Bring me to life

Iron Maiden tours. Black Sabbath shows. Judas Priest documentaries. Times Square billboards. Lzzy Hale is everyone’s favourite go-to rock star. But it’s taken a rock-bottom moment and some existential soul-searching to get here

Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger gives us a track-by-track guide to the band’s new album

Forty years ago this September, Kate Bush released Hounds Of Love . Her fifth studio record reinstated her position as one of the most innovative and creative artists of all time and yielded the (future) chart-topper Running Up That Hill . But its creation wasn’t always smooth. Here’s the story behind one of Bush’s best-loved albums.

Author Cecelia Ahern on the Eurovision audition that led to a sliding doors moment

THIS AUTUMN LOOKS TO BE OLIVIA DEAN’S SEASON. AHEAD OF THE RELEASE OF HER ANTICIPATED SECOND ALBUM, FULL OF HEART-WRENCHING POWER BALLADS, SHE TELLS OLIVIA PETTER HOW SHE FOUND HER STRENGTH