Oct 11, 2024 By Dom Gourlay

Bearded Theory announces first wave of acts for 2025 including Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers and The Sisters of Mercy among its headliners More

Aug 30, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 28th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Jim Scott, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphires helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 40 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More

Aug 29, 2024 By Dom Gourlay

Manic Street Preachershave released a new single, “Decline & Fall.” More

Jun 16, 2024 By Dom Gourlay

Manic Street Preachers celebrate the 30th anniversary of “The Holy Bible” with a special, one-off film screening of “BePure-BeVigilant-Behave” on 30th August. More

Feb 06, 2024 By Dom Gourlay

Manic Street Preachers announce 20th Anniversary Edition of “Lifeblood”. More

Oct 06, 2023 By Dom Gourlay

​Manic Street Preachers and Suede announce co-headline UK tour for summer 2024. More

Jun 26, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

If you missed the Glastonbury Music Festival this last weekend, never fear. This is your one-stop shop for many of the performances, including highlights from Elton John, Weyes Blood, CHVRCHES, Billy Nomates, Caroline Polachek, Manic Street Preachers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Young Fathers, and many others. More

Sep 13, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Suede and Manic Street Preachers, two iconic British bands who came to prominence in the 1990s, have announced a joint North American co-headlining tour. Over the decades neither band has toured America all that regularly. More

Jul 05, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Welsh band Manic Street Preachers have released a new covers compilation album today via Sony. The album, aptly titled Covers, includes a studio version of their cover of Madonna’s 1983 song “Borderline.” Back in April, they debuted the cover as a live performance as part of their BBC 6 Music concert. More

Feb 10, 2022 By Austin Saalman

Despite the tendency of age to reveal those memories of disillusioned youth as the romantically futile shams they happen to be, something about feeling young and clever retains its appeal far beyond the realization that no one ever really is. Not since The Smiths dropped The Queen is Dead in 1986 had a musical group conveyed the excessive, borderline literate bedroom anguish and adolescent radicalism that Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers did in their time, lending a fresh voice to the vacuous realm of high school alienation. More

May 13, 2021 By Dom Gourlay

Manic Street Preachers have announced a new album, The Ultra Vivid Lament, and shared its first single, “Orwellian.” They have also announced some UK tour dates. More

May 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Björk released a new album, Utopia, last year via One Little Indian. Earlier tonight she appeared on the long running BBC music show Later… with Jools Holland, where various musicians take turns in the round, performing in a TV studio in front of a live audience. More

May 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Welsh band Manic Street Preachers released a new album, Resistance Is Futile, last month via Shornday/The Orchard. Now they have shared a video for one of its songs, “Hold Me Like a Heaven.” Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming U.K. festival dates. More

May 01, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Welsh band Manic Street Preachers have had hit records in their native U.K. but have never really made a huge impact in America, so I suppose it makes sense that despite having released their debut album in 1992 the trio has never performed on an American TV show before. More

Jul 28, 2009 By Michele Yamamoto

Welsh band Manic Street Preachers are all set to release Journal for Plague Lovers stateside on September 15th with a U.S. tour to follow. More

Aug 25, 2021 By Dom Gourlay

Manic Street Preachers release their fourteenth album next month. Bass player and lyricist Nicky Wire gives us the lowdown on The Ultra Vivid Lament. More

Apr 14, 2015 By Hays Davis

As Britpop was taking off in 1994, the Welsh quartet Manic Street Preachers entered the marketplace with an acclaimed, dark classic of an album that exposed the raw nerves of the human experience. In this new interview bassist Nicky Wire discusses the band’s iconic 1994 album, The Holy Bible, as well as last year’s acclaimed album, Futurology. More

Oct 19, 2009 By Lorraine Carpenter

When Richey Edwards fled from London’s Embassy Hotel one February morning in 1995, he left behind a legacy, a myth, and a band of childhood friends who carried on without him, achieving greater success in the ensuing years than they’d had with their “minister of propaganda” in the fold. More

Aug 02, 2007 By Lily Moayeri

Initially starting as a foursome in their teens, Manic Street Preachers (vocalist/guitarist James Dean Bradfield, drummer Sean Moore, lyricist/bassist Nicky Wire, and rhythm guitarist Richey James Edwards) have been functioning as a trio since the unexplained disappearance of Edwards in 1995. More

Apr 15, 2025 By Dom Gourlay

The 2025 edition of Bearded Theory takes place next month (May 21-25), and this year’s event boasts one of the most impressive line-ups anywhere on the festival calendar so Under the Radar spoke with one of the organisers - Anwyn Williams from DHP - about the origins, focus and future of Bearded Theory. More

Jan 29, 2025 By Dom Gourlay

While some bands have made a career resting on their laurels, Manic Street Preachers have prolonged theirs by continuing to push the envelope. More

Jul 16, 2024 By Dom Gourlay

Manic Street Preachers and Suede rolled back the years by playing glorious sets at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl last weekend More

Apr 15, 2024 By Jimi Arundell

Manic Street Preachers have often attempted to distance themselves from their stylized seventh album, Lifeblood. Haunted by a poor reaction from their followers and mainstream audiences, they hoped to seal it away and never speak of it again. More

Jul 03, 2023 By Jimi Arundell

Under the Radar went to Glastonbury for the biggest music festival of the year, and saw lots and lots of acts over the course of its five days. Here’s the best and the rest of our weekend. More

Jun 16, 2023 By Jimi Arundell

Under the Radar heads to Worthy Farm next week for the 2023 edition of Glastonbury Festival. Here’s a preview of what to expect! More

Dec 31, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Suede hadn’t played America in over a decade, since their set at Coachella on April 16, 2011. And even in their 1990s heyday the Britpop band rarely played North America. More

Sep 07, 2022 By Dom Gourlay

“Things get clear,” sings James Dean Bradfield, three songs in, on “So Why So Sad.” A song that confused many fans at the time when first released as the joint-lead single off Manic Street Preachers’ sixth album, Know Your Enemy, and one that hasn’t featured in any of the band’s live sets for over a decade. More

Jun 04, 2022 By Dom Gourlay

The Killers’ eagerly anticipated “Imploding The Mirage” tour finally hits the UK in style! More

Oct 07, 2021 By Dom Gourlay

Manic Street Preachers wow Manchester with their first show in the city since 2019. More

Apr 06, 2018 By Michael James Hall

Following on from a late-career flurry of brilliance with the 1-2 combo of melancholic Rewind the Film (2013) and the surging Futurology (2014), Blackwood, Wales’ finest have returned with an album that savvy bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire stated back in October 2017 would possibly never happen, their “creative juices” sapped by the endeavors of the aforementioned records. More

Jun 14, 2016 By Hays Davis

Where Manic Street Preachers’ 1994 album The Holy Bible was a creative peak and a tragic chapter in their tale, 1996’s follow-up, Everything Must Go, vaulted beyond expectations to provide them with a brilliant new start rather than merely a happy ending. More

Aug 21, 2014 By Hays Davis

With their twelfth album and one of their best in years, Manic Street Preachers display a stylistic freedom that one might call reinvention if it didn’t still sound just like the Manics. More