The Rock Music Forum

Pommelien Thijs’s catchy tunes are beloved in Belgium — in the Dutch-speaking part, at least.

A music executive with longstanding ties to the Jackson family, he worked to make Janet a star and Michael a posthumous commercial powerhouse.

25,000 people responded to our poll. Here are their top picks.

Listen to “Eleanor Rigby,” “Daytime Nightime Suffering” and more tracks that hint at his gloomier instincts.

What’s rarer than a Bank Holiday heatwave? A Slam Dunk lineup this scorching. Slam Dunk South might have seen temperatures high enough to make us regret wearing our black scene gear for our day out, but it would turn into a day of revelations: acts we’d relegated to the sidelines of our listening coming into their own, old favourites undergoing reinventions, and festival debuts ...