The Guardian • 12th January 2024

Liam Gallagher and John Squire on their psychedelic resurrection: ‘No kinky saucepot shenanigans!’

When Liam Gallagher first heard the songs John Squire had written for their new collaborative album, he had two thoughts: that they were “banging”, and that he instinctively knew how to sing them. After all, he’s been singing Squire’s songs since his early teens.

Dazed • 8th December 2020

Debbie Harry: ‘Maybe sexual explicitness has come of age’

Debbie Harry doesn’t believe in harbouring regrets. “I have made many, many errors, but nobody leads a perfect life,” she reflects down the telephone from New York. “So, should I regret anything? No. It is a waste of time. It really is a waste of time.” Dial back to the turn of the 70s and the life that Harry led before fronting Blondie – prior to her image being burned onto the retina of popular culture – was colourful to say the least.

Dazed • 5th June 2023

Nick Cave on grief: ‘I want people to know that things get better’

Life has a way of presenting events so incomprehensible that they cannot be anticipated. In 2015, Nick Cave was confronted by a nightmare made real when the news came that his 15-year-old son Arthur had died.

Dazed • 20th October 2020

Interview: Stevie Nicks is still dreaming

Stevie Nicks has had “a hell of a day”. Not only is it 3am at her home in Los Angeles when we first speak on the phone, the power has gone out in her house.

The Telegraph • 17th November 2021

The Doors: ‘Jim Morrison had a pretty tough Oedipus complex – it made him manic depressive’

Doors drummer John Densmore is pointing over his shoulder to two royal blue LA street signs situated next to his drumkit. The signs say Densmore Av and Morrison St. “You’re probably curious about that?” he says.

the Guardian • 18th September 2023

‘No one gave me the finger more than David Crosby!’ Legendary photographer Henry Diltz on shooting music’s giants

‘Sometimes,” says Henry Diltz, “the great picture is the one that happens before you set everything up.” The legendary music photographer, speaking from his home in north Hollywood, has taken shots that became stamped into the annals of rock history.

Variety • 16th March 2021

Kings of Leon Talk New Album, What’s Next and Why Solo Careers Are Unlikely

Sometimes you have to cut loose from the shackles of self-perception to really be free. Nearly two decades into their recorded career, Kings of Leon are a band now willing to let go of commercial concerns. “We’ll argue with the record label later if we don’t have the radio hit,” frontman and principal songwriter Caleb Followill tells Variety.

AnOther • 22nd December 2023

The Who’s Pete Townshend on His Life House Graphic Novel

“It now feels like less of a sci-fi story than a slightly cartoon view of what’s going on in the world today”: The rock legend sits down with AnOther to discuss his new graphic novel and the “subversive force” of 60s rock.

The Times • 2nd October 2022

Pixies’ Black Francis: ‘We’re starting to achieve some of that old-man muscle’

Black Francis, former champion of angry youth, is pondering the passing of the years. “You can’t fabricate naivety,” says the Pixies frontman, who formed the catechism for modern alt-rock in the late Eighties and early Nineties, inspiring a host of bands from Nirvana to Radiohead.

Huck Magazine • 27th October 2022

Ibeyi on loss, sisterhood and spirituality

At the tender age of 27, fraternal twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz – better known as the neo-soul duo Ibeyi – have been exposed to more than their fair share of grief. Their father passed away when they were just aged 11, and their sister followed a few years later.

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 11th November 2019

Shakira on dark days, angry poetry and bounceback for the El Dorado Tour

In October 2017, Latin pop superstar Shakira was wrapping up five months of arduous rehearsals in preparation for her ‘El Dorado’ world tour when she suddenly felt a bit hoarse. A few days later, Shakira’s opening show in Cologne, Germany, was cancelled on advice of her doctors, who diagnosed her with strained vocal chords.

Dazed • 31st May 2022

The Sex Pistols lift the lid on Danny Boyle’s hotly anticipated series

“We were all 19, 20 years old. Kids. Kids who basically didn’t have a fucking clue,” fizzes Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones down the line from his LA home. “We came along at the right time. We turned everything on its arse.”

Dazed • 6th September 2022

AURORA: ‘Online crucifixion is the modern witch burning’

Not long before the first of our two interviews with AURORA, the musician takes to Twitter to denounce societies’ sexualisation of women. “We get sexualised by the world, and yet shamed for being sexual,” her post begins.

Dazed • 22nd September 2022

Sudan Archives is breaking her generational curses

Of all the components available to a musician, melody is often sacrificed most freely at the altar of experimentalism. After all, it’s hard to write catchy hooks when there are boundaries to push and conventions to transgress.

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 25th October 2018

Joan Jett interview: “…if the band asks me, that’s as close as I can maybe get to Kurt giving me the thumbs up” | NME

She has been an outspoken musical firebrand and an ever-present since punk’s nascent beginnings in the mid ‘70s. Firstly causing uproar in seminal teenage band the Runaways before transitioning into a successful solo career as Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

Ticketmaster UK • 21st September 2023

Kevin Rowland: “In Dexys, I’m the leader. If I’m not happy… we ain’t doing it.”

Dexys’ Kevin Rowland is in no mood to entertain untruths. He doesn’t so much gently pour cold water but upend a bucket of it when I raise an anecdote that Blur’s Alex James has been circulating about him (“Utter rubbish. I don’t know what he’s on about,” he scoffs). You get the sense that his fire remains beautifully intact.

whynow • 11th September 2023

Debbie: ‘I realised I am very insecure’

Following her recent breakout success, we speak to rising artist Debbie about collaborating with Stormzy, signing to 0207 Def Jam and her late introduction to the all-time greats.

AnOther • 6th December 2023

Queer Revenge Thriller Femme Puts Masculinity Under a Microscope

As Femme is released in cinemas, co-director Sam H Freeman talks about his love of late-night neo-noir thrillers by Nicolas Winding Refn and the Safdies, and capturing the darkness

Ticketmaster UK • 15th June 2023

Ben Folds: "Pop music is like an animal. But you lose that"

Almost retiring into teaching before returning with his best album in years – Ben Folds talks the highs and lows of being a middle-aged rockstar

whynow • 8th September 2022

Anna Calvi: ‘I always think visually when I write’

“I always took a long time to do things,” muses Anna Calvi backstage at All Points East festival. The singer-songwriter has not long left the east London stage and, in her wake, an audience reeling from a set stacked with the sort of bewitching theatricality synonymous with her name.