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Venbee takes us through her new EP ‘Back to the Drawing Board’, track by track
The rising dance star discusses how label trouble made her start again on a new release that rebuilds her foundations
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La Roux’s glorious return: ‘It’s the most joyous and free I’ve ever felt on a record’
Although the singer’s new album ‘Old Flames’ explores the painful breakdown of a relationship, she still finds joy in the process of turning it into art
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Ezra Collective are here because of hope
After a decade of growing up together, Ezra Collective are entering their most ambitious chapter yet. ‘Here Because of Hope’ is an album about pain, faith and the radical decision to believe in joy anyway
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Meet Liana Flores, the English-Brazilian singer blending bossa nova and pastoral folk
The Norfolk-raised songwriter discusses turning her back on TikTok virality and crafting a new path
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‘Pubstar’: Inside the new show discovering Britain’s best karaoke talents
Pubstar, which feels like the spiritual sister of Noughties talent shows and Bravo TV, is finding a captive audience on YouTube.
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NCT 127 discuss celebrating ten years and share exclusive imagery ahead of new album ‘BLINGY’
TAEYONG: "I think it’s actually those little moments we share together that end up sticking with me the most"
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Notting Hill Carnival at 60: Six decades of protest and power
“Notting Hill Carnival is joyous – but also a resistance,” says Symone Williams, daughter of one of the founders of one of London’s most vital cultural events. We celebrate 60 years of the event that gives the city its heart and colour every summer, and meet those ensuring it will continue for many years to come
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Meet People I’ve Met, the New York band with their eyes on the big time
Moses Martin, Orlando Wiltshire and Andrew Suster are the high school friends with one eye on the big time
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Ten Years Later, Frank Ocean Still Knows Something We Don’t
A decade after Blonde, the masterpiece remains rooted in a vanished world while gathering new meaning from everyone who has lived alongside it
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Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke: ‘I was starting to believe that love and romance wasn’t real’
The band’s bracingly honest seventh album, Anatomy of a Brief Romance, sees the frontman chronicle both the birth and death of a whirlwind relationship, warts and all. Of making the record, he says: “I’m wondering if I’ve made myself undateable”
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Meet Henry Coke, the fascinating new songwriter reckoning with his faith
The London-based musician’s stunning debut album, ‘Let It Set Us Alight’, sees him reflect on his upbringing in the church, and holding onto faith outside of it
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Why Blackness is inherently punk
In a new extract from We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music, writer and Big Joanie musician Stephanie Phillips details the long history between Black people and punk music.
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Westside Cowboy Want You to Feel Like a Kid Again. And Ditch Your Phone
The U.K. rock band, who have toured with Geese, tell us about their community-based approach to live music and their excellent debut album
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Antony Szmierek is flying high
As Antony Szmierek gears up to release his distinctly avian second album, the Stockport spoken-word artist takes RS UK for a spot of bird watching...
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Why Andy Burnham needs to offer the music industry protections against the threat of AI
In an exclusive op-ed for Rolling Stone UK, Baroness Keeley explains why Andy Burnham needs to protect the music industry against the threat of AI
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Opus Kink take us through ‘The Sweet Goodbye’ track by track
The Brighton band tell us how "teen dreams" and "easy listening for anxious hypochondriacs" informed their latest record.
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Meet Muireann Bradley, the Donegal singer giving folk and blues a modern touch
With a new EP adding original material to her canon of cover versions, Bradley is a torchbearer for the future of blues and folk
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KATSEYE discuss working with Ed Sheeran, new documentary and EP: ‘We sound more mature’
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Wasia Project’s William Gao and Olivia Hardy on chaos, community and creativity
“We feel assured in the community we’ve built for ourselves,” says Gao, one half of the sibling duo who are making cinematic alt-pop
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On the Road: breaking sound barriers as a female engineer
Sound engineer Beth Denton discusses weaving behind-the-scenes magic to make live music sound as good as it can, and making it as a female technician in a male-dominated field