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Excellent indie tunes from the year of 1988 from: The Wonder Stuff, The House Of Love, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, The Fall, The La's, Inspiral Carpets, Morrissey, New Order, The Primitives, My Bloody Valentine and Pop Will Eat Itself.

The 25 best indie songs of 1988

The Strokes and Lizzo

The Strokes inspired Lizzo on her new album Love in Real Life

Big indie hits from 1980 from the likes of The Cure, Joy Division, U2, Devo and more.

The 25 best indie songs of 1980

The Kooks' Luke Pritchard and Cruz with dad David Beckham

Luke Pritchard on writing songs with David Beckham's son Cruz: "He said 'Jesus was a nepo baby too’"

The Kooks

Classic Rock stars we've lost in 2025: Rick Buckler, Marianne Faithfull, Joey Molland, David Johansen, Roberta Flack and Brian James.

The Classic Rock stars we've lost in 2025

Radiohead

Radiohead form new LLP fuelling speculation of return in 2025

Radiohead

Bombay Bicycle Club press

Bombay Bicycle Club plot two warm-up shows in York and Liverpool ahead of All Points East 2025

Jeff Lynne's ELO, Sabrina Carpenter, Zach Bryan, Neil Young, Noah Kahan and Olivia Rodrigo will headline BST Hyde Park 2025

BST Hyde Park 2025: Headliners, line-up, tickets & more

Some of the best ever second albums

20 of the best second albums

U2 in 1988

Where did U2 get their name from?