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With their acclaimed debut album and award-wining film, Kneecap are going global in 2024, not bad for a group who rap in what some claim to be a 'dead' language

Twenty years ago, the Manchester band headlined Worthy Farm for the second and last time. Mark Beaumont looks back at the ill-fated show, which has gone down in history as one of their worst, and argues that it marked the beginning of the end for Liam and Noel Gallagher’s Britpop…

We take a deep dive into the wild last twelve months in the world of Slipknot

Written in response to two journalists who said it was good that Keith Moon was dead, it's one of rock’s most spiteful songs

On their upcoming ninth album Can We Please Have Fun, Kings Of Leon say that they're more fulfilled than ever. But things weren’t always so peachy for the Nashville clan

‘In the 70s and 80s, you’d regularly see images of women in bikinis draped over car bonnets. I wanted to flip that – and see how a male photographer would feel if he had to lie over a car in a thong’

Festivals and alcohol had always seemed synonymous to me. But a downward spiral prompted me to attempt one sober. It was a revelation, albeit not an easy one, writes Laura Snapes

Slowdive aren't entirely sure why they were booked to play next month's Sick New World metal festival in Las Vegas, but they know that it'll be "an experience"

The story behind T. Rex’s The Slider and underrated follow-up Tanx – two albums that sealed Marc Bolan as the king of glam rock