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

In the mid-1990s, THE BEATLES returned with Anthology , a new kind of documentary about the group, in which they told their astonishing story in their own words. A curious name, but then this was a diverse portfolio of releases gathered under one roof. A TV series. A groundbreaking series of archival albums. A book. And, most surprisingly, a new Beatles record! As the series and music is accorded a 30th-anniversary release, Uncut steps inside Anthology 2025 to hear about how it all came together, what passive-aggressive ukulele sounds like, and what’s still in the archive. “It makes ‘Revolution 9’ sound like ‘Penny Lane’,” Giles Martin tells John Robinson

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

It’s the end of the world as we know it, but Arjen Lucassen feels fine. So fine, in fact, that he’s written what’s described as “the soundtrack to humanity’s final days”. Thirteen years after his last proper solo album , the Dutch polymath has gone apocalyptic on Songs No One Will Hear with a little inspiration from some of his favourite sci-fi-themed records. He tells Prog what he’ll be doing when the asteroid hits and his future plans for Ayreon.

Pulp ’s Jarvis Cocker and Nick Banks reflect on the second summer of Britpop and look forward to the new year