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“After the set, Hendrix came knocking on the dressing room door and said, ‘I want you to come on tour with me’”: Chicago bassist Peter Cetera reflects on signing for Columbia Records, opening for Jimi Hendrix and why Paul McCartney changed everything

The newly named Chicago were invited to open for The Experience on several dates during their 1969 US tour

Guitar World

Labrinth is 'done' with the music industry as he fires shots at record label and HBO's Euphoria

Labrinth appears to have drawn a line under his music career, taking aim at both Columbia Records and Euphoria as he steps away.

BANG Premier

"One of the most colourful, fascinating, exciting and unusual rock'n'roll albums we've ever heard." The story of the pioneering rockers whose career was scuttled by the Six-Day War

In 1966, a group of Arab, Israeli and American musicians made an album together in New York City – but they were doomed from the start

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“Bob Dylan wrote some notes on a napkin and said, ‘Give this to McGuinn. He’ll know what to do withit.’ It was like the Holy Grail”: Roger McGuinn on the making of The Byrds’ countercultural classic

Roger McGuinn explains how Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan and CBS-era Fender amps all factored into the making of The Byrds’ 1969 classic, Ballad of Easy Rider

Guitar World

“Journey wanted to make a musical change. Next thing I know I’m in Denver, Colorado with Neal Schon and we wrote our first song together that night”: How Steve Perry became the voice of Journey and took the band to its peak – before he had to bow out

At the moment Perry joined, the band was in danger of being dropped by Columbia Records

MusicRadar

'Lux' album review: Rosalía's musical gift to the world which keeps on giving

In a career defined by variety and the defying of boundaries, Rosalía’s LUX stands as a monumental achievement of an avantgarde musical vision. Jakub Dutkiewicz has been listening carefully.

Euronews

Mariah Carey wins Video Vanguard award at 2025 MTV VMAs

The American singer-songwriter, 56, is best known for her distinct vocal range and evergreen festive track, All I Want For Christmas Is You.

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"I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard. I wanted it to sound enormous, to grab you by your throat": How Bruce Springsteen saved his career with Born To Run

The Boss spent six months working on the album's title track

MusicRadar

“Gaybaiting Is Real”: After JoJo Siwa Revealed She’s Not Lesbian, Major Record Label Drops Her

"Why does she keep pushing this narrative?"

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Everything we learned about Beyoncé's upbringing and marriage, from her mother Tina Knowles' explosive memoir

Fake pregnancy rumours, Beyoncé’s marriage to Jay-Z, and what really went down with Destiny’s Child — Knowles spills the ‘Mama Tea’

Evening Standard

Bob Dylan and the creative leap that transformed modern music

The Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet, focuses on Dylan’s early 1960s transition from idiosyncratic singer of folk songs to internationally renowned singer-songwriter.

The Conversation

“We’d gone from being broke musicians to having James Hetfield slapping me on the back, saying, ‘Hey man, great album’”: How Corrosion Of Conformity ditched hardcore and embraced southern metal with Deliverance

The story of Corrosion Of Conformity’s Metallica-approved 1994 album Deliverance

Metal Hammer

"On a road trip to Los Angeles, about to move into the first home he'd ever purchased, something gave way": The torment and triumph of Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A.

Forty years after the release of Born In The U.S.A., we look at the making of the record that elevated Bruce Springsteen from star to global superstar

Louder

Shuggie Otis's third album was hailed as classic, but his record company dropped him: It took 40 years to make a fourth

The son of an R&B legend, guitar virtuoso Shuggie Otis did it his way, turning down the Rolling Stones and David Bowie in the process

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“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

MusicRadar

MGMT on their humble beginnings and return to form: "We demoed Oracular on a Radio Shack mic and a really bad interface with signal bleed. We thought we'd have to redo it, but our producer said there's a character about it we'll never be able to recreate"

15 years after their early success, MGMT explain how they’ve got their mojo back on new album Loss of Life

WEKU

Billy Joel returns to the recording studio with first new song in nearly 20 years

The 74-year-old singer-songwriter's longtime label, Columbia Records, plans to drop 'Turn the Lights Back On' on Feb. 1st.

Louder

"The crowd was berserk, and Bruce just beaming. It was like he knew. He'd taken a massive step": Bruce Springsteen and the long road from Sunday matinees to stardom

Like many young teenagers in the 60s, Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with rock'n'roll. A decade and a lot of hard graft later, he was being hailed as its future

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The Independent UK

Miley Cyrus was ‘thinking of Adele’ while writing new song ‘Used to Be Young’

Pop star reflects on her ‘wild’ youth in her latest single

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Taylor Swift Leads With 8 ‘MTV Video Music Awards’ Nominations

The Guardian - US

Barbra Streisand: ‘It’s the funniest thing to me that people still can’t get my name right’

In a rare interview discussing her music, the star details the highs and lows her early career, the difficult transition into pop and how she rose above jabs at her appearance

Salon

The inauspicious arrival of The Boss

Before "Born to Run" gained Springsteen attention, he released two underappreciated albums 50 years ago

Asharq Al-Awsat

Early Streisand Nightclub Recording Remastered for Release

A series of 1962 performances by Barbra Streisand at a Manhattan nightclub before she became a superstar have been remastered and will be released this fall. “Barbra Streisand — Live at the Bon Soir” features songs from a three night stint at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village. The…

Benzinga

Beyoncé Has The Second-Biggest Album Debut Of 2022: Here's Who Is No.1 And A Stock To Watch

Superstar Beyoncé is one of the biggest names in music. A recently released album saw strong sales and helped put a woman back on top of the leaderboard for the first time in 30 weeks. Here’s a look at Beyoncé’s latest album, who pushed her album to second place and a stock…

Manchester Evening News

Maggie Rogers and George Ezra are headed to Manchester this summer - and more tickets up for grabs

Here are the latest shows and artists who are headed to Manchester this year

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