After 10 wildly eclectic albums, Between The Buried And Me are changing tact. In The Blue Nowhere , the fictional hotel in which their latest concept album lives, the best and worst of humanity can be found. A gradient of genres conveys its chaos and calm, making for their brightest and boldest record to date. Prog checks in to find out more.

In a candid chat ahead of the release of his memoir We Did OK, Kid , actor, artist and composer Sir Anthony Hopkins reveals how his tough childhood and long battle with alcoholism formed the contented, joyful man he is today

Lees, Holroyd, Wolstenholme and Pritchard; you might think it sounds like a legal firm in, say, Oldham, Lancashire. And you’d be right about the Oldham part. John Lees (guitar), Les Holroyd (bass), St

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When she joined Atomic Kitten as a teenager in 1999, Natasha Hamilton thought she’d landed the best job in the world. But faced with punishing tours, frayed friendships and worries about her weight, t

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