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"It was presented like you can do this or you can just say bye-bye." Heart's Ann Wilson on the "devil's bargains" her band were forced to accept in order to survive the '80s

Ann Wilson on how Heart had to sell a little bit of their souls to survive

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Bonnie Tyler obituary

Singer who topped the charts around the world in 1983 with the power ballad Total Eclipse of the Heart

The Guardian - UK

“I just had shivers right up my spine. I couldn’t wait to actually get in and record it”: Bonnie Tyler on the classic song for which she will always be remembered

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Report: Ed Sheeran to ink new record deal after departing Warner Music Group

Ed Sheeran is said to be jumping ship to Interscope after departing Warner Music Group.

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“He did all the Ozzy stuff you’d think he would do – he got down on his knees and performed. I was like, ‘Oh, my God. This is so weird’”: A hair-metal hero turned nu-metal synth-guitar maverick who impressed Ozzy Osbourne – who is the real Amir Derakh?

Derakh replaced Craig Goldy in Rough Cutt, was edged out by Zakk Wylde for the Ozzy gig, and has been an undercover guitar-synth master all along

Guitar World

“It’s not that I’m embarrassed by it. You let something pass for long enough, and you can kind of chuckle at it”: The lost ‘hippie’ album that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley made before they were in Kiss

More than 50 years ago, the Kiss duo recorded an entire album at Electric Lady Studios. It‘s never officially been released

Louder

“They gave a guitar endorsement to a drummer, and I thought, ‘Man, this is not where I want to be’”: Dave Mustaine on why he left Jackson Guitars… then tried to buy the company

The Megadeth frontman jumped ship to ESP in 2003, but what could have been if his takeover bid had been successful?

Guitar World

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Ew, Who Gets Married at Madison Square Garden, Anyway? MSG’s Wedding History Before Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

Here’s a look back at what celebrities have tied the knot at NYC’s famed sports arena.

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“I was chatting to our guitarist yesterday and he said, ‘Do you remember when we were playing around and discovered F?’”: We speak to Haircut 100's Nick Heyward

We speak to Nick Heyward about the forty-four year journey to follow-up Haircut 100's chart-stealing Pelican West with Boxing the Compass

MusicRadar

“People sometimes say ‘I’ve got a formula’ – well, yeah, and you've just stopped 700 songs coming your way”: Haircut 100’s Nick Heyward reflects on the group's moment in the sun in the early '80s

We speak to Nick Heyward about the forty-four year journey to follow-up Haircut 100's chart-stealing Pelican West with Boxing the Compass

MusicRadar

“There was a lot of interference and push to be commercial. We went along for the ride – and got left in the middle of nowhere”: The thrash metal bands who deserved to make it – but didn’t

For every success story like Metallica from the ‘80s metal movement, there are countless bands who didn’t make it. Some of them never gave up

Guitar World

Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’

As the musician and producer reaches 82, a new documentary reveals his life working with everyone from James Taylor to Carole King to Paul McCartney

The Guardian - US

“I said, ‘You’ve got to be joking! You can’t put out a record about a trad band playing in a pub and expect it to sell!’": the story of the classic Dire Straits song that's often imitated, but rarely mastered

"It’s not to do with gear, it’s all to do with the way the brain sends signals to his fingers – that’s what makes Mark so special"

MusicRadar

“The guitar tone ripped my face off!” When Machine Head's Robb Flynn met Meshuggah

Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn is a Meshuggah mega-fan – so we asked him to interview metal’s most complex band

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“It comes across as a song about peaceful love and hippie stuff, but it was a protest song”: The story of Hold My Hand, the single that launched Hootie & The Blowfish, the most unlikely mega-selling band of the 1990s

Their debut album sold 22 million

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Ed Sheeran crowned Britain’s airplay king for 8th year as he outswifts Taylor

Ed Sheeran has been named the UK’s most‑played artist for the eighth time in 11 years, beating Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa to the top spot.

Metal Hammer

“We pulled out chainsaws and tore our guitars apart. I had a shotgun with blanks in it, and I was shooting it inside the Palladium”: Inside the chaotic birth of prog metal provocateurs Tool

They’ve sold millions of albums, won four Grammys and inspired legions of copycats, but this is where the legend of Tool kicked off

Guitar World

“We were getting gold records from countries around the world. I had a DJ tell me that when he put it on for the first time, the phones lit up after 20 seconds”:Berton Averre on writing My Sharona – and why the Knack were never the next Beatles

My Sharona was the perfect pop-rock anthem, and as Averre reflects on the life and times of the Knack he admits he knew he had something special back then

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"If people didn’t like us, they’d say it was because we sounded too much like Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin." How Soundgarden went from superunknowns to grunge godfathers, a band who captured the sound and spirit of Seattle like no other

“There was no internet or YouTube so we had to prove it every night on stage.”

What Hi-Fi?

9 debut stereo amplifiers from iconic hi-fi brands – legendary amps from Audiolab, Cyrus, McIntosh, NAD, Naim and more

Probably the best inaugural amplifiers in hi-fi history

MusicRadar

“Getting a noise complaint is essentially a death sentence for a grassroots venue”: The precarious state of Britain's small venues in focus

Whether it’s turning a profit, rising drink prices or the fear of receiving just one formal noise complaint, small venues face more jeopardy than ever in 2026

The Independent UK

12 best digital cameras, reviewed by a professional photographer

I’ve tested almost every available model, these are the best digital cameras

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‘It’ll be in my Guardian obituary’: David Balfe on inspiring Blur’s Country House and tripping on Top of the Pops

He was the burned-out bigwig who moved to a very big house. Now back with his first music for decades, he talks about signing the Proclaimers, being punched by Julian Cope – and his Scott Walker inspired trio

Guitar World

“I talked my folks into buying me a plane ticket to London. I took my guitar and some songs, and I ran into some people…” How the Beatles launched the career of one of the all-time great songwriters

James Taylor’s encounter with Pete Asher led to an audition in front of Paul McCartney and George Harrison

The Guardian - UK

Shrooms, alligators and the swamp: how the ‘satanic e-girls of TikTok’ revived psychedelic sludge metallers Acid Bath

The Louisiana band came to a tragically early end in the 90s, but after going viral they’ll soon play stadiums with System of a Down. They look back on the claggy riffs and circle pits

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