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‘I’m not famous. But I can’t go to the chippy’: Courteeners’ Liam Fray on filling stadiums, defying extinction – and wearing M&S pants

He launched a guitar band just as the world was moving on. But they still went stratospheric. Fray talks about uniting Manchester after the attacks – and writing his first single on a Fred Perry comp slip

The Guardian - UK

“Five decades on, it’s still a bewildering but rewarding experience”: Faust’s self-titled debut album returns

The German collective’s opening salvo remains as uncompromising as ever

Louder

‘I have different weathers in my brain’: how Celeste rekindled her love of music after heartbreak and loss

After a No 1 debut album, a Brit win and Mercury and Oscar nods, the pandemic and a devastating breakup paused the singer’s rising career. Now, she’s back with a new record and a newfound sense of peace

The Guardian - UK

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RAYE to receive first Ivors Academy honour after songwriters campaign

Inaugural event will celebrate industry figures driving positive change for songwriters and composers

The Independent UK

'Buckingham Nicks' was a record store holy grail for decades. It's finally getting reissued

Warner Music Group has announced that it's reissuing the lone album recorded by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham when they were just a duo

The Independent UK

Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu

Louder

‘Worrying is my hobby’: Shura on overcoming injuries, writer’s block and being dropped twice by her label

The London musician has endured a lot since she emerged as a viral bedroom pop star back in 2014. Now she is channelling those setbacks into a new album that’s ‘devastating, but in a fun way’

The Guardian - UK

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The hidden cost of your supermarket sea bass

Revealed: an investigation shows how consumers buying fish in the UK are playing a role in food insecurity and unemployment in Senegal

The Guardian - UK

“The world was my oyster, but when I opened it there was a turd inside… When my wife said, ‘I want half of everything,’ I said, ‘Write me a cheque for 450 grand and you can have half the debt!’” Fish on his three-decade solo career

As the former Marillion frontman released final album Weltschmerz, he reflected on going from the depths of debt and divorce to mountainous creative peaks

Louder

"There was absolutely nothing you could do to that record to stop it. It was an unstoppable force. Even I couldn’t mess that record up”: Edwyn Collins ponders his career, Orange Juice's break-ups and today's popstars being too nice

As the source of one the UK’s best-known but misnomered ‘one-hit wonders’ an Edwyn Collins return is always welcome

MusicRadar

Cast confirmed as support act on Oasis 2025 reunion tour

John Power’s band will join Richard Ashcroft as opening acts on the UK and Ireland leg of the tour

The Guardian - UK

“One of the holy grails of historic Beatles guitars”: George Harrison’s Futurama – which starred in over 300 early Beatles shows, including the Fab Four’s historic Hamburg tour – is heading to auction

The oddball electric – which originally went up for auction back in 2019 – was also used on the Fab Four's first official Polydor recordings, having featured heavily during their early Cavern Club gigs

Guitar World

Every Eminem album ranked from worst to best

We rank Eminem's catalogue, from overlooked debut Infinite to most recent opus, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)

Louder

“We were playing to people who didn't care if we fell over and died.” The Cure might be recognised now as one of the world's most iconic and influential bands, but that wasn't always the case

The path to rock superstardom can be long and winding

Louder

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"People chucked pesetas at us, bottles, you name it": How Gun survived Spanish crowds, an X-rated video and that "strange cookie" from INXS, then hit the bullseye again

Gun's debut album Taking On The World was a killer, and with new album Hombres their aim is once again true

The Guardian - UK

Raye’s record-breaking Brits defied the limited imaginations of the British music industry

Raye’s six Brit awards marked a huge vindication for the newly independent artist and rightly shamed the major label that apparently couldn’t see her potential

The Guardian - UK

Brit awards 2024: women dominate as Raye scores record-smashing six wins

Artists have previously only managed four wins in one ceremony, capping an astonishing year for the British singer who was once left in major label limbo

The Guardian - UK

‘She has worn her heart on her sleeve’: how Raye went from major-label frustration to seven Brit nominations

Whether she wins or not, the singer-songwriter has already made history and could do so again if she sweeps the board tomorrow

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The Guardian - UK

Raye review – the sweet sound of revenge

Ahead of this week’s Brits, where she’s up for a record seven gongs, the singer-songwriter draws on her famously hardwon debut album in a show poised between raw truths and joyous bangers

Louder

"There is a compelling argument that with Goodnight L.A. Magnum temporarily lost their identity and became something they were not": Goodnight L.A. by Magnum

Goodnight L.A. was meant to be Magnum’s big chance to break America, but eventually wasn't released there at all

Evening Standard

OPINION - The industry backlash over Taylor's versions is a red herring: it's got much bigger problems

Labels seeking to stop artists re-recording their music is only part of a much wider issue regarding contracts

The Guardian - UK

‘We had to reclaim what was rightfully ours’: the triumphant return of the Sugababes

The OG lineup of Mutya, Keisha and Siobhán returned a decade ago as MKS, but were thwarted by industry shenanigans. Now they’re back, with the Sugababes name under their control, and won’t let anything – or anyone – stand in their way

The Guardian - UK

Mercury prize 2023: Arctic Monkeys tie Radiohead’s record for most nominations

There are first-time nods for the likes of Fred Again, Lankum, Jockstrap and Raye, and repeat recognition for acts including J Hus and Jessie Ware

MusicRadar

Bassist Bruce Foxton on the story of The Jam's That's Entertainment: “It was a bit of a departure for us, because it was acoustic”

The birth and recording of a British classic

Louder

Every Lana Del Rey album ranked from worst to best

The collected works of Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, one of the great singer-songwriters of the modern age

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