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The Smashing Pumpkins

What are Smashing Pumpkins' biggest songs?

Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno, Wet Leg and Wolf Alice

Kasabian, Wet Leg and Wolf Alice confirmed as SNL UK's first three musical guests

Kasabian

Radiohead press photo

Radiohead to play “20 shows each year” on a different continent from 2027

Stereophonics at a St David's Day mini-festival at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff Bay. 1st March 1997. They'd release their first commercial single Local Boy In The Photograph two weeks later.

The true story of Stereophonics' Local Boy In The Photograph

Stereophonics

Metallica's James Hetfield and his partner Adriana Gillett

Metallica's James Hetfield proposes to girlfriend underwater on shark dive

Jack White performs at Glastonbury 2022

Jack White announces passing of mother Teresa Gillis: “She was a Saint”

The White Stripes

Mark Hoppus with Blink-182's classic line-up inset

How Mark Hoppus' cancer diagnosis brought Blink-182 back together

David Bowie on the Serious Moonlight Tour in 1983 and Nile Rodgers today.

Why Nile Rodgers didn't want David Bowie's Let's Dance to be a success at first

Is it Bingo Hand Job, or is it R.E.M.?

10 bands that have performed under different names

The biggest Indie albums of 1989: Technique, the debut by The Stone Roses, Bleach, Doolittle, Disintegration and more

The 20 best Indie albums of 1989

Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious, British actor Christian Bale and Manic Street Preachers Richey Edwards

Christian Bale took inspiration from Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious and Manic Street Preachers' Richey Edwards on The Bride role

Manic Street Preachers

Radiohead's classic album The Bends

What's that on the cover of The Bends by Radiohead?

Blur's Graham Coxon and the milk carton mascot from the Coffee & TV video.

What inspired Graham Coxon to write Blur’s Coffee & TV?

Blur

U2 in November 1984: Adam Clayton, The Edge, Bono and Larry Mullen, Jr.

Where did U2 get their name from?

The Libertines will headline On The Beach in Brighton on Sunday 28th July.

How did The Libertines come up with their name?

The Libertines

Garbage's Shirley Manson performs with the band in Auckland, New Zealand in 2025

Shirley Manson admits she "lost composure" with 'beach ball gate' as she was dealing with the death of father

Blur bassist Alex James and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke

Alex James cried when playing this Radiohead song with Britpop Classical...

Blur

Blur's Alex James in Bogota, Colombia in 2023

Alex James "can't wait" to see Blur at Britpop Classical dates and eyes up Coachella

Blur