Preview
Rockstar Energy presents Wireless 2024 –line-up deep dive
Your ultimate guide to the runners, riders and rappers taking over the London festival this July
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Plus One
The 11 best Janet Jackson songs
Why have a Top 10 when you can have one more? Here are our 11 favourite Janet Jackson songs, ranked.
Interview
Dea Matrona: “If we’re having the craic, then that’s good”
The Irish duo on their debut album, their busking roots, and keeping their music career fun
Interview
The Midnight: “As far as we’re concerned, nostalgia is limitless…”
Tyler Lyle talks the evolution of The Midnight ahead of their UK debut as headliners at Radar Festival
Festivals
Meet the artists playing Ticketmaster New Music showcases at The Great Escape 2024
From Picture Parlour to Lauren Mayberry, don’t miss these acts performing at our TGE showcases
Feature
What’s happening this month in theatre
Everything happening on the West End this month that you need to know about
Looking Back
The moment Riverdance arrived
Riverdance creator Bill Whelan talks Eurovision, Michael Flatley, and how a simple coffee shop pitch changed everything
Interviews
Showstoppers
Wet Wet Wet’s Graeme Clark on the story behind ‘Love Is All Around’
Three decades after taking the charts by storm, the Scottish bass player looks back on the cover version that changed his life
Interview
Stage Times: Editors
Ahead of shows in London and Sheffield, Tom Smith reminisces over 20 years of gigging highs and lows
Interview
My Greatest Hits: Deryck Whibley of Sum 41
The Sum 41 frontman picks his own career highlights, from playing with his heroes to throwing up on their feet
Plus One
Live reviews
Review
Porij at Electric Ballroom Camden, 24/04/23
Genre-experimenting four-piece turn Camden into a club to celebrate their debut album
Review
Everyone You Know at KOKO Camden, 22/04/23
The London duo close out their Ain’t Smiled In Ages tour with a Monday night rave in their home city
Review
Gabby Martin at The Lower Third, 17/04/24
The pop newcomer played a warm set in London and teased new projects
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
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
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
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
Looking Back
Play by Moby turns 25
As the biggest-selling electronica album of all time turns 25, we look back at Moby’s 1999 masterpiece, Play
List
The greatest songs about coffee
With ‘Espresso’ stirrin’ up the charts, here are some of the best tracks inspired by the java
Looking Back
Everything has chains: Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy at 30
We look back at how Pearl Jam regained control with their uncompromising third album
Showstoppers
Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey on the story behind ‘Hold Me Now’
The lead singer of the 80s new wave outfit talks the most important argument he ever had, and how it led to his most successful single
Interview
Corridor: “The whole concept of the album came from buying a leaf blower”
Bassist and vocalist Dominic Berthiaume on life in Montreal, new album Mimi and heading to The Great Escape festival
Interview
The K’s: “Everything’s just pulling in the right direction.“
Jamie Boyle from The Ks on why he’s glad they waited seven years to release their debut record