The Big Issue

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Last week I heard a song called The King of Rome for the first time. It knocked me sideways. I immediately listened to it again, and then again. And then I started telling everybody to listen to it. It was released in 2012 so a number of the people I

Evening Standard

5 min read

Over the course of the last decade or so, Ed Sheeran went from a gigging Suffolk teenager with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal, to someone who’s played in front of the Queen, sold out arenas around the world and, by most measures, become one of t

FHM US

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From Halifax to Hollywood Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in February 1991 in Halifax, England. His parents, both working for an art consultancy at the time, also had an older son. Constantly being surrounded by art and creatives, Sheeran took an

FHM Sweden

6 min read

Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou

FHM South Africa

6 min read

Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou

Power & Motoryacht

7 min read

Before the world irrevocably changed, I was going into the office every day. Monotony was an issue. To avoid feeling stymied, and itching for a brew, on the odd Monday night, myself and a few of the editors could be found congregating at the Griswold

FHM Australia

6 min read

Music is a powerful art form, it has the ability to transform a mood, evoke memories of a long-lost love, and has the power to bring people together. And no artist currently encapsulates all those elements more than Ed Sheeran. The world’s most famou

Reader's Digest UK

6 min read

MY EARLIEST MEMORY WAS THE SONG “NOW IS THE HOUR”, which was a big hit for Vera Lynn shortly after the war. Bing Crosby recorded that in the Fifties, and that might have been the version that I heard, because a lot of big singers at the time recorded

Classic Rock

2 min read

Dan Reed Network’s fusion of hard rock with funk lasted three studio albums, including the acclaimed Slam, from their formation in ’84 to the band being put on ice in ’93. Frontman and main songwriter Dan Reed dropped off the map, then returned to be

Classic Rock

2 min read

OVER THE PAST 13 years and four previous albums, Trucker Diablo have never held back on delivering bullish, anthemic music that gets right in your face. The Northern Irish foursome have now taken this a stage further on new album Tail End Of A Hurric

Los Angeles Times

4 min read

Muni Long is putting love at the forefront. "I think toxicity is what people respond to," says the R&B singer and songwriter. "So that's what people are making. But there's a movement of people responding to love. I honestly feel like that's why 'Hrs

Global Voices

5 min read

"It's a long, long time now we fighting for freedom […] I come with my bell just to second the motion, rock the rapso riddum.”

Classic Rock

7 min read

BLUDGEON RIFFOLA The best rock album of 2022 is also the best Def Leppard album since 1992. They’ve made other strong records in the 30 years since Adrenalize, but with Diamond Star Halos they’re thinking big, and also thinking outside the box. Their

FHM South Africa

3 min read

Country music star Eric Ethridge has seen his latest single “Sad Songs” being streamed millions of times, and while the pandemic has slowed down concerts/tours, that hasn’t stopped Eric from creating new music. FHM sat down with the music man to lear

Weekend Argus Saturday

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This week we feature South African funk, pop and R&B duo Easy Freak. Dom Hurd and Jude Kenrick studied jazz at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and as a result of their passion for performing, founded Easy Freak. The duo write and produce all their

FHM Sweden

3 min read

Country music star Eric Ethridge has seen his latest single “Sad Songs” being streamed millions of times, and while the pandemic has slowed down concerts/tours, that hasn’t stopped Eric from creating new music. FHM sat down with the music man to lear

NPR

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Celebrate NPR Music's 10th anniversary with a highly personal, not-at-all comprehensive list of the songs, albums, trends and moments from the last 10 years that we can't forget.

The Independent

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The 2022 American Music Awards were held live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday (20 November). The ceremony was hosted by American TV personality Wayne Brady. Taylor Swift was the biggest winner of the night with six wins, including

Under the Radar

31 min read

In the fall of 2019, we began a series of interviews with the intention of examining the changes in the music industry over the previous decade. A number of lines of inquiry were identified—How do musicians make a living in 2020? What do the words “i

Vogue Australia

7 min read

FOMO FESTIVAL, PARRAMATTA, New South Wales; January 2020. The Vogue team is on the ground to catch local rap sensation Chillinit and, really, to people-watch. At the gates, we’re met by sniffer dogs and a dozen police – a norm at any festival these d

Esquire Singapore

5 min read

For more than 20 years, Simple Plan has been loved for making songs about love. This year, the quartet—consisting of Pierre Bouvier (lead vocalist and bassist), Chuck Comeau (drummer), Jeff Stinco (lead guitarist) and Sébastien Lefebvre (rhythm guita

Los Angeles Times

4 min read

The morning before Thanksgiving, Lil Nas X was driving around Atlanta recounting the whirlwind year in which he broke longstanding Billboard chart records, became the biggest gay pop star in the world and scored six Grammy nominations, including best

frankie Magazine

2 min read

Because You Loved Me – Celine Dion I was about nine years old when I first heard this song; it was on a Grammy-winner compilation CD my dad had, and I always skipped to it. I reconnected with it over the last couple of years. Production-wise, it sits

UNCUT

9 min read

“I DON’T know why I keep on making records,” says Linda Thompson cheerily. “I just get bored of walking around Marks & Spencer so I think, ‘Well, I’d better do something.’” Thank goodness. Born Linda Pettifer and raised in Glasgow, as Linda Peters sh

The Oldie

2 min read

Whenever Ed Sheeran’s name is mentioned, I feel a tug of guilt, as I’m sure anyone who describes themselves as a ‘creative/content-provider’ does. As you will recall, the ginger-nutted goblin has just won a copyright case in the High Court over his 2

UNCUT

9 min read

“I DON’T know why I keep on making records,” says Linda Thompson cheerily. “I just get bored of walking around Marks & Spencer so I think, ‘Well, I’d better do something.’” Thank goodness. Born Linda Pettifer and raised in Glasgow, as Linda Peters sh

Vogue Australia

2 min read

When I was a teenager, about the same age as my twin daughters are now, I had a huge vinyl collection that had pride of place by the record player next to my bed. My passion for listening to records, scattered ever so fashionably on the floor of my

The Atlantic

12 min read

The Grammys have always been more than a bit old-fashioned. The ceremony typically consists of exciting new artists covering the songs of yesteryear, interspersed with awards going to established acts over those same exciting new artists. But though

The Guardian

5 min read

Ed Sheeran is very aware of the contradictions at the heart of his superstardom. The first line of his new Disney+ documentary, The Sum of It All, finds the multi-platinum songwriter declaring: “I’m speccy, ginger hair, really short, English, from th

Prog

53 min read

We asked. You voted. In your thousands. Almost 80,000 of you to be precise, by far and away the biggest reader vote this magazine has ever undertaken. So the past month has been a heady whirlwind of names, numbers, quotes, frayed tempers, late nights