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"The looseness that the Faces were known for just became too loose. It was such an unprofessional band": How Rod Stewart corralled chaos to make his solo classic Every Picture Tells A Story

Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story arrived by accident, was rescued by some last-minute songs, a fat slice of luck and a dozen hard-drinking hombres – and helped launch Rod Stewart’s solo career

Louder

"I'm still not sure that I can tell you exactly what happened, and I was there": Slash, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and more tell the epic story of Guns N’ Roses' Use Your Illusion

Use Your Illusion: Drugs, rifts, hirings, firings, and the sound of a band falling apart

Metal Hammer

“Their albums hadn’t accomplished much. I went to see them and liked them, especially the new songs… I then witnessed their break-up”: How manager Dave Margereson rebuilt Supertramp and helped them deliver a set of classic prog albums

With an approach based on belief and cameraderie, the self-described captain of the band’s pirate ship steered them from failing pop group to hit records including Crime Of The Century and Breakfast In America

Louder

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Swapping Feeld for the field: why Gen Z Londoners have fallen for golf

Harry Styles loves it and it’s the focus of a new Apple TV series.William Hosie reports on how swinging (golf clubs) became the coolest way to hang out

Evening Standard

“You could argue we were the quintessential cult band. But I was thinking, ‘We can be more than this’”: In Absentia sold poorly, influenced greatly, and marked the beginning of the end for Porcupine Tree

They delivered a defining moment in progressive metal with their 2002 album, but it wasn’t easy to do it – and once they had, Steven Wilson didn’t want to do it again

Metal Hammer

7 new to Paramount Plus movies with 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes

We’ve chosen the 7 best new to Paramount Plus movies this month that have at least 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tom’s Guide

"This is how the record industry started": Why Norway's Indie Recordings chooses old-school collaboration to help guitar bands succeed with their songwriting

MD Erlend Gjerde explains the inspiring independent label's journey and the ways they empower their artists

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Manipur: Anti-drone systems deployed in State amid rising attacks

The Assam Rifles has deployed a few anti-drone systems in the state at fringe areas to repel any rogue drones. Read further on Dynamite News:

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“I go to the urinal and I feel a wet stream going down my left leg.” The night ex-Beatle John Lennon peed on one of the men who launched Woodstock festival

Music business legend Artie Kornfeld recalls the night that John Lennon peed on him during his Double Fantasy recording sessions

Louder

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From NWOBHM-revivalists Tailgunner to existential post-metallers Kollapse, Austrian folk-tinged black metal heroes Perchta and UK hopefuls Defects, these are the new metal bands you need to hear in August 2024

Metal Hammer

‘They couldn’t even afford a bag of chips!’: Scotland’s great lost all-female bands

From the Edinburgh duo who toured with the Beatles to the ribbon-festooned Strawberry Switchblade, Scotland produced thrilling girl bands. So why couldn’t they sustain their success? A new film tells their stories

The Guardian - UK

“It might not be commercial, but it’s important that the art be preserved”: The attitude that built Decca’s offshoot Deram into one of the labels that pioneered prog

Pye Hastings, Davy O’List and others recall the company that aimed for an audience of “groovy people” and backed The Moody Blues, Caravan, The Move, Camel, Procol Harum and others

Louder

Darcus Howe’s son Darcus Beese and his activist mother, Barbara: ‘He was imbued with the spirit of the struggle’

He was the first black boss of a UK record label. She was a British Black Panther and one of the Mangrove Nine. They reflect on the ‘madness’ of his childhood, and his memoir that records their groundbreaking legacies

The Guardian - UK

“If you keep shouting with the devil, you're going to get killed": How floating cutlery and a spooked A&R rep resulted in Motley Crue changing the name of Shout At The Devil

Motley Crue's 1983 groundbreaking second album was given a new name following a stern chat with their A&R rep on the dangers of playing with "evil" after unexplained paranormal activity at Nikki Sixx's house

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President Biden's tumultuous handoff to Kamala Harris is a hard lesson in the importance of succession planning

The political system needs to put itself on pause and say, ‘How can we embrace the principles that have made America’s economy so strong?’" says Ted Dintersmith, a former venture capital investor and top Democratic Party donor.

Louder

“We were the belt-and-braces Pink Floyd – basic yobbos”: how Hawkwind boldly went where no band had gone before on psychedelic masterpiece In Search Of Space

America had hippies and Woodstock – the UK had greasy, gritty space-heads Hawkwind and their cosmic epic In Search Of Space

Guitar World

Watch Johnny Depp and Andrea Bocelli pay tribute to Jeff Beck – accompanied by a recording of the late guitar hero

The pair re-enacted Beck's 2020 performance of En Aranjuez Con Tu Amo, complete with a recording of the virtuoso's parts

Louder

“He got me in a headlock and started punching me. We just went at it”: the explosive story of Dokken, the hard rock band that tore itself apart

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“I heard some ruckus outside… It was Kurt and Dave from Nirvana who had a note for me, saying, ‘This is not a joke, call Buzz about playing with the Melvins’”: Joe Preston on Thrones, Sunn O))) and life as the underground’s first-call bassist

Bass legend Joe Preston breaks cover to reflect on his career with Melvins, High On Fire, Earth and more, and admits that trying to make a living from music was his biggest mistake

Metal Hammer

“We could do anything we wanted with our hair and our clothes in front of tens of thousands of people. We were gods!”: how guitar legend Steve Vai survived Whitesnake

The story of guitar icon’s Steve Vai’s brief but eventful union with David Coverdale and Whitesnake for the Slip Of The Tongue album

Louder

Mark Hollis author to launch new edition of biography with evenings celebrating the musician's work

A new edition of the Mark Hollis biography A Perfect Silence will be released through Rocket 88 books

The Independent UK

The epic rise and fall of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

From Harlem to Hollywood — including the 1990s East Coast vs. West Coast rap rivalry, recent sexual harassment lawsuits, and the name changes from Sean Combs to “Love” — Sheila Flynn explores Diddy’s wild and legally fraught path to fame

The Guardian - UK

‘I don’t think it’s going to do well’: the Zutons on Valerie – and Mark Ronson on covering it with Amy Winehouse

‘It’s about a makeup artist I met in Florida called Valerie Star, who had legal bills. When I played it to the band, they all went, “Oh, that’s good.” And I thought, “It is, isn’t it”’

USA Today Sports Media Group

Highlights from Colts WR Josh Downs’ offseason media availability

Colts' second-year wide receiver Josh Downs met with the media recently. Here are the highlights from his availability.

MusicRadar

“The A&R and the label actually didn’t like it. They were like, ‘Yeah, yeah, it’s a fun song, but it’s never going to get on the radio'": How Train went from nearly splitting up to proving them wrong with smash hit Hey, Soul Sister

Co-writer Espen Lind on how he got the ukulele back into the charts – after saving the song with it

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