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DARK SECRETS: 2 | Rare Historical Photos

This classic Elvis Costello tune is a great hi-fi test track – but not for the reason you might expect

A tough test for an unexpected reason

What Hi-Fi?

"The tempos might have slowed, but they make up for it in sheer bloody-minded forcefulness": Exodus break the habit of a lifetime on Force Of Habit

With Metallica's Black album bringing them a huge new audience, Exodus clambered aboard the experimental bandwagon

Louder

“Pink Floyd was bigger than a band. It was more like church. They played A Momentary Lapse Of Reason in its entirety and I thought, ‘I want to be around this all the time’”: Why Billy Howerdel is glad he copied David Gilmour badly

A Perfect Circle guitarist recalls deciding to become a musician during 1988 concert, and hails Gilmour’s substance-over-quality approach

Louder

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Glastonbury ready? Beezer’s new photography book captures the wild soul of 1980s music culture

A new photography book by music photographer Beezer shows an unseen look at Glastonbury in the 1980s

Digital Camera World

I’m no Ed Sheeran fan, but he’s right: when it comes to musical plagiarism, guilt is in the ear of the listener

Musical history is littered with cases like the failed $100m suit against the singer, and they risk stifling pop music, says music journalist Simon Price

The Guardian - UK

The 16 greatest Glastonbury Festival performances ever

These are the most iconic sets to have ever graced the world's most famous music festival

Louder

“When we first opened, we never imagined that we’d still be in London three years on”: Abba: Voyage just got four new songs to mark its third anniversary

New fan favourites join the virtual gig’s all-hits line-up following an all-star anniversary party

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“When he stopped, the hubbub in the studio was like, ‘Oh my god. Oh my god, what’s happening?’”: When Elvis Costello terrified Saturday Night Live by launching into an unplanned song

The 23 year-old Costello drew the ire of Lorne Michaels with the legendary stunt

MusicRadar

“If you’ve experienced failure and rejection, how can you possibly be anything but elated?”: How Bush’s Gavin Rossdale channelled frustration and loss into epic grunge ballad Glycerine

Glycerine was the dark ballad that helped turbocharge Bush’s multi-platinum debut album Sixteen Stone

Louder

“There certainly was a fair amount of hard drinking. But there was a degree of professionalism, if hard to recognise at times”: How The Pogues made a folk-punk classic in Rum, Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues’ second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash remains the late Shane MacGowan’s finest moment

Louder

“Freddie Mercury got me in a half-nelson. I couldn’t move!”: A rock legend’s backstage antics at Live Aid - and his beef with a fellow star

Bowie was “a nice guy”. Elvis Costello, not so much…

MusicRadar

“All anyone wanted to hear was awful new wave garbage like Elvis Costello and The Police. Rock groups like ours were strangled us to death”: The rise and fall of Starz, the 70s rockers who should been the next Kiss

Starz were one of 70s rock’s greatest near misses

Louder

Watch Post Malone join the surviving members of Nirvana for a frenzied blast through Smells Like Teen Spirit

The "Post Nirvana" performance took place at the SNL50 Homecoming Concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall

Louder

Nadine Shah, Lankum's Darragh Lynch, Lisa O'Neill among guest vocalists joining The Pogues for their first UK headline tour in 13 years

The Pogues reveal guest vocalists joining them for their 40th anniversary Rum Sodomy & The Lash tour in May

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“I grew up playing bluegrass… it’s taken me years to lighten up my right hand to where I’m not breaking strings every 30 seconds!” Larkin Poe have worked on music together since they were toddlers – and their guitar sisterhood has never been stronger

Bloom is a family affair that takes Megan and Rebecca Lovell’s spark from stage to the studio, with guitars plugged straight into a cranked amp and served up “neat”

MusicRadar

“I went to see her and I just didn’t get it. I still don’t get it”: producer Clive Langer on why he turned down Madonna, blew it with Grohl, but got majestic with Bowie

He said no to 'her Madge', but recording Bowie and Jagger more than made up for it

The Guardian - UK

‘My job was making hits’: Clive Langer on taking Bowie, Dexys and Madness to No 1 – and why he turned Madonna down

He skied with Bowie, boozed with Madness and recorded the Teardrop Explodes on acid. But does he regret blowing it with Dave Grohl? The great producer relives his smashes, parties and 11am vodkas

Guitar World

“I don’t classify myself as a rock ’n’ roll or rockabilly player… I was trying tobe as all-around as I could be”: Billy Bremner on his greatest sessions with Pretenders, Nick Lowe and countless others – and the story behind Rockpile

Rockpile was a band that came and went too soon, but its guitarist, session great Billy Bremner, played on hundreds of recordings, including the Pretenders’ Learning to Crawl and Nick Lowe’s Cruel to be Kind. This is his story

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Susanna Hoffs and Elvis Costello celebrate Keith Richards' 81st birthday by dropping an unexpected Rolling Stones cover

"We both wanted to do the Keith part, but I won!" - Susanna Hoffs

Louder

Elvis Costello couldn't care less about his songwriting style being plagiarised and exploited by AI in the future. “Nobody wants to be me anyway!”

“I live in a different universe to AI," legendary British singer/songwriter Elvis Costello maintains, advising songwriting thieves from the future to go back on their rocket ships

The Independent UK

10 holiday gifts to hit the right note for music lovers

Music fans should be easy to shop for this holiday season, right

Evening Standard

The Pogues say Shane MacGowan’s ‘spirit lives on’ in album anniversary gigs

The band will perform second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash in full in May 2025 after celebrating the 40th anniversary of Red Roses For Me this year.

MusicRadar

“They're French. I would say it's a kind of techno prog band”: Elvis Costello reckons that the Brooklyn warehouse gig he saw Justice play was “one of the great shows I've ever been to”

He’s also been doubling down on his decision not to get into a songwriting spat with Olivia Rodrigo

Guitar World

“I did not find any reason to go after them legally for that – it would be ludicrous”: Elvis Costello explains why he never sued Olivia Rodrigo's team for interpolating one of his guitar riffs

Rodrigo credited Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, Hayley Williams, and Josh Farro as co-writers after fans noted similarities between tracks on her debut album, SOUR, and songs and riffs by those artists

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Waiting for Godot; Coriolanus; A Face in the Crowd – review

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati add star power to James Macdonald’s thoughtful Beckett; David Oyelowo’s Coriolanus is dwarfed by epic staging; and an Elvis Costello-scored musical has too few high notes

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