The heyday of classic rock has given us some of the wildest stories ever told. It was the era of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, and that cliche did not come into being without a considerable body of ...

Leonie Biney has released her debut EP It Could Have Been Nice via Platoon. The EP includes her recent singles ‘Comedown’, ‘Love You So’, and ‘I’m Making ...

While on paper, Rick James’ 1980 ‘Fire It Up’ tour looked set to be a landmark moment, for the ‘Super Freak’ singer and his support act, a pre-Purple Rain Prince, it proved deeply fractious. The run ...

Cruel World grew out of a house clearance. When Humberstone’s family sold the Grantham home she’d grown up in, she spent weeks sifting through ballet shoes, fairy-tale books and pieces of herself ...

The Beatles and The Rolling Stones aside, you’d be hard-pressed to find a British musician as indispensable to the Western cultural fabric as David Bowie. The quintessential restless creative, an ...

Music history has always been shaped by happenstance. Whether it was John Lennon and Paul McCartney crossing paths at a church fete, or Mick Jagger and Keith Richards reconnecting on a train platform, ...

Through five accounts from across Europe, including her own, Sophie Dibben looks at modern-day life drawing from the perspective of the models themselves. William Blake once said: “Art can never exist ...

Despite pushing rock music into increasingly experimental territory, Thom Yorke is, at his core, a traditional songwriter. Strip away the electronic textures and orchestral layers from his work with ...

Brandon Flowers has announced Thrasher, his third solo album and first in over a decade, due 21st August via Island Records. The record is a country and Americana album, recorded last July at Historic ...

Gia Ford has shared new single ‘I Guess My Time Has Come’ via Chrysalis Records, the Sheffield-born singer’s first release since ‘How Do I Reply?’ earlier this year. The track traces the arc of ...

Sugar Girl is thirteen minutes long and Little Simz spends most of them in disguise. The pitch-shifted, autotuned register she adopts across the first three tracks sounds closer to Doja Cat or Playboi ...

Prime Video’s thrilling, dark mystery Wilderness is set to be your newest TV addiction. We speak to creator Marnie Dickens and director So Yong Kim about the show and how they got Taylor Swift on ...