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<p>The five-piece has revolutionised the scene and have picked up some notable fans, but they’re just getting started</p>

interview

Turnstile’s Brendan Yates: ‘We never write to fill a quota of a song’

In 2021, the breakout album ‘Glow On’ transformed Turnstile from underground cult heroes into one of rock’s most exciting bands. Hannah Ewens talks to the band’s frontman about pushing the boundaries of genre, their forthcoming visual album, ‘Never Enough’, and the endorsement that could help define their summer

<p>Shirley Manson: ‘I have had to ignite some positivity in my own mind, otherwise I wouldn’t get out of bed’</p>

Interview

Shirley Manson: ‘I’m astounded by the apathy around me’

<p> An enigma: Eva Juan Perón arrives in Spain while on her European tour </p>

In Focus

Saint or swindler? The enduring enigma of former first lady Eva Perón

<p>‘I always wanted to be a motherf***ing rock star’</p>

Interview

Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz: ‘Kurt Cobain’s death scared me’

Interviews

<p>‘I didn’t want anyone to think that you just grow into a new nose or you just [start] anti-ageing,’ says Montag </p>

Interview

Heidi Montag on The Hills, viral pop stardom and plastic surgery

<p>Twenty One Pilots during the ‘Blurryface’ era </p>

Interview

How Twenty One Pilots became the streaming era’s biggest band

<p>Fractured family: Moon Unit Zappa and her dad Frank</p>

Interview

Moon Unit Zappa on life with Frank: ‘I was primed for subservience’

<p>Rose-tinted glasses: Mark Hoppus’s memoir shimmers with gratitude after the pop-punk legend survived cancer in 2021</p>

Interview

Blink-182 rocker Mark Hoppus: ‘I wish I had kissed Robert Smith back’

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Music Box

<p>Annie DiRusso performs during a Music Box session</p>

Watch rising star Annie DiRusso’s electrifying pared-back session

Watch singer-songwriter Clara Mann’s stunning Music Box performance

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Watch rising singer-songwriter Nancy Williams’ Music Box session

New Sensations

<p>Bea Wheeler’s observational lyricism has earned her a Rising Star nomination at the prestigious songwriting ceremony, the Ivor Novello Awards (up against the already Brit-nominated Lola Young, Liang Lawrence, LULU., and Nia Smith)</p>

New Sensations

Bea and her Business: ‘I would go to label meetings alone aged 16’

<p>Samia: ‘What I’m reaching for is self-certainty’</p>

New Sensations

Singer-songwriter Samia: ‘It’s easier to be an idea than a person’

<p>Chloe Moriondo makes music for mermaids</p>

new sensations

Chloe Moriondo: ‘I’ve been embarrassed by my online past selves’

Reviews

<p>Miley Cyrus is the frustrating yet endearing pop star we know and love on new album 'Something Beautiful'</p>

Miley Cyrus’s Something Beautiful isn’t as weird as she thinks

Sports Team’s new album is stacked with premonition and pertinence

Live music

<p>Jade, Heidi and Kesha: The girls took over Mighty Hoopla 2025</p>

Pop, Pride, and pure chaos: Mighty Hoopla is a truly joyful festival

<p>Robbie Williams Live at Murrayfield Stadium</p>

Robbie Williams’s Britpop Tour is only sporadically great

<p>Kylie’s 69-date Tension tour has already thrilled audiences in Australia, Asia and North America</p>

Kylie Minogue’s Tension tour proves she’s an all-time pop great

<p>Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest JJ from Austria holds up the trophy (Martin Meissner/AP)</p>

At Eurovision, politics once more intrudes upon this former pop lark

Retrospectives

<p>Supergrass: ‘We didn’t want to walk around town wearing Nike track suits. We’d probably rather wear some strange, velour, slightly wizardy outfit because it was just fun to dress up weirdly’</p>

Interview

Supergrass on ‘I Should Coco’ at 30: ‘We got even more psychedelic’

<p>Keyboardist Richard Wright plays on stage in ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII’</p>

Playback

This was Pink Floyd at their experimental zenith

<p>George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley at the Great Wall of China ahead of Wham!’s concert at Beijing's Workers’ Gymnasium in 1985</p>

In Focus

‘The police were scared’: When Wham! took Western pop to China

<p>Better Belieb it: Justin Bieber in concert in Germany in 2009</p>

playback

There’s a simple reason we owe Justin Bieber more respect

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