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It's funny to think now that, back in March, the members of English Teacher were fretting over what sort of reaction their debut record would get. It has turned out [...]

Colin Batsa refuses to let the size of a company dictate its success. Less than a year ago, alongside his business partners Victor Omos and Charley Snook (who initially joined [...]

Kevin Ayers All This Crazy Gift Of Time--The Recordings 1969-1973 **** Esoteric QECLEC 102888 (9CD/BD) The early solo career of one of rock music's great iconoclasts finally has the comprehensive [...]

(https://thewrap.com/tag/here/) 'Here' is here. And Robert Zemeckis' latest technologically innovative drama stars his 'Forrest Gump' team of Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, this time embodying a couple living in a [...]

UPFRONT / THE SOURCE The 4 Corners and Centre of K.O.G’s Universe Kweku of Ghana talks us through the albums from childhood to present day that have inspired his music [...]

Byline: Bethy Squires Chappell Roan prepped for her Best New Artist win at the (https://www.vulture.com/article/mtv-vmas-2024-winners-who-won-every-category.html) 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. She pulled her journal out from her chain mail to [...]

Byline: Justin Curto One of the closest chart races in recent memory ended with Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet (https://www.vulture.com/article/sabrina-carpenter-travis-scott-charts.html) barely eking out the No. 1 spot over Travis Scott's [...]

Rebel With A Cause: Roots, Records and Revolutions Darcus Beese **** Nine Eight Books, 22 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781788706094, 262 pages Excellent memoir from Island supreme In the music industry, [...]

Cast a glance at the British music industry of 2023, and it won't take long to find Cre8ing Vision's fingerprints. The social enterprise, established in 2010 by co-directors Kwame Kwaten, [...]

Syd Barrett and Nick Drake recorded their last albums in, respectively, 1970 and 1972, Soon, they were firmly established as the archetypal lost boys, their bodies of work slender. And [...]

The past 12 months may go down in history as a period of tumult and turmoil, but on the positive side, rock'n'roll is very much alive and well - as [...]

MTV announced four social categories and their nominees for its annual Video Music Awards today. The categories are “Song of Summer” presented by Hilton, “Best Group,” “VMAs Most Iconic Performance,” [...]

IN THIS ISSUE Yearning for Redemption Colin Grant Bob Marley: One Love a film directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green “They were nobodies,” recalled the record producer Chris Blackwell of the [...]

BY DAN RYS ILLUSTRATED BY THE SPORTING PRESS Clockwise from left, some of Island’s current artist inhabitants: Brandon Flowers of The Killers, Roan, Carpenter, Shawn Mendes, Bon Jovi, The Last [...]

BY DAN RYS ILLUSTRATION BY MARA OCEJO Wallen, Boone, Carpenter, Swift, Beyoncé and Shaboozey. HALFWAY THROUGH 2024, it’s once again Taylor Swift’s world and we’re all just living in it. [...]

REGULARS Ian Peel’s A to Z of POP THIS A TO Z WAS ORIGINALLY ENTITLED R IS FOR REJECTION LETTERS BUT I DECIDED TO TAKE A MORE OPTIMISTIC APPROACH AND [...]

Mike Pinder, died 24 Apri', age 82 The keyboardist was a founding member of The Moody Blues and a pioneer of the Mellotron. Born in Birmingham, he formed the group [...]

BY LYNDSEY HAVENS PHOTOGRAPHED BY KATHRYN BOYD BROLIN Murph photographed May 13 in Malibu, Calif. AS COUNTRY MUSIC softly plays from a portable speaker near the pool of a private [...]

'Yow!... all right, all right...' It's a timeless performance: Paul Rodgers with Free, playing All Right Now at the Isle of Wight Festival in the summer of 1970. As the [...]

It's still an unshakable image: Sparks on Top Of The Pops in the summer of 1974, performing This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us, their first hit. [...]

Byline: Ethan Hein We put this 'finely engineered product of the pop machine' under the musical microscope There's an emerging consensus that Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' is going to be 2024's [...]

COMPILED BY ANDREW KOCH Famous Ellis Island arrivals include composer Irving Berlin, psychologists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and actor Charlie Chaplin. (NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY) BY THE NUMBERS 1892–1954: [...]

by Celeste Cantor-Stephens This round-up begins with familiar sounds in fresh form, via reinterpretations of some of Bob Marley & The Wailers’ most popular songs. True to its name, Africa [...]

John Cale Reissues ESOTERIC/PROPER Former Velvets man's first three solo ventures, with mixed results. During the mid-70s, post-Velvet Underground, John Cale occupied a strange middle ground somewhere between the beautiful [...]

BY ELIAS LEIGHT ILLUSTRATION BY GLENN HARVEY AN ADVANTAGE OF being an aspiring artist in 2023, rather than 1983 or even 2003, is having near-instant access to millions of pre-made [...]

By Laura KellyBig Issue Culture Editor Heavily tipped to be one of the bands of 2024, Leeds alt-rockers English Teacher have been feted across the music press and BBC 6 [...]

RUSS SLATER JOHNSON In 1976, Max Romeo released War Ina Babylon with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry as producer and The Upsetters as his backing band. It has since gone on to [...]

Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue it's Sally Oldf ield. The Irish-born singer-songwriter has enjoyed a lengthy career both [...]