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"The band's accountants possibly didn't figure in the cost of their eccentric new guitarist insisting upon recording his parts inside a bespoke chicken coop." The 10 most eye-wateringly expensive rock albums ever recorded

The rock albums that almost bankrupted the music business

Louder

Wolf Alice debut two unreleased songs at Royal Albert Hall gig

Wolf Alice closed this year's Teenage Cancer Trust gigs with a performance at the Royal Albert Hall. The band debuted two new unreleased songs, 'Hit The Sky' and 'Gospel Oak', during their set. The gig came after performances from Manic Street Preachers on Thursday, My Bloody Valentine on Friday and…

The Independent UK

“There’s a misconception about the vocals being buried - they aren’t”: My Bloody Valentine’s sound engineer on wrangling the shoegaze pioneers’ huge live setup

Sound engineer Marc Carolan shares the challenges and excitement of helping bring My Bloody Valentine's first headline tour in over a decade to life

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Lily Allen’s live return, Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights and Simon Rattle’s Janáček: music to listen out for in 2026

Raye, Deftones and Yungblud do UK tours, Jill Scott returns for more neo-soul, and classical world gears up to celebrate György Kurtág at 100

The Guardian - UK

"I wanted to make it a truly unforgettable, unmissable week, a run of shows to dream about." The Cure's Robert Smith lines up Wolf Alice, Garbage, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine and more for Teenage Cancer Trust shows

The 2026 Teenage Cancer Trust shows will take place at London's Royal Albert Hall in March

Louder

My Bloody Valentine review – shoegaze pioneers find prettiness in pulverising noise

Earplugs safely distributed, the band proceed to rattle ribcages with a two-hour show that showcases their unique ability to mesh the dreamlike with the apocalyptic

The Guardian - UK

“You could take everything away from me but leave the laptop and I'm confident I could make interesting music quite happily for the rest of my life”: Lone on the gear behind his technicolour, rave-adjacent electronica

We spoke to the producer about his unique approach to shaping sound and the tech he can't live without

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“Every time I play with a session musician, they’re like, ‘What are you doing? What chords are you playing? That chord doesn’t even exist!’” Why Gen Z guitar star Beabadoobee’s chords have confused her fellow guitarists – but won over Rick Rubin

Beabadoobee, aka Beatrice Laus, recently landed a number one album in her native UK, but her fondness for My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and Elliott Smith has spawned a guitar style that has confounded her fellow players

Guitar World

“I gave my vintage Jazzmaster to a girl after a show in Liverpool. 30 years later she sent me back the guitar. It’s like it died and went to heaven and came back to me”: The miraculous return of US shoegaze pioneers Drop Nineteens

Having not played guitar for 20 years, Greg Ackell and the band are back with Hard Light, finding new ways of crafting sound without expanding the pedalboard

Guitar World

Fender and Kevin Shields make history with the firm’s first ever signature fuzz pedal – and it‘s a retro joy

It might cost $499, but the limited-edition Shields Blender – designed with the My Bloody Valentine tonal pioneer – is a two-channel vintage-style monster in every sense of the word

Guitar World

Holy Fawn: meet the heaviest non-metal band you'll hear this year

Post-metal, shoegaze, goth: genre-blurring mavericks Holy Fawn are happy to defy all classifications in their quest for heaviness

Metal Hammer

Last year, Beabadoobee was surprised anyone knew her in the US — now she’s playing Coachella

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When Beabadoobee opened her U.S. tour in Washington, D.C., five months ago, the Filipino British singer-songwriter wasn’t just surprised by how many fans at the show knew the words to her songs.

Tribune News Service

My Bloody Valentine calls out Spotify for showing ‘incorrect and insulting’ lyrics of their songs

‘We’re not sure where they got them from, probably one of those bulls**t lyrics sites on the internet’

The Independent UK

My Bloody Valentine criticise Spotify for showing ‘fake’ lyrics to their songs

The band, who are famously cryptic about their songs, called the inaccurate lyrics ‘completely incorrect and insulting’

The Guardian - UK

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