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<p>The The frontman Matt Johnson</p>

Interview

The The: ‘I found more sincerity in a 12-step programme than church’

The Eighties icons have announced their first album in 24 years. Ahead of its release, their longtime leader invites Michael Hann over to his Shoreditch haunt to discuss the record, his own near-death experience, the hipsterfication of Shoreditch, and finding faith and ‘magic’ in unexpected places

<p>Yannis Philippakis, frontman of Foals, one of the UK’s biggest rock bands </p>

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Foals’ Yannis Philippakis: ‘I am not tethered to the band’

<p>Manc motor mouths: Oasis (from left, Paul McGuigan, Noel Gallagher, Tony McCarroll, Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs and Liam Gallagher) commandeer a Jaguar XJ6 for a November 1993 shoot</p>

Playback

‘Cabbaged beyond belief’: 30 years of Oasis’s Definitely Maybe

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Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer: ‘Sweden is not safe for queer people’

Interviews

<p>Liam (left) and Noel on stage together in 2008</p>

Comment

Oasis are a band like no other – the reunion hype is fully justified

<p>Will Young: ‘It’s nice to talk about looking old and not feeling attractive’ </p>

Interview

Will Young: ‘It’s nice to talk about feeling old and unattractive’

<p>86TVs’ Felix White: ‘You spent a lot of your early life, if you’ve lost someone really young, being emotionally reactionary to things'</p>

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86TVs’ Felix White: ‘The way The Maccabees ended was heartbreaking’

<p>Steven Van Zandt: ‘Rock’n’roll was a very small cult, but me and Bruce really took it seriously right from the beginning'</p>

Interview

Steven Van Zandt: ‘Every star needs reminding they were once nobody’

Music Box

Boston trio Tiny Habits perform ‘Wishes’ for Music Box session

The Mysterines perform ‘The Last Dance’ for Music Box

Rita Ora performs new single ‘Ask And You Shall Receive’

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Interview

Rachel Chinouriri: ‘I’m a Black girl making indie music’

<p>Motley blue: the band have a formidable live reputation </p>

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Blue Bendy’s Arthur Nolan: ‘I see a lot of myself in Kendall Roy’

<p>‘When I think about Madonna, Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, Britney and Gwen Stefani, I think my album has the same fundamental pop cues that those albums have had,’ says 29-year-old pop star Amaarae </p>

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Pop star Amaarae: ‘African artists are all lumped under one umbrella’

Reviews

<p>Nick Cave releases his 18th album with The Bad Seeds on 30 August 2024 </p>

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds hymn the transformative power of love on Wild God

<p>Carpenter jumps between genres on her sixth album </p>

Sabrina Carpenter leans into her man-eating sizzle on Short n’ Sweet

Live music

<p>Jenny Lewis and Ben Gibbard during the Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service anniversary tour</p>

Death Cab and The Postal Service at All Points was blissful nostalgia

<p>Renee Rapp at Reading 2024</p>

Technical issues abound at Reading Festival amid one giant rumour

<p>Rapper Moglai Bap of Kneecap </p>

Blink-182, Kneecap and The Prodigy bring back Reading Festival’s bite

<p>Big Thief were the real deal</p>

Green Man festival’s spectacular lineup matches the sublime settings

Retrospectives

<p>Bloc party: ‘It was probably the only place in the world that was actually playing us back in them days,’ says Maiden bassist Steve Harris</p>

Features

Iron Maiden’s 1984 World Slavery tour behind the Iron Curtain

<p>Two young music fans hitch a lift home from Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, August 1969</p>

Woodstock revisited: whatever happened to the hippie dream?

<p>There has been much speculation that Manson’s rejection by the music industry sparked his murderous plans</p>

The dark musical legacy left by evil mass murderer Charles Manson

<p>Early triumph: the Oscar-winning actor and singer Cher in 1973</p>

Cher determination: The scandal and survival of an immortal star

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