Music Features
Wolf Alice: new horizons
On new album ‘The Clearing’, Wolf Alice have found the sweet spot in paring back their ideas and pushing the best to the forefront, as they enter their most confident, self-assured era yet
Tara Joshi
Music Features
Leigh-Anne Pinnock: ‘I haven’t lived my destiny out yet’
From the age of 11, Leigh-Anne Pinnock was telling her schoolmates she was going to be a pop star. Two decades on, you’d be forgiven for thinking she’d long since fulfilled that dream. But, as she tells Rolling Stone UK, she’s determined to prove herself as a solo artist and to explore Black music in a way she’s never been able to before
Music Features
Mahalia is opening her heart and living IRL
In new album IRL, Mahalia explores the pain of the past but keeps her faith in her philosophy: to live life with an open heart
Politics Features
Spitting innocence: the use and abuse of drill lyrics in court
For a large portion of white society, rap is associated with a “racist construction of Blackness: danger, threat, uncivil”. As a result, drill lyrics are currently being misused in courts of law to prosecute Black and Brown young people in the UK, as a recent case demonstrates
Music Features
Florence + the Machine: beyond the fairy tale
Florence Welch has hit her stride, yet finds herself at a crossroads. As she releases her fifth album Dance Fever, she talks relationships, avoiding fame, and managing anxiety with Rolling Stone UK
Music Features
By the Light of Day: how ‘daytimers’ created space for a South Asian club scene
Rolling Stone UK hears from the former 'daytimer' regulars about the secretive music events that formed a seminal era in British South Asian culture