The long running psychedelic rock, jazz, space rock and more collective return with the final part of a trilogy.

Big Big Train cofounder Gregory Spawton on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

In 2001, the suicide of Big Country ’s Stuart Adamson shocked music fans all over the world. How had the man once lauded by DJ John Peel as ‘Scotland’s answer to Jimi Hendrix’ ended up taking his own life? In an exclusive extract from a new book, we look at the inside story of their debut album The Crossing .

In the wake of Peter Gabriel’s departure, GENESIS faced an existential question: carry on, or call it a day? Looking back 50 years, band members revisit the fraught months after their first frontman’s exit – and the creative surge that set the scene for one of rock’s most improbable second acts. “The band was meant to be dead and buried,” learns Peter Watts. “But we refused to lay down and die.”

Wiry monochrome intensity from indie veterans fully focused on the present