JUNE ALBUM OF THE MONTH ***** US indie-pop quartet The Aces launched their brand new album at an intimate sold out gig at Camden Assembly in...
Category - Features Zone
F-f-f-f-f-lipping heck! It’s that time again. Time to fish out your shorts, tee shirts, sun block, shades and to be on the safe side...
Irish star Lyra. Our red hot tip for an imminent mainstream breakthrough in the UK after huge success in her native country. Bet on it! The Irish...
Joshua Radin was 30 before he picked up a guitar. A late starter, you could say. But in the last 18 years since, he has had his self-penned songs...
Howard Jones is hitting the road across the UK later this year to celebrate 40 years since his resounding breakthrough onto the global music...
Hugh Cornwell: punk legend, reformed drugs hell-raiser and qualified academic biochemist. The former Stranglers frontman has earned himself many...
Nik Kershaw is probably one of the names we know best of all from the musical circus of the 1980s, and he’s about to bring his band and his...
How many bands stay the distance for 25 years and sell out top end theatres on spring and autumn tours year in, year out? How many bands start...
The place: Moth Club, Hackney, London January 24th and 25th 2023… Canada’s official Music Export platform, ‘Canada...
Nashville-based, Grammy-nominated session musician, songwriter, producer and former Rolling Stone magazine writer Jon Tiven looks back at 2022 with...
MUSIC REPUBLIC MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE: Sam Brown’s revealing and emotionally heart-wrenching interview with Lucy Boulter dives deep into the trauma...
It’s always interesting to ask visitors on tour on these shores for their thoughts of the UK and its people, and for any unusual aspects of their...
“I never listened to Boyzone music back in the day, it was never my style of music” Soap fans loved Keith Duffy’s character...
Would he show up to hotly tipped US singer and songwriter Alyssa Bonagura’s first London headliner? If he does, will he get up and sing...
Fatboy Slim aka Norman Quentin Cook, born Quentin Leo Cook in 1963 in Bromley, Kent. A superstar DJ and producer whose sparkling career...
Two of Northern Ireland’s most respected singer songwriters, Foy Vance and Gareth Dunlop, the latter an accomplished and in demand producer...
Following two huge Top 10 records and sold out shows across the globe, The Amazons release their “anthem-packed” new album “How...
All good things come to those who wait, they say – and for pop legend Kim Wilde, the long wait for her greatest hits tour has made it all the...
Read Imelda’s fascinating/exclusive “Track Record” – where she reveals she could have been in a famous musical movie – but...
If Ruby Turner MBE, Britain’s Queen of gospel-soul, stood still long enough – there’s a fair chance someone may slap a blue plaque on her...
Comedian Mark Thomas took a call from an advertising exec’ who wanted him to appear in a series of TV beer adverts, offering at least £75K for...
Scottish band del Amitri (stylised lower case ‘d’) were the darlings of the 80s and 90s, with 15 UK top 40 hit singles, seven studio...
Brooke Combe is looking likely to follow the success of fellow Scots Lewis Capaldi and Gerry Cinnamon… * EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW & PHOTO SHOOT *...
What is a picture of a jar of Cinnamon (other brands are available!) doing in a review of a new one-day festival in Nottingham, within...
Full coverage of both days in words and pictures….. Neighbours. Everybody needs good neighbours….You know that lyric from the theme song to the...
Steve Ellis (born 1952) is a British poet and literary scholar and Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is known...
British singer-songwriter Beverley Craven secured her place in the pop music pantheon right from the start of her recording career with her two...
Canadian singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has released her third album, “Stolen Time” via Outside Music and several classy singles...
“The Tik Tok generation’s Simon & Garfunkel?” Kawala. Dodgy spelling for a cute furry Antipodean bear-like marsupial...
EXCLUSIVE: Rising British soul star Mica Millar tells Music Republic Magazine how a horrific accident nearly left her paralysed – almost ending...
February 2022 ‘Album Of The Month’…. Not many artists can sustain a career of half a century and still be at the top of...
Toyah’s 25-date “Posh Pop” tour kicks off this weekend (15th January 2022) and as she packed her suitcase, Toyah told Lucy Boulter about her battle to...
As we celebrate our 5th birthday, Music Republic Magazine is delighted to announce our “Best Of 2021”… We didn’t run our usual end...
Whoop whoop whoop! It’s our fifth birthday today. Five years since Music Republic Magazine was launched on the 15th December 2016. Here we are 60...
Judie Tzuke gifted us her timeless ballad “Stay With Me Till Dawn” more than four decades ago, and has since released more than two dozen...
Judith Hill’s CV reads like a ‘who’s who’ of the world’s biggest music stars – including Michael Jackson and Prince. But that starry...
American artist Tori Amos needed the tranquility of her “sanctum” second home in Cornwall during lockdown, to be able to light the flame of...
Singer and songwriter Don McLean has more than earned the accolade “legend” across the 50 years since his iconic hit “American Pie” was...
10cc star and famed songwriter Graham Gouldman tells Lucy Boulter how wonderful it is to be back on stage after recovering from Covid, and the...
Glen Matlock helped to shock the nation when – as bass player and original member of the world’s most famous punk band The Sex...
Shakespears Sister star Marcella Detroit talks to Lucy Boulter about sexism, ageism, long-term love, a star-studded NHS charity single project – and the...
Malaki aka Hugh Mulligan, is a gifted young (21) Irish rapper and hip hop artist from Dublin who we tip for BIG things……. His new single, “The...
British songwriting legend Chris Difford is one half of hit partnership Difford and Tilbrook – labelled “the new Lennon and McCartney” for their...
The Go West frontman tells Lucy Boulter why virtual gigs are not on his radar, lifts the lid on the recording of their timeless hit, “We...
If you are a fan of defunct British rock band Trapeze with Deep Purple legend Glenn Hughes in the ranks, there are three reasons to be head over...
Bill Nelson is one of most gifted guitar players the UK has produced – the main creative force of 1970s band Be Bop Deluxe. Ahead of the 50th...
Nine years ago today (23rd July 2011), Amy Winehouse passed away suddenly at her London home at just 27-years-old. Her father Mitch Winehouse...
Canadian comedian Tom Stade is to political correctness what Michael Jackson was to baby sitting. If you seek safe and sanitised comedy and...
Rod Argent is our second ‘Track Record’ subject, for our brand new features series launched last week with former Sex Pistol...
Andrez Harriott is a member of the UK R&B and pop “boy band” Damage who have sold close to three million records and performed to more than a...
