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The 2019 edition of Truck Festival is happening this week and I couldn’t be more excited! In anticipation of what will actually be my first-ever festival experience (yes, really), I’ve chosen six of the acts I’m most eager to see and, if you’re going, who you should be sure to see too! This ranges from well-established headlines to future stars and underground favourites, showing why the stacked line-up is perhaps the very best any UK festival has to offer this summer. Wolf Alice Given the mix of indie, hard rock and alternative pop across the Truck bill, Wolf Alice are the perfect choice for a headliner. The indie quartet have enjoyed a meteoric rise in their young career, releasing two critically-acclaimed albums so far, with 2017’s sensational ‘Visions of a Life’, being one of my favourite albums of recent years. Few bands are able to pull off as diverse a sound as Wolf Alice, relaxing you with dreamy indie-pop one minute and slapping you in the face with high-energy punk roc...

After taking a break last week, I'm back again with my weekly round-up of how rock's biggest names and breakthrough stars are fairing on the UK charts! There's loads to talk about this week, from new releases to chart-affecting factors like Glastonbury hype, Metallica 's UK tour and Kerrang! Awards fallout, so let's get stuck in! First up, let's talk about American metal quartet Baroness. They scored their highest chart position to date when their great new record Gold & Grey debuted  at No. 1 on the Rock & Metal Albums Chart last week. The album is now down to 8, with the new LP from classic rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires now taking the top spot in Baroness' absence. Metallica 's recent UK live dates received huge praise from fans and critics last week, with the continuing Metallica-fever having impacted the chart in a big way. The thrash veterans currently have five albums in the rock top 40, including a re-entering Hardwired ...