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‘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

The Guardian - UK

"If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most understood album

Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience

Metal Hammer

I went, ‘Yeah, David Bowie, you’re a complete c*nt'... and that was the start of a 13-year relationship.” Film director Tim Pope on working with Bowie

The director was behind the lens on a number of promo clips and also filmed Bowie's 50th birthday bash

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Game-changers, taste-makers and trend-setters: here are 2023's guitarists of the year

We tip our hats to the players that made 2023 such a defining year in guitar history – and whose achievements we'll be talking about in years to come

Guitar World

Photographer Juergen Teller on life, death and baby making

German photographer Juergen Teller gives Eve Jackson a tour of his Paris show "I need to live" at the Grand Palais' massive temporary space in Paris. In the exhibition he displays around 800 works, including photos of Kim Kardashian, Victoria Beckham, Yves Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood, as well as…

France 24

“At four in the morning, I got a call from David Bowie. He said they needed a guitar player for Iggy Pop’s album”: As right-hand man for everyone from Mark Knopfler to Eric Clapton, ‘Session Man’ Phil Palmer more than earned his nickname

Armed with a Nocaster given to him by his uncle, the Kinks’ Dave Davies, Palmer became a go-to guitarist for some of music’s biggest names, landing an official role in Dire Straits – and narrowly missing out on playing Clapton’s MTV Unplugged set

Guitar World

"I was always looking for something beautiful to grasp on to": Duff McKagan on love, God, and the truth of punk

Duff McKagan’s Lighthouse album might be a long way from the music he’s best known for with Guns N' Roses, but it still reflects the punk rocker in him

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“Steve Hogarth is a revelation among an impressive, if seemingly random, array of singers”: Trevor Horn’s Echoes – Ancient & Modern

Pop and prog tracks are presented in a dreamlike state in the follow-up to his 80s collection

Louder

Music show: Ala.ni puts her own 'dark Disney' twist on the Christmas music genre

Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined in the studio by British singer-songwriter Ala.ni for a very festive edition of arts24. Ala.ni has just released the second instalment of her two-part Christmas EP "Christmas Vol.2", a mix of original tracks and covers such as Joni Mitchell’s "River". Her "dark Disney" vocals are…

France 24

Hitchhiking Tom Waits was once picked up by ‘Nature Boy’ songwriter Eden Ahbez

‘It was a big thrill for me,’ US artist tells Iggy Pop in a rare radio appearance

The Independent UK

“Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever

Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

Louder

"He called Chad Smith 'drummer'. Like, 'Drummer, can you hit that on the up beat?' And this is Chad Smith!" Duff McKagan on what it’s like being in a band with punk rock don, Iggy Pop

The Guns N' Roses bassist has played on two Iggy Pop records, and now the former Stooges man has returned the favour

Louder

Doncaster musician Skinny Pelembe: ‘Not everything needs to be such a woe-is-me thing’

Iggy Pop and Grace Jones are fans of his. Annabel Nugent speaks to multi-instrumentalist Doya Beardmore about his genre-hopping sound, leaving Gilles Peterson’s record label, and what real success looks like

The Independent UK

A clarinettist doing Munch’s Scream: Mats Bäcker’s best photograph

‘Martin Fröst is the world’s most famous clarinet player and he loves to be photographed. You could call him vain but, like the Beatles, he knows the importance of a strong image’

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From pop to classical to avant-garde: the 15 best Sydney Opera House shows to stream for free

The venue is releasing 50 archival films across the next two months, to celebrate its 50th year. Our editors and critics have selected the top picks

MusicRadar

Chad Smith on his contribution to Dua Lipa’s Break My Heart

The Red Hot Chili Pepper recorded drums on the 2020 hit

The Guardian - UK

‘We were once paid $50 to quit’: new wave heroes Devo on boos, Bowie and retiring after 50 years

For half a century, the Ohio band have confounded audiences, collaborated with A-listers and continued to reinvent themselves. They explain why now is the time to finally call it a day

Louder

“Without naming names, I have spent time onstage playing music I hate, wishing it was over”: King Crimson, Porcupine Tree and Pineapple Thief’s Gavin Harrison on being a pro

The eclectic drummer has been the jokey one in some bands and the serious, grown-up one in others - but it all comes down to the same approach

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This short film captures Celine’s high-wattage Hollywood show at The Wiltern

Celine creative director Hedi Slimane directs a new short film, which revisits his Winter 2023 show in Los Angeles last December – featuring appearances from Iggy Pop, The Strokes and Interpol

Daily Mirror

The wrinkly musicians still rocking the world - but when will they be dethroned?

A host of big names are proving pop music isn't the domain of rebellious youngsters - but while one music lover is in his element, a younger fan thinks it's time to get off the stage

Metal Hammer

"It's Spiderman again!" Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme reunites with masked superhero at European festival

Watch the beautiful moment that Spiderman is invited to join Queens Of The Stone Age onstage, once again

The Guardian - UK

‘The real story is more confusing than any lie’: the Armed’s Tony Wolski unmasks the punk collective

They’ve spent years toying with journalists, using fake names or sending actors to interviews. Now the ad guy behind the elusive Detroit band lifts the lid on the Armed multiverse

The Guardian - UK

Iggy Pop review – age-defying force of nature still spitting, shirtless and sounding fantastic

The veteran rock icon displays as much physicality as he did in his 20s ripping through a set of Stooges classics, Bowie-assisted solo work and unexpected curveballs

Louder

"Ultimately, they weren’t Rick Wakeman" - Clem Burke and Glen Matlock on the outsider appeal of the original punk bands

Ahead of their gig with Iggy Pop at the Dog Day Afternoon festival in London, Blondie’s Clem Burke and former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock talk punk, punk and more punk

Evening Standard

God Save the Punks: London braces for Iggy Pop’s new festival Dog Day Afternoon

The new one-dayer at Crystal Palace Park pays homage to the spirit and legacy of punk

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