Fender has truly put the Strat among the pigeons with the launch of the Standard series. Here we are taking out a second mortgage to finance the purchase of a dozen eggs then along come genuine Fender ...

In 2021, Sam Fender released his second album Seventeen Going Under. Arriving amid COVID lockdowns in the U.K., the record tapped into the nation’s reflective mood, and saw the high-flying ...

The young British rocker Sam Fender has a lot going for him. At home in the UK, Fender’s heavy-hearted, Springsteenian slice-of-life music has tapped into the cultural zeitgeist. His first two ...

That’s what’s happening in the album-opening title track from People Watching, the third LP by U.K. pop-rock star Sam Fender. “I people watch on the way back home/Envious of the glimmer of ...

Fender's iconic sparkle-finish guitars—an essential chapter in what is inarguably one of the most influential portfolios of modern guitar design. Born out of Midcentury Southern California's ...

In an effort to make everything sound as massive as possible, the team obscures some of Fender’s more pointed moments. On the title track, he returns to his hometown to see his elderly mentor ...

The themes on this record aren’t new to Fender, but the perspective in which he examines them has shifted. Both his debut, ‘Hypersonic Missiles’, and the Brit-nominated ‘Seventeen Going ...

An awards win for songwriter Sam Fender saw his local pub end up in possession, and fans love what they have since done with it. Fender, who released his third album People Watching today ...

Sam Fender‘s new album ‘People Watching’ is heading towards the Number One spot and it has currently outsold the rest of the UK Top 10 combined. According to the Official Charts, the North ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Sam Fender is fighting the good fight on behalf of the lost art of the music video. In January, the Brit- and Mercury-nominated English songwriter and 2025 Glastonbury headliner recruited the ...

By Kate Mossman Sam Fender’s giant success could be explained, not just by his similarity to Bruce Springsteen, but by the fact that he is the UK’s first politicised blue-collar solo rock act. How can ...