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Soundtrack Of My Life: Taylor Hawkins

The first song I remember hearing The Kingsmen - 'Louie Louie' “I remember this one song as a kid and it 
just scared the s**t out...

12 of 2016’s best cover versions

From Slaves' angsty remake of 'The Hills' to Coldplay's headliner tribute to Viola Beach, these were the best covers of 2016. The Temper Trap -...

Bastille’s Dan Smith on his mysterious new side project and why he’s ‘excited’ for 2016 to be over

It's been a big old year for Bastille. As second record 'Wild World' is about to go gold we talked to frontman Dan Smith about...

2016 wasn’t all bad. Here are the things that made me cheerful

2016 has got kind of a bad reputation. 2016 is the leather-jacket-wearing, Marlboro-smoking bad kid who hangs around outside the local branch of Spar...

Meet Galactic Empire, the heavy metal Star Wars covers band

Picture the scene: a Stormtrooper takes the bass and Boba Fett plays drums while Darth Vader and two Sith employees shred on guitar, playing adapted versions of John...

‘Hamilton’ creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on ‘The Hamilton Mixtape’ and the Trump controversy

When Vice President-elect Mike Pence attended the hottest ticket musical Hamilton in New York last month, the audience voiced their displeasure. Little surprise – as...

The greatest music celebrity tweets of 2016

From the political to the mundane to the outright weird, Twitter can give you a sense of everything that went on in a through the...

New Music of the Day: The Parrots – ‘A Thousand Ways’

Two minutes is all The Parrots need to win themselves new fans, a skill the Madrid garage-rock trio have shown ever since they released their debut...

The 13 worst films of 2016 – according to Rotten Tomatoes

The curse of 2016 didn’t escape the silver screen. While civilisation was crumbling, cinemas were also taking it pretty hard too - well, they...

‘It’s not a grower, it’s just rubbish’ – 11 straight-talking Amazon reviewers crush 2016’s most critically-lauded albums

How good actually are the most critically acclaimed albums of 2016? Not much cop at all, according to some of the peer reviewers of Amazon,...
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