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The Best Strokes Covers Of All Time, From Julia Jacklin To Azealia Banks Arctic Monkeys covering Take It Or Leave It is perhaps the most fun a band has ever had. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. We’re coming up on two full decades since The Strokes released their hype-in-a-bottle debut in mid-2001, and  Is This It still feels like a visceral embodiment of its precise time and place: new-millennium New Y...

To this day, I still cannot believe that as fresh-faced 17-year-olds with UCAS Track accounts, we all picked our universities purely based on vibes. If you were finishing college around 2017, everyone cool was going to Manchester, so naturally, you applied to Manchester. Or, if you didn’t have the grades to go to Manchester, you applied for Man Met. Both of these unis could have placed 143rd for your chosen course but you didn’t care (as long as your mum and dad didn’t notice), because of...

Popular alt-rock songs of the early '10s by Arctic Monkeys & The Neighbourhood are proving to be enduring, thanks in large part to continued exposure on TikTok.

Castle Triathlon’s next virtual race: The Polar Bear Receive more great content like this in your inbox! Leave this field empty if youre human: 19/21 February 2021 – Castle Virtual Series – The Polar Bear Last month Castle Virtual Series held their Arctic Monkey event! This saw competitors of all ages come together from Australia, France, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand, USA and UK to run, walk, bike and swim, across 23 race distances. Some athletes even braved snowy conditions an...

592 Shares He paid homage to Crouchs robot celebration A man has completed a Peter Crouch-shaped half marathon across west London, much to the amusement of the former Liverpool, Southampton and QPR striker. Advertisement Not only that - the mans half marathon passed through locations that are meant to hold particular relevance to Crouch and his life. Big fan of Matt’s running route �� pic.twitter.com/lFJEYVtGEC The runner, Matt Peck, made his way across west London in a Peter Crouch-shape...

21 albums all music lovers should own on vinyl Words by Tammy Walters Considering starting or extending your vinyl collection?  With our friends at Discrepancy Records we’ve made the art of awe-inspiring wax curation a breeze. From genre-defining groundwork to the modern classic, here are 21 albums that must be owned on vinyl: 1. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black Amy Winehouse was an old soul drawn to the warmth, complexity and passion of Big Band, jazz and soul foundatio...

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall five stars INTERNATIONAL collaboration may be crucial to the success of Celtic Connections, not least as the first non-Edinburgh event to attract support from the Scottish Government’s Expo Fund, but partnerships forged more locally can be just as valuable and inspiring. The 9th edition of the Roaming Roots Review, hosted as ever by Roddy Hart with his superb band The Lonesome Fire, never strayed that far from home in its recruitment policy, but the mix of guest tal...

Credit: press Have you noticed that everyone spends all their time looking at screens these days? Rivers Cuomo has. On ‘Screens’, a track from Weezer’s technophobic new orchestral pop album ‘OK Human’, he paints a picture of work-from-homers getting distracted by computer solitaire and streaming Blackpink. “Now the real world is dying as everybody moves into the cloud,” sings Cuomo. “Can you tell me where we’re going? Where will we be 21 years from...

The Coral Credit: Press The Coral have shared details of their spooky new single ‘Faceless Angel’ and talked exclusively to NME about their forthcoming thematic double album ‘Coral Island’. Fuelled by their own fairground memories and fantasies, 10th album ‘Coral Island’ sees the band soundtracking bustling seaside towns in the summer on the first half of the record before waltzing into the lonely lives of characters who inhabit the island during the cold winter on the ...

“In this rather disjointed time, the guys are beavering away and I hope that next year they’ll start working on some new songs, new ideas, with a view on a future release,” explained Ian McAndrew. Advertisement However, he said no “proper work” had begun at that time: “I’m hoping that next year, when the restrictions lift, we’ll be able to get together and get on with it.” It was reported last March that Arctic Monkeys were planning a string of homecoming shows for 2021. The...