Lees, Holroyd, Wolstenholme and Pritchard; you might think it sounds like a legal firm in, say, Oldham, Lancashire. And you’d be right about the Oldham part. John Lees (guitar), Les Holroyd (bass), St

Celebrating the finest in American trash and kitsch culture, The Cramps played rock’n’roll at its delinquent, B-movie best.

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

Fine Young Cannibals haven’t come close to reforming, and the trio drifted apart rather than staging a dramatic finale. As a result, they’ve largely been forgotten in the 29 years since releasing any

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

They started out pretending to be Scotty Moore and Bill Black. The end came when one of them couldn’t keep quiet any more.