Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner is one of the greatest songwriters and lyricists of the current landscape, but there are some lines that didn't quite land.
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not is a phrase from the Alan Sillitoe novel, Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. It ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If virality has a starting point in modern rock, it arguably kicks off with Arctic Monkeys, and a wave of scrappy demos that ...
All five members of the Arctic Monkeys met and formed the band while they were all attending Stocksbridge High School ...
“Who the f*ck are Arctic Monkeys?!” a clearly inebriated dude yelled from behind me each time the band paused between songs. For any other band, that question might be an insult. But for the British ...
Arctic Monkeys kicked off their concert in Bristol, England, with a deep-cut fan favorite they haven’t properly performed in over 10 years: “Mardy Bum,” off their 2006 debut Whatever People Say I Am, ...
When we think about quintessential love songs, the Arctic Monkeys' discography may not be the first thing that comes to mind — but according to Spotify, one track by the English rock band is the ...
In this extract from a new book on Sheffield’s musical history, Monkeys drummer Matt Helders and the cream of the city’s indie scene look back on the febrile mid-00s – from brilliant tunes to ...
The decade following their landmark 2013 record “AM” has been an evolutionary period for UK quartet Arctic Monkeys. After making their name with an adrenalized strain of garage rock that grew into the ...
The band’s song reached a billion streams earlier this year. However, what some might not know is that the song originally was a poem by John Cooper Clarke, who sat down for an interview with The ...
The Arctic Monkeys have given their classic track “A Certain Romance” a new life. The British band returned to their hometown of Sheffield, England, over the weekend (June 9) to perform at ...
Who is the last good band? Well, if you ask Damon Albarn or the Hives' leader Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, there's only one answer to that question: Arctic Monkeys. In separate interviews, they both ...