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Rolling Stone magazine has been shaping the way generations of readers have engage with music, entertainment and current affairs for over 55 years. Since it was founded by publisher Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph Gleason in San Francisco in 1967, it has launched the careers of rock stars and writers, saluted screen actors and charted the rise (and fall) of pop icons and Presidents.

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All by myself • Over the past year, Barry Can’t Swim has become the UK’s hottest new dance act. On second album Loner, he digests the whirlwind and admits his fears

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For the record • New exhibition Dennis Morris: Music + Life celebrates the work of a legendary photographer known for his iconic images of music greats including Bob Marley

Cliffords • The Cork band’s vocalist Iona Lynch on namechecking their home town in their records and embarking on their first full year of summer festivals

“Everything started to become possible” • As new production Hamlet Hail to the Thief combines Radiohead’s 2003 album with the classic Shakespeare play, its co-creators Thom Yorke and directors Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett reflect on the project’s genesis

Peter Townshend • The co-founder and guitarist of the Who talks about six decades with the band — and whether this really is their final tour

Eva Victor is Hollywood’s most original new voice • The writer, director and star of Sorry, Baby was a viral internet personality. Their debut film shows a deeper side

Marina is ready to ‘enjoy life to the max’ • The cult-favourite singer tells us about the playful pop and deeper introspection of her latest album

Atlantic City • New book 75 Years of Atlantic Records tells the story of one of the most important record labels of all time, from Aretha Franklin to ABBA, Coldplay and beyond

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NEW HORIZONS • On new album The Clearing, Wolf Alice have found the sweet spot in paring back their ideas and pushing the best to the forefront, as they enter their most confident, self-assured era yet

OBONGJAYAR IS CREATING HIS OWN PARADISE • After head-turning slots alongside Fred again.. and Little Simz, the magnetic, shape-shifting singer is ready to become a star on his second album, Paradise Now

Lorde ‘I’m An Intense Bitch’ •  Virgin, her first album in four years, is raw, wild and sublime. But it came after a series of personal changes and revelations – from a breakup to an eating disorder to an expanding gender identity. Now, she’s ready to talk about all of it

LIFE GOES ON • A HIGH-PROFILE LAWSUIT WAS THE FIRST THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF THE BAND NOW KNOWN AS HARD LIFE. AS FRONTMAN MURRAY MATRAVERS TELLS US, HE ALMOST GOT IN HIS OWN WAY TOO, BEFORE THIRD ALBUM ONION GAVE HIM A FRESH START

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED • Simon Pegg looks back on the past 20 years of the Mission: Impossible franchise, and teases the likelihood of getting the band back together for just one more Cornetto movie…

inside the NOVA TWINS’ CELESTIAL AWAKENING • Watching a solar eclipse the day before recording third album Parasites & Butterflies convinced the Nova Twins’ Amy Love and Georgia South of the power of their new record’s opposing themes of light and darkness, as they tell Rolling Stone UK

BACK TO THE BAR • Fresh from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of charity, Manchester rapper Aitch returns with a shackles-off second studio album crafted with high-energy live shows in mind

The talented Mr Tovey • Whether it’s playing Brian Paddick in the hard-hitting Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes or portraying 90s homophobia in Plainclothes, Russell Tovey...