Preview
Rockstar Energy presents Parklife 2024 – line-up deep dive
Unpacking the busiest festival poster of the season for your ultimate guide to Parklife 24
Latest
Review
Pierce The Veil at Alexandra Palace, 13/04/24
Seven years late, Pierce The Veil bridge the generation gap at a celebrational Ally Pally showcase
Review
John Smith at the Centre For Contemporary Arts, 12/04/24
The folk hero rides high in Glasgow following the release of The Living Kind
Review
Sky Ferreira at KOKO, 11/04/24
Synthpop’s next superstar proves well worth the wait in London
Showstoppers
Daniel Bedingfield on the story behind ‘Gotta Get Thru This’
The making of UK garage’s ultimate endurance anthem – from rollerblading over Tower Bridge to the GRAMMYs
Plus One
The 11 best Nicki Minaj songs
With Wireless and a World Tour both inbound this summer, it’s time to rank the best 11 tracks from The Queen Of Rap
A-Z
The A-Z of Greg Davies
Taskmaster, former Teacher and famously Tall stand-up Greg Davies has a major new Tour on the way, so we’ve written his complete A-Z. “T” was easy. The rest wasn’t.
Interviews
Interview
Stage Times: Microwave
Nathan Hardy walks us through his gig history – from vital lessons learnt in San Diego to life-changing hometown shows
Interview
Yellow Days: “real singing, real playing and real writing is becoming rarer these days”
The rise, fall and rise again of George von den Broek’s alter ego Yellow Days – now returned with new opus HOTEL HEAVEN
Interview
Tom Walker isn’t really Jonathan Pie – or James Blunt
Ahead of the West End run of Heroes And Villains, we get to know the man behind the exasperated, straight-talking politico
Plus One
Live reviews
Review
Johnny Marr at Barrowlands, 03/04/24
Johnny Marr leads Glasgow back through one of the most influential careers in music
Review
Teezo Touchdown at Electric Brixton, 29/03/2024
The rapper-singer-producer brought his blend of R&B, rock, rap and theatricality to London on the final show of his European tour
Review
Neck Deep at Alexandra Palace, 28/03/24
The Wrexham pop-punk heroes take on their biggest headline show to date
Review
Liam Gallagher and John Squire at O2 Forum Kentish Town, 25/03/24
Forget Oasis. Forget The Stone Roses. This is a no-frills, all-thrills 2024 reinvention
Preview
Meet the acts playing TGE Presents… at the Old Blue Last
London: don’t miss Lucy Tun, DellaXOZ and Fräulein in the next round of free shows from The Great Escape
Interview
Miso Extra: “Asian women aren’t encouraged to be overtly outgoing. But it’s okay to be extra”
The singer/rapper/producer talks “accidental” beginnings, how cinema shaped her imagination, and being unabashedly extra
Review
junodream at Village Underground, 27/02/24
The fast-rising indie outfit bring the bends to London’s Village Underground
Festivals
List
The best rising Irish stars playing The Great Escape
For St Patrick’s Day, we’ve picked out some of the most exciting Irish acts hitting Brighton this year
Guide
Everything you need to know for the 2024 UK music festival season
From ticket payment hacks to choosing what to wear. Welcome to your 2024 UK music festival bible
Gallery
Simple Things 2024 in photos
A closer look at the action as Bristol’s eclectic festival returned
Preview
Liquid Death Presents Download 2024 – line-up deep dive
Your ultimate guide to the names playing the biggest and best heavy music festival around
Feature
How Stevie Nicks became a Gen Z icon
As Stevie Nicks prepares to headline Hyde Park seven years after supporting Tom Petty on the same stage, we explore the legacy that keeps on giving
Looking Back
ABBA’s Waterloo turns 50
Celebrating the europop album that sent the Swedish quartet stratospheric, here’s how it sounds half a century later…
Feature
1994: The year pop punk took over the world
Remembering the moment when Green Day, The Offspring, Weezer and more changed music forever
Looking Back
Bullet For My Valentine talk 20 years of The Poison
The Welsh metalcore kings reflect on their debut album ahead of their 2025 co-headline tour with Trivium
Interview
Stage Times: Nickelback
In celebration of their new Hate To Love documentary, we sat down with the band to talk about their weirdest, wildest and most memorable live performances
WTF is…
WTF is… deathcore?
Know your Suffocation from your Winds Of Plague? Here’s your handy 101 on the gnarliest sub-genre around