Can Songwriting Be Saved?

Writing songs for top acts used to be a reliable source of income. Now, writers face trouble making ends meet

Generation Shill

This spring marks the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq - and the inauguration of a new era of American fraud

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HOW PUERTO RICAN WOMEN ARE REVOLUTIONISING REGGAETON

Mrs.Brightside

Christina Ricci calls herself a 'killjoy' - but between her family life and a starring role on TV's hottest show, she's also found a path to happiness

BOYGENIUS ARE BACK IN TOWN

What powers the world's most exciting supergroup? Friendship, sick books and sicker songs

THE FIGHT OF MARVIN GAYE'S LIFE

For a brief moment in 1979, the fates of a tortured soul singer and a fast-rising boxer were entwined. Inside a pivotal, largely unknown chapter of Gaye's story

Ebb and flow

It's 10 years since rapper Avelino first appeared on the scene, but as he tells Rolling Stone UK, the creation of his \"body of work\", debut album God Save The Streets, could not be rushed

How Sam Claflin got his groove on

The Hunger Games actor Sam Claflin on going full method to play fictional 70s rocker Billy Dunne in Amazon's adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's book, Daisy Jones & The Six

MAISIE PETERS MAKES MUSIC FOR THE QUIETLY UNHINGED

Ed Sheeran's 22-year-old protégé is writing music in the vein of her idol Taylor Swift. Maisie Peters describes her work as existing for dreamers with imaginary boyfriends, the people who live in a fantasy, the ones who don't quite get what they want. It's music for overly invested romantic girls like her

Rosalia is playing her own game

How pop's most unconventional superstar made a name for herself

Learning to love themself

New album Gloria finds Sam Smith testing new waters and exploring queer themes

[ Christine McVie, 1943-2022] Fleetwood Mac's Songbird

She was an oasis of sanity in pop’s most dysfunctional family and a universally beloved piano woman who wrote and sang decades of unquestionable classics

Kanye's dark, twisted reality

Former Yeezy team members claim the rapper turned designer used porn, bullying and "mind games" to control his staff and that Adidas execs "turned their moral compass off"

A Soul Stripped Bare – Joesef

Heartfelt lyrics, honey-soaked vocals and luxurious, spinetingling alt-pop are the order of the day for Joesef. Here, the stand-out Glaswegian singer-songwriter talks hurting, healing and his instinctive ability to smell bullshit from three towns over

Yungblud & Roger Daltrey

On staying fashionable in music, how ego ruined social media, and saying no fucking way’ to The Voice

Jennifer Coolidge

The White Lotus star on late-in-life fame and being like a security guard

From the HEART

AS THOMAS SABO release the second wave of their new brand, Saboteur, the man behind the eponymous label reveals what inspires their designs

RSİ ROAD TEST

This SUV from a sports and supercar marque is, says its maker, \"a sabre in a sector of sledgehammers\". Which, however poetic, undersells it by quite some margin

Genre TV Is Taking Over and Falling Short

From superhero shows to sci-fi and fantasy, today's hit series are built on IP. But do creators really know how to handle it?

To the beat of time

How Swiss watch brand Audemars Piguet played a crucial part in preserving 55 years of stand-out performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Chloe x Halle the Isley Brothers

Two of pop's great sibling acts on finding inspiration, and trying not to annoy each other

Rina Sawayama & Shania Twain

On loving their queer fans, the challenges of autobiographical songwriting, and what they learned from difficult childhoods

PinkPantheress & Kaytranada

Two of dance music's best young artists on avoiding sunlight, weird and having the confidence to work with your heroes collaborations,

Latto & Flo Milli

Two of 2022's hottest MCs worked hard to prove themselves in the music industry and now, they want to share the love and support

Trueno & Nicki Nicole

Argentina's favourite couple sit down in Buenos Aires and talk about everything that has connected them personally and artistically

Karen O & Michelle Zauner

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Japanese Breakfast frontwomen on the power of 'no', growing up Korean American, and the joys of smashing stuff

One in a MILLIONS

Russ Millions is commercial drill personified. As he releases new mixtape One of a Kind, the first artist from the genre to have a number-one hit contemplates his art and his ongoing desire to make fans want to move

10 Days in Hell: Our Russian Hostage Nightmare

Desperate to escape Ukraine, we were captured, questioned, and held in a bunker. Then our teenage son tried to save us

WELCOME TO THE LITTLE BROTHER HOUSE

We remember Teen Big Brother, Channel 4's controversial 00s 'experiment' as ITV2 brings the landmark original show back to our screens this spring

THE EARLY, OPEN ROAD

Pop star DYLAN has been co-signed by Ed Sheeran, Bastille and Yungblud. Now she's adored by an increasing number of teenage girls. We meet her before and after her biggest headline show yet at London's historic KOKO