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Rolling Stone UK
"You can feel trapped when people perceive you as one thing"
On their career-best fourth album, Fontaines D.C. have shed their skin of old to deliver something more fantastical. Grian Chatten tells us the story behind their evolution
5 min |
October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
IN COMPLETE CONFIDENCE
Confidence Man's Janet Planet and Sugar Bones go bigger and wilder than ever before on 3AM (LA LA LA), an album made about partying, while partying, and perfect for partying to
8 min |
October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Collective consciousness
Ezra Collective return with Dance, No One's Watching, the roaring follow-up album to last year's boundary-moving Mercury Prize win
9 min |
October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
A BUNCH OF (PRI)MATES
From the story of 'Gary', the title track of Stockport band Blossoms' fifth album inspired by a fibreglass gorilla, to breaking new ground with their own record label and staying friends after 10 years, the tightknit band tell Rolling Stone UK all about it
6 min |
October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
RULE OF LAWTEY
Stepping up to play a comic-book icon in the big-budget sequel Joker: Folie à Deux could prove a life-changing moment for Industry star Harry Lawtey. But he's trying not to think about it...
8 min |
October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Suitors and ties
Bridgerton's newest beau Victor Alli on joining the hit Netflix adaptation as the third season begins
2 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Fran Healy
Travis’s lead singer on living in Los Angeles — the inspiration behind the band’s forthcoming album L.A. Times — streetfights with strangers and the unifying power of music
3 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
THE GREAT GADSBY
Comedy's enfant terrible Hannah Gadsby is relishing their anti-hero era
10 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
"I HAD TO GET OUT OF THIS DOOM HOLE"
After breaking every record imaginable with mega-hit 'Heat Waves', Glass Animals' Dave Bayley came back down to earth with a bump. Fourth album I Love You So F***ing Much sees him sift through the existential wreckage and focus on the fundamentals
5 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
SHABAKA'S NEW CALLING
“If I was still playing the sax, it’d be so easy,” the former Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming bandleader Shabaka Hutchings admits. On stunning debut album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, he turns to the flute and follows a spiritual compulsion to take a new path
5 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
GROWING PAINS AND HAPPY ENDINGS
OPENING HER HEART IN HER MUSIC HAS HELPED NELL MESCAL BUILD A DEDICATED FANBASE, BUT THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM FOR HOPE TOO, THE 21-YEAR-OLD REVEALS, AS SHE RELEASES HER DEBUT EP
5 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Star Rising
Currently starring in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Freya Allan broke through playing a princess in TV series The Witcher. But this 22-year-old has her feet firmly on the ground as she sets her sights on the future
8 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
The new Doctor Who is in!
How Ncuti Gatwa went from TV queer idol to making history on the iconic sci-fi show
5 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Toni Sancho's manifesto of hope
The London-viaTrinidad singer discusses the power of music in helping her move past depression and uplift others
3 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Making it up as they go along
Yeti funerals, big-name producers and a fiercely DIY ethic: we meet Mary in the Junkyard, the band making some of the best new rock music in the UK right now
4 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
FRESH HORIZONS,FRESH SOUNDS
With his PC Music label, A. G. Cook became one of the most influential figures in shaping the pop trends of the past decade. With the label on hiatus, and a new base in LA, he now presents Britpop, a mammoth triple album that interrogates ideas of Britishness and sees him tackle his past, present and future
9 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
BECKY HILL NOT MISSING A BEAT
This chart-topping, two-time BRIT Award-winner has fought hard to get to where she is. As she releases her deeply personal second album Believe Me Now?, she’s determined to make an impact on a global scale
9 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
TRU TO HIMSELF
Born and raised in Manchester, rapper Meekz talks to Rolling Stone UK about why his roots mean so much, his new mixtape TRU, and the prospect of removing his mask
5 min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Charli XCX THE ANATOMY OF A (3-D) FEMALE POP STAR
Female pop stars have been lying to us about how they feel, and Charli is here to tell the truth. The insecurity, competitiveness, ambition, pride and intelligence necessary to be a relevant celebrity are plainly on display in her new club album, brat — and it’s addictive listening
10+ min |
June/July 2024
Rolling Stone UK
The Continuing Education of Fra Fee
With roles in queer dramas, West End shows and Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon sequel, Fra Fee is an actor in his prime who wants to experience it all. Here, he talks to Rolling Stone UK about his childhood in musical theatre, the pressure of working in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and being guided by a zest for learning
10+ min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Aaron Taylor-Johnson – "I don't feel like I need a future drawn out for me"
From Kick-Ass to Kraven the Hunter via his next big role opposite Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy, Aaron Taylor Johnson is Britain's next big film star
10+ 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
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
WARPED REALITY
With 2022's spine-tingling debut Unlearning, Glasgow glam-pop collective Walt Disco marked themselves out as one of the most intriguing outfits on the UK's alternative scene. On brilliant follow-up The Warping, however, they're shapeshifting boldly into the band they were always meant to be...
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
Too much Too young
Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight's latest creation This Town takes viewers back to the Midlands of the 80s, telling the story of a group of disenfranchised young people for whom music is the only way out
10+ min |
April/May 2024
Rolling Stone UK
" MY PASSION IN LIFE IS CHILLING "
In the five years since the release of Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig has lived across the world with his family, shed a cynicism that had followed him around since his teens, and made new album Only God Was Above Us, the band's most interconnected statement yet - all while discovering a new laidback philosophy
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
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
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 |