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CONTRIBUTORS ISSUE 029 • Inside Rolling Stone

CAN A NEW PRIME MINISTER BRING UNITY?

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THE X FACTOR • From Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey to Ryan Coogler’s X-Files via Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes 3, Himesh Patel is hanging with all the right people this summer

THE ONES TO WATCH • Rolling Stone UK’s hot list of the latest new talent

BLOC PARTY’S KELE OKEREKE: ‘I WAS STARTING TO BELIEVE THAT LOVE AND ROMANCE WASN’T REAL’ • The band’s bracingly honest seventh album, Anatomy of a Brief Romance, sees the frontman chronicle both the birth and death of a whirlwind relationship, warts and all. Of making the record, he says: “I’m wondering if I’ve made myself undateable”

LA ROUX ‘IT’S THE MOST JOYOUS AND FREE THAT I’VE EVER FELT ON A RECORD’ • Although the singer’s new album Old Flames explores the painful breakdown of a relationship, she still loves to make music

WASIA PROJECT’S WILLIAM GAO AND OLIVIA HARDY ON CHAOS, COMMUNITY AND CREATIVITY • “We feel assured in the community we’ve built for ourselves,” says William Gao, one half of Wasia Project, in this interview with the sibling duo who are making cinematic alt-pop

GEORGE MICHAEL AT HIS POP PEAK IN THE 80S • A new concert film, long thought lost, captures the late star’s Faith tour

BIRDMAN ANTONY SZMIEREK’S SEARCH FOR A HAPPY ACCIDENT • Nesting between the worlds of alternative and dance music, the Mancunian spokenword artist chooses to let chance, impulse and magic dictate his quest for human connection and immortal memories

LITTLE GRANDAD ARE THE LONDON BROTHERS SINGING ‘BLOOD HARMONIES’ • With an Americana-tinged sound, this band have cut their teeth at over 100 gigs in their first year together

INSIDE SUMMER’S FEEL-GOOD HORROR FLICK • Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun on the inspirations behind Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

RIDLEY SCOTT FILMS THAT LEFT US ENTERTAINED • From sword fights to androids to the Battle of Mogadishu, a ranking of movies that defined the past three decades

VIEWING TRUMP THROUGH THE LENS OF THE PAST • The co-hosts of the podcast The Rest Is History on American politics, presidents and perils

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Life and Death With Charli XCX

‘TO BE AN EMOTIONAL JUNGLIST IS TO FEEL EVERYTHING AND NOTHING ALL AT ONCE’ • For years, being Nia Archives came with a mission: champion jungle. Now, the poster girl for the genre’s renaissance is spreading her musical wings and being unapologetically herself

TOP OF THE WORLD • Rolling Stone UK goes backstage with Dermot Kennedy, Ireland’s triple-chart-topping, stadium-packing star

‘THEY MAKE THE LAWS TO CHAIN US WELL’: FOLK MUSIC FIGHTS FOR ITS RIGHTS • As of March 2026, Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan has served notice to record label Celtic Music to reclaim the rights to his music. Here, music historian Colin Harper, along with artists The Mary Wallopers, Barbara Dickson, Allan Taylor and Martin Simpson, discuss the impact of Gaughan’s fight for other elderly artists, and the protest at the heart of folk music’s continued legacy

ACT 3: SUCCESS AND ITS AFTERMATH • Yard Act’s third album You’re Gonna Need A Little Music sees the tight-knit band...