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Thom Yorke performs in 2024

Radiohead share Thom Yorke’s pre-mix playlist for their 2025 European tour dates

Arctic Monkeys press

Arctic Monkeys to release new track as part of "upcoming project" with War Child this week

Arctic Monkeys

The man who delivered the famous line on screen - actor Albert Finney in Saturday Night Sunday Morning (1960)

Who came up with the title of Arctic Monkeys' debut album?

Arctic Monkeys

Placebo in 1996: "It was very, very important for us to not be ashamed."

How Placebo's Nancy Boy kicked against the "laddism" of Britpop

Placebo

Arctic Monkeys in 2022: Jamie Cook, Matt Helders, Alex Turner and Nick O'Malley.

What are Arctic Monkeys' biggest songs?

Arctic Monkeys

Johnny Vaughan with Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett

Bradley Cooper talks "sore point" of missing out on Oasis Live ’25 shows: "I can't believe you brought that up"

Green Day press

Green Day to perform at the Super Bowl 60 opening ceremony in 2026

Green Day

Dave Grohl in London, 1997, around the time of the release of The Colour & The Shape

Who is Foo Fighters' My Hero about? The story of the 1998 anthem

Wolf Alice 2025

Wolf Alice to headline Eden Sessions 2026

Wolf Alice

Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys at the 2014 BRIT Awards

Alex Turner calling interviewers by their name through the years is just what you need today

Arctic Monkeys

New Order's Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris

Where did New Order get the title Blue Monday from?

New Order

Could these frontmen master a guitar riff? Freddie Mercury. Bono and Ian Curtis

Great frontmen who weren't that great on guitar

The Smiths in June 1985: Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Mike Joyce and the late, great Andy Rourke.

The 10 greatest Andy Rourke basslines with The Smiths

Best videos of the 2000s

The best music videos of the 2000s

David Bowie in 1969

How Space Oddity gave David Bowie his first hit

Queen guitarist Brian May with Glastonbury Festival's Pyramid Stage inset

Brian May renews stance on Queen not playing Glastonbury due to "politics": “They like killing badgers”

Some of the best albums of 1998 from Garbage, Manic Street Preachers, The Cardigans, Embrace, Gomez and Catatonia.

The 25 best Indie Albums of 1998

Oh, Macca. 16 January 1980 and Paul McCartney is arrested at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport when 8 ounces of marijuana is found in his luggage.

The most ill-advised things your favourite rock stars have done