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From the rubble to the ritz: The story behind Arctic Monkeys’ earth-quaking debut album

IN FOCUS: Twenty years since the Sheffield band released ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, it remains the bedrock of contemporary British guitar music. Mark Beaumont speaks to producers Alan Smyth and Jim Abbiss about the making of a cultural H-bomb

The Independent UK

“He phoned me up at seven in the morning and played about ten seconds of the EP over the phone. That was the moment”: Twenty-five years ago, five rowdy New Yorkers released a three-song EP that changed the course of rock’n’roll

The Manhattan quintet whose emergence in 2001 opened the floodgates for a whole new generation of guitar bands

Louder

New music for 2026: The top 10 bands and solo artists you need to hear

2026 CULTURE GUIDE: Riot grrrl rock is back, the Irish folk revival reigns supreme, and Gen Z’s answer to The Strokes has arrived. Our music editor Roisin O’Connor shares her expert tips for a 2026 of sonic joy

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2026 is set to be the Year of Geese

COMMENT: The Brooklyn indie-rockers have been dubbed ‘Gen Z’s first great rock band’ following their incessantly raved-about fourth album ‘Getting Killed’. Louis Chilton explains what all the honking is about

The Independent UK

“I turned into a Strat player. I never thought I would”: Danielle Haim on her guitarist-for-hire days with Julian Casablancas, I Quit energy and Haim’s historic Grammy nomination

From their first gig at a Jewish deli to selling out arenas, Haim have been on quite a journey since their 2013 debut album – and made history as the first all-female band ever to be nominated in the Grammys’ Best Rock Album category

Guitar World

5 Seconds of Summer - Everyone's a Star! album review

3/5 The Aussie band reinvent themselves as The Prodigy meet The Strokes... and it works

Evening Standard

“I’m sure Carlos and I got in a full-blown fight that day”: How Interpol fought for success and lit a fire in indie rock with their best single

Interpol’s blistering breakthrough soon became a pulse-pounding indie staple

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“We just wanted someone to pay attention. We didn’t care why”: How Interpol sparked a fire in 2000s indie with the thrilling mania of Obstacle 1

Interpol’s blistering breakthrough soon became a pulse-pounding indie staple

MusicRadar

Six reasons to get excited about music in 2026 from the Coachella line-up

Starring a new mash-up collaboration from Nine Inch Nails, a mysterious Radiohead project, the return of Dave Grohl’s favourite band and more…

Louder

Coachella 2026: Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, Karol G set to headline

Other acts for North America’s largest music festival include the Strokes, Young Thug, Addison Rae, the xx, Nine Inch Noize and FKA twigs

The Guardian - US

“Julian pushes the boundaries on the guitar. He’s got a specific sound and message he’s going for”: Meet the virtuoso axe-slingers from the Voidz – Strokes singer Julian Casablancas’ inventive other band

Amir Yaghmai and Jeramy “Beardo” Gritter on how Julian Casablancas’ high standards and vision for the Voidz is letting them stretch out and express themselves – hand fatigue be damned

Guitar World

The Strokes stayed together 'for financial reasons'

The Strokes stayed together "for financial reasons", which singer Julian Casablancas admitted meant they lost "creativity".

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Travelers Championship 2025 Expert Picks, Odds And All You Need To Know

The final Signature Event of 2025 gets underway at TPC River Highlands, where World No.1 Scottie Scheffler returns to defend his Travelers Championship title

Golf Monthly

“He was a master of the cryptic instruction. He’d say, ‘This song, can you loosen its tie a little?’”: How The Strokes created the most influential rock song of the early 21st Century

It inspired The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and countless other bands

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Evening Standard

The Book of Goldikus Vol 1 review: a treasure trove for the British raver

If you look back over the decades, it is easy to pick out seminal record labels that set the tone for the music they championed. From the infamous 1960s Motown RB and Soul label, to punk rock and new waves Stiff in the 70s; followed by London’s own Rough Trade…

The Guardian - US

The 2010s are glorified by gen Z. But the ‘indie music’ of that era was unoriginal

So much of early 2000s ‘indie’ music was nothing but a backward-looking rerun of movements past

MusicRadar

“It’s kind of scary to go through these…like, ‘Oh I’m going to take that back!’”: Albert Hammond Jr of the Strokes is (reluctantly) selling a heap of his stage-played gear on Reverb, including a Guild acoustic from the Yours To Keep tour

Too bad his Bigsby-equipped SG has already been sold but that Mastery-equipped Jazzmaster looks pretty sweet, as does his Custom Shop Strat – and his father's Jupiter-6 synth is up for grabs too

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Julian Casablancas hates The Strokes hit Last Nite

The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has revealed that the band's hit 'Last Nite' is "pretty dead to me" as he has grown tired of performing it.

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Julian Casablancas praises Charli XCX for remaining 'humble' amid Brat's 'huge social moment'

Julian Casablancas says Charli XCX "handles" her new level of "fame" really well and doesn't take herself "too seriously".

The Guardian - UK

‘Tom Petty heard it and said: “Wow!”’ Jet on how they made Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Written in a garden shed, the song that soundtracked Apple’s iPod ad has survived comparisons with Lust for Life – and a shonky performance with nonsense lyrics

The Independent UK

What to Stream: Keith Urban, 'The Golden Bachelorette,' Zack Snyder series and 'WandaVision' spinoff

Keith Urban's 12th studio album and Kathryn Hahn starring in the “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha All Along” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

The Guardian - UK

One to watch: the Belair Lip Bombs

The Australian quartet’s punchy, hook-packed songs combine immediacy and complexity in a way that recalls the Strokes

Guitar World

“When I look back, The Strokes were like this tentpole. They led me to learn how to accompany myself and made me want to start my own band”: Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield found her country voice via indie and riot grrrl

The Alabama-born songwriter recalls her formative punk years, graduating to a Thinline Tele, and embracing banjo and dobro on latest album Tigers Blood

The Guardian - UK

Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us review – their most adventurous set yet

Indian raga, hip-hop and scuzzy, Strokes-like rock replace the west African guitar sounds of old on Ezra Koenig and co’s dazzling fifth album

Louder

"My dad said, 'Turn off the demo, just play me it on acoustic guitar and sing it'": Inhaler's Eli Hewson on the advice he got from his dad, Bono

The Inhaler frontman also recalls the famous faces who visited the family home when he was a kid

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