The rising son

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

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Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist Steve Morse on the records, artists and gigs of lasting significance to him.

I RECENTLY GOT back off the road with my band Black Country Communion, which features Jason Bonham on drums, Glenn Hughes on bass and vocals — the “Voice of Rock!”— and the master of the keyboards, De

Cum on, there’s still time to feel the noize…

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