Latest articles by Mark Beaumont
Fancy trying a European festival this year? Here's five reasons to hit Mad Cool 2026
Foo Fighters, The Black Crowes, Nick Cave and dozens more play Spain's Mad Cool festival in July
Troubled times call for torrential measures on hard-rocking new Foo Fighters album
Your Favourite Toy is the Foo Fighters' twelfth album and the follow-up to But Here We Are
Approved by Blondie, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols, The Molotovs are a ferocious generational voice
After cutting their teeth in parks and at protests, scooter rallies and mod events, The Molotovs have now sold 10,000 tickets for their upcoming tour
Review: Ash are still mixing futuristic rock brilliance with Brit-Weezer ballast on Ad Astra
Northern Irish punk-pop trio Ash blast off with a wider perspective of sound and vision on ninth album
The Black Keys sound euphoric on the dreamy 60s psych-soul sound of No Rain, No Flowers
Beleaguered retro rockers the Black Keys sprout fresh, soulful intent on thirteenth studio album No Rain, No Flowers
The electro-goth revival continues on Garbage's Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
Shirley Manson and co. are still in their prime, going both nowhere and back to the future-rock frontline
Dire Straits' 30-million-selling Brothers In Arms marks its 40th birthday with energised extras
Mark Knopfler’s crowning achievement: mildly dated, largely evocative, expanded with live shows
Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
Stick a pin in Eric Clapton’s late-period work and you’re liable to hit a stinker, but for sheer lack of invention, Pilgrim is routinely held up as his lowest ebb
Amyl And The Sniffers refuse to let up on Cartoon Darkness
Big issues are buried beneath thrilling next-gen punk on the Aussie bawlers’ third album
Goat's culture-spanning idealism continues on mystical self-titled album
Earthy roots are revisited for Swedish collective Goat's surprise-laden sixth album
Luck And Strange finds David Gilmour in relaxed, reflective form
David Gilmour’s fifth solo album muses on heavy concerns but dreams of cool evenings on the Mediterranean
Kings Of Leon don't let songs of "confusion, bewilderment and anxiety" get in the way of the good times
Kings Of Leon let the subtly melodic, sporadically explosive and pleasingly edgy times roll on ninth album Can We Please Have Fun
Hüsker Dü may have looked like a bunch of misfits, but they enjoyed an extraordinary musical chemistry: Why you should definitely own Zen Arcade
Zen Aracade was a hugely ambitious double-vinyl concept album with a personal rite-of-passage story, from youth to manhood
"Saviors is the sound of reassuring rebellion from the midst of the 21st Century breakdown": Green Day's Saviors is part hurtling punkarama, part political rock drama
Punk pop masters Green Day return to formula on 14th album Saviors, with the odd sprinkle of Gallagher
"Tracing the evolution of a bar-room behemoth": Bryan Adams' Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Three nights, three albums, one stodgy tone: Bryan Adams plays the hits live at the iconic Royal Albert Hall
"Gabriel's most consistent and cohesive post-80s record and the most philosophical of his life": Peter Gabriel's i/o
i/o is a reflective and inventive return from art-rock master Peter Gabriel, two decades in the making
"By the end of the album, Fallon is still fundamentally tortured": comeback album History Books finds The Gaslight Anthem reflective but utterly revived
History Books is a soul-searching, redemptive and worthy return for the New Jersey rockers The Gaslight Anthem
Creeper's Sanguivore: a blood-drenched Bat Out Of Hell for goths and vampires
Sanguivore is the neck-biting third album from Southampton goth rockers Creeper
Goat's new album Medicine: you want an alluring mix of hypno-rock, mysticism and death-cult menace? You got it
Mysterious psych tribe Goat palm us more heady chant-rock pharmaceuticals on fifth album Medicine
"We were lying in a pool of money, wondering if we were gonna get shot:" Six things you need to know about Demob Happy
Demob Happy like to pretend it's the 70s, they’re anti everything, and they enjoyed getting one over Amazon's Jeff Bezos
The Hold Steady: Craig Finn on revolution tourists, desperate characters and exploitation
"When The Hold Steady gets together and there’s big guitars and big drums, the stories I want to tell are bigger" - Craig Finn
The Strokes' singles collection is a box set without a single wasted note
The Strokes' Singles Volume 1 is a historic collection from modern indie rock's Big Bang
Garbage's Anthology: a quarter of a century of pushing boundaries and brutal, beautiful trash
Tech-rock masters Garbage lay out their full blueprint on (mostly) career-spanning Anthology
