(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Sat 22 November 2025 11:02, UK During a 1978 interview, The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was quizzed about the bipolar nature of his many songs that portray female characters. The interviewer told Jagger that he sometimes portrayed his women as “mystical” and, at other times, “stupid”.  “There are two […]

(Credits: Far Out / StubHub) Sat 22 November 2025 11:00, UK Amid the punk milieu of the period, The Stranglers stood out like a Ferrari in an Aldi car park. They were the envy of their peers because they had more chops in abundance than a butcher’s window. This drew their ire. They were also […]

(Credits: Far Out / ANNA SOLER CEPRIÁ) Fri 21 November 2025 11:30, UK Few names in popular music evoke such a standard of consummate artistry as Björk. Across her 30-odd-year career, not to mention the litany of bands and projects in her native Iceland before her 1990s stardom, an unerring creative intuition guides every album […]

(Credits: Far Out / Lydia Ballam) Fri 21 November 2025 11:30, UK It’s all too easy to forget that the centuries-old folk tradition was a populist art form sung by the labouring class, far removed from the stuffy establishment hijack that wrings out all its stomping life, or operating in spaces remote and inaccessibly to […]

Fri 21 November 2025 11:10, UK Neil Young, Kings of Leon and The Lumineers have been confirmed to headline the new UK festival, State Fayre. The three-day event is set to be held on the grounds of Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, formerly the home of V Festival, between June 26th and June 28th, 2026. […]

(Credits: Far Out / Kathleen Ballard, Los Angeles Times) Thu 20 November 2025 11:30, UK With an unflinching pen and an unwavering curiosity, Joan Didion chronicled American culture’s most pivotal moments across political and cultural shifts. Across her amassed volume of essays, she dissected the niche facets of culture that particularly struck her. She explored […]

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Stilll) Thu 20 November 2025 11:08, UK Geese have performed a new live set for From The Basement, kicking off a new series. They open with the album opener, ‘Trinidad’, which hits huge crescendoes in a chorus that sees frontman Cameron Winter acerbically shouting, “There’s a bomb in my car!” […]

(Credits: Dale Bozzio) Thu 20 November 2025 11:00, UK Missing Persons singer Dale Bozzio’s son has launched a fundraiser to pay for his mother’s urgent surgery. The emotional GoFundMe message from Bozzio’s son, Troy McKenzie, begins, “Dale Bozzio, lead singer of the 80’s new wave band Missing Persons, is a lot of things to the […]