Steven Loftin

(Duff McKagan) (Personal Best)
From his glam-haired rhythm section tenure in behemoth group Guns N’ Roses to his earnest and honest solo output, Duff McKagan reflects on his growth to Steven Loftin.
45 minutes with Duff McKagan pass like five. As the inner workings of a bonafide rock staple work themselves out before you, it’s beyond evident that saying McKagan’s life is music would be an incredible understatement.
For the best part of six decades, the songwriter, bassist, writer, broadcaster...

Original Photography by Kate Friend
(Orlando Weeks)
Orlando Weeks' new record LOJA marks a new high for the former Maccabee. He tells Steven Loftin about his journey to unite the worlds of music and art.
Orlando Weeks' world doesn't just echo with the sonics of his current solo endeavours – or his past as the frontman of The Maccabees. It's also vividly inhabited by his artistry, currently taking the form of black and white visuals, inks and brushes bringing to life and enacting the future th...

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With her debut 'Million Dollar Baby', Pixey proves that the best things in pop come to those who wait - and work hard.
Mon 15th July, 2024
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With her debut ‘Million Dollar Baby’, Pixey proves that the best things in pop c...

Original Photography by Aidan Zamiri
(Wallows)
Wallows are a summer breeze who relish in the tranquillity of youthful ups and downs but the Los Angeles trio are also astutely aware of the equilibrium they share, they tell Steven Loftin.
Following Wallows’ 2019 laconic scene-setting debut Nothing Happens and its follow up Tell Me That It’s Over, the LA band have hit more ambitious territory with new but familiar strides on this year’s Model.
During release week, vocalist Dylan Minnette, drumme...

(DITZ)
As a seasoned live act with the ferocity and grit that go hand in hand with their unique harebrained concoction of sounds, it's all about continuing the graft, no matter the cost, for Alcopop! Records-signed rock five-piece DITZ. Steven Loftin hears the band's story ahead of their set at SON Estrella Galicia's micro-festival in London.
For nine years or so, DITZ have been toiling away. After attending a METZ gig in 2016, the Brighton-based band decided the time was now.
"After watching...

(Soran) (On The Rise)
Montreal-based multi-hyphenate Soran is bringing art, complexity, and humanity back to pop without sacrificing the fun.
"I want to have new births, like a million times in my life,” Canadian artist and producer Soran Dussaigne eagerly tells me. “Like, it could be every week. I want to keep learning and growing.”
We’re discussing his debut solo full-length Loneliness Confetti – released in March on Audiogram – ahead of the Quebec Spring showcase tour across the UK this Ma...

For someone already renowned for their stacked lyricism and poetic nature, it would seem Kendrick Lamar in 2022 has something to say.
His final release on Top Dawg Records, and his first in six years, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is a coherent double album that, of course, is the cherry on the cherry on the cherry of a career that’s never found a low – he even managed to make U2 palatable on 2017’s DAMN.
Essentially, it's an assembling of Lamar’s life, seemingly tying together his success wi...

It’s been over a decade since brothers Sebastian Danzig, Remington Leith, and Emerson Barrett began their journey as Palaye Royale. Now, for our Spring 2024 Issue, the trio of brothers are both looking back and opening up about their busy upcoming year and the follow-up to last year’s Sextape EP.
In a conversation with Steven Loftin, the band get candid about their decadence-chasing decade, the “organized chaos” of their new album, which they’ve been sitting on for a year, and learning to bec...

Thriving in the madness that being young and on the road involves, HotWax tells Steven Loftin about life as one of the UK's hottest new bands.
The last twelve months have been a whirlwind for Hastings trio HotWax. Barely out of high school, they've undertaken multiple support tours and headline shows, including their first jaunt to America supporting meaty-duo Royal Blood. After releasing two EPs of frantic and jaunty rock, the next year of shows – including an eagerly awaited headline stint ...

Three decades in, and AFI are more fearless, bold and evolved than ever before.
Words: Steven Loftin.
There’s something hauntingly organic about AFI’s eleventh album ‘Bodies’. Maybe it’s the artwork featuring syncopating naked outlines stacked neatly around each other. Or it could be the natural, albeit seemingly vampiric evolution the band have undertaken across their three active decades. But most likely, it’s the devotion that shimmers throughout everything AFI touch, a guiding beacon for ...

Doncaster-via-Manchester four-piece THE BLINDERS are beating the odds, breaking boundaries and fighting expectations with their third album, ‘Beholder’.
Photos: Stuart Nimmo.
It’s taken three albums, but The Blinders are finally free. The Doncaster band have been working hard at chasing the dream, but sometimes the dream comes to you.
Releasing their 2018 debut ‘Columbia’ and its 2020 follow-up ‘Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath’ on independent label Modern Sky – which saw them tour with...

Music contains few mysteries these days. Much less ones that leave more questions than answers as they reveal themselves.
Ghillie suits, cult accusations, hired actors, and flights of fancy, they've all been a part of the Armed's journey — until now. While their recent decision to be front-facing about the who's and what's regarding the curious Detroit collective, for those long ingrained in the madness of it all, it's slightly harder to embrace the truth.
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Steven Loftin heads to Spain for the biggest night in Latin music as the 24th Latin GRAMMY Awards kicks off its first-ever international ceremony in Sevilla.
Latin music has been growing exponentially, and the 2023 Latin Grammys are a prime example of the glorious melting pot Ibero-America offers.
"I strongly believe that we've always had the elements, ingredients, and the sounds to seduce the entire world and connect with it," says Pedro Capó. A longtime feature of the Latin Grammy's, the Pu...

NOAHFINNCE is a superstar in waiting. And he’s not waiting for anyone.
Words: Steven Loftin.
Photos: Patrick Gunning.
Noah Adams has always wanted to be a musician, even if he doesn’t like saying so. The truth is, if it wasn’t for his early cover versions winding their way onto YouTube, NOAHFINNCE wouldn’t exist. “The only reason I’m making music now is because I started a band fan account on Instagram when I was 13 or 14,” he recalls. “The account I use on Instagram now used to be a My Chemi...