While Lady Gaga has her Butcher’s-window dresses and Miley Cyrus her Gene Simmons-styled tongue (and potty mouth to go with it) it could be said that Katy Perry has the records, and the chart records to go with them. Her…
Before digging out the Ouija board and tipping the glasses upside down to try and solve the mystery of Coldplay’s ‘Ghost Stories’, let’s first look at where the other greats were by album #6. (Because, love them or hate them,…
While albums by Bowie and Beyoncé were two of the biggest surprises of 2013, Brent didn’t need to release a full-length collection to mark his return to the music scene last year. Instead it was one song, a re-recording of…
The third part of a trilogy can often be the trickiest to produce. It’s the lasting memory, the final impression of everything that has come before it and the full stop to a three-part story. Sultry Swedish songstress Lykke Li…
Join us for a brand new feature where we’ll be diving headfirst into the wider world of popular culture to uncover the very best in music-related cinema, art, literature and fashion. For Duran Duran the visuals have always been almost…
To celebrate their tenth birthday, Bellowhead – Radio 2 and Chris Evans’ favourite folk band – have hired a pretty monumental venue. Despite the fact that their music is arguably more suited to a local act in the corner of…
Since its humble beginnings in the US eight years ago, Record Store Day has become a music fan’s public holiday. While Lauren Laverne has christened Glastonbury “The Christmas of music”, RSD – particularly when considering the timing this year –…
The predicament Ella Eyre finds herself in is a strange but successful one. Despite the fact that she is yet to release her debut album (and won’t be for a good few months) dates on her first solo tour have…
Since forming The Little Flames a decade ago, Miles Kane has gone on to work on a number of projects with various degrees of success. When they split three years later (with an album recorded but unreleased) he formed The…
“Thank you for coming to our first gig as a top ten band,” Metronomy’s founder and frontman Joseph Mount tells a surprisingly lively Monday night crowd, continuing with how saying that felt (with a bang on the drum for each…