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Laura Snapes

Laura Snapes is the Guardian's deputy music editor

September 2024

  • Morrissey performing in Mexico City in 2018.

    Morrissey claims release of new album ‘gagged’ over song about 2017 Manchester bombing

  • Sérgio Mendes at home in Los Angeles in 2021.

    Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes dies aged 83

  • Nelly Furtado performing at the Mighty Hoopla festival in London, 1 June 2024.

    The reader interview
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  • Nicholas Eden, Lily Fontaine, Douglas Frost and Lewis Whiting of English Teacher after winning the Mercury Music Prize.

    Leeds indie band English Teacher win Mercury prize

  • Supersonic festival review – an awesome windmill of noise and connection

  • Danielle Moore, lead singer with Crazy P, dies aged 52

August 2024

  • Consciousness-raising … Robert Smith of the Cure performing at the First Direct Arena, Leeds.

    The Cure to release two new songs on eco-vinyl

  • Live forever … Liam and Noel Gallagher.

    Oasis reunion confirmed for UK and Ireland tour in 2025

  • From left to right; Playboy Carti, Janet Jackson, Wendy Eisenberg.

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    All for you! Janet Jackson, Snõõper, Bob Dylan and more: the best music of autumn 2024

  • Gillian Anderson

    Weekend
    Actor Gillian Anderson on female desire, singer Chappell Roan’s slow and steady rise, and how to stop people-pleasing – podcast

  • Never really over? Can Katy Perry’s career recover from critical brickbats and PR faux pas?

  • It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom

  • Swift Notes
    Can we always be this close? What the hunger for intimacy with Taylor Swift says about fandom and girlhood

    Laura Snapes

  • The reader interview
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  • The reader interview
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July 2024

  • Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee performing at Kentish Town Forum in London, 25 July 2024.

    Waxahatchee review – warm, rousing anthems about embracing change

    Katie Crutchfield and her band bask in a rolling sound with smoky twangs and divine harmonies, creating affinity among her fans by leaning into the lessons of mid-30s life
  • Mercury rising … (L-R) Charli xcx, Corinne Bailey Rae and Beth Gibbons.

    Mercury prize 2024: Charli xcx, the Last Dinner Party and Beth Gibbons among nominees

    The British music industry’s award for outstanding albums features eight debuts, from the likes of Nia Archives and Barry Can’t Swim, as the prize fails to find a sponsor

    • Swift Notes
      ‘She could have lived in these galleries to create the music’: Taylor Swift in among the V&A permanent collection

    • Turn on, tune in … fathom humanity: Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker on her hippy film debut

    • Song of the summer 2024: writers pick their tracks of the season

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