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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
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‘They make the laws to chain us well’: Folk music fights for its rights
As of March 2026, Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan has served notice to record label Celtic Music to reclaim the rights to his music. Here, music historian Colin Harper, along with artists The Mary Wallopers, Barbara Dickson, Allan Taylor and Martin Simpson, discuss the impact of Gaughan’s fight for other elderly artists, and the protest at the heart of folk music’s continued legacy
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Meet Birmingham punks Flesh Creep, ‘friendly people that make unfriendly music’
With new EP ‘Glimmer’ out now, the hardcore band discuss putting positivity in the world, band practices becoming therapy sessions, and starting a heavy band in the “home of metal”
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Overmono: ‘We’re absolute animals in the studio’
Recording on 1930s train announcement speakers. Breaking pedals on purpose. Cooking cymbals in the oven. The dance duo’s second album, ‘Pure Devotion’, sees the high-flying Welsh brothers go delightfully analogue
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Getdown Services: ‘The world isn’t in a good place, so let’s have a fucking laugh’
With their second album serving up more sharply observed lyrics and a unique line in glee-filled live performance, the West Country’s Josh Law and Ben Sadler are earning themselves a permanent place in music lovers’ hearts, and having a really good laugh at the same time…
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Dermot Kennedy is on top of the world
Rolling Stone UK goes backstage with Dermot Kennedy, Ireland’s triple- chart-topping, stadium-packing star.
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Inside the special edition of The Beatles’ ‘Rubber Soul’
Producer Giles Martin breaks down the new versions of the classic 1965 album, which draw on “de-mixing” technology and include a previously unheard John Lennon demo
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James Ford: ‘I’d be singing something while the nurses took my blood’
The acclaimed producer and songwriter tells Rolling Stone UK about how he faced mortality and recorded his stunning new album ‘Lost In Another World’ while undergoing treatment for acute myeloid Leukemia in a London hospital
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Songer: ‘I’m someone who writes down stuff and puts it out to the world’
Songer is not from London, remains resolutely independent, and fills his albums with confessional bars about mental health. It’s all working splendidly