UNBELIEVABLE: 8 - The Untold Story

"I and everybody else were old farts in her opinion" - Roger Waters on the night Sinéad O'Connor sang her spellbinding version of Pink Floyd's Mother

To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters invited a stellar cast to Berlin for a restaging of Pink Floyd's The Wall - including The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Sinéad O'Connor

Louder · Jul 31, 2023

Who sampled Pink Floyd? The best, worst and just plain oddest tracks featuring Floyd samples

The most sampled Floyd songs, and some of the best, worst and just plain odd tracks they spawned, featuring The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Metalheadz and, um, Milli Vanilli...

MusicRadar · Jul 29, 2023

OPINION - The redeveloped Olympia must be everything Battersea is not

Recently I went to have a sneaky peek at the gargantuan new exhibition space down in Olympia. Over the years I’ve seen dozens of events there, and even attended a Vivienne Westwood fashion show, back when her partner Malcolm McLaren was alive — I remember him pacing up and down…

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2023

Roger Waters at Manchester AO Arena, reviewed: Student politics for blokes in their 50s

A strange Saturday night.

Manchester Evening News · Jun 11, 2023

Review: Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Classic rock revisited.

Reason · Jun 9, 2023

US State Department condemns Roger Waters' "long track record of using antisemitic tropes"

The fallout from Roger Waters' recent show in Berlin shows no sign of abating

Louder · Jun 8, 2023

How to solo over relative major and minor chords

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, used by everyone from the Beatles to Neil Young and Pink Floyd, but playing around the major and minor tonalities can produce melodies that stick in the mind forever

Guitar World · May 29, 2023

London’s Roundhouse to train 15,000 young people in creative industries

Venue raised £8m in donations to build facilities for music, performance and production

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2023

The stories of 10 'regular folk' made famous by rock songs

What do Spoonman, Arnold Layne, and an unnamed security guard at Studio 54 have in common? They all inspired classic songs

Louder · May 8, 2023

"It was like Dorothy landing in Oz" - what happened when Alice Cooper went to Los Angeles

Once upon a time, a garage band from Phoenix moved to LA and became Alice Cooper, with a little help from Frank Zappa, a dark alter ego and... West Side Story

Louder · May 5, 2023