Top 20 albums, headlining arenas and that Taylor Swift cover – post metalcore crew I Prevail are dragging heavy music back into the mainstream

Bin fires, fistfights and dodgy 80s hair metal songs – this is Malevolence’s guide to their hometown of Sheffield

After two decades tilling the soil of Louisville’s fertile underground scene, Ryan Davis is finally coming up roses. His two albums with The Roadhouse Band have placed him at the vanguard of a new wave of wry, literate bandleaders putting a fresh spin on fuzzy country-rock. “We’ve only ever followed our own North Star,” Davis tells Sam Richards, of his band’s long road to renown. “Now, for whatever reason, we’ve somehow circumnavigated the whole shitshow!”

Live and “on fire”.

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The accessibility, affordability and portability of synthesizers in the late 70s had a profound effect on popular music, particularly in the UK, where the likes of Ultravox!, Gary Numan and OMD reshap