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"It’s the sound of four men who feel like their lives depend on it." Bono gives update on U2's next album

"You’ve got to deal with the past to get to the present, in order to make the sound of the future" says Bono

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CMAT, Black Country, New Road, Katy J Pearson and more join the bill for The Maccabees' All Points East show

Additional supporting cast added to The Maccabees’ All Points East headliner on August 24

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“A lot of dreams that came to fruition in the 70s were born in the 60s. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was just one. Shakti was another”: John McLaughlin doesn’t know why his music sold so well. In fact, he knows he knows nothing

The jazz rock pioneer on being fast and loud, walking away from success, and why a musician is actually exploring the meaning of life

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"Shirley Manson takes aim at cruel ideologies and bigots of all shapes and sizes": The electro-goth revival continues on Garbage's Let All That We Imagine Be The Light

Shirley Manson and co. are still in their prime, going both nowhere and back to the future-rock frontline

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"It was the day I'd been waiting for my whole life, but I was dismayed": How Skid Row and Sebastian Bach Went To War

Skid Row were once blood brothers, but infighting and a split with their singer turned it all into an ‘abyss of hatred’

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John Fogerty does a Taylor Swift and remakes his Creedence Clearwater Revival classics

To celebrate owning his songs again, Fogerty is releasing "John's Version" recordings – listen to the first three now

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Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer avoids jail after entering plea in vehicular manslaughter case

Klinghoffer was warned about his future conduct during court proceedings in California

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"He was very grumpy, ignoring people." Why teenage guitar prodigy John Frusciante walked away from an audition to join Frank Zappa's band before hooking up with Red Hot Chili Peppers

In another universe, John Frusciante might never have joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Watch John McLaughlin wow the Montreaux Jazz Festival with an emotive version of Abbaji

John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension will release Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 2022 on Blu-ray and vinyl in August

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“Rock’n’roll is like Italian operetta. Everybody dies and loses.” Kirk Brandon looks back on Theatre Of Hate, Spear Of Destiny, heart attacks and his unlikely influences

The indestructible Kirk Brandon on the unlikely origins of Theatre Of Hate and Spear Of Destiny

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“Genuinely, I listen to the early stuff and I shudder when I hear my vocals”: How IQ singer Peter Nicholls learned to stop hating his voice, love songwriting and keep albums shorter

After watching a YouTube review, the 45-year veterans resisted the temptation to make Dominion another double LP. But they made enough music to limit the time before their next release

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Queens of the Stone Age announce international screenings for Alive in the Catacombs film

Alive in the Catacombs will be screened in cinemas in 20 countries next month

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"I'm physically lifted from the seat and violently spun around by a pissed-off John Paul Jones": Led Zeppelin - Out of Control in the USA

Led Zeppelin’s final tour of the US in 1977 should have been their most glorious. But it wasn’t. There was tension, unpleasantness and negativity, and that was just the start

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Legendary guitarist and singer Rick Derringer dies at 77

RIP Rick Derringer, the man behind Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo and one of the great American rockers

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The nine bands that defined Wide Awake festival 2025

London's most consistently excellent alternative music festival makes a triumphant return to Brockwell Park with a diverse, eclectic, electric line-up

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“I had no inkling Tom would go so early. I always wondered who would go first. I’m still grieving”: Mike Campbell on life as Tom Petty’s right hand man and the highs and lows of being a Heartbreaker

The life and times of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell

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”Three highly gifted men with the capacity to behave like spoilt brats in each others’ company”: Emerson, Lake & Palmer often didn’t work. But then, neither did projects that featured just two of the trio

Massive musical ability crossed with pomposity and excess made it difficult for the supergroup to meet expectations – but even with one of the giant personalities missing, the other pair could struggled to deliver

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Featuring Joe Bonamassa, Turnstile, Jerry Cantrell and five other scary monsters from the rock'n'roll deep

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Former Hawkwind and David Bowie violinist and keyboardist Simon House has died, aged 76

House also featured in early prog bands High Tide and Third Ear Band before joining Hawkwind in 1974

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“It remained in the domain of teenyboppers, but prog elements are within its grooves”: What if I told you A-ha’s Hunting High And Low is really a prog album?

Believe it or not, the 1985 pop record emerged from a background of Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, and Morten Harket singing along to Queen songs

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“We showed up and Dire Straits were opening for us. The press slaughtered us, accusing us of being dinosaurs”: The epic story of Styx’s Pieces Of Eight,the pomp rock masterpiece that began to tear them apart

Styx’s 1978 album Pieces Of Eight was a watershed moment for the pomp rock stars – for good and for bad

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“It’s a strange thing to look back on – they were such difficult, miserable times”: Big Big Train once hated 2002 album Bard. But the dark secret has become a rare gem

In the process of remastering it for a limited edition, friendships were rekindled, music was re-evaluated, and the band’s current line-up demonstrated what the quarter-century journey had been all about

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"Different; not necessarily better or worse but definitely less interesting": The Tubes bring in the big producer on The Completion Backwards Principle, with mixed results

Desperate for major label success, The Tubes turned to David Foster, who had just struck gold with Earth, Wind And Fire

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Rare brain condition leads Billy Joel to cancel string of tour dates

Billy Joel has been diagnosed with rare condition that affects hearing, vision and balance

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“These are perilous times. We are staring down a dark channel that could lead to totalitarianism”: Even yacht rock icon Michael McDonald is criticising Donald Trump and the US government

Doobie Brothers’ Michael McDonald is worried about the state of America

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