Manic Street Preachers today announce the release of a 20 th Anniversary Edition of their seventh studio album Lifeblood on 12 th April 2024 for Sony Records. As with other Manics re-issues, the new ...

Manic Street Preachers’ new album sounds like “The Clash playing Abba”. The Welsh indie trio spent two weeks recording their upcoming 14th LP in Rockfield studios in Wales earlier this year and ...

Manic Street Preachers (often known colloquially as "The Manics") are a Welsh rock band often associated with the resurgence of British rock in the early 90s, who gained mainstream popularity in the ...

Eighteen miles, give or take. That’s how far it is by road from Cardiff to Newport. Seven years ago, during the recording sessions for what would become their Resistance Is Futile album, the Manic ...

Manic Street Preachers have announced Critical Thinking, their 15th album, which will be out January 31 via Columbia Records. The album follows 2021’s Ultra Vivid Lament (which debuted at #1 in the UK ...

The track is the official song for the Wales national football team at Euro 2016 this summer in France. It is on sale now and all profits from the song will go to the Princes Gate Trust and Tenovus ...

Manic Street Preachers have released their new single online. The Welsh band made new cut 'Rewind the Film', which features guest vocals from Richard Hawley, available to buy digitally and stream ...

So which Manic Street Preachers do we get this time? Is it the widescreen Manics, with their terrace anthems and Technicolor bleakness? Or is it the post-punk Manics, all terse, screaming riffs, ...

This is, says bassist-vocalist Nicky Wire “a record of opposites colliding - of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution.” The songs “are microcosms of meaninglessness in a world so brutal and ...

Nicky Wire says the Manic Street Preachers' new song about Morrissey is not a "moral judgement". The track 'Dear Stephen' was inspired by a postcard sent from Morrissey to a teen Wire at his mother's ...

While some bands have made a career resting on their laurels, Manic Street Preachers have prolonged theirs by continuing to push the envelope. Having emerged in 1990 with a glut of three-minute punk ...