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Elles Bailey talks fame, vanity, mental health and the childhood trauma behind her smoke’n’honey battle cry
With the release of her eighth album, Can’t Take My Story Away, roots star Elles Bailey's story is turning into a real page turner
Samantha Fish on playing with the Stones and her complicated relationship with the blues
Contemporary blueser Samantha Fish hits UK venues in late February, with mainland European and US shows beginning in March
The story of the mongrel mix that sold a million and became the original rock’n’roll anthem
Sell a million, get a free Cadillac
New horror movie Whistle has a killer soundtrack to match
Director Corin Hardy shares how music played a big part in his killer new horror movie Whistle
How a song about gang wars helped a Ph.D. student and a school janitor become the '90s most unlikely rock stars
The story of the song that helped launch the biggest independently-released rock album of all time
“If I find him haunting me, I’ll know I did something wrong”: How Cardiacs completed late leader Tim Smith’s album LSD
A brother who took over the band, a singer who struggled to keep the secret and a determination to do exactly what their late leader would have wanted led to the end of an 18-year journey
Ozzy Osbourne was "the voice of reason" on WWE RAW
Trust Ozzy Osbourne to give American broadcasters a lesson in British swearing
“I blame The Beatles for me getting a whacking!” Derek Shulman’s path to Gentle Giant
Singer and future A&R icon recalls what the Fab Four meant to him, why Hendrix made him break up his first big band, and the truck stop where he met Syd Barrett, Eric Clapton and others
Prog-metallers Karnivool are back to reclaim their crown – if they don't die on stage first
A 12-year gap between albums would see most bands lose fans and momentum, but not Australian prog-metal titans Karnivool
“It’s no good saying, ‘I’ll be dead by the time this becomes a crisis’”: Jethro Tull – a warning from history
Ian Anderson believes he has a duty to tackle global issues, and argues it’s a very folky thing to do
What happened when XTC's bass player accidentally wrote their first big hit
Making Plans for Nigel established XTC as the intelligent arm of the post-punk movement – and it's still being directed at current Nigels
Nine Jack White albums you should listen to and one to avoid
From The White Stripes to The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, Third Man Records and beyond, Jack White is Detroit's latest favourite son
How a 1929 silent movie inspired the surreal alt. rock anthem that helped launch a musical revolution
The making of the alt.rock classic that inspired Kurt Cobain and took 10 minutes to write
“I felt like the John Lennon of Israel. But this is a ‘failure’ album”: The story of Blackfield V
Aviv Geffen expressed deep admiration for Wilson on their fifth collaborative work – but also his jealousy over the Porcupine Tree leader’s success
How Mrs Robinson became an era-defining hit and an albatross around The Lemonheads' neck
Recorded and mixed in just three hours, one of grunge's biggest songs was hated by the man who wrote it
Van Halen and the debut album that rescued rock'n'roll from the darkness and created a brighter future
Rock was stale, and dinosaurs were lumbering. Then an album arrived that was an effervescent shot in the arm for an entire genre
One of the biggest albums of the 1970s would have carried a 'thank you' to the band's drug dealer if he hadn't been murdered
"If there was a rule book, nobody gave me one"
