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01 June 2021 Ellie Rowsell and Joff Oddie discuss how their evolving playing, the pandemic and a gigantic skull pedal made Wolf Alice's upcoming record, Blue Weekend (Image credit: Burak Cingi/Redferns / Chiaki Nozu/WireImage via Getty) It’s crazy to think that just 10 years ago, the pair of players at the heart of one of the UK’s biggest rock bands had barely touched an electric guitar. Formed in 2010 by Ellie Rowsell and Joff Oddie, Wolf Alice was initially an acoustic duo, combining Ellie’s songwriting chops and Joff’s fingerstyle acoustic prowess. At that point, London was in full...

“Everything’s a bit more focused on the lyrics and the melody” – An Interview with Wolf Alice Credit: Jordan Hemingway “Everything’s a bit more focused on the lyrics and the melody” – An Interview with Wolf Alice By Connie Seamer on After their Mercury Prize-winning Blue Weekend. I sat down with Ellie and Joel to chat about the new record. Blue Weekend signals the band’s full realisation of their sound. While it sounds familiar to their previous records, the new album takes Wolf Alice in a new, more mature, direction. On these differences in the new album...

Published May 5, 2021, 7:15 PM Wolf Alice Wolf Alice, Britain’s best band, today released their uncompromising new single “Smile”. The track was inspired by lead singer Ellie Rowsell’s desire to fight back against those who try to define her, and is the second single from their highly-anticipated third album, Blue Weekend, the follow up to the Mercury Prize winning Visions of a Life “Smile” is carried along on a tide of visceral energy, a song destined to be a live favourite. The band envisaged this during their time recording Blue Weekend in Brussels during lockdown. Rowsell stat...

Rolling Stone Watch Kings of Leon Perform ‘Echoing’ on ‘Kimmel’ The song comes off their recent album When You See Yourself Performing from the NFL Draft in Cleveland, the band offered a raucous version of the song complete with full stage production. The performance offers a glimpse of what their upcoming live shows might look like. “Echoing” comes off Kings of Leon’s most recent album, The Late Show to showcase album cut “The Bandit” last month and marked the album’s arrival with a music video for “Stormy Weather.” The album, produced by Markus Dravs, is ...

Share this article: Most people wouldn’t expect polite golf chat from Kings of Leon. Not from the group who emerged in the early aughts like a garage-rock thunderbolt. Proudly discussing the exploits of their young children? Sure, they are fathers, after all. But golf? Even with all their accolades and successes, one prize stands out for 41-year-old Nathan Followill, the group’s oldest and most affable member. “One of my proudest moments was making Golf Digest’s [2014] list of 100 best musician golfers,” the drummer says with a laugh, before explaining some of the game’s nuan...