“I don’t know what I’m for / But I know what I’m against,” announces Nicky Wire on One Man Militia, a fierce post-punk crash and burn rant that concludes the Manic Street Preachers excellent 15th ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 release a new single today (Friday, January 10, 2025) entitled “People Ruin Paintings.” It’s the third track to be made available from the band’s forthcoming fifteenth album, ...

Manic Street Preachers are set to rock Essex's Audley End House and Gardens. The Welsh rockers - whose hits include ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’, ‘You Stole The Sun From My Heart’ ...

Such qualities have occasionally made them magnificent. On the other hand, when the songs can’t match the lyrical or conceptual ambitions, the whiff of bombast and stadium dirge is pungent. Critical ...