Music News
How New Order forged their own path to become icons
After winning the Icon Award at the Rolling Stone UK Awards last week, here’s how New Order achieved that status.
Music Features
Meet Jacob Alon, the singer exploring fantasies of imagined love
The Scottish singer’s folk music – which leans heavily into fantasy and love – is allowing them to become a distinctive new voice
Music Features
How Nile Rodgers became a Global Icon
After winning the Global Icon Award at the Rolling Stone UK Awards last week, here’s how Nile Rodgers achieved that status.
Music
Music News
JADE on her initial fears of being placed in Little Mix: ‘I didn’t see myself as a conventional girl’s girl’
“But it turned out to be the best thing to ever happen to me for my confidence and understanding of sisterhood,” she told Rolling Stone UK
Music News
Volume 2 of ‘Island Book of Records’ digs deep into the legendary Island Records
Neil Storey’s new book tracks the label’s 1969-1970 era, featuring insights into 64 LPs from the time
Music News
4 albums you need to hear this week
With music from Dua Lipa, Lauren Mayberry, Rosé and Shabaka.
Music News
Matty Healy ‘embarrassed’ over Azealia Banks outburst: ‘let myself down’
“I feel gross even having said anything negative ever about anything — if it’s contributed to this culture,” Healy said
Music News
BTS’ V unveils new rendition of ‘White Christmas’ with Bing Crosby
The duet has been released alongside a festive animated music video
Music News
Sabrina Carpenter to headline London’s BST Hyde Park 2025
She will be joined by Clairo, Beabadoobee and more TBA at next summer’s show
Features
Halsey: no boundaries
After two years of battling life-changing illnesses, Ashley Frangipane emerged from the other side with an album she thought could be her last: ‘The Great Impersonator’. The 30-year-old singer tells the whole story of motherhood, separations, treatments, recovery, and meeting their new partner. What happens when an artist who made their name through oversharing online decides to stop talking? Halsey isn’t sure yet
Stray Kids: Staying Power
As they gave their first performance in the UK for five years, Rolling Stone UK caught up with Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, HAN, Felix, Seungmin and I.N, who together make up the record-breaking K-pop phenomenon Stray Kids. Here, they open up about the bonds they share between themselves and their devoted fans, as well as their common goal of super stardom
Confidence Man: ‘We can get away with being bad boys and girls now post-Brat!’
Janet Planet and Sugar Bones go bigger and wilder than ever before on ‘3AM (LA LA LA)’, an album made about partying, written while partying, and perfect for partying to
What Ezra Collective did next: London’s hottest jazz band on following their Mercury Prize win
Ezra Collective tell us about making their return with Dance, No One’s Watching, the roaring follow-up album to last year’s boundary-moving Mercury Prize win
Film
Timothée Chalamet thanks Bob Dylan for his support of ‘A Complete Unknown’
The actor said he was “floored” by the musician’s words of praise for the film
Mum sues Mattel over porn site accidentally listed on daughter’s ‘Wicked’ doll box
Instead of finding whimsical images pertaining to the Wicked movie, a little girl’s mother claims the minor was exposed to “hardcore” porn scenes after searching the website printed on a Mattel toy box
Rolling Stone UK Awards 2024: check out our beautiful backstage winners‘ portraits
See our 14 award winners in all their glory backstage at the Roundhouse
Tangled up in Bob: how Timothée Chalamet transformed into a young Bob Dylan for the biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’
The actor and his co-stars take us deep inside the year’s biggest biopic.
Monkeying around! Robbie Williams biopic ‘Better Man’ wins The Film Award at Rolling Stone UK Awards 2024
Jonno Davies, the man behind the CGI monkey, picked up the award at the Roundhouse in London tonight
Barry Keoghan ‘taking drum lessons’ to star in Beatles movie, Ringo Starr says
But a source familiar with the matter told Rolling Stone that no castings have been confirmed yet
Mk.gee live in London: a new kind of guitar hero
At the last of three sold-out shows in the capital, Mike Gordon – 2024’s hottest property – flirts with, and winks at, the idea of superstardom
Confidence Man ‘3AM (LA LA LA)’ review: the most fun you‘ll have all year
On their truly excellent third album, Janet Planet and Sugar Bones hurtle with abandon towards the dancefloor and onto festival main stages.
Dua Lipa live in London: pop hits lightly reimagined by orchestra
For her Royal Albert Hall debut, the singer subtly re-moulds her new album and older hits with the help of the Heritage Orchestra and Elton John
Blossoms ‘Gary’ review: Primate-based indie pop is a roaring success
Still beating their chests five albums in, there’s plenty of fun to be found in Blossoms’ latest…
Reviews
TV
Rolling Stone UK Awards 2024: check out our beautiful backstage winners‘ portraits
See our 14 award winners in all their glory backstage at the Roundhouse
Toby Jones calls for government pressure as he accepts The Television Award for ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ at the Rolling Stone UK Awards 2024
“I accept this award in honour of their struggle.”
Attack of the David Attenborough AI clones: ‘My identity is being stolen’
The U.K. broadcaster is “profoundly disturbed” that AI clones of his voice are proliferating online
Here’s the nominees for The Television Award at the Rolling Stone UK Awards 2024
2024 was a vintage year for British TV, and our nominees honour the best of the best
Watch the first trailer for BBC documentary series ‘Boybands Forever’
Featuring interviews with the likes of Robbie Williams and Simon Cowell, the series offers an uncompromising look at boyband mania.
‘Agatha All Along’ broke the spell of MCU misses
The Kathryn Hahn-led series worked as a proper TV show rather than a chopped-up movie, and harkened back to the comics giant’s most successful project for the small screen, WandaVision