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“Even when I got pretty good fees, I lost money on everything. I was thinking so idealistically”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg releases Vox Occulta, with hard lessons learned from the past

He wants to use a large band to tour his boredom-beating second album – and thinks he’s come up with a way to keep it in budget this time

Louder

"It's like The Who channelling Cheap Trick, filled with catchy pop songs slathered with hard rock guitars." How the folk songs of Pope John Paul II buried one of rock'n'roll's great lost albums

Signed by Heart's management and to the same record label as the head of the Catholic Church, TKO toured with everyone from Cheap Trick and The Kinks to Foreigner and Van Halen: It wasn't enough

Louder

Slovenia to air films about Palestine instead of Eurovision song contest

Ireland and Spain will also not broadcast Eurovision after decision to boycott live event over Israel’s participation

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Ministers urged to stick to ticket tout ban amid fears of delay

In November, the Government announced new rules making it illegal to resell tickets for live events for profit.

Evening Standard

Korn return with pounding single Reward The Scars, in collaboration with new Diablo IV expansion Lord Of Hatred

It’s the first new music from the nu metal superstars since 2022 album Requiem

Metal Hammer

“Absolutely essential listening for any would-be rock bass player”: How Rainbow bassist Craig Gruber galloped his way through a hard-rock classic alongside Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio

Having become disillusioned with Deep Purple’s growing love of funk, Ritchie Blackmore jumped ship in August 1975 – taking most of Purple’s opening act with him

Guitar World

Alan Osmond obituary

Oldest member of the family pop group that had Top 10 hits in the US and UK in the early 1970s

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“I wanted a bicycle for Christmas, and they gave me a guitar. It pissed me off”: Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has played with everyone from Steely Dan to Dolly Parton – but he didn’t even want to be a guitar player

Baxter would go on to become a bona fide guitar great, but his life might have turned out differently had he got his wish...

Guitar World

Olivia Dean review – soul-pop superstar shimmies into a classy and commanding first arena tour

The glam set design, gleaming brass and Motown moves are knowingly retro, but Dean’s performance is immediate, vulnerable and natural – the work of a singular artist

The Guardian - UK

“It was cheaper to come here and rent a whole hotel out of season. The bar was open 24/7”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson recalls writing classic albums in empty Jersey hotel

The singer looks back on writing Piece Of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time in a hotel on the Channel Islands

Metal Hammer

“Mark Knopfler, he's soloing kind of all through the record. And that's what I did, too”: Bruce Hornsby explains why a classic Dire Straits song is a “kindred spirit” to his biggest hit

He also reveals which hip-hop interpolation of The Way It Is he likes the best

MusicRadar

“I’m deeply uncomfortable with the amount of old men here. I’m no longer interested in playing blues or whatever the hell keeps attracting y’all”: Grace Bowers has quit YouTube over the number of “old ass creeps”

Bowers has also once again distanced herself from the blues, saying she wants to make music for her own generation

Guitar World

Foo Fighters, Your Favorite Toy review – Dave Grohl’s most revealing (and self-eviscerating) songs yet

4/5 After the numb grief of 2023’s ‘But Here We Are’, the band’s first album in the wake of drummer Taylor Hawkins’ death, ‘Your Favorite Toy’ feels like a back-to-basics blast of fresh air, with Grohl using these songs to face up to himself

The Independent UK

'Ringo's Never Done This': Paul McCartney Teases Historic Reunion Track That Takes Fans Back to 1940s Liverpool

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite on Home To Us, a new duet from The Boys From Dungeon Lane that revisits their Liverpool roots and long, tangled history together.

International Business Times UK

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The Guardian - UK

What’s missing? Everything But the Girl’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

With their sublime confection of heartbreak and dancefloor power, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have never sounded like anyone else. Thirty years since Walking Wounded, here’s the duo’s very best

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny named Spotify’s most streamed artists of all time

The list charts the most streamed music, podcasts and audiobooks since the platform launched nearly two decades ago.

MusicRadar

“I haven’t spoken to Bernard for… I didn’t even speak to him. He spoke at me. That’ll be 15 years": Peter Hook says he won’t perform or stand with New Order at their RNR Hall Of Fame – unless he receives an apology

Liam and Noel Gallagher could be intermediaries, he says

Metal Hammer

"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3

After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...

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"One love for the world!" French psychedelic rock mind expanders Slift announce North America, Europe and UK tour dates

Slift reveal 2026 tour itinerary

MusicRadar

After over a decade of silence, Boards Of Canada confirm new album

Duo had teased it via mailouts of VHS tapes

Louder

"The Ramones rescued rock 'n' roll." How Ramones' first album changed the lives of punk rock icons Henry Rollins, Bob Mould, Ian MacKaye and Steve Albini, in their own words

On April 23, 1976 Sire Records released a punk rock record that changed everything

Guitar World

“I haven’t heard anything this cool in a generation”: Nuno Bettencourt names the up-and-coming guitarist who has blown his mind

Bettencourt rarely reposts players on his social media accounts, but this Instagram guitarist-producer has got him all worked up

Metal Hammer

"I wrote a lot of the tracks envisioning powerful live drumming – enter Dave Grohl." How the former Nirvana drummer shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' album With Teeth

Trent Reznor wanted his drummer to play like Dave Grohl on their 2005 album, so he got the Foo Fighter frontman stop by the studio instead

The Guardian - UK

‘When I finish my classes, I feel sad’: anger builds over gyms swapping pop classics for cheap covers

The fitness chain Better has replaced musicians’ tracks with cover versions, causing dismay among punters and instructors who say the change is killing the energy

Louder

Yes reschedule postponed UK Fragile tour to May 2027

Yes will also release their twenty-fourth studio album, Aurora, in June

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