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‘We were stubborn teenagers. We didn’t want to be famous’: the inside story of Arctic Monkeys’ frenzied early years

In this extract from a new book on Sheffield’s musical history, Monkeys drummer Matt Helders plus the cream of the city’s indie scene look back on the febrile mid-00s – from brilliant tunes to ‘brainless violence’

The Guardian - UK

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders reveals if new music is on the cards

Arctic Monkeys don't have any plans for new music, but drummer Matt Helders insists they will "always" write.

BANG Premier

From the rubble to the ritz: The story behind Arctic Monkeys’ earth-quaking debut album

IN FOCUS: Twenty years since the Sheffield band released ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, it remains the bedrock of contemporary British guitar music. Mark Beaumont speaks to producers Alan Smyth and Jim Abbiss about the making of a cultural H-bomb

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Arctic Monkeys to return with charity single this week

Arctic Monkeys haven't released new music in four years.

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‘Unseen’ photos by Noel Gallagher, Bill Wyman and Rod Stewart go on sale

The auction of rare photographs of musicians, called Unseen, will take place at London’s Iconic Images Gallery on November 28.

Evening Standard

Legendary drummers including Dave Lombardo and Gavin Harrison launch limited edition prints for the Teenage Cancer Trust

Artist Anthony Burrill has turned the musicians' favourite drumming patterns into typographic artworks - and it's for a good cause

Metal Hammer

I was like, ‘I ain’t been in another band, I ain’t done this for anybody else before'”: Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on the time he joined Iggy Pop’s band

The Arctic Monkeys man was behind the kit for Iggy's 2016 album Post Pop Depression

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Royal Blood make triumphant Glastonbury stage return after Radio 1 controversy

Royal Blood played a set on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage after they stormed off stage at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend gig after failing to get a response from the crowd, with a nod to the Arctic Monkeys during their performance at Worthy Farm this evening

Daily Mirror

Arctic Monkeys review – a mirrorball vision of what rock music can be

Putting their foot down for exhilarating rock’n’rollers, then easing it off for bossa nova ballads, Sheffield’s finest show why they’re the most dextrous band of their generation

The Guardian - UK

Arctic Monkeys: The Car review – oblique reflections in the rearview

(Domino)The arch Sheffield quartet are contemplative, cryptic but still occasionally anthemic on an album of goodbyes laced with crooner soul and loungey funk

The Guardian - UK

Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner on fame, Frank Sinatra and the elusive search for the 'mega-riff'

LOS ANGELES — Arctic Monkeys blasted out of the U.K. in 2006 with "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," a scrappy modern-classic debut that framed the young quartet as a kind of transatlantic counterpart to the new wave of American garage-revival acts.

Los Angeles Times

Arctic Monkeys announce new album 'The Car'

The Sheffield band debuted a new song from the album at a festival in Switzerland on Tuesday

Liverpool Echo

Arctic Monkeys setlist: What songs did Arctic Monkeys play in first live show in three years?

Alex Turner and the boys are officially back

The Independent UK

Arctic Monkeys of old are gone forever, says Matt Helders: ‘It’s never gonna be like that stuff again’

Drummer said sound of group’s forthcoming new music is ‘hard to explain’

The Independent UK

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