Latest articles by Niall Doherty
How Blur’s Damon Albarn turned his idea for a cartoon band into one of the biggest acts of the 21st century
Diving into the beginnings of Gorillaz, Damon Albarn’s virtual pop side-project that became even bigger than Blur
The drug-addled craziness that fuelled Blondie’s most successful era
Debbie Harry’s new wave trailblazers had a special formula to knocking out the hits in the late 70s, not one your doctor would recommend
"Global warming is horrible but damn, it makes for beautiful weather." An audience with Kim Deal, still the coolest indie rock star on the planet
She was the coolest person in the Pixies, a platinum-selling artist with The Breeders, and now, finally, she's gone solo. Kim Deal on Steve Albini, dogs, loss, life and loving it all – even the rubbish bits
Evan Dando revisits the "hellish performance" that persuaded him to quit drugs and get clean
How one disastrous show in a cemetery made Evan Dando realise it was time to kick his drug habit
How this 2014 Bowie single set up his final masterpiece
Bowie’s jazz experiment was released ten years ago this month. Here, his collaborators remember how it came together
The story of how The Beatles made Free As A Bird
It’s 30 years since McCartney, Starr and George Harrison entered the studio together again to record The Beatles' reunion hit
Watch The Cure take on The Beatles' Hello Goodbye
Robert Smith & co. took on the very chirpy and unCure-like Hello Goodbye for a Paul McCartney tribute album
The story of The Offspring's global smash Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Inspired by a baseball-capped server at a dive-thru, the song brought the band a UK No.1 single, lifted them out of the doldrums and set them up for the next period of huge success
Finger Eleven have made an album that sounds like it's from both the past and the future
Multi-platinum Canadians Finger Eleven will release their first album in a decade next year - we asked what they've been doing in the meantime
Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on what the mammoth success of their debut taught him
The grunge-rockers' multi-million selling debut turned 30 this month and the singer says success was a long time coming
Watch a drunk U2 taunt Phil Collins
The Genesis frontman was tasked with presenting to an inebriated Bono & co. in 1992 and they were in a cheeky mood
Watch footage from David Bowie's last ever live performance
The rock'n'roll icon drew a line under his live career with a charity gig performance in New York in 2006
Stone Temple Pilots on how Interstate Love Song came together
Written in a parking lot, titled on a tour bus, Scott Weiland & co.’s biggest hit truly was one for the road
The ever-humble Billy Corgan on how he was the best songwriting foil for Courtney Love
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman also looked back to working with the Hole singer on some of her band's biggest hits
Soft Play’s Laurie Vincent on how the reaction to their first single showed them what they needed to be
The punk pair wrapped up a hugely successful 2024 with a riotous Halloween show in London last week
The story of Spin The Black Circle, the song where Pearl Jam turned away from what was expected of them
The lead single from Vitalogy turns 30 this week and now appears to be a line in the sand for the Seattle giants
Gavin Friday on what being U2’s Creative Director entails
The former Virgin Prune and solo artist has been U2’s official Tell It Like It Is Correspondent since the mid-80s
The story of the 1993 single that Radiohead want you to forget about
If you thought they didn’t like Creep, wait til you hear what Thom Yorke & co. make of Pop Is Dead
Iggy Pop announces big London show for 2025
The punk trailblazer will be heading to Alexandra Palace next May
“I don’t know who caught me but thank you so much”: Watch Coldplay’s Chris Martin fall through a stage trapdoor in Melbourne
The Coldplay frontman was thankful that an alert crew member broke his fall
Dave Gahan on the record where Depeche Mode became the band they always wanted to be
The electro trailblazers moved away from their poppy beginnings on their fifth record, and the singer says it set them up for everything that happened next
Juliette Lewis on The Cure song that helped her out of a difficult time in her life
The Cape Fear star and singer was drawn to a Robert Smith classic from 1989 in the wake of her own troubles
James Dean Bradfield on how the Manics’ 2011 Best Of made him want to reconsider what they were all about
The band capped off one glorious era with a Best Of and huge arena show in 2011 but it left their singer and guitarist feeling like they’d lost their way
