At Manchester’s sold-out Aviva Studios, smoke curls around a giant, ominous black box that resembles a freshly landed spaceship. It’s the perfect warm-up act for
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‘Saying you’re in a jangle-pop band is a red flag’: the Tubs talk speed, squalor and their glorious second album
‘Most of the songs were written in the midst of a breakdown,” says Owen Williams, lead singer with indie rock group the Tubs. “My long-term
‘We said yes to everything!’ John Reis on his blistering punk career, from Hot Snakes to Rocket from the Crypt
John Reis has lived as if there’s no tomorrow. Over the last 35 years, the hardest-working man in punk rock has recorded more than 25
Leading Garifuna musician was among 13 people dead in Honduras air crash
Garifuna leaders have paid tribute to a prominent musician from their community who died in a plane crash that killed at least 13 people off
‘We put all of life into the mincer’: These New Puritans on their kaleidoscopic new album
Jack and George Barnett arrange to meet me at the Hope Hotel, an 18th-century pub in their native Southend. With Talking Heads on the jukebox
‘Drake lost a rap battle’: Universal files motion to dismiss rapper’s ‘misguided’ lawsuit
Universal Music Group have moved to dismiss Drake’s defamation suit, characterising it as “a misguided attempt” by the Canadian rapper to “salve his wounds” after
Playboi Carti: Music review – the most anticipated rap album this decade was worth the wait
Almost no album in rap history has been quite so anticipated as Music, the third album by Atlanta’s Playboi Carti. The harsh, extreme-bass sound of
Little Simz sues former producer Inflo over unpaid debts
Little Simz is suing her former producer Inflo – AKA Dean Cover of music collective Sault – for allegedly failing to repay a loan of
‘We had even more fights than they show in the film’: how we made Dig! with the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols
Ondi Timoner, director I wanted to make a documentary about 10 bands on the verge of getting signed by record companies, to see what would
Neil Young rejects dynamic pricing for concert tickets, credits the Cure’s Robert Smith for decision
Neil Young has credited the Cure’s frontman Robert Smith with inspiring his decision not to allow Ticketmaster to use dynamic pricing for his forthcoming tour.