
The sky is blue, the grass is green - and there is Paramore. Shades of the band have bled so completely into today’s pop landscape that their significance is hardly a matter of opinion, at this point, but empirical fact. Listen to music that defines the zeitgeist and it’s like the band have walked through a hall of mirrors: there may be distortion, warping their foundations to newfound extremes, but beneath it all, they are the real image.

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Influential folk icon Judy Collins will be honoured for her lifetime's work at the UK Americana Awards this week. She talks Alan Pedder through five key songs from her 60+ year career.


The architect behind Best Fit's Album of the Year Preacher's Daughter tells Sophie Walker about the next steps for her alter-ego Ethel Cain.


Boasting more than a decade in the indie rock scene, Cloud Nothings’ songwriter Dylan Baldi reflects on the 10th anniversary of their sophomore effort Attack On Memory.
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