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Alexis Petridis

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

May 2025

  • Black Sabbath, from left: Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, c1970

    ‘I don’t want to die in a hotel room somewhere’: Black Sabbath on reconciling for their final gig – and how Ozzy is living through hell

  • Thrilling contrasts … Model/Actriz.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Model/Actriz: Pirouette review – ​sweat-spattered New Yorkers are the stuff of adoring cult fandom

April 2025

  • Kashus Culpepper holds a guitar, resting against a car

    Add to playlist
    Add to playlist: Kashus Culpepper’s ‘southern sounds’ and the week’s best new tracks

  • Lorde, press photo, 2025

    Ranked
    Girl, so inspiring! Lorde’s 20 best songs – ranked

  • Bold experiment … Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem.

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    Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman review – maximalist pop for an age of uncertainty

  • Personal reclamation … Torres and Julien Baker.

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    Julien Baker and Torres: Send a Prayer My Way review – an intimate, queer reclamation of country music

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

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

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

  • ‘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

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    Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk review – Roxy demos remade, remodelled as eerie duets

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

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    Annie and the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review – a gospel masterpiece to drag you out of despair

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