd

    The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow review – a record that will floor you … and drive you up the wall

  • Marianne Faithfull pictured in 1994.

    Melancholy, morphine and the Baader-Meinhof group: Marianne Faithfull’s 10 best recordings

  • Willing to take risks ... Marianne Faithfull.

    Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

    Alexis Petridis
  • James Brown at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, 23 May 1985.

    Ranked
    Soul, sermonising and wrestling Satan: James Brown’s 20 best albums – ranked!

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory album review – going goth to confront our grim world

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Central Cee: Can’t Rush Greatness review – conflict and contradiction underpin justly confident rap debut

  • Tina Turner: Hot for You Baby review – she’s in fine voice, but this lost 1984 song is no classic

  • Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar also puts artistic freedom on trial

    Alexis Petridis

  • Ranked
    ‘In her own out-there world’: FKA twigs’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – noise stalwarts’ journey into hell is unexpectedly heavenly

  • Sam Moore was more than a Soul Man – he was one of the 20th century’s great live performers

    Alexis Petridis

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out review – stomps straight to the top of British punk’s table

  • Ranked
    Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares: Petula Clark’s 20 best songs – ranked!

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Ethel Cain: Perverts review – pink noise and punishment as cult star heads underground

  • Billie Eilish, Sex Pistols and Beethoven’s skull: music to listen out for in 2025

December 2024

  • Explosive … from left: Pataka Boys, Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou, Mk.gee.

    Best music of 2024
    Desi rap, deep jungle and truck-stop concrète: five-star albums you may have missed this year

    From Jordana’s sprightly soft rock to Pataka Boys’ collagist UK-Punjabi hip-hop, our writers pick their must-listen gems from 2024
  • Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown

    ‘It’s full of things that didn’t happen – but it feels right!’ Inside the making of Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown

    Starring an Oscar-tipped Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold’s biopic retells Dylan’s electric early career, but it resonates with today’s toxic fame and politics. The creative team explain their process – and what Dylan makes of it

    • New music for 2025
      ‘Wherever he sends us, we’re willing to go’: Annie and the Caldwells on God, gospel and a debut album 40 years in the making

    • Best music of 2024
      French flirting, flute fusion and love flowin’ free: the best old music we discovered this year

    • Best music of 2024
      The 50 best albums of 2024: No 1 – Charli xcx: Brat (and Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat)

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