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Listen to Courteeners’ love-struck new single ‘Plus One Forever’
Manchester indie band Courteeners have released a new single, ‘Plus One Forever’, a love-struck track that frontman Liam Fray said he had held onto in various forms for some time. The song matters as a fresh offering ahead of the band’s first-ever ‘best of’ compilation, arriving as the group mark two decades since their first…
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Three Questions With Kylie Jenner About Revisiting King Kylie Era for Pink-Drenched Dunkin’ Collab
Kylie Jenner has teamed up with Dunkin’ to launch the King Kylie Collection, a trio of pink-themed limited-time drinks that revive the flamboyant, wig-and-streetwear “King Kylie” persona she was known for in the mid-2010s. The tie-in matters as another example of celebrity-branded fast-food marketing, pairing Jenner’s nostalgic image and her Kylie Cosmetics aesthetic with a…
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10 Video Games That Are Pretty Much Perfect
A Collider listicle by Diego Pineda Pacheco, published on 8 July 2026, sets out ten video games the author considers “pretty much perfect” — titles so accomplished that they come close to being free of flaws. The piece matters chiefly as an opinion-led celebration of gaming’s most acclaimed works, acknowledging throughout that perfection in games…
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“Story after story and it’s all true, all life experience.” Skunk Anansie’s Skin on why Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black is one of her favourite albums, but why she can’t listen to its biggest hit
Skunk Anansie frontwoman Skin has spoken about her admiration for Amy Winehouse’s 2006 album Back To Black, which she counts among her favourite records and describes as the work of “a genius singer and songwriter”. The piece draws on past interviews to explore both Skin’s deep appreciation of the album and her difficulty listening to…
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Forget “American Idiot”—This ’90s Song Is Green Day’s Real Magnum Opus
This Collider feature argues that Green Day’s 1994 single “Basket Case” — not the later hit “American Idiot” — represents the band’s greatest work. The piece frames the song within the mid-1990s cultural moment, when the death of Kurt Cobain had left alternative rock searching for a new direction and pop-punk emerged to fill the…
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Imagine a world without Wagner … it’s not easy, but let’s try
Marking the 150th anniversary of the Bayreuth festival, Guardian critic Tom Service reflects on Richard Wagner’s colossal and lasting influence over classical music and Western culture, before undertaking a playful thought experiment: what would have happened had Wagner never existed? The piece argues that Wagner’s impact — spanning stagecraft, philosophy, cultural politics and the darker…
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“One of the most unlikely bands ever to notch up a string of number-one albums”: Every System Of A Down album ranked from worst to best
A Louder/Metal Hammer feature ranks all five of System Of A Down’s studio albums from worst to best, framing the Armenian-American band as one of nu metal’s most unlikely success stories to score a run of number-one records. – 5. Steal This Album (2002) — Placed last, treated as a collection of curios and unfinished…