Brett Anderson and Mat Osman guide us through 30 years plus of catchy, dramatic alternative rock

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Welcome to the second of our special Review Of The Year joint interviews. Here, indie provocateur BAXTER DURY and Sleaford Mods’ splenetic frontman JASON WILLIAMSON turn their attentions to the landscape, musical or otherwise, of 2025. Stand by for a bleak, brash, honest and often humorous assessment of the year just gone. Their conclusions? “We’re just flogging this dead horse, aren’t we?” they tell Mark Beaumont

After releasing four solo albums under his own name, Riverside frontman Mariusz Duda has turned his attention back to Lunatic Soul . He’s rightly proud of The World Under Unsun , an ambitious new double album that he refers to as his “calling card”, but could it spell the end of this particular outlet? He tells Prog why he’s gone big and bold on his eighth release under the LS banner and reveals his plans for the future.

STEP INTO THE MIND OF DOUGLAS ADAMS WITH AN IMMERSIVE NEW PRODUCTION OF THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

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