Rolling Stone UK
Choosing joy over sorrow
Lucy Rose discusses her upbeat fifth album, This Ain't The Way You Go Out, and the terrifying rare illness it was borne from
5 min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Success story
Vivian Oparah, BAFTA-nominated actress and star of Rye Lane and Dead Hot, on storytelling, music, and why she wants to play the Joker
3 min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Anitta's Funk Revolution
After a major health scare, the Brazilian star learnt to let go and got back to her roots
9 min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
big specia
Big Special's Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney are finally ready to unleash their state-of-the-nation debut album
8 min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
'It's like I'm dancing with death'
Colombia's corralejas bull fights area bloody free-for-all where only the humans die
10+ min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
25 faces of the future
Rachel Chinouriri reflects on her struggle to overcome stereotypes and establish herself as a Black indie artist, as well as the heartbreak that informs her forthcoming debut album
7 min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
barry can't swim
On the cusp of a breakout year, Joshua Mainnie talks trusting his instincts, how he finds true originality, and why dance music needs to take itself less seriously
5 min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Kristen Stewart
After more than two decades in the spotlight, Stewart knows who she is - and what she wants
10+ min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Why this might be Ariana Grande's boldest era yet
The pop star is gloriously unpredictable - and it feels like she wants to play in a historic league with stars like Madonna
4 min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Fletcher almost lost it all
Illness brought her rock-star lifestyle to a halt. Now, she's healing in more ways than one
5 min |
April/May 2024
BBC Music Magazine
Composing is like breathing. It's just something I do, like a hobby, really...or an addiction
The world's most performed classical composer, a small, black-suited figure with a mop of white hair and mutton-chop whiskers, stands on the huge Brucknerhaus stage, almost invisible among the sea of musicians.
7 min |
April 2024
BBC Music Magazine
Aix-en-Provence France
Rebecca Franks breathes in the spring air in the popular southern city, where the music making sparkles and the sun always shines
3 min |
April 2024
BBC Music Magazine
A cast of thousands
From its unlikely conception in a pub, The Really Big Chorus has become a cultural phenomenon, offering amateur singers the opportunity to take part in vast performances, writes Andrew Green
8 min |
April 2024
BBC Music Magazine
Larger than life
Before Milos Forman’s Amadeus came Peter Shaffer’s theatrical take on Mozart and Salieri, staged in 1979 at London’s National Theatre. lifts the curtain...
6 min |
April 2024
BBC Music Magazine
MUSIC MALICE & MURDER
Everything you've heard is true,' proclaimed the posters for Miloš Forman's Amadeus - a cinematic tale of genius and envy, based on Peter Shaffer's acclaimed stage play about Mozart and Salieri's bitter rivalry. Forty years on, Charlotte Smith looks back at a very special production
10+ min |
April 2024
BBC Music Magazine
A Marriner's tale
This month marks 100 years since the birth of Sir Neville Marriner, legendary founder and director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Michael White speaks to those who knew him best
8 min |
April 2024
BBC Music Magazine
Antonio Salieri
Forget the hate-filled murderer of Mozart, says Alexandra Wilson; the real Salieri was an opera composer of considerable standing
8 min |
April 2024
BBC Music Magazine
Tours de force
What secrets lurk behind the stages of the world’s great concert halls? To find out, Brian Wise takes backstage tours of five leading venues in London and New York
7 min |
April 2024
BBC Music Magazine
Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor
Jo Talbot celebrates the Mozart of the 19th century’ as she searches out the finest recordings of this masterful work for piano, violin and cello
7 min |
April 2024
Record Collector
"Debbie Harry Asked Me to Join Blondie!"
Calling themselves 'Punk Music' in 1970, Suicide channelled the danger, artistic revolutions and Vietnam rage of beleaguered New York City into coruscating electronic onslaughts that were later hailed future blueprints. For keyboard magus Martin Rev it was part of the creative journey that started in the 50s with doowop then jazz and continued in the wake of Alan Vega's 2016 passing with the idiosyncratic solo albums he began unleashing 44 years ago. "I'm still searching, and I'm still being surprised," he tells long-term UK press champion Kris Needs.
