Music Live Reviews
Kacey Musgraves live at Glastonbury: ‘It’s scary to be an American‘
Kacey Musgraves performs her divorce album to a golden hour crowd at Glastonbury.
Hannah Ewens
Music Live Reviews
Billie Eilish live at Glastonbury: youngest headline act shines on dark day
Billie Eilish is the youngest ever Glastonbury headliner but holds her own in front of a diverse audience.
Music Features
Rina Sawayama: holding herself tight
On her second album ’Hold the Girl’, the British-Japanese pop star attempts to make peace with a traumatic past. She talks about the cathartic process of learning to ‘re-parent’ herself, turning 30, and her relationship with her mother
Music Live Reviews
My Chemical Romance live at the Eden Project: a band at the top of their game
At their first UK show in a decade, the legendary emo band are better than ever with a camp, feminine, self-referential and accomplished performance
Music Features
30 and falling: the new female frontier of emotional intelligence in pop
Artists like Adele, Hayley Williams, Florence Welch and Self Esteem are articulating the personal devastation and emotional maturing that happens as you hit 30
Music Features
Hayley Williams on her new podcast, Everything is Emo
The Paramore frontwoman has created a new BBC Sounds podcast series about the rock subgenre. She tells us what emo means to her, why Twilight is camp and why teens are being pulled towards extreme emotional music again today.
TV Features
Anson Boon: Rotten to the Core
Rising star Anson Boon is playing John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten in Danny Boyle’s upcoming TV miniseries Pistol, based on the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols. He talks to Rolling Stone UK about his family, transforming his body and mind to become the singer, and life behind the scenes of the show
Music Features
Can Wet Leg live up to the hype?
The irony of their success is not
lost on Wet Leg. The viral band
from Isle of Wight stopped trying
to make it in music and then the
pandemic project they did for
themselves excited indie listeners
across the country. This is their
year to live up to the hype
Music News
Noel Gallagher slates Harry Styles saying he’s not a ‘real’ musician
The Oasis legend has accused the star of not writing any of his own music in a new tabloid interview
Music Features
Charli XCX: It’s Complicated
Our digital cover star’s new and biggest album yet is a self-fulfilling prophecy: write a personal body of work called Crash about heartbreak, sex, upset and self-destructive tendencies and live through it
Music Features
Suki Waterhouse on turning to music with debut album ‘I Can’t Let Go’
The London born model-actor-singer speaks with Rolling Stone UK ahead of her biggest year yet: the release of her debut album and a starring role in the fiercely anticipated TV adaptation of Daisy Jones & The Six
Music Features
How Bring Me The Horizon saved British rock
As Bring Me The Horizon cover Rolling Stone UK’s third issue, they tell the story of how they became the saviours of British rock
Music Features
Monsta X: K-Pop megastars live the American dream in Los Angeles
Gruelling schedules, elated fangirls, repetitive interviews and drinks on hold: Rolling Stone UK follows Monsta X on the promo trail for their second English language album The Dreaming to find out what it takes to be K-pop giants
Culture Features
Is It Time To Cease Fire In The UK Culture Wars?
Debating and dogpiling dissenters online and engaging with cyclical, clickbait mainstream media isn’t working. Progressive thinking appears to be losing. An alternative is needed
Music Features
Rolling Stone UK’s album underdogs of 2021
Here’s our definitive list of this year’s musical hidden gems
Music Features
Notes on Grief: How For Those I Love’s David Balfe Created 2021’s Best Album
After David Balfe lost his best friend to suicide, he wrote about its impact under the moniker For Those I Love. RS UK follows the Irish musician on his first tour to witness the cathartic impact his project has on people who are grieving or struggle with suicidal ideation
Film Features
“I was always the affable best friend to the white lead”: Reggie Yates on what inspired his first feature film, Pirates
The multi-hyphenate’s debut film centres around three best mates who love UK Garage.
Music News
Static Dress premiere new video for ‘sober exit(s)’ and announce new EP
“The song itself circles around the idea of your mind creating scenarios which do not actually exist,” says frontman Olli Appleyard
Culture Features
Meet the Anonymous Author Behind the Viral 00s Teen Story, Keisha The Sket
Jade LB’s cult story of Black British girlhood spread through London on phones and print-outs and now it’s being published by Penguin