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The Cure drop first single in 16 years

Frontman Robert Smith says the new single, "Alone," is "the track that unlocked the record"

Salon · Sep 26, 2024

Bob Dylan was washed up and irrelevant – then one electrifying tour saved his career

Bob Dylan was teetering on Insignificance when he finally returned to the road in 1974 with The Band, who were in the throes of their own turmoil at the time. That tour saved both their careers, writes Stevie Chick, and cemented the Tambourine Man’s place in music history

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2024

How Oasis changed the Manchester City brand

Liam and Noel Gallagher's support for Manchester City is essential to their story and identity as a band, it might just have helped save the club as well

FourFourTwo · Sep 14, 2024

Who are Stray Kids? The record-breaking Korean boy band closing BST Hyde Park

The eight-member group headlining the London festival series are poised for global domination

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2024

Alt-pop megastar Aurora wants to make a metal album: “My heart wouldn’t be complete without it”

The Norwegian singer/songwriter recently collaborated with Bring Me The Horizon on their Post Human: Nex Gen project

Metal Hammer · Jul 3, 2024

“The government is probably writing up a new law as we speak to ban Irish-language hip-hop for life.” Annoying all the right people, Kneecap have been called “the most controversial band since the Sex Pistols”, and they're only just getting started

With their acclaimed debut album and award-wining film, Kneecap are going global in 2024, not bad for a group who rap in what some claim to be a 'dead' language

Louder · Jun 19, 2024

Was 2004 the worst Glastonbury ever? If you were an Oasis fan, yes

Twenty years ago, the Manchester band headlined Worthy Farm for the second and last time. Mark Beaumont looks back at the ill-fated show, which has gone down in history as one of their worst, and argues that it marked the beginning of the end for Liam and Noel Gallagher’s Britpop…

The Independent UK · May 27, 2024

"David was in great danger physically and could have gotten electrocuted or killed": The making of Bowie's Diamond Dogs and the tour that failed

Diamond Dogs marked the point at which David Bowie began to shed his glam-rock skin. He then embarked on one of rock's most expensive – and dangerous – tours

Louder · May 24, 2024

“He gave me a bunch of pills... I could barely move my arm, so I could only play high up on the neck, and the first thing I did was that riff. I don't remember when I sang 'sex on fire'": The story of Kings of Leon's global smash

"One of the sound mixers walked in and said, ‘Sex on Fire', huh? And it just became a running joke..."

MusicRadar · May 11, 2024

“He expressed being upset by my horrible remix, which made me even more proud of it!” Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore once mixed a quote from Oasis' Noel Gallagher into a Blur song purely to annoy bassist Alex James, a petty gesture we can all respect

Blur + Oasis x Sonic Youth = one hell of a racket if Thurston Moore's remix of Essex Dogs is anything to go by

Louder · May 8, 2024