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1 week ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
In a 21st century update of the age-old story of bands forming via newspaper ads, Spanish-born, London-based musicians Pedro Soler and Albert De Torre found Laila Bobak, the LA-born singer for their band green star, on a website called joinmyband.com. Read next Billie Eilish plays haunting cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ in Amsterdam Rihanna reveals she’s pregnant with third child at Met Gala “My friend told me about it and I was like, ‘Wow, that seems really sketchy’,” Bobak laughs.
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1 week ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
Charli XCX is among the UK music industry figures to sign a new open letter sharing their support for the trans community.
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2 weeks ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
A new play charting the legendary 1995 chart battle between Blur and Oasis will go on tour around the UK next year. Read next Kneecap denies supporting Hamas or Hezbollah: ‘We condemn all attacks on civilians, always’ Watch Beyoncé enlist Rumi, Blue Ivy for ‘Protector’ on ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour The Battle was written by author and music industry veteran John Niven and directed by 2:22 A Ghost Story director Matthew Dunster.
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4 weeks ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
Billie Eilish and her mother, Maggie Baird, have announced the return of their OVERHEATED climate action event for 2025. Read next The Who part ways with drummer Zak Starkey after three decades Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are at war in ‘The Roses’ new trailer The event, which launched in London in 2022, sees individuals and organisations from across the music industry come together to discuss green initiatives.
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1 month ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
The first scene of Alex Garland’s new film Warfare is a red herring of the cruellest kind. In it, a group of American Navy SEALs gather around a laptop in 2006 Iraq, dancing and whooping with delight at the legendary, sexually charged video for Eric Prydz’s dance anthem of the time, ‘Call On Me’. Savour the laughs and jubilation of those few moments when you sit down, because what follows for the next 90 minutes is one of the most visceral, tense films ever made.
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1 month ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
Loyle Carner has returned with two brand new singles – listen to ‘All I Need’ and ‘In My Mind’ below. Read next Pulp announce ‘More’, their first album in 24 years and share lead single ‘Spike Island’ Cryptic Coachella billboards and mysterious new Instagram: What is Frank Ocean teasing? The tracks are his first since the release of 2022 album hugo. Last year, he released a live album recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
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1 month ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
Hard Life, the band formerly known as Easy Life, have returned with their second track of their new era – listen to ‘Othello’ below. Read next Glastonbury Festival 2025: Check out the full line-up so far New Universal theme park to open in UK, with ‘billions‘ promised for economy In late 2023, the Leicester-formed, London-based band were sued over their band name by easyJet and forced to rename the group.
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1 month ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
Turnstile have announced details of Never Enough, their first album in four years, and shared its title track. Read next Electric Castle 2025 lineup adds Yungblud, Rudimental, Róisín Murphy and over 200 more – how to get tickets ‘It’s funny how people are intimidated by him’: Daryl Hannah on her new Neil Young doc and more Never Enough is the band’s follow-up to 2021’s Grammy-nominated GLOW ON and will be released on June 6 via Roadrunner Records.
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1 month ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
Ever since his wintry debut album For Emma, Forever Ago in 2008, Justin Vernon’s Bon Iver project has been defined by the seasons. On 2011 follow-up Bon Iver, Bon Iver, he stepped into spring with a shimmering 80s rock sound, before summer (2016’s 22, A Million) saw him deconstruct this sound through glitchy electronics on his least traditional album.
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1 month ago | 
rollingstone.co.uk | Will Richards
Taylor Swift had the biggest-selling new vinyl release of the last decade in the UK, new figures reveal. Read next Madonna ‘confronted’ Elton John at ‘SNL’ and now they’ve ‘buried the hatchet’ Watch the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Ahead of this month’s Record Store Day, the Official Charts Company have shared new data on UK sales of new vinyl releases across the last decade.
