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The 11 best HAIM songs
HAIM have announced a new album and a new UK tour for 2025. Get yourself ready with the band's best 11 tracks, ranked
“My compass was recalibrating” – The Beths’ Liz Stokes & Jonathan Pierce on making Straight Line Was A Lie
The loveable New Zealand indie-rockers on the making of their best album yet
Interview
Jacob Rees-Mogg was denied entry to an MC Hammersmith show
With a new show on the horizon, we get to know the world's leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class West London
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Horatio Gould is (probably) on Google Maps while talking to you
Get to know the rising comedian ahead of the autumn tour of his new show Return Of The Space Cowboy
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Rachel Galvo wants to star in a musical
Pains au chocolat and Catholic guilt – it all comes out as we get to know the Irish comedian ahead of the UK tour of The Shite Feminist
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Edinburgh Fringe 2025: as it happened
Join us on our tireless trail across Auld Reekie to see the best of what the world's biggest performing arts festival has to offer
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Don’t miss these comedy acts at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
The choice can be overwhelming at the world's biggest performing arts festival – plan your visit with these essentials
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The 11 best Deftones songs
Why have a Top 10 when you can have one more? Here are our 11 favourite Deftones songs, ranked
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Fontaines D.C. and friends balance music and politics beautifully in Finsbury Park
The Dubliners were joined by Amyl and the Sniffers, Kneecap and more for their biggest headline show yet
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Cassandra Jenkins is a master of understated bliss
The 'Hard Drive' singer's headline show at Lantern Hall, Bristol is cosmic and cathartic