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Ray Stevens Broken Neck Shock Sparks Fear — What Happened to the Country Legend?

Country music legend Ray Stevens, 87, is recovering at home after a broken neck from a fall in Nashville, days before his new album release

International Business Times UK

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

The Independent UK

Justin Bieber Health Fears: Hailey's Husband Being Watched 24/7 Amid Concerns He Won't Make it to Coachella Sober

Justin Bieber is set to perform at Coachella amid concerns about his sobriety. Learn about his journey and commitment to staying sober.

International Business Times UK

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Wireless Festival sparks fresh fury after Kanye West ban as fans brand cancellation ‘performative nonsense’

The backlash comes after Kanye West was blocked from entering the UK, forcing the three-day London festival to be scrapped entirely

Evening Standard

Harry Styles reveals Meltdown festival line-up including Royal Festival Hall gig

The event will be held at the Southbank Centre in London this summer

Evening Standard

“Guitars haven’t changed that much in the last 50 years. We’re about to change that”: Guitar Center is setting up its own in-house guitar brand – and it’s asking players for their help

Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto says the retailer is going to build “the best guitar that has ever been made”

Guitar World

Pet Shop Boys review: 'No hits' show is a concept primed to underwhelm

3/5 They have titled their five-night run of shows at the Electric Ballroom Obscure, as they concentrate on everything but the pop smashes... which does leave it lacking something

Evening Standard

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“I was playing baseball in the backyard when I heard Eruption. That afternoon I decided what my life would be”: How recording in Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 Studios inspired Alter Bridge to make their most riff-heavy statement yet

The latest album from Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy finds Alter Bridge going full-throttle in EVH’s studio

Guitar World

Wireless Festival cancelled and tickets refunded after UK Government blocks Kanye West’s entry

Ye’s controversial comments come back to haunt him as UK entry is blocked causing Wireless Festival to pull the plug this summer

MusicRadar

Daddy Yankee Becomes First Reggaeton Artist Honored as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year

Daddy Yankee, the Puerto Rican star widely credited with helping take reggaeton from the streets of San Juan to the center of global pop culture, has been named the Latin Recording Academy's 2026 Person of the Year, becoming the first reggaeton artist to receive the honor.

Latin Times

“I don’t have any favorite guitarists from the ’90s. I wasn’t following those trends”: He wrote some of the defining anthems of the decade with Smash Mouth. Now Greg Camp is focusing on his Nashville punk-rock supergroup

Camp started out as a drummer before EVH made him realize the advantages of guitar. The young Carson Daly helped make his band famous. Now he’s powering forward with supergroup The Defiant’s second album

Guitar World

“My student tricked me into getting an Instagram”: The off-hand advice from a student that helped kickstart Yvette Young’s career

The virtuoso may now be one of the most recognizable guitarists on social media, but Young admits she was initially reluctant to share her chops online

Guitar World

“Six room sizes, a gated reverb patch and a reverse reverb patch for your consideration”: Catalinbread launches compact reverb pedal with inspired by the Neil Young and Daft Punk-approved Alesis Microverb

The '90s cult classic studio reverb is reimagined as an 8-mode stompbox with an very useful Mix knob and pre-delay

MusicRadar

“After his funeral, me and my buddy snuck into his house and took the guitar”: Pepper Keenan got his first guitar after a tragic accident

The Down and Corrosion of Conformity guitarist has looked back at the unlikely origins of his career in rock

Guitar World

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Kanye West's Controversial Festival Concerts Canceled After UK Government Bans Rapper From Country

That's one way to stop a concert.

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“I absolutely hate synthesizers. They're really bad - horrible. I can take their existence from a live point of view now, but if they didn't exist, I'd be delighted”: The surprising music theory that underpinned a Talk Talk classic

Mark Hollis’ masterpiece became an anthem of self-determination, but it was far from an overnight success

Cinemablend

Stop The Clowning! A Rhode Island Wedding Planner Just Debunked A Massive Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Rumor

Well, there goes that wild dream.

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought I’d finish the album then die’: how Angelo De Augustine came back from a medical nightmare

When the singer-songwriter and Sufjan Stevens collaborator became gravely ill, he had to learn to walk, talk, hear, play and sing again. Music – and a love of antique instrumentation – helped him rebuild

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International Business Times UK

Is Kanye West Banned From Performing in UK? Boss's Defiant Defence as Five Major Sponsors Pull Out

Kanye West will keep his headline slot at London's Wireless Festival despite backlash and sponsor withdrawals, with Festival Republic defending the decision.

Metal Hammer

"I was never a fan of it and I didn't even want it to be on the record." The emotional Linkin Park anthem that Chester Bennington didn't originally like but became one of the biggest rock songs of all time

Incredibly, if Chester had had his way, In The End would have never made the cut on Hybrid Theory!

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Kanye West Breaks Silence On Wireless Festival Fallout As David Schwimmer Slams Rapper And Sponsors Pull Out

Kanye West’s show of remorse came after politicians and stars like David Schwimmer slammed the UK festival’s organizers for choosing him to headline.

Evening Standard

Swinney urges Wireless organisers to ‘reflect’ on Kanye West booking

The First Minister was ‘not aware’ of the ongoing row over West playing Wireless Festival in London.

Guitar World

“It absolutely blew my mind”: Why Dave Grohl is obsessed with viral Canadian microtonal duo Angine de Poitrine

The math-rock wizards have taken the internet by storm, racking up millions of views in the space of just a few months

Guitar World

“The guitar community came through and sent about one million solos to me”: The world’s buzziest guitarists fought to get on this Bilmuri track – now the winning solo has been revealed

The winner beat out the likes of Intervals' Aaron Marshall and Connor Kaminski to have their solo featured on the final song

The Guardian - UK

Harry Styles announces jazz, pop, indie and electronic artists for his Meltdown festival

London festival will feature an intimate Styles performance as well as appearances from Warpaint, Kamasi Washington, Devonté Hynes and more

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