10+ min |
March 2024
Record Collector
IT WON'T BE LONG THE BEATLES IN 1964: THE FIRST 60 DAYS
As 1964 dawned, The Beatles were still virtually unknown in the United States, although I Want To Hold Your Hand was picking up massive radio airplay less than a week after its American release.
10+ min |
March 2024
Record Collector
THE Dwight STUFF
Tulsa, Oklahoma native Dwight Twilley, who died in October 2023, was one of the prime movers of power pop, up there with Badfinger, The Raspberries, Stories, Todd Rundgren, Shoes and Big Star. Combining Sun Studio sonics with Beatles melodics, Jim Morrison-ish good looks and a kinship with Tom Petty, he had everything going for him. He only had two big hits 1975's I'm On Fire and 1984's Girls - and yet this prolific and gifted singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, operating under his own name and the Dwight Twilley Band, released many superb albums. Here, his widow, Jan Rose Twilley, speaks with Bill Kopp about his life and music.
10 min |
March 2024
Record Collector
IT'S A LAD, LAD, LAD, LAD WORLD
Dismissed as purveyors of blokeish mediocrity, Shed Seven were one of the most critically derided bands of the Britpop era. Yet the York fourpiece have outlasted their peers: rousing new album A Matter Of Time marked their 30th anniversary with a No 1 chart placing, the first of their career. Singer Rick Witter tells John Earls why he's able to laugh off \"meat and potatoes\" insults.
7 min |
March 2024
Record Collector
THE ONE AND Jony
FILM ACTOR, THEATRE STAR, SINGER, SONGWRITER, AND LOVER OF BARBRA STREISAND AMONG MANY OTHER NOTABLE PARAMOURS, ANTHONY NEWLEY WAS A CHARMING MAN AND A PROUDLY UNCONVENTIONAL ARTIST. BUT WHY IS THIS EXTRAORDINARY TALENT SO FORGOTTEN? SPENCER LEIGH DELVES INTO HIS WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD
10+ min |
March 2024
Record Collector
THE JOY OF APEX
Even at the height of punk, when being different was paramount, X-Ray Spex stood out. Like The Mothers Of Invention a decade earlier, they railed against homogeneity and artificiality via a uniquely insurrectionary sax attack. Lois Wilson speaks to Lora Logic, Paul Dean and the late Poly Styrene's daughter Celeste about their incendiary individualism. Identity parade: Ian Dickson
10+ min |
March 2024
Record Collector
This month: The Vinyl Hunters
Jake and his grandad Dave Kapusta are affectionately known online as The Vinyl Hunters. Dave was a black cabbie who has been collecting records since the 60s, ranging from prog through to heavy metal.
6 min |
March 2024
Record Collector
10 OF THE BEST This month: Ed Banger Records
DJ Mehdi Lucky Boy (Ed Banger 6143676, LP, France, 2006) £20
4 min |
March 2024
Record Collector
THE ENGINE ROOM
The unsung heroes who helped forge modern music
4 min |
March 2024
Record Collector
UNDER THE RADAR
Artists, bands, and labels meriting more attention
4 min |
March 2024
Record Collector
1,200 Pages? What Was I Thinking?
Frontman of the much-missed Rush, child of Holocaust survivors, veteran of 40-plus years in progressive rock, self-confessed germophobe and details obsessive and arguably the Greatest Living Canadian there's a lot for Geddy Lee, 70, to talk about. Fortunately, he's been able to squeeze it all into his new autobiography, My Effin' Life, in which he explores the perils of fame, the pleasures of retirement, and an unexpected dalliance with Peruvian marching powder. Asked to name Rush's best album by Joel McIver, he warns, "Millions of fans are going to disagree with me on this..."
10+ min |