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‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music

After six Top 10 hits, the singer-songwriter might ‘wind down’ her career at 34 – but not before a stunning new album that celebrates the psychedelic high of parenting

The Guardian - UK

10 of the best tracks brought back to life by movies and TV shows

Sometimes all it takes is one iconic scene to bring a track back from the brink of obscurity.

What Hi-Fi?

Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government

Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule

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In Donald Sutherland’s 1970s career, the personal and political met in European ‘auteur’ films

Younger generations today mainly knew Donald Sutherland in his grizzled paternalistic roles, by turns loveable (as in Pride and Prejudice) or hateful (as in The Hunger Games).

The Conversation

“A modern Norwegian echo of the great Kate Bush.” Aurora casts her wild, whimsical magic over Glastonbury with a faultless sunset performance

Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora’s Glastonbury festival set is a special, unforgettable experience

Louder

Tributes pour in for The Hunger Games and Ordinary People actor Donald Sutherland, who has died at age 88

The actor has passed away at age 88

Total Film

“I thought the track would get some attention, but I never imagined it would be like this. The whole world’s gone mad”: The stunning return of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill

A No.3 single in 1985, the song topped the charts in 2022 after appearing in Stranger Things – and the planet seemed to go Kate crazy

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Zsela: Big for You review – modern R&B with a leisurely, old-school charm

The American singer’s buttery voice comes to the fore on an arresting debut in styles ranging from Kate Bush to the Boss

The Guardian - UK

“The reaction to Ian Bairnson’s collection has so far surpassed interest to some of these mammoth names in the guitar world”: The Les Paul used on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights smashes estimates at auction

Ian Bairnson famously used the Gibson guitar to play the Wuthering Heights solo while his arm was in a plaster cast

Guitar World

"I'd love to have her...you never know": Emily Eavis dreams of Kate Bush headlining Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury festival organiser Emily Eavis reveals her dream headliner to be the stage-shy Kate Bush

Louder

Emily Eavis reveals dream Glastonbury headliner and when the next fallow year will be

Glastonbury co-organiser answered some of the most-asked questions about the music festival

The Independent UK

He coined the term EDM, became the first ever computer musician, AND created the electronic drum kit... meet Richard James Burgess: “I said ‘one day all records will be made this way’, and that prediction came true”

The unsung hero of music production, Burgess has been there or thereabouts in just about every major innovation of the last 50 years…

MusicRadar

“Ian was always ready to play a stylistically perfect solo for every track he was involved with”: The Les Paul behind the iconic guitar solo on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights is now up for auction

The late Ian Bairnson’s guitar was used across the first four Kate Bush albums, as well as classic records from the Alan Parsons Project and countless sessions

Guitar World

"There wasn't an option to go and hide in the shadows any more": How Peter Gabriel made So and became the world's biggest-selling cult artist

In 1986 Peter Gabriel released his fifth studio album So. It was a huge international hit. This is how it happened

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‘After eight hours, my feet and fingers throb’: my epic treasure hunt for vinyl gold

This Saturday, Record Store Day will see an avalanche of pricey rarities and flashy reissues. Instead, our writer scours the secondhand bins of indie stores and charity shops – and bags a dozen crackers

Louder

“I caved in and said: ‘Okay, I’ll put out Wuthering Heights, if only to teach you not to interfere with our choices’”: The decisions and coincidences that helped make Kate Bush a superstar

Signed around the same time as the Sex Pistols after David Gilmour mentored the 16-year-old’s “remarkable talent,” a durable paradox emerged

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We Ranked The 20 Best Like A Version Covers Of All Time To Help You Zhuzh Up Your Daily Playlist

We’re counting down the best-ever covers on triple j series, from Denzel Curry to DMA’S.

Louder

“When I drank, I was going to be the best drinker in the bar, or take the most drugs or whatever. When I did give up the drink I was going to be the best at that:” The bottom-end drive that made Danny Thompson’s name

Rejecting criticism from those who wondered why he bothered playing folk music, the always-in-demand bassist’s attitude led to experiences with John Martyn, Kate Bush, David Sylvian, Tim Buckley and many others

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"People would say that I'm being promoted as a sex object whether I was clad in a nun's costume or nothing at all": Men working for England's music magazines used to get very, very worked up about the idea of Kate Bush being a 'sex symbol'

The 19-year-old Kate Bush was a source of much fascination to the English music press, and the subject of some highly inappropriate writing

The Guardian - UK

Bruce Springsteen becomes first non-Brit inducted into Ivors Academy

The Boss says he is proud to become a fellow after being recognised for his ‘impact on the UK’s cultural landscape’

Louder

Cockney Rebel leader Steve Harley dies, aged 73

Musician Steve Harley passes away a month after cancelling tour dates for cancer treatment

Metal Hammer

“We don’t have this need to party and to cling to other people doing the same thing that we are”: how Within Temptation followed their own path to make The Heart Of Everything

How Within Temptation’s 2007 album The Heart Of Everything kicked things to the next level

MusicRadar

Julia Holter on the Yamaha CS-60, Kate Bush and the parallels between composition and production: "So much of production is thinking about organising sounds in a similar way to on a sheet of music"

The composer-producer’s new album Something In The Room She Moves continues her quest to distil feelings we never knew had a name

Evening Standard

Shooting Marianne Faithfull and more secret stories behind the greatest rock 'n' roll photos

Gered Mankowitz is the man behind some of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest photos. He recalls shooting Marianne Faithfull, Jimi Hendrix and more

What Hi-Fi?

17 of the best Kate Bush songs to test your hi-fi system

Treat your hi-fi system to some of Kate Bush's best songs that are beautifully recorded and produced.

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