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Olly Alexander: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? You have a face like a crumpled napkin’
Born in North Yorkshire, Olly Alexander, 34, joined Years & Years as lead vocalist in 2010. Their hit singles included King and Shine, and in
‘He nails it on the first take’: how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice
I start playing songs to my son James from the moment he is born. If I’m given the job of rocking him back to sleep,
Iron Maiden making official documentary to mark 50th anniversary
Iron Maiden are to have an official documentary made about them, charting their long career as cornerstones of British heavy metal. The currently untitled film,
Nova Twins on silencing the heavy metal doubters: ‘People don’t question men’
Nova Twins vocalist-guitarist Amy Love is trying to make me feel better about the litany of things that have gone wrong during our one-hour chat.
Courting: Lust for Life, Or: ‘How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story’ review – a giant leap forward
Liverpudlian indie rockers Courting can verge on annoying sometimes, with their predilection for Auto-Tuned vocals, various overwrought forays into ill-chosen genres and, frankly, the Fiona
Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a wholesale rewind to core career values
Pop stars spend their careers impaled on the horns of a perennial dilemma: whether to reinvent themselves and show range, or stick to core value
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Yarın Yoksa review | Ammar Kalia’s global album of the month
Since the 1960s, Turkish groups have honed a distinct blend of Anatolian folk and psychedelia. Early pioneers Moğollar and Erkin Koray electrified the lute-like saz,
Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions review – as ever, Kristin Hersh is astonishing
View image in fullscreen Few bands have seesawed between melody and noise with as much emotional complexity as Throwing Muses, but for the alt-rock trio’s
Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’
As a child, Daveed Diggs and his schoolfriend William Hutson drew pictures inspired by the space-age album covers of funk legends Parliament, filled with gleaming