Turin Brakes - Interview - Stage Times
From Brixton and V Festival to empty boats and a psych ward – Turin Brakes remember the best and worst of their gig history
The Charlatans - Interview - Stage Times
From The Haçienda to Knebworth, Mark Collins remembers the best, worst, smallest and biggest times The Charlatans took to the stage.
Flower Power: Emilíana Torrini Interviewed | Features | Clash Magazine
When singer songwriter Emilíana Torrini’s close friend’s mother passed away in 2019, the process was also the source of a shocking series of revelations.
Art Garfunkel tells us about reconciling with Paul Simon: "I burst into tears – and then there were hugs"
Art Garfunkel has opened up to NME about ending “years of detachment” from Paul Simon, recalled “the high point of [his] career” as part of the iconic duo, and discussed starting a new chapter with his recent collaborative album.
BBC Sound Of 2025 stars Good Neighbours: "We want to be 'that' festival band"
Good Neighbours have spoken to NME about the making of their viral TikTok hit ‘Home’ and their breakthrough year.
Pixies: “We’re The Grateful Dead of alternative rock”
It’s hard to find any fresh superlatives to bestow upon alt-rock icons, Pixies. Their influence is the stuff of legend, and without them, there’s a case to say Nirvana, Radiohead and countless others might not have taken their craft into such weird and wild directions.
Interview: Everything Everything on the importance of UK grassroots venues: "They are such a vital training ground"
Everything Everything bassist Jeremy Pritchard has spoken to NME about his fears for the future of grassroots music venues in the UK, saying that “they are such a vital training ground” for new talent.
Lemon Twigs at Electric Brixton review | Power-pop magic for sold-out crowd whynow
The sun dappled West Coast harmonies of the D’A’ddario brothers is one of modern music’s most beguiling gifts. Not only is it a gift that keeps on giving, but it keeps on surprising too.
Having explored lush, soft-rock terrain on 2022’s Everything Harmony, this year’s equally brilliant A Dream Is All I Know has found The Lemon Twigs exchanging gentle AOR strains for an ebullient, power-pop drive. Importantly, it’s seen them lose not one iota of their allure – their ascent remains as steep as...
‘Tom Petty heard it and said: “Wow!” Jet on how they made Are You Gonna Be My Girl
We weren’t signed when I wrote the track. Nobody knew who we were. We were playing pubs around Melbourne and no one was coming. The Strokes and that whole scene hadn’t hit yet and people weren’t interested.
In Conversation: Lucius | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
For two decades, gifted vocalists and songwriters Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig have worked side-by-side. While the 60s-soaked, indie-pop shimmer of their band Lucius has remained their primary interest, it hasn’t been their sole focus.
Journey’s Jonathan Cain on the story of 'Don’t Stop Believin’
Maybe it’s the redemptive power of our multimedia world; an ability to exhume the forgotten and exalt the under-celebrated. You never quite know wh...
Interview: Yellow Days
When George von den Broek, better known as musical wunderkind Yellow Days, learned that Tom Waits was in attendance at his show in San Francisco...
Liam Gallagher and John Squire at O2 Forum Kentish Town, 25/03/24
A number one record. A tour that sold out in nanoseconds. The early days of the historic union of two of Manchester’s most eminent musical sons has already scaled the heights. You mi...
Stage Times: Mother Mother
There is perhaps no better example of TikTok’s ability to change an artist’s fortune than the effect it’s had on indie quintet Mother Mothe...
Liam Gallagher and John Squire on their psychedelic resurrection: ‘No kinky saucepot shenanigans!’
When Liam Gallagher first heard the songs John Squire had written for their new collaborative album, he had two thoughts: that they were “banging”, and that he instinctively knew how to sing them. After all, he’s been singing Squire’s songs since his early teens.
Stage Times: Cast
John Power of Cast looks back on his most memorable gigs – from making history with Oasis at Knebworth to dodging apples with U2 in Leeds
The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons review | The Hives make an almighty return
It’s safe to say that guitar music of The Hives’ full-throttle brand has been notable by its scarcity. Certainly, more so than when the band dropped Les Hives in 2011. If it’s true that absence makes the heart grow fonder, then somehow the return of the Swedish rock quintet feels...
End Of The Day | Courtney Barnett turns her attention to ambient mood-setting
If you’re looking for Courtney Barnett’s trademark sound (think: sparkling wit wed to the sort of slacker jangle that gets the heart pounding), then you might be disappointed by End Of The Day. This is very much not that record. In fact, this
Stage Times: Metric
It’s very ‘Metric’ for things to be so absurd,” announces Metric’s singer and multi-instrumentalist Emily Haines with a smile. “We went from being up to our ears in snow for three years, listening to all these French records – Air, Sébastien Tellier, and so on – to finishing the album in Paris at Motorbass Studios with Jimmy [Shaw – guitarist] playing Frank Zappa’s Les Paul!”
Kevin Rowland: “In Dexys, I’m the leader. If I’m not happy… we ain’t doing it.”
Dexys’ Kevin Rowland is in no mood to entertain untruths. He doesn’t so much gently pour cold water but upend a bucket of it when I raise an anecdote that Blur’s Alex James has been circulating about him (“Utter rubbish. I don’t know what he’s on about,” he scoffs). You get the sense that his fire remains beautifully intact.
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