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DEATH TO DOOMSCROLLING • A year of E-edition delivered right to your inbox.

‘I’M DONE WITH REALITY’ • Mawaan Rizwan discusses the fantastical return of his hit BBC sitcom, Juice

MARK RONSON ‘THE LONGER I HELD ON TO THESE STORIES, THE HAZIER THEY’D GET’ • The producer’s new memoir revisits late nights and forgotten stories from his time DJ’ing in New York in the 90s

PERRIE ‘I DIDN’T FEEL LIKE I WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO WRITE MY OWN MUSIC’ • As she releases her debut solo album, Perrie Edwards explains how she overcame impostor syndrome to establish a sound that’s all her own

11 CLUBBING ANTHEMS OF THE 2000S FROM DJ JODIE HARSH • As she releases her memoir, DJ Jodie Harsh takes Rolling Stone UK back to the lost nights of clubbing in 2000s London

ADJANI SALMON ‘WE HAD A RULE: DON’T INVENT RACIAL JOKES’ • The writer of the BAFTA-winning Dreaming Whilst Black on what viewers can expect from the second series, plus his new sitcom project

SUTARA GAYLE: PIONEERING REGGAE ARTIST, ACTRESS AND ACTIVIST • From the Brixton riots to the first UK Black Pride, Sutara Gayle – aka Lorna Gee – has been a defining force in UK culture for over 40 years. Here, ahead of her one-woman solo tour in October and November, she tells her story

10 NEW ACTS TO LIGHT UP YOUR PLAYLIST • Rolling Stone UK selects the up-and-coming bands and artists you need to listen out for

PLAY NEXT MUDI SAMA ‘THIS WAS THE PUREST FEELING FROM ME’ • With his newly released debut EP, Will I Make It Out Alive?, the indie artist is setting out his stall as a guitar hero of the future

KENYA’S PROTEST MOVEMENT IS CREATING SOME RADICAL NEW MUSIC

RENEÉ RAPP ‘I’M REALLY FUCKING STUBBORN AND VERY DEFIANT’ • The star took a much-needed break – and made one of the year’s most exciting pop albums

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LOOKING UP LOUIS TOMLINSON • After a challenging few years that saw him lose some of those closest to him, Louis Tomlinson is determined to celebrate life through music, with songs like ‘Lemonade’ from new album How Did I Get Here? reflecting a sunnier, more upbeat phase

ON HOME GROUND • After charting at number three with his sharp, London-centred debut album Alpha Place, Kilburn rapper Knucks has expanded his vision for second record A Fine African Man, to explore his ancestral home of Nigeria

WOMEN TO THE FRONT • Sally Wainwright’s new all-female British rock drama Riot Women reignites the feminist fury of the riot grrrl movement, while also setting the stage for new contemporary voices, as alt-rock duo ARXX provide the original music

THE ESSENCE OF BIFFY CLYRO • On their 10th album, Futique, one of Britain’s biggest rock bands emerge from a rough patch with startling clarity and a new mantra: “Let Biffy be Biffy!”

GOING APE • Marking 25 years of Gorillaz, creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett explain how the industry-shaping animated band stays one step ahead, and why their quarter-century celebrations are “retrospective, not nostalgic”

GIVING VOICE • When the pandemic hit in 2020, an Irish touring drummer locked himself away for six months, got sober and emerged as “angry,...