Maroon 5’s Adam Levine was scoffed at for suggesting there ‘aren’t any bands any more’ – but if you look at the numbers, he’s right. Wolf Alice, Maximo Park and industry insiders ask why

Members of the Hoosiers, Maxïmo Park, Belle & Sebastian and Shed Seven talk about mental health, the pitfalls of the music biz and why they are swapping gigs for theatre audiences

In the 80s, musicians simply released charity singles in response to humanitarian crises. But today’s artists have been relatively quiet about the plight of those in the Mediterranean – until now. From Coldplay to Benjamin Clementine, why has it taken them so long to find their voices?

(Cooking Vinyl)

Slick, soaring electropop with a candy coating designed to give you a sugar high

The Maximo Park frontman leads an intimate, surreal live-wire event

The Maximo Park frontman brings his literary influences to his second solo album but succumbs to diminishing musical returns

This intriguing Maxïmo Park/Field Music collaboration weaves the detail of everyday life into a subtle whole, writes Harriet Gibsone

Maximo Park's bookish indie romanticism gets a bit of an electronic makeover on their fifth album, and they sound in fine form, writes Caroline Sullivan