Music Weekly
Summary: The Guardian's head rock and pop critic Alexis Petridis takes the helm for a new-look Music Weekly. Joined by music writer Rosie Swash and a roster of top Guardian and Observer critics, Alexis introduces an eclectic range of interviews and live tracks from new and established artists. Plus, don't miss Singles Club, our review of the best new releases. Available to download every Friday.
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Podcasts:
Recorded in the wee small hours of Sunday morning, we report on the ongoing Glastonbury messiness as it unfolds. Plus, Norman Cook drops in with advice for touring DJs
Alexis Petridis reviews the final day of Glastonbury 2013 action before packing up his tent. Kieran Yates and Caspar Llewellyn Smith are also on hand to share their highlights of the festival and what's still to come this summer.
Alexis Petridis and Kieran Yates descend on Glastonbury for their unique take on the festival – featuring reviews of Beady Eye, Arctic Monkeys and Portishead.
In the first of four specials, Alexis Petridis, Kieran Yates and Rebecca Nicholson preview the year's biggest music festival
Grant Hart from 1980's hardcore legends Hüsker Dü takes us through his career in five tracks, folky singer-songwriter Phosphorescent on his ten-year overnight success, and Alexis and Michael get excited about the fretless bass.
Bonobo ponders a surprise move to neo-hardcore, Stephen Pastels on the history of the Pastels in five tracks. Plus Toy, Lorde and ScHhoolboy Q in Singles Club
Patty Griffin takes a voyage round her father, Kieran takes a bite of the Big Apple with Skream and the UK dubstep scene. Plus Just a Band, Stay + and Cooly G
Behold the Beardytron 500 – music and machine in harmony. We've also got Parallel History of Pop in 1981, Kanye West, These New Puritans and Mayer Hawthorne in Singles club
Justice nominate their favourite Ed Bangers, to mark 10 years of the French dance label. Public Service Broadcasting tell Alexis how they make pop out of old propoganda, and MØ, Daphni and the Orwells hang out in Singles Club
Charlie Boyer & the Voyeurs play Name That Tune, and we get spiritual with Brooklyn hip-hoppers Flatbush Zombies
Bobby Gillespie on what he really thinks of hippies. Plus, floorbanging from Kode9 and Mariah Carey in Singles Club
The unlikely pairing of Mike 'The Streets' Skinner and the Music's Rob Harvey are back with a second album in under a year: they explain their union to us. Pete Paphides delves into another parallel year in music and there's reviews of new singles by Pet Shop Boys, Shola Ama and Savages.
We're joined in the studio by Katie Stelmanis from Austra, and Vermont folk singer Sam Amidon. And on Singles Club, we rate new tracks by Polica, Janelle Monáe and Erykah Badu, and Doldrums
We have fun in the sun at California's Coachella festival, and are joined in the studio by US folk rockers Houndmouth. Plus tracks from the xx, Disclosure and the Hold Steady in a special Record Store Day Singles club
Charlie Fink from Noah and the Whale joins us and Fall Out Boy come back to save rock'n'roll. Plus tracks from Phoenix, Duke Dumont and Carbon Silicon in Singles Club