Rolling Stone UK - April/May 2023

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LANA DEL REY: America's dark star embraces the light. Plus: Sam Claflin, Avelino, Maisie Peters, slowthai, Gorillaz, boygenius, Glume & more.

Telling it like it is

Caity Baser does not sugarcoat her words - neither in the lyrics to her songs nor in person. This sassy attitude is hitting all the right notes with her fans, as Rolling Stone UK discovers...

4 mins

Playing for keeps

After making her name in EastEnders, Tilly Keeper is once again stealing the show-in Netflix's You

4 mins

Chuck D

Rap's foundational firebrand on his new BBC docuseries, the new hip-hop acts he respects, and the future of AI in music

4 mins

Can Songwriting Be Saved?

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

9 mins

Generation Shill

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

10+ mins

Lana Del Rey: She Does It For The Girls

After a decade of feeling unexcited after the critical response to her debut album Born to Die, the greatest American songwriter of the 21st century is finally inspired about her career and life again. Rolling Stone UK meets her in LA to discuss the "overculture", romance and her new album, Did You know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

10+ mins

Enter Slowthai, the rock star

What do you do when you find out therapy is not for you? If you're this new dad, you return to your friends and to rock music - the genre Tyron Kaymone Frampton always wanted to make instead for curative release

10+ mins

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

6 mins

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

9 mins

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

8 mins

Glüme Harlow – A Star Is Born

After a painful upbringing working as a child actor from the age of six to provide for her family, Glüme Harlow is making music about reconnecting with that little girl and conquering Hollywood on her own terms

7 mins

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

10+ mins

BOYGENIUS ARE BACK IN TOWN

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

10+ mins

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

10+ mins

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