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“We have a vision that’s going to take us through multiple albums”: Meet Saint Clair - the artful four-piece that sound like a collision of Radiohead and Pixies

Balancing expressive vocals and snarling guitar, Saint Clair might be the vital shot in the arm that British guitar rock has been waiting for

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Record Store Day 2026: Labi Siffre, Springsteen, Pixies - What releases should you be looking for?

Here are our picks for the best Record Store Day 2026 releases.

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"Heathen finds Bowie settling into his role as elder statesman of the post-punk art rock movement." David Bowie successfully charts a path into his later years with the help of a returning friend

David Bowie transforms once again, this time into himself

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"I don’t really know what I’m talking about, I’m just doing it. There’s no art to it." How a meaningless French silent movie inspired the surreal alt. rock anthem that helped launch a musical revolution

The making of the alt.rock classic that inspired Kurt Cobain and took 10 minutes to write

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"I've loved it and hated it, loved it and hated it": The story of the breakthrough hit its writer doesn't want to talk about ever again

Drink cider from a lemon? Grant Nicholas reveals the real inspiration behind Feeder's hit single Buck Rogers

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"It sounded like the way ice cream on a hot summer day tastes." How a Marquis de Sade biography, Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas and a bum note helped "a metal girl from Ohio" write a rock anthem that wowed Nirvana and changed Olivia Rodrigo's life

"We thought no-one would play it." The story behind one of the great '90s alt. rock singles, The Breeders' Cannonball

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“I’d like to get a Flying V. I saw James Hetfield of Metallica playing one live, and I thought, ‘He’s got such a great guitar sound’”: Kim Deal on finally making her solo debut, working with Steve Albini and why she hates bright guitar tones

On her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You more, Kim Deal expands on the sonics she built in the Breeders and Pixies

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Tim Booth reveals that James got 'a bit salty' about the success of Sit Down

James frontman Tim Booth has revealed that the band got "salty" about their anthem Sit Down overshadowing their other records.

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“I already played guitar with a pick, so that’s how I played bass. I didn’t know you were supposed to play it with your fingers!” Kim Deal’s DIY attitude with the Pixies inspired a generation of alt-rockers

Kim Deal’s insistent eighth-note basslines were one of the few constants of the Pixies’ zero-to-60 approach to alt-rock

Guitar World

“I had no idea that show would be my last. The whole thing felt like a divorce”: How Paz Lenchantin’s departure from the Pixies led to her first-ever solo album

She’s played in some of alternative music’s biggest bands. Now Lenchantin is back with a solo album fueled by a vintage P-Bass that Billy Corgan inspired her to buy

Guitar World

“There was a small fish that was aggressively following me and poking me… it freaked me out”: the high-school scuba trip that inspired an all-time alt-rock anthem

A pesky little creature at the bottom of the ocean prompted this singer and guitarist to lose his mind

Louder

Charlie Puth Weighs In On Taylor Swift's 'Showgirl' Copycat Claims — Did She Really Rip Off Old Hits?

Charlie Puth has weighed in on the Taylor Swift 'Showgirl' plagiarism debate, breaking down why similarities between songs are inevitable — and why Swift's new tracks might not be as unoriginal as critics claim.

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“If you persist in doing the things that you want to do to satisfy yourself, you can live your whole life that way”: watch a heartfelt message to a young musician from the late, great Steve Albini

The legendary In Utero and Surfer Rosa producer offered up some encouragement to a young drummer and his words of wisdom are worth listening to

Louder

Pixies announce new worldwide tour to celebrate their 40th anniversary

The alt-rock trailblazers will play six gigs in the UK and Ireland as part of their Pixies 40 shows

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"The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people": Whipping boys of the music press in the 90s, Bush are still fighting back

Gavin Rossdale on thirty years of Bush, the mysteries of music making, Steve Albini and the defiance of gravity

Guitar World

“Learning to play with a pick was like dancing with two left feet. I had to entirely relearn the bass”: Having played in the Pixies, Zwan, and A Perfect Circle, Paz Lenchantin knows a thing or two about the bass guitar and its role in rock

Former Pixies bassist Paz Lenchantin still has a few tricks up her sleeve, including a debut solo album

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Former Pixies, A Perfect Circle, Zwan bassist Paz Lenchantin announces debut solo album, Triste, shares first single Hang Tough

Paz Lenchantin pulls together partial A Perfect Circle reunion on her debut solo record

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Soundgarden's Kim Thayil names the rock and metal bands he believes should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the legendary prog band he can't believe hasn't been inducted already

"I don’t think realistically I would see myself in the same club as the Beatles or the Stones or Zeppelin!"

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“When I came up with the guitar part, Krist looked at me and said, ‘That is so ridiculous’. I made the band play it for an hour and a half”: It defined the '90s, yet Nirvana’s biggest anthem started out as a self-confessed rip-off

It was written to be the ultimate pop song, and with over two billion streams, the legacy of Nirvana’s most popular cut endures

Louder

"The sound of a man running wild in his own imagination": Frank Black's Teenager Of The Year still sounds brilliant 30 years on

A shiny gold vinyl release as Frank Black's crowning solo glory hits 30

Guitar World

“Mustangs are sick. They can take quite a beating when you’re literally chucking yourselves around”: Meet Lambrini Girls, the noise-punks starting a riot with blunt punk and scathing social commentary

Fresh from supporting IDLES and Amyl and The Sniffers and making a fan out of Iggy Pop, singer/guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Lilly Macieira are on the brink of releasing their highly anticipated debut, and winning fans one flamethrower track at a time

Guitar World

“An OCD through a Marshall is the Pixies sound”: Joey Santiago on why he’s a stompbox convert – but still hates the “coffee shop” chorus pedal

Santiago used to make it a point of pride that he didn't have any pedals. How times change. He shows us his pedalboard and explains why he’s addicted to boosts and distortion

Guitar World

“The thread is I must’ve suffered at their hands because I wasn’t allowed to write anything. I was still a guitar player, still writing the whole time through Pixies and Breeders”: Kim Deal on why she has always been both a guitarist and a bassist

Deal had been hounded by the narrative that, aside from a couple of songs, she was never “allowed” to write songs with the Pixies – now, she's setting the record straight

The Independent UK

Kim Deal on addiction, Pixies and going solo: ‘It’s nice I lasted long enough to contemplate the past’

INTERVIEW: The Pixies bass player and Breeders frontwoman is an icon of the 1980s and 1990s alt-rock scene. As she releases her first solo album at the age of 63 she talks to Annabel Nugent about getting clean, her tricky relationship with Black Francis and why Kamala Harris lost the…

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"Global warming is horrible but damn, it makes for beautiful weather." An audience with Kim Deal, still the coolest indie rock star on the planet

She was the coolest person in the Pixies, a platinum-selling artist with The Breeders, and now, finally, she's gone solo. Kim Deal on Steve Albini, dogs, loss, life and loving it all – even the rubbish bits

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