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Ones to watch

As 2022 comes to an end, Rolling Stone UK looks at the acts likely to worm their way into your headphones next year.

Time to put our house in order

Housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa on why disrepair and poor living conditions in the UK's rental and social housing sectors is an issue that can no longer be ignored

TOP GIRL

Known predominantly for her Mercury Prize-winning and commercially successful music, Little Simz is a force of nature. In a world of content and noise, the semi-mysterious Simbiatu Ajikawo lets her talent speak for her. In this interview, our TV Award-winner talks about how she came to act in British cultural export Top Boy and her experience filming the show

The Podcast Hollywood's Queen of Golden Age

Chasing silver-screen ghosts and Los Angeles' forgotten secrets with Karina Longworth, the brilliant mind behind You Must Remember This BY ALEX MORRIS

THE YEAR OF 2022

Everyone who lived through it will remember the year 2020 for the rest of their lives, I should imagine.

TO LOVE AND TO LOSE

THROUGH THE BEST AND WORST DAYS OF HIS LIFE, RORY RODRIGUEZ HAS CRAFTED SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SONGS OF DAYSEEKER'S CAREER SO FAR. THIS IS HOW HE MANAGED IT...

BREAKING THROUGH

EIGHT BANDS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH

HELL ABOVE

FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING TIMES, FIT FOR A KING HAVE CREATED AN ALBUM THAT AS HEART-WRENCHING AS IT IS VITAL. HERE, RYAN KIRBY TALKS US THROUGH HOW HE MADE SENSE OF IT ALL...

PERFECT TEN

10 NEW RELEASES YOU NEED TO HEAR

TREY MILLER

CHERIE AMOUR | TREY WALKS US THROUGH THE TO-DO LIST.

LIGHTS ON

IT'S BEEN A LITTLE WAIT, BUT ONE OK ROCK ARE WELL AND TRULY BACK WITH 'LUXURY DISEASE'. IN THIS BRAND NEW, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, TAKA MORIUCHI WALKS US THROUGH THE JOURNEY HE AND HIS BAND TOOK TO WEATHER THE PANDEMIC, CREATE ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS OF THEIR CAREER, AND TAKE ON AMERICA ONCE AGAIN. THIS IS THE STORY OF AN ERA.

GET BACK

RETURNING TO THE ROOTS OF WHY THEY LOVE ALL OF THIS SO MUCH, THIS IS HOW TURNOVER SET ABOUT CRAFTING THEIR LATEST COLLECTION OF STUNNING ALTERNATIVE BANGERS...

HOLY FAWN

BREAKOUT NEW MUSIC FIRST | MURKY, ETHEREAL BRILLIANCE FROM PHOENIX.

THE FIRST...YOUNG CULTURE

ALEX AND GABE WALK US THROUGH THEIR BAND'S BABY STEPS.

FITTING IN

DE'WAYNE IS BACK WITH A MORE FOCUSED, REFINED FOLLOW-UP TO HIS BRILLIANT DEBUT. IN THOSE FAVOURITE BLUE JEANS...

Arctic Monkeys – Another Change in Direction

Arctic Monkeys’ new album The Car finds the popular indie rock band employing amore subdued and elegant sound

Backstage with... Violinist/director Alexandra Wood

Warming up: ‘We want to give the idea of the music evolving’

Musical destinations – Berlin Germany

Jeremy Pound heads to the German capital’s Philharmonie concert hall to enjoy a late-summer feast of spectacular orchestral playing

Soccer Mommy

HOP INTO SOPHIE ALLISON’S HONDA ODYSSEY AND LET HER CART YOU OFF TO A BETTER PLACE

BEGGIN' FOR MORE

ITALY'S MANESKIN ARE AN UNLIKELY WORLDWIDE SENSATION. IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, GW TRACKS DOWN GUITARIST THOMAS RAGGI AND BASSIST VICTORIA DE ANGELIS TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT MAKES THIS STEAMROLLER ROCK (AND ROLL)

Power and Passion

EASTMAN JULIET SOLIDBODIES

Clean Cut

SUPRO ROYALE 1932R 1X12 COMBO

I like the feeling of falling into a different era, not just in my music but in any music

THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

And did those feet...?

Since Parry wrote his much-loved setting of Blake’s poem more than a century ago, a wide array of versions of Jerusalem have followed in its famous footsteps, as Jason Whittaker explains

Candlemass

AFTER DECADES OF TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, THE FIRE BENEATH THESE SWEDISH DEATH METAL GODS BURNS BRIGHTER THAN EVER

C. 1991-PRESENT COLLINGS OM2H

CATEGORY: STEEL-STRING FLATTOP ACOUSTIC

An Appalachian Tale

MARTIN GUITAR D-28 RICH ROBINSON

EXTRA JIMMIES

JIMMIE VAUGHAN CHOOSES HIS TOP 12 TEXAS BLUES GUITARISTS

DECEMBER 1781 Mozart and Clementi lock horns in a royal piano duel

The history books are not short of great performers and composers whose burgeoning careers as musical prodigies were micromanaged at every degree by their parents.

Whipping up a storm

The sonic extremes of storms, whether physical or cosmic, have attracted composers through the centuries –and with good reason, says Tom Service