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The next frontier • Andor’s Alex Lawther is embarking on a new intergalactic adventure with his upcoming major role in Alien: Earth

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Blitz spirit • Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s is a major new Design Museum exhibition exploring the niche London nightspot that birthed the New Romantic movement

Aaron Rowe • In an incredible example of fate weaving its magic, this Dublin singer/songwriter owes his breakthrough to not one but two chance meetings with Lewis Capaldi…

‘‘Suzanne’ is just joy” • In collaboration with Audemars Piguet, Mark Ronson and RAYE have written the summer hit ‘Suzanne’, a song filled with historical serendipity

Haute and Freddy get the pop carnival started • They used to write for Britney Spears and Katy Perry. Now, they’re having fun blurring centuries and breaking rules

Five big ideas about Britney Spears (and America, and …) • Jeff Weiss’s new book tackles 2000s tabloid culture from the POV of a writer who covered its biggest star

Bruce Springsteen • The legendary songwriter dug deep into his vault of unreleased music and found lost albums he’s finally releasing

Billy Woods’ hip-hop house • The underground-rap hero tells us that his latest album is full of nightmares both real and imaginary

Amaarae rising • The Ghanaian American star has her eyes on global domination

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THE SECOND COURSE • After turning the music industry upside down by taking female-fronted rock to the top of the charts while scoring a run of awards, The Last Dinner Party are back with new album From the Pyre

Wild For Sabrina • The world can't seem to get enough ofherjoke-cracking pop. She’s just warming up

BEYOND THE VESSEL • The psychology of how Sleep Token became the masked mammoths of metal music

THE ART OF OLIVIA DEAN • From the spiritual — and why she chose love as the universal theme of her upcoming second album — to the frivolous fun of dressing up, the Messy hitmaker speaks to Rolling Stone UK about… well, everything

The battle for live music in London • When a campaign group won a legal battle over gigs playing in south London’s Brockwell Park this summer, it opened up a wider debate around festival ownership, independence and public access to green spaces in the capital

WENDY, THE WARRIOR • Sydney Chandler on bringing “honesty, bravery and complete presence” to her biggest role yet as Alien: Earth’s Wendy, a humanoid robot who battles to defend Earth from alien forces, and how yoga kept her grounded between takes

THE EXACTING ART OF NOAH HAWLEY • One of TV’s most distinctive and surprising creators tackles a classic

Just ANOTR day • Rolling Stone UK enjoys a trip — literally — in the Netherlands countryside to explore house duo ANOTR’s psilocybin-infused music-making process

REDISCOVERING JOY • Four years since her acclaimed debut album Skin established her as one of the UK’s most promising rising talents, south London native Joy Crookes returns...