Emma Wilkes

Kerrang! • 1st April 2026

Static Dress: “I want us to be the ultimate escapism band”

If anything makes Olli Appleyard break out in hives, it’s the idea of bands rolling off a conveyer belt. Sterile production, algorithm-appeasing choruses, gloss instead of grit – all of these are the last things he wants to hear. “People are making...

Kerrang! • 12th March 2026

Live review: Poppy, Bristol Electric

“Welcome to the House Of Poppy,” booms a disembodied voice on the stroke of 9pm. The story goes that in here, “every face in this room is a mirror, every sound a pulse in infinite space” and this nightclub “remembers everyone who has ever walked...

Kerrang! • 14th January 2026

Poppy: “I haven’t really found my place. I’m an explorer, but I don’t…

Poppy thrives off adventure. Her shapeshifting musical path across the past decade has been a voyage she’s designing for herself, twisting through genres with everlastingly curious abandon. Indeed, when K! asks her to sum up her 2025, “an adventure”...

Revolver • 29th January 2025

Meet CHAINED SAINT: HALFORD-approved teen thrashers "playing with raw fire"

Picture this: your band’s debut album was produced by Alice in Chains’ William DuVall. The studio you recorded at is run by Bill Kelliher of Mastodon. You’ve been shouted out by Judas Priest’s Metal God, Rob Halford, and your music has soundtracked a...

Revolver • 29th January 2025

Inside CALVA LOUISE's multinational roots and multiple-worlds-spanning vision

Calva Louise will never play a hometown show. That’s because, technically, they don’t have one. The trio’s members each hail from vastly different corners of the world. Vocalist-guitarist Jess Allanic is from Venezuela, bassist Alizon Taho from...

Kerrang! • 27th January 2025

Why Independent Venue Week matters

Independent venues are the lifeblood of our scene. Those small, sweaty rooms you find in pretty much every pocket of the world are where the greatest memories are made, where fans can find an escape from the outside world, and where bands perfect...

Kerrang! • 23rd January 2025

VUKOVI: “This band is so personal. It’s literally everything to us”

“We’ve not really had a moment to talk out what the fuck’s happened in the past two years!” For VUKOVI singer Janine Shilstone, even just being able to sit down and chat about it all is quite a relief. Guitarist Hamish Reilly is feeling it,...

Kerrang! • 17th December 2024

Karen Dió: “I realised, ‘If I want to sing my f*cking songs, I will,…

Karen Dió is done being quiet and polite. Once upon a time, she’d have to squish parts of herself down to survive and be heard in the small, stifling music industry in her native Brazil, while also contending with a pervasive sense of misogyny. “I had...

Kerrang! • 30th October 2024

Bambie Thug: “I’m trying to help people accept themselves, and be…

The first thing you notice walking into Signature Brew in East London is the smell of burning. Is there a séance going on? It’s easy to think so when we find Bambie Thug sat at a table surrounded by no fewer than 12 glowing candles. As it happens,...

NME • 25th October 2024

Pest Control are making the crossover thrash project of their dreams

Growing up, Pest Control singer Leah Massey-Hay didn’t have any one particular music scene to pin her colours to. She liked all different sorts of music, but she didn’t have a venue or band that felt like ‘hers’. Then, she stepped into the DIY...

Revolver • 22nd October 2024

How BETTER LOVERS freed themselves from the past to become 'Highly Irresponsible'

“Your next band is going to be horrible.” That was just one of the thousands of “evil” online messages that Jordan Buckley received in 2022 after the dissolution of his long-running band, Every Time I Die. But instead of getting crushed by the haters,...

NME • 15th October 2024

High Vis are sticking to their guns on album three: “People get a whiff of success and then change their sound”

For most of High Vis’ existence, the band was not a full-time endeavour for frontman Graham Sayle. Instead, it fitted in part-time between his day job teaching design technology in an independent school, touring in his breaks. Now, a new academic year...

Ticketmaster UK • 9th October 2024

Stage Times: Myles Kennedy

Interview Emma Wilkes / 9 October 2024 Interview From opening for a puppet show to...

https://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine/ • 30th September 2024

Heriot are ready to raise hell | The Cover | NME.com

There’s no proving ground for a band quite like the stage. Just ask British metallers Heriot. They stormed out of lockdown with their 2022 debut EP, ‘Profound Morality’, melding heaviness, ambience and eerie atmospherics into a volcanic sound that...

Ticketmaster UK • 4th September 2024

Stage times: Boston Manor

Interview Emma Wilkes / 4 September 2024 Interview Mike Cunniff of Boston Manor walks...

Alternative Press Magazine • 9th August 2024

In conversation with the Linda Lindas and Hole’s Patty Schemel

The Linda Lindas appear on the cover of the Summer 2024 Issue — head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. The saying goes that you cannot be what you cannot see. It’s a phrase that feels all the more relevant in a climate where representation in...

Kerrang! • 31st July 2024

Mothica: “When you’ve been through so much and gone through so many…

McKenzie Ellis is living a life she never expected to. Growing up, she thought she’d only be an amateur bedroom singer, posting covers on the internet – at least that way, she would never be in the same room as the people watching her perform. Being...

Kerrang! • 26th June 2024

The Warning: “Rock makes me feel powerful… everyone connects in such…

The Warning are feeling jet-lagged. When we join the Villarreal Vélez sisters at home in Monterrey, Mexico, they apologise if they seem a little less energetic than usual, having just touched down from Japan after a tour supporting Band-Maid. But...

Kerrang! • 22nd April 2024

ALT BLK ERA: “We didn’t confine ourselves to a box or genre. We just…

Nyrobi and Chaya Beckett-Messam made alternative music by accident, at first. They’d started life as ALT BLK ERA making dark pop, but one day Nyrobi was rapping in the studio and felt like the song needed something a little heavier to go underneath...

Kerrang! • 8th April 2024

Lynks: “Being a queer person – being any person – is complicated. We…

The Sound Of 2024: The new artists redefining alternative music Alternative music is as exciting as it’s ever been as we prepare to rock into 2024, so here are K!’s pick of the bright lights who’ll be leading the way as we continue to live life loud…