Features / Series: Year End 2021

We've told you all about the best music you might have missed from 2021. We've asked the artists and labels who brought us that music to reflect on the twelve months just passed, and what they expect for 2022. But there's still room for more reflection! Here are our team … Read more

It's been a long year. Everyone around the world has struggled through another twelve months of pain, loss, boredom and frustration – so spare a thought for our friends in the music industry who've had to puzzle their way through releasing music during a vinyl shortage and trying to book … Read more

Pity the bands releasing new records this year, right? Another twelve months of uncertainty: will they be able to tour this album? Can they even get inside a studio? Will Adele's monopolisation of the world's supply of vinyl mean it can't get a 12" release?!  But on the other hand: … Read more