Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard: 'I realised I could work on behalf of marginalised people'
Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard
Music

Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard: 'I realised I could work on behalf of marginalised people'

Ben Gibbard talks about his life in music, his political awakening and the inspiration he took from the Seattle music scene of the early 1990s
Lisa Maffia: 'To talk about music in the 90s you had to strip to your underwear. I wish I hadn’t'
Lisa Maffia in the Capital Xtra studio
Letter To My Younger Self

Lisa Maffia: 'To talk about music in the 90s you had to strip to your underwear. I wish I hadn’t'

The taskforce making music accessible for people with dementia: 'It's not all Vera Lynn'
Music

The taskforce making music accessible for people with dementia: 'It's not all Vera Lynn'

Tony Christie: ‘I need an autocue now, but show me an artist my age that doesn’t!’
Music

Tony Christie: ‘I need an autocue now, but show me an artist my age that doesn’t!’

Paul Heaton: ‘My mum liked me sticking fingers up at the world'
Music

Paul Heaton: ‘My mum liked me sticking fingers up at the world'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Kevin Rowland: 'The way Irish people were portrayed in England was just crazy'
Kevin Rowland
Music

Kevin Rowland: 'The way Irish people were portrayed in England was just crazy'

Natalie Imbruglia: 'Becoming a star is not going to feel the way you think it’s going to feel'
Natalie Imbruglia
Letter To My Younger Self

Natalie Imbruglia: 'Becoming a star is not going to feel the way you think it’s going to feel'

'Where do kids get their musical instruments from if mum and dad can’t afford it?'
Kyle Osborne and the KO Quartet from Tomorrow's Warriors
Young people

'Where do kids get their musical instruments from if mum and dad can’t afford it?'

Jordan Stephens: 'You can't ban social media without giving young people anywhere else to go'
Music

Jordan Stephens: 'You can't ban social media without giving young people anywhere else to go'

'I’m in spaces where I’m the only girl and feel like I have to outshine everyone to make a point'
Girl Grind UK
Employment

'I’m in spaces where I’m the only girl and feel like I have to outshine everyone to make a point'

The Script's Danny O'Donoghue: 'I needed spiritual guidance when Mark died'
Danny O’Donoghue from The Script
Letter To My Younger Self

The Script's Danny O'Donoghue: 'I needed spiritual guidance when Mark died'

How James Ellis Ford made a solo album in his hospital bed while suffering from leukaemia
James Ellis Ford in his home studio
Music

How James Ellis Ford made a solo album in his hospital bed while suffering from leukaemia

Beth Orton: 'Women are reinventing what it means to exist in the world'
Beth Orton
Letter To My Younger Self

Beth Orton: 'Women are reinventing what it means to exist in the world'

Dan Smith: 'Bastille's mainstream success came through sleeping on floors and sofas'
Bastille's Dan Smith
Letter To My Younger Self

Dan Smith: 'Bastille's mainstream success came through sleeping on floors and sofas'

Hyphen: Why I sing punk songs about the wealth tax and economics in tiny shorts
Music

Hyphen: Why I sing punk songs about the wealth tax and economics in tiny shorts

Why I wrote an opera about Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg raising a fist in protest
Music

Why I wrote an opera about Greta Thunberg

Becky Hill: 'Grassroots music venues desperately need our help'
Everywhere At Once Festival

Becky Hill: 'Grassroots music venues desperately need our help'

Miki Berenyi: 'Grassroots gigs are 100 times more intense than stadium shows'
The Miki Berenyi Trio
Music

Miki Berenyi: 'Grassroots gigs are 100 times more intense than stadium shows'

Opera singer Danielle de Niese: 'I lost my singing voice when I was pregnant. I was in a panic'
Letter To My Younger Self

Opera singer Danielle de Niese: 'I lost my singing voice when I was pregnant. I was in a panic'

No Glasto? No problem. Everywhere at Once Festival is coming to a grassroots venue near you
A cow in a field
Music

No Glasto? No problem. Everywhere at Once Festival is coming to a grassroots venue near you

How The Reytons are 'levelling the playing field' for working class kids
Interview

How The Reytons are 'levelling the playing field' for working class kids

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Shirley Manson: 'If we solve misogyny, we solve so many other problems in our society'
letter to my younger self

Shirley Manson: 'If we solve misogyny, we solve so many other problems in our society'

Miles Davis at 100: the restless creativity of a jazz icon
Music

Miles Davis at 100: the restless creativity of a jazz icon

Ignore the charts, Connect with fans, be weird on the internet: How to be a pop star in 2026
Music

Ignore the charts, Connect with fans, be weird on the internet: How to be a pop star in 2026

Myles Smith: ‘I don't subscribe to traditional gender roles. My mum was the breadwinner growing up’
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Myles Smith: ‘I don't subscribe to traditional gender roles. My mum was the breadwinner growing up’