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Pink Floyd star condemns Ed Sheeran as support acts quit tour over Palestine row

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The Independent UK

AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

The Guardian - UK

The inside story behind the celebrations of Syd Barrett's 80th birthday. "Syd emerged from the womb fully formed. There was no lead-in period - it was bang!"

Twenty years after the former Pink Floyd frontman's death, an exhibition, gig and star-studded tribute album will celebrate Syd Barrett's legacy

Louder

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17-disc Soft Machine box set, Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970-1974, due in October

Mammoth new Soft Machine box set the most comprehensive anthology of the band ever released

Louder

“I expected everybody to be like, ‘Who are you to do this?’” Meet the Pink Floyd tribute band celebrating 50 years of Wish You Were Here by writing three new songs for the classic album

Floyd Nation has offered an alternate ending to the record’s “tragic” narrative. Guitarist Brendon McDonnell explains what compelled them to add to an iconic album – and why he isn’t trying to be David Gilmour

Guitar World

‘It’s more of a lifestyle, a fashionable device, not just tech’: We Are Rewind’s CEO on how the Pink Floyd collab is turning cassette players into ‘collector’s items’

I spoke with We Are Rewind CEO Romain Boudruche about the inspiration behind the Pink Floyd WE-001, cassettes coming back, and his plans for future collabs.

Tom’s Guide

Let's get physical! The brands helping us fall in love with physical media all over again

The age of the collector is back — and we speak to one of the companies embracing physical media once more.

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"We certainly weren't strutting around like Deep Purple. My God, they had a lot of fun. We did not have fun." How the UK college rock scene shaped the genesis of Genesis

An excerpt from a new book celebrating the endearingly amateurish British university gig scene that launched the career of some of the world’s most famous bands

Louder

Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album

K3 might undermine the conventional wisdom that U.S. firms can maintain their extended lead by simply outspending Chinese competitors on computing power.

Fortune

Time and Money well spent: This retro-styled Pink Floyd x We Are Rewind cassette player lights up The Dark Side Of The Moon

Audio firm We Are Rewind release a limited-edition portable cassette player alongside The Dark Side Of The Moon on high quality tape

Louder

“We're happy we can play a part in helping preserve the physical album experience”: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon officially returns on cassette –Nick Mason has some thoughts on what’s next for the prog classic

The latest co-branded cassette player release from We Are Rewind celebrates the totemic record that all-but demands playback on a physical format

MusicRadar

Rewind to the 1970s with this Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon, cassette player boxset

Tick away the moments that make up your dull day with a cassette edition of the 50th anniversary remaster

What Hi-Fi?

“When are we going to stop with this Pink Floyd stuff and start playing some metal?”: The story of the most ambitious song in death metal history

In 1996, Sweden’s Edge Of Sanity filled an entire album with one winding track, inspired by black metal, melodeath, prog and plenty more. It remains a towering achievement long after the band’s break-up.

Metal Hammer

From basements to one of the biggest movements in guitar tone: 12 iconic stompboxes that built the boutique pedal boom

How a dedicated group of DIY tone chasers changed the face of the guitar industry

Guitar World

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“I was obsessed with him at school – it didn’t help with the girls! Because of him I got my first guitar, so he’s got a lot to answer for”: The prog hero who links The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord to Pink Floyd and The Beatles

Soord’s inspiration comes from a man who made his name in the studio before releasing a series of acclaimed concept records in his own right

Louder

"Roger immediately said, 'What's that?' Some riffs have a little bit of magic to them, and it's obvious." Watch David Gilmour play Pink Floyd classic Wish You Were Here in his home studio, and talk about the song's creation at Abbey Road

"I remember the moment of creating it quite often"

Louder

"Clive recognised the light in people. He encouraged artists to trust their own voice and step into their destiny." Legendary music executive Clive Davis dead at 94

During a decades-long career, Clive Davis signed Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Santana, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen and many more

Louder

"Our crew was being bombed in real time while filming."Roger Waters releases charity version of Pink Floyd's classic Comfortably Numb with new lyrics in English and Arabic

The new version of Comfortably Numb finds Roger Waters singing alongside acclaimed Palestinian singer Mona Miari

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“The rock business has become so established, and so much like a society, that I have revolted against it." After killing off Ziggy and breaking up the band, David Bowie recorded a covers album in a French castle. This is the story of Pin Ups’ creation

After Aladdin Sane, Bowie recorded Pin Ups to pacify his label – but the critics weren't impressed

Louder

"They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?" In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers

The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

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New album to celebrate Syd Barrett’s 80th birthday

A new album is being launched to celebrate what would have been Syd Barrett’s 80th birthday.

Louder

Syd Barrett 80th birthday celebrations include tribute concert in Cambridge and tribute album featuring Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and more...

A special tribute concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where Syd Barrett played his last ever live show, will take place in October

MusicRadar

“Just the quirky 7/8 time reminds me of Roger. It’s not a song I would have written. It points itself at Roger”: The classic track from The Dark Side Of The Moon that gave Pink Floyd their first US hit

“We created a 4/4 progression for the guitar solo and made the poor saxophone player play in 7/4”

The Independent UK

Royal Mint launches rainbow prism coins celebrating legendary rock band Pink Floyd

The band has joined David Bowie and Freddie Mercury in the Royal Mint’s ‘music legends’ series

Evening Standard

Pink Floyd rainbow prism effect coins launched by The Royal Mint

Pink Floyd join David Bowie, George Michael, Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Paul McCartney and Freddie Mercury in The Royal Mint’s ‘music legends’ series.

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