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“Steve Albini died, a friend died, my father died, the father of my wife died. But I want to focus on the positive”: How a composer's approach and 40 DD-3 pedals helped noise masters MONO to heal their grief

Aiming to match sadness with beauty, guitarist and composer Taka Goto explains why, on new album Snowdrop, he channeled classical music through a distortion pedal

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The best World Cup songs to test your system

With no Shakira, no Ricky Martin and definitely no Baddiel & Skinner.

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“Originally, Metallica had a dreadful tape as our intro. Then our manager came up with the idea of replacing it with The Ecstasy Of Gold”: How metal’s biggest band turned a song from a Clint Eastwood movie into the greatest intro music in history

No Metallica show is complete without The Ecstasy Of Gold as its intro tape

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The 10 Best World Cup Songs Ever—Ranked

World Cup songs are almost always over-the-top and cheesy—but some are genuinely brilliant.

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Why has one of the world’s great conductors been shown the door?

Andris Nelsons is to leave the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The shock decision is strongly opposed by the players. What is going on, and what, should a music director’s role be? Plus: why Timothée Chalamet is an eejit

The Guardian - UK

“I didn't even mean to release it - I was working on another song and came up with the riff and then I just started freestyling”: A decade on, we analyse the inner workings of one of Beck’s most potent bangers

Released over a year ahead of its effervescent parent album Colors, Wow demonstrated that Beck’s penchant for genre-blurring was still in rude health

MusicRadar

Italy's national strike called by main union disrupts transport and school services

A national strike called by Italy’s largest trade union in protest against the government’s budget plans has widely disrupted transportation, health and school services across the country

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Photos show Ennio Morricone's opera 'Partenope' as it premieres in Naples

Composer Ennio Morricone earned an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007, but his only opera gathered dust for decades. On Friday night, Naples’ Teatro San Carlo will stage “Partenope," inspired by the mythical siren who drowned herself after failing to enchant Ulysses, three decades after its composition.

The Independent UK

'Partenope,' Ennio Morricone’s long-neglected opera, emerges to enchant Naples

At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as gritty Hollywood films

The Independent UK

"What were the skies like when you were young?": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form

The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and even prompted a lawsuit from Rickie Lee Jones

MusicRadar

"I've always thought that plagiarism is creative": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form

The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and even prompted a lawsuit from Rickie Lee Jones

MusicRadar

“We had four guitarists, which was unheard of at that point”: Johnny Hickman on his pre-Cracker band, the Unforgiven, revisiting the Cracker catalog, and big, bone-headed riffs

Re-recording their catalog for the epic Alternative History, Cracker are taking control of their own story, and it's one that begins with a riff and their own Mick and Keef creative chemistry

Guitar World

One Spanish region where tourists are welcome – especially spaghetti western fans

A new walking route around Burgos, in northern Spain, offers film pilgrims a close-up of the iconic locations used in Sergio Leone’s movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Guardian - UK

Robert Reed shares cover of Pekka Pohjola's Mathematician's Air Display

Robert Reed will release his new covers album Sanctuary Covered in August

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Happy 94th birthday Clint Eastwood: his best films – ranked!

As he reaches the momentous milestone – and ahead of new movie Juror No 2 – we rate the screen icon’s best performances, from playing a poncho-clad anti-hero to having squinty showdowns in cemeteries

The Guardian - UK

Grégoire Maret/Romain Collin: Ennio review – emotional, ecstatic Morricone homage

Harmonica star Maret and pianist/composer Collin pay homage to Ennio Morricone with drifting church-echo and trancelike sounds

Metal Hammer

Every Metallica instrumental ranked from worst to best

From (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth to Suicide & Redemption, we’ve rearranged the six Metallica instrumental tracks in reverse-order of excellence

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Record Store Day 2024: dates, guides, and the full list of releases

Today is Record Store Day 2024! Here's everything you need to know.

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"Everybody freaked out about how beautiful Debbie Harry was, but more focus should’ve been on how great that band were." Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes picks the 10 songs that changed his life

Paradise Lost, Host and Bloodbath frontman Nick Holmes picks the songs that have soundtracked his musical journey

The Guardian - UK

‘We came away awestruck’: 13 writers on Europe’s hidden treasures, from Chagall in Kent to Rome’s secret Caravaggios

David Bowie’s Berlin bolthole and the world’s most stolen artwork in Ghent are among the cultural icons that our writers have long wished to visit

Cinemablend

32 Hollywood Stars That Lived To Be More Than 90

Here are 32 beloved Hollywood stars who lived to be older than 90.

The Independent UK

The Magnificent 20: The greatest Western films of all time

From John Ford classics to Sergio Leone gems, these are the best films the genre has to offer, says Graeme Ross

The Independent UK

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Council Skies review: Oasis brother relaxes into big, bittersweet tunes

Even Liam is a fan of the record’s lovely, lullsome single ‘Dead to the World’

The Independent UK

The Magnificent 20: The greatest Westerns of all time

From John Ford classics to Sergio Leone gems, these are the best films the genre has to offer, says Graeme Ross

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5 oldest Oscar winners, including Anthony Hopkins

Who are the five oldest people to ever win an Oscar? We've got you covered.

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