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Over-50s catching the music festival bug in the UK, Saga study finds

Poll finds one-third of over-50s go to more festivals now than they did in their youth, as lineups also get older

The Guardian - UK

Paul Simon: “People have tried to cop that bass solo, but it’s physically impossible” – how engineer Roy Halee created the iconic bass break on Call Me Al

Bakithi Kumalo: “Listening back, I didn’t know what happened – I thought it was from God, you know?”

Guitar World

Steve Vai hails Devin Townsend as “a bona fide genius” – but admits HevyDevy’s talent was “a little squelched” when he fronted his band

Vai says Townsend is “as brilliant as they come” but he didn't fully appreciate it until the Canadian prog-metal virtuoso went solo

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Show Us Your Studio #5: "There's an immediacy with synths and guitars you just don't get with the PC"

Disabled composer Paul Jelfs talks us through his accessible studio set-up and highlights the challenges faced by music-makers with disabilities

MusicRadar

The Guide #95: One-day festivals, week-long Wembley residences – have we reached peak big gig?

In this week’s newsletter: Wherever you look there’s a pricey new event – but the majority of the industry isn’t in such rude health

The Guardian - UK

Who is Babyface? Rapper working on new song with Kim Kardashian

The singer discussed helping the reality star with a Christmas song

Evening Standard

Sammy Hagar recalls exposing his genitals onstage while supporting Kiss in 1977: "I pulled my pants down, shook it at them and then smashed my guitar to bits"

The Red Rocker reflects on an on-stage meltdown in 1977, which saw him flash an audience of angry Kiss fans, and describes the moment as "beautiful in its own way"

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"It’s the most shambolic performance by Blur possible": Watch Blur perform on Italian TV with a cardboard cut-out of guitarist Graham Coxon

No Graham Coxon? No Alex James? No problem for Blur

Louder

“Picks were too bendy. I couldn’t feel what was happening as the thing touched the string”: Brian May explains why he uses sixpences instead of picks

The Queen hero has used a sixpence to craft his most iconic solos and riffs – here's why

Guitar World

Brian May + Friends’ Star Fleet Project mini-album is the sound of two guitar giants having the time of their lives

Album review: Queen guitarist Brian May’s long-lost 1983 Star Fleet Project collaboration with Eddie Van Halen gets lovingly dusted down

Louder

15 bands to check out if you miss Motorhead

The world will never see another legend like Lemmy. Luckily, there are some brilliant bands keeping his legacy alive

Metal Hammer

Prog's Tracks Of The Week: brand new music from Soen, Devin Townsend and more

Cool new prog music to check out from Jo Beth Young, HeKz, Emma Tricca, Red32, Harald Plontke and more..

Louder

Poison rocker Bret Michaels, 60, shares his life lessons: 'Cold beer makes good friends'

DETROIT — At 60, Bret Michaels says he's like a classic muscle car.

Tribune News Service

Wait, is Fender about to revive Tom DeLonge’s highly sought-after Stratocaster?

As used examples of his signature model approach $2,000, the Blink-182 guitarist has offered a very strong hint that a reissue is on the cards – nearly two decades after his Strat was last produced

Guitar World

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Evening Standard

Daphne Guinness: ‘I’ve always been a misfit. I guess I’m the last surrealist’

Daphne Guinness spent childhood summers at Salvador Dali’s house, was mentored by David Bowie and was at the centre of London fashion’s avant-garde heyday. But as Will Hosie discovers, her music career is her true calling

Evening Standard

Rita Ora: You & I album review – All purpose pop lacks personal touch

There’s very little here that doesn’t feel like it could have been delivered by a dozen other interchangeable chart act

Louder

The night The Beatles were guarded by Christ and Moses

In August 1966, The Beatles played their second to last show at LA’s Dodger Stadium – and they had a couple of familiar names on their security team

The Guardian - UK

Elina Duni: A Time to Remember review – a unique voice in jazz

Albanian-born Elina Duni sounds intensely like herself while drawing on a variety of influences, as her impeccable trio back her with diamond-bright sounds

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The Week

Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963-64 exhibition review

Paul McCartney “was always the most surprising Beatle”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Despite his reputation as a “cheerful, garrulous mop top”, he was the closest thing the group had to a “Renaissance man”: while his bandmates “retreated to mansions in the stockbroker belt” at the height of their mid-1960s fame, McCartney immersed himself in London’s counterculture,…

The Independent UK

Rita Ora review, You & I: Safe, polished, nothing special

Emotions often feels more TV-talent-show-performed than deeply owned

FourFourTwo

‘Oh my god, what a question!’ Rock-loving QPR boss Gareth Ainsworth tells FourFourTwo what the greatest album of all-time is

QPR gaffer Ainsworth is known as much for his his love for music as his managerial prowess

The Guardian - UK

J Hus: Beautiful and Brutal Yard review – still Britain’s most adaptable, charismatic MC

Back after three years away, the east Londoner is polarised between feelgood summer tracks and bleak reportage – but he makes it all cohere, despite some terrible sex puns

Bangkok Post

Exo drops another album, Taeyeon to perform in Bangkok

This week, there are two K-pop updates from SM True. First, Exo returns with another album, Exist, and Taeyeon from Girls’ Generation will have a solo concert in Bangkok.

MusicRadar

Electro-Harmonix announces the Andy Summers Walking On The Moon flanger pedal

One small step for flange…

Tribune News Service

School board fires teacher for criticizing ban of Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus song ‘Rainbowland’

A Wisconsin teacher who complained about the banning of the Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton song “Rainbowland” has now been fired.

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