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Rolling Stone UK
EVER HOPEFUL
Indie rock band Johnny Foreigner may not have made it big, but after reuniting in 2021, they headed out earlier this year for a UK tour as joint headliners with anti-folk group Crywank — and relished every minute, as lead singer Alexei Berrow writes
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
RS ROAD TEST
It looks a million dollars (but costs less than half that) and — all credit to its maker — combines new tech with brutal, old-school power and glory
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Wolf Alice NEW HORIZONS
On new album The Clearing, Wolf Alice have found the sweet spot in paring back their ideas and pushing the best to the forefront, as they enter their most confident, self-assured era yet
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
LIFE GOES ON
A HIGH-PROFILE LAWSUIT WAS THE FIRST THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF THE BAND NOW KNOWN AS HARD LIFE. AS FRONTMAN MURRAY MATRAVERS TELLS US, HE ALMOST GOT IN HIS OWN WAY TOO, BEFORE THIRD ALBUM ONION GAVE HIM A FRESH START
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Steven Frayne
The magician formerly known as Dynamo on the tragedy behind his decision to reclaim his real name, and who he'd love to perform magic for
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Marina is ready to ‘enjoy life to the max’
The cult-favourite singer tells us about the playful pop and deeper introspection of her latest album
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
LIVE AID: THE MUSICAL REVOLUTION
As Just For One Day — The Live Aid Musical receives a rapturous West End reception, Bob Geldof tells Rolling Stone UK how the spirit of Live Aid still resonates powerfully today
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Eva Victor is Hollywood's most original new voice
The writer, director and star of Sorry, Baby was a viral internet personality. Their debut film shows a deeper side
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
BACK TO THE BAR
Fresh from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of charity, Manchester rapper Aitch returns with a shackles-off second studio album crafted with high-energy live shows in mind
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Cliffords
The Cork band's vocalist Iona Lynch on namechecking their home town in their records and embarking on their first full year of summer festivals
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
inside the NOVA TWINS' CELESTIAL AWAKENING
Watching a solar eclipse the day before recording third album Parasites & Butterflies convinced the Nova Twins' Amy Love and Georgia South of the power of their new record's opposing themes of light and darkness, as they tell Rolling Stone UK
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
LITTLER'S LONG GAME
In the blink of an eye, darts prodigy Luke Littler has become a sporting sensation. But while fame has upended his young life in less than two years, this 18-year-old is focusing on staying the distance
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Peter Townshend
The co-founder and guitarist of the Who talks about six decades with the band – and whether this really is their final tour
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Lorde I'm An Intense Bitch'
Virgin, her first album in four years, is raw, wild and sublime. But it came after a series of personal changes and revelations – from a breakup to an eating disorder to an expanding gender identity. Now, she's ready to talk about all of it
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Rolling Stone future Of.music
Our first-ever launch of our annual Future 25 list for the Rolling Stone UK Future of Music, supported by ZYN, took place at London's Omeara venue, with live performances from Jordan Adetunji, Pozer and Chloe Qisha
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
LIL WAYNE LIVES BY HIS OWN RULES
Chasing a hip-hop legend across the country as he wraps up Tha Carter VI and says (and does) whatever the hell he wants
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
All by myself
Over the past year, Barry Can't Swim has become the UK's hottest new dance act. On second album Loner, he digests the whirlwind and admits his fears
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Atlantic City
New book 75 Years of Atlantic Records tells the story of one of the most important record labels of all time, from Aretha Franklin to ABBA, Coldplay and beyond
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
For the record
New exhibition Dennis Morris: Music + Life celebrates the work of a legendary photographer known for his iconic images of music greats including Bob Marley
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June/ July 2025
Rolling Stone UK
Back to the Grind - The Clipse broke up when a spiritual path called to one of the brothers from Virginia. Now, one of the greatest duos in rap returns
In Norfolk, Virginia, a medium-size city teeming with unassuming single-family townhouses, homes and Pusha T's contemporary pad looks airlifted from the Hollywood Hills. With a waterfront view, large glass windows inviting in natural light, and state-of-the-art interior design, it's as if the architects asked him for inspiration and the self-proclaimed merchant of "high-taste level, luxury, drug raps" gave them a playlist of his songs.
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October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Chappell Roan The Pain & Pleasure of a Pop Supernova - Do you want to bedazzle my grinder?
