TV tonight: grooming gang victims tell their stories Channel 4 interviews adult survivors in an essential documentary. Plus: David Tennant’s tricky new gameshow. Here’s what to watch this evening The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2025
Who was Mike Peters? Singer passes away at 66 after blood cancer diagnosis The frontman has died after previously being diagnosed with blood cancer more than 30 years ago Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
Bob Dylan can do whatever he wants At this stage in his career, Dylan can sell out any major city, which is why you'll find him in Kalamazoo Salon · Apr 29, 2025
"Live right up to the last breath and stay positive about the world, your family and the environment you live in": The Alarm’s Mike Peters has died aged 66 The frontman of the famous rockers had been living with blood cancer for 30 years MusicRadar · Apr 29, 2025
The Alarm frontman Mike Peters loses battle with cancer aged 66 Mike Peters, the Welsh musician who sang for The Alarm and Big Country, has passed away. BANG Premier · Apr 29, 2025
3 new 4K Blu-rays to add to your collection from April 2025 Blu-ray Bounty looks at a trio of 4K Blu-rays that would make a fine addition to any collection. TechRadar · Apr 26, 2025
The end of the Vietnam War was also a turning point for protest songs The departure in 1975 of the last Americans from Vietnam didn't only end a tragic chapter in the history of the two countries The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2025
A Complete Unknown to Havoc: the seven best films to watch on TV this week Timothée Chalamet is the perfect embodiment of the young Bob Dylan, and Tom Hardy unleashes his wild side in a shamelessly violent thriller about dirty cops The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2025
“The best guitar player I ever heard”: Nashville guitar extraordinaire Mac Gayden – who worked with Bob Dylan, Elvis, Linda Ronstadt and Simon & Garfunkel – dies at 83 The guitarist, who formed part of an elite group of Nashville session players known as the Nashville cats, is also responsible for co-writing the evergreen pop hit Everlasting Love Guitar World · Apr 24, 2025
“Jimi was staying at a hotel in Times Square. He had his hair set in pink curlers and we would just talk band drama”: Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews on befriending Hendrix, booking Chuck Berry and the birth of pedal culture The EHX pioneer is one of the guitar world's most colorful characters. He tells us what happened when Hendrix bought one of the first Big Muffs, how the Rolling Stones got him started in the pedal biz, and why the "overdesigned" POG3 is an unlikely triumph Guitar World · Apr 24, 2025
Stephen Mangan: ‘With three people in a bed, who goes in the middle?’ The Split actor and children’s author on throuples, using his sons as a focus group, and running the London marathon The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2025
"He threw me in the lake and I had to learn to swim": Remembering Dickey Betts, southern rock pioneer A celebration of the life and music of Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts Louder · Apr 18, 2025
"People started to leave. I was terrified": The story of Elton John's favourite Elton John album and the calamitous stadium show that followed Gold even before its release, Captain Fantastic And The BrownDirt Cowboy was worth the hard work. But the album markedthe end of Elton John’s imperial period – and his band Louder · Apr 15, 2025
Trump’s tariff policy is like Debashish Mohanty’s swing – unpredictable and accidental Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loosePeople are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed.– Bob Dylan, Things Have Changed, Wonder BoysMaine revolver pehli baar uthaya hai…lekin itna jaanta hoon ki trigger dabane se goli… Newslaundry · Apr 15, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2025 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid just needed Trump In the court of King Donald, Sam Peckinpah’s flawed 1973 western finally makes sense to me
Louder · Apr 12, 2025 “I tried to write songs with Paul McCartney, but it was impossible, because every idea I had sparked him off and every idea he had sparked me off”: Donovan’s transcendental tales of The Beatles, Dylan, Hendrix and David Lynch Folkd rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch
Guitar World · Apr 10, 2025 “Tom would say, ‘Play your guitar with a car key.’ It was very experimental”: Little Feat's Fred Tackett recalls Tom Waits' left-field approach to guitar playing – and his one-of-a-kind studio sessions Aside from his role in Little Feat, Tackett has recorded with a remarkable list of artists from Bob Dylan to Joan Baez and Cher
The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2025 One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream A collection of staggering TV clips and amazing audio of Lennon and Ono’s life in 1970s NYC, this film is a mosaic of countercultural moments
Tom’s Guide · Apr 8, 2025 Hulu top movies this week — stream Timothée Chalamet in 'A Complete Unknown,' Chris Pratt's 2021 sci-fi action flick and more Hulu's top movies are always changing. Here are the movies from the Hulu top 15 you need to stream this week.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025 ‘It ain’t over till one of us is gone’: the pop stars who refuse to bury the hatchet Madonna and Elton John thawed their frosty relationship this week – but from Mariah and J-Lo to David Gilmour and Roger Waters, plenty more are still at loggerheads
Guitar World · Apr 8, 2025 “What’s going through our mind is ‘What the…?’ And if you see Bob’s face, you could see he’s thinking the same thing”: When Bob Dylan played with an LA punk band to promote the album he made with Mark Knopfler 1983's Infidels, Dylan's first secular album in half a decade, was graced with a bounty of sweetly tasteful leads from the Dire Straits man. To recreate two of its songs on Late Night with David Letterman, Dylan hired LA punks the Plugz
The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025 Memo to Timothée Chalamet: instead of total-immersion ping pong, maybe take the year off After years-long Bob Dylan training helped push his awards cred, the actor has done months of heavy table tennis drill for Marty Supreme. He may be missing the point
The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2025 Clem Burke, Blondie’s drummer and ‘heartbeat’, dies aged 70 Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, founding members of the new wave hitmakers, pay tribute to their late bandmate
The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2025 Blondie drummer Clem Burke dies aged 70: ‘He was the heartbeat of Blondie’ Musician was remembered for his ‘talent, energy and passion’
Guitar World · Apr 7, 2025 “You can almost hear the music in your head when looking at these photos”: How legendary photographer Jim Marshall captured the essence of the Grateful Dead and documented the rise of the ultimate jam band An upcoming book of photos captures Marshall's unique relationship with the Dead. His former assistant, the photographer Amelia Davis, explains how he became part of the Dead family