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“There was a point where My Chemical Romance were opening shows for us. Quite quickly, they weren’t anymore”: The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite happen

As nu metal’s commercial power began to wane, major labels desperately signed a bunch of bands with hardcore backgrounds, from My Chemical Romance to Cave In. A lot of them didn’t work out.

Metal Hammer

“I Lost Myself in the Process”—How 'Looksmaxxing' Culture Is Reshaping the Tweakments Industry

"I thought it would be helpful, but people never focus on the areas you expect"

Marie Claire

“I said, ‘There are no vocals. It’s an instrumental album.’ The lawyer said, ‘Do you mean we’ve just paid $12,000 for a piano player?’” Rick Wakeman relives the moment he delivered The Six Wives Of Henry VIII to a horrified record label

In 1970 they gave him Scotch in the morning, a big cash advance and a three-ton limousine. Eventually the man who’d hated the resulting album gave him a platinum disc for its sales

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"We thought we made really good records, but we never envisaged hanging out and playing boules at Elton's house": How Therapy? ram-raided the mainstream with an ode to the soap opera of teenage existence

Inspired by Irish punk and the Smash Hits Awards, Screamager brought Therapy? unexpected fame

Louder

I got a fine after Cineworld cut its parking time limit

The cinema chain didn’t warn me clearly when I went to see Avatar: Fire and Ash that I needed to register my number plate

The Guardian - UK

LeBron James Addresses His Agent’s Austin Reaves Trade Comments

LeBron James discussed Rich Paul’s comments about the Lakers trading Austin Reaves after Los Angeles beat Atlanta on Tuesday night.

Sports Illustrated

“Thanks to those who made this company one of the greatest brands in the history of this instrument”: Mateus Asato is parting ways with Suhr after 12 years – and fans are already speculating where he's going next

The neo-soul virtuoso leaves the guitar brand after more than a decade of partnership

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“We weren’t scared of grunge. We would see Dave Grohl wearing Sepultura t-shirts”: It was built on death metal – until three iconic bands helped turn this underground record company into the most influential metal label of the 90s

Metal Hammer

“I was recording with Jerry Garcia, but I still had to ride my bike to school and keep my grades up, or else my parents would throw my guitar in the trash”: Starship trooper Craig Chaquico on “corporate rock”, and life as a teenage guitar whiz

Craig Chaquico was green, raw, and young when he joined Jefferson Starship in 1974, but left to his own devices he grew up fast – and his style was a runaway success

Guitar World

I've spent 20 years testing hi-fi and these bookshelf speakers are the gateway drug to passive perfection

After chasing the pricier loudspeaker dollar, Dali has returned to its roots with the super-affordable Kupid. Is the company’s entry-level mojo still working?

TechRadar

Michael Jackson biopic’s only A-list star is playing an estate executor. Paris Jackson isn’t happy

Miles Teller will play lawyer John Branca in the upcoming movie

The Independent UK

“Whether I’ve denied the world a lot of great music, I don’t know. Maybe they’ve done that to me. Maybe they should have”: Steve Hogarth’s first 30 years with Marillion

He discusses embracing artistic tension, avoiding the well-trodden path, escaping his narcissism, what really went wrong with the record industry, the band’s decade in the wilderness and why it took him 28 years to get them to the Royal Albert Hall

Louder

Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris vows to renew estate battle after legal setback

The King of Pop’s daughter has alleged that lawyers are ‘skimming money’ from his estate

The Independent UK

Southport killer’s parents apologise to victims’ families at inquiry

Alphonse Rudakubana and Laetitia Muzayire gave evidence to the Southport Inquiry on Thursday.

Evening Standard

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Father of Southport killer regrets not reporting machete delivery, inquiry hears

Alphonse Rudakubana gave evidence for a second day about the attack by his son, Axel.

Metal Hammer

"We thought, 'Maybe we've taken death metal as far as it can go.'" Bungled million-dollar deals, getting wasted with Zakk Wylde and a housewrecking music video: how former extreme metal musicians made one of nu metal's biggest anthems

Unimpressed with black metal's headline-grabbing theatrics, Soil embraced their roots to make an all-time classic

The Conversation

After early acclaim, Elizabeth Harrower didn’t write for decades. Two biographers consider why

In the 1950s and 1960s, Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense and highly praised “psychological fiction” of the 20th century. Mysteriously, she stopped writing after shelving a manuscript for her last novel, In Certain Circles, in 1971. Her comeback story in the final decade of her life captured…

The Independent UK

‘A reaction to injustice’: The story behind Bob Dylan’s ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’

INTERVIEW: A new bootleg series of the revered singer-songwriter’s work between 1956 to 1963 contains two early recordings of his masterpiece of a protest song, ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’. Roisin O’Connor speaks with historian and Dylan expert Sean Wilentz about the true event that inspired the track, and…

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The Guardian - UK

‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?

It is now seven decades since Little Richard sang Tutti Frutti – and a rip-roaring new type of music burst out into the world. But is rock’n’roll about to die out? Our writer goes searching for signs of life

Metal Hammer

Kiss legend Ace Frehley dead at 74

"Ace’s memory will continue to live on forever!" The former Kiss guitarist's family have confirmed his passing in a statement

MusicRadar

“I definitely felt something special in the air that day": How Van Morrison recorded his greatest song

Session guitarists Hugh McCracken and Al Gorgoni recalled their memories and vital contributions

Louder

"People found out we weren't The Beatles and that came back to haunt us": The curious case of the band whose career was derailed by a rumour

They were The Beatles – or so amillion record buyers thought in 1977

Benzinga

Biggest Mining Stocks Boom In 50 Years Is Crushing S&P 500—A 'Once-In-A-Generation' Trade?

Mining stocks are enjoying a blockbuster year on the back of a record rally in precious metals, with several names posting triple-digit gains and crushing even the most growth-linked AI stocks—and analysts say the run is far from over.

Louder

"In some ways it's a miracle that we even had a career at all": With better timing, things might have turned out completely differently for Harem Scarem

Harem Scarem have never achieved the major success their music deserves, but they’re still banging on the door

Louder

"Songwriting pulls you out of whatever you're going through": Warren Haynes reveals how the blues can rescue you from misery

Gov’t Mule’s leader Warren Haynes on new album The Whisper Sessions, musical and marital partnerships, and the difference between women and men

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