Do you want to bedazzle my grinder?" Chappell Roan is standing in front of a vintage armoire, holding the silver weed-crushing tool and contemplating what to do today. It's a hot, gorgeous July Friday, and she has a rare day off in between her increasingly viral festival performances. The crimson curls that usually fall to her lower back are pinned up, her face bare except for a swipe of black liner around her eyes. In lieu of, say, a pink cowgirl suit or a Hannah Montana wig or a latex wrestling uniform, all of which she's worn onstage, she's opted for grey cargo trousers and a matching bodysuit. "I wear grey and black IRL because I can't handle the shit that I wear [onstage]," she says.
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October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
The Scream Queen Next Door - In just a few short years, Hunter Schafer has gone from small-town North Carolina to global runways, Euphoria stardom, and her first lead role, in the horror flick Cuckoo
Hunter Schafer greets me with a confession. Beckoning me through a small gated fence into the winding maze of Chateau Marmont's lush, greenery-covered courtyard, she gives me a hug, then yawns. There's a lot happening right now, she says. I've barely gotten a handle on it. There's a grey vape in her hand, worn split-toe Tabis on her feet, and a wry smile on her face. To be fully honest with you, I'd forgotten this was happening.
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October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Together in Electronic Dreams - Raphaella Lima of video game publisher Electronic Arts brings music to her childhood love of gaming to spotlight many of the most exciting emerging acts of the past two decades in the hit football game EA SPORTS FC
Raphaella Lima of video game publisher Electronic Arts brings music to her childhood love of gaming to spotlight many of the most exciting emerging acts of the past two decades in the hit football game EA SPORTS FC. ME AND A$AP just clicked, says Raphaella Lima, global music marketing director at video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA). I met him when I was just coming off maternity leave, so I wasn't drinking, and he'd been in the dentist's chair all day, so he wasn't drinking either. But we sat in the hotel, and he thought, 'You know what? I f**k with this girl! Let's go to the studio.' So, my partner and I went, we heard his music, and we thought, 'This guy is incredible.
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October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
The Mix - String Theory - On new album Odyssey, Nubya Garcia conducts sweeping strings over her innovative saxophone playing to mark herself out as a unique star of the UK jazz world
There are clichéd 'difficult second albums', and then there are those where you start almost from scratch. The difficulty with jazz prodigy Nubya Garcia's second LP, Odyssey, came when she decided that this new batch of songs she had written needed the sweeping majesty of a string section, before deciding to learn how to write and conduct it all herself.
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October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Daydream Believer - Welsh techno-pop artist Kelly Lee Owens is the first signing to Dirty Hit's new dance label, dh2. She talks
Welsh techno-pop artist Kelly Lee Owens is the first signing to Dirty Hit's new dance label, dh2. She talks "transcending my bullshit" on the euphoric, thumping club tunes of fourth album, Dreamstate. While writing the new album, Owens was determined to make the art that my soul wants to make, ignoring outside influences and following a path and an energy that felt like it was coming to her from a higher place. "I always hoped that I'd find a home in a label that would carry that vision through," she says. When she met Daniel in Los Angeles, she asked him, "Do you care about the long term? How much time are you willing to invest in this project? What do you see?"
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October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Sounding the Alert - The UK music industry is calling for the new Labour government to make essential changes to rescue British music - from halting the closure of venues to providing essential opportunities for new talent
To quote one Bob Dylan: "the times they are a-changin." After 14 years of Tory rule, 4 July saw a changing of the guard in British politics as Sir Keir Starmer stood on the steps of Downing Street to mark the start of a new Labour government and - according to the man himself - a decade of national renewal.Not that the result was ever in doubt, however. A cursory look at polls over the preceding year showed that a Labour landslide was very much on the cards, and it seemed like those aforementioned Dylan lyrics were about to ring true.
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October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
Staying Power- As they gave their first performance in the UK for five years, Rolling Stone UK caught up with Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, HAN, Felix, Seungmin and I.N, who together make up the record-breaking K-pop phenomenon Stray Kids
As they gave their first performance in the UK for five years, Rolling Stone UK caught up with Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, HAN, Felix, Seungmin and I.N, who together make up the record-breaking K-pop phenomenon Stray Kids. Here, they open up about the bonds they share between themselves and their devoted fans, as well as their common goal of super stardom
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October/November 2024
Rolling Stone UK
JAMIE XX WAVE AFTER WAVE
Nine years after his decade-defining debut album In Colour, Jamie xx returns with In Waves, a darker and broodier follow-up that saw him fall back in love with making music
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October/November 2024
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
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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
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