Arctic Monkeys and RAYE among 2023 Mercury Prize Albums of the Year shortlist – Music News

Arctic Monkeys and RAYE among 2023 Mercury Prize Albums of the Year shortlist - Music News

Arctic Monkeys, RAYE and Jessie Ware’s albums are shortlisted for the 2023 Mercury Prize with FREENOW. Alex Turner and co have the chance to win their second Mercury Prize of their career with 2022’s ‘The […]

‘ I don’t really know if there’s anything as good as that since’: Damon Albarn dubs Arctic Monkeys the ‘last great guitar band’ – Music News

' I don’t really know if there’s anything as good as that since': Damon Albarn dubs Arctic Monkeys the 'last great guitar band' - Music News

Damon Albarn says Arctic Monkeys were the “last great guitar band” before the genre’s recent resurgence. The Blur and Gorillaz star admits guitar music had gotten “so sterile”, and even though there are bands with […]

Arctic Monkeys CONFIRMED for Glastonbury tonight after fears Alex Turner wouldn’t be well enough – Music News

Arctic Monkeys CONFIRMED for Glastonbury tonight after fears Alex Turner wouldn't be well enough - Music News

Arctic Monkeys are set for their Glastonbury headline slot tonight (23.06.23), after a few days of it being touch-and-go if they’d perform due to frontman Alex Turner’s acute laryngitis.  Festival organiser Emily Eavis admitted it […]

Iron Maiden ‘don’t give a monkey’s’ about being snubbed by Glastonbury – Music News

Iron Maiden 'don't give a monkey's' about being snubbed by Glastonbury - Music News

Iron Maiden couldn’t “give a monkey’s” about not being invited to perform at Glastonbury. Frontman Bruce Dickinson, 64, has insisted it doesn’t bother him that the heavy metal group have never played the world-famous music […]

Arctic Monkeys review – a mirrorball vision of what rock music can be | Arctic Monkeys

Alex Turner and Jamie Cook.

‘Very good,” Alex Turner exhales after delivering the final crunching note of Teddy Picker, hitting the nail on the head. The Arctic Monkeys frontman, dressed like a Laurel Canyon troubadour in a wide-collared denim shirt […]

Yungblud can’t ‘relate’ to ‘older’ acts like Arctic Monkeys and The 1975 – Music News

Yungblud can't 'relate' to 'older' acts like Arctic Monkeys and The 1975 - Music News

Yungblud admits he doesn’t “relate” to “older” acts like The 1975 and Arctic Monkeys. The ’11 Minutes’ hitmaker – whose real name is Dominic Harrison – insisted those acts feel like a “generation apart” from […]

Taylor Swift starts out ahead of Arctic Monkeys in race for UK’s Number 1 album – Music News

Taylor Swift starts out ahead of Arctic Monkeys in race for UK’s Number 1 album - Music News

Taylor Swift starts out in front in the biggest Official Chart battle of the year so far, going up against Arctic Monkeys in the race for the UK’s Official Albums Chart Number 1. Taylor’s latest […]

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Burial, Arctic Monkeys, and Dry Cleaning

Burial

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Burial, Arctic Monkeys, and Dry Cleaning Burial image credit not cited on original October 24, 2022 There’s so much good music out in the […]

Alex Turner: “Arctic Monkeys’ new songs could definitely hang out in a stadium’ – Music News

Alex Turner: “Arctic Monkeys’ new songs could definitely hang out in a stadium’ - Music News

Alex Turner believes his latest songs are stadium-worthy. The ‘Arctic Monkeys’ frontman, 36, says the tunes on the band’s seventh album ‘The Car’ could “hang out” with other arena-standard hits. He told NME: “It wouldn’t […]

8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Dry Cleaning, and More

Taylor Swift Midnights

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. […]

Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner on his band’s new LP, ‘The Car’

Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner on his band's new LP, 'The Car'

Arctic Monkeys blasted out of the U.K. in 2006 with “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not,” a scrappy modern-classic debut that framed the young quartet as a kind of transatlantic counterpart to […]

Arctic Monkeys: The Car review – aching songs of soured dreams | Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys: The Car album art

When Arctic Monkeys sprang into the charts 16 years ago, they did so with a hurtling energy and an album name borrowed from Alan Sillitoe’s novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. At the time, the […]