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‘Total Eclipse of the Heart is a work of naff genius’: Sister Bliss’s honest playlist

The Faithless synth queen is blown away by Kate Bush and would only do karaoke at gunpoint, but which power ballad does she grudgingly respect?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2023

A new start after 60: At 74, I go to a gig every night – and once went to 725 in a row

Roger Mairlot was working as a car mechanic and struggling to sleep at night when a chance encounter led him to start attending gigs. He plans to keep going ‘until I drop’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2023

“It was an apex moment in the history of live rock’n’roll”: Tom Morello on the night that he teamed up with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder to perform an AC/DC cover

The trio got together to perform Highway To Hell in Melbourne in 2014, and the Rage Against The Machine was the man who made it happen

Louder · Jul 30, 2023

“Right Here, Right Now captured the optimism of the Berlin wall coming down. We’re at the other end of the spectrum now”: How Prince’s Sign O’ The Times inspired Jesus Jones’ biggest hit

Inspired by Prince and the fall of the Berlin wall, Jesus Jones’ optimistic hit Right Here Right Now was born out of depression and powered by dodgy samples

Louder · Jul 29, 2023

Sinead O’Connor: ITV, BBC, and Channel 5 are not planning to air tributes to late singer

‘The simple explanation is that she was not taken seriously,’ said a former Channel 4 commissioner

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2023

Peter Hook: ‘I never get sick of hearing World in Motion’

The Joy Division bassist, 67, looks back on breakdowns and addictions, losing Ian Curtis, his precious friends and the early rave scene

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2023

Julie Byrne review – elegiac ache and nuanced feelings

Two years on from the death of her friend and musical collaborator Eric Littmann, Byrne tours the album they were working on together, in a performance of mesmerising beauty

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2023

"I am the founding father of progressive symphonic rock". Robert John Godfrey states his case

Prog sat down with the godfather of symphonic rock is back as the band prepared to play the Prog Stage at the then newly formed High Voltage Festival

Louder · Jul 29, 2023

“The goal was to make music that was so extreme we’d never even get a gig”: Tom Morello on the early days of Rage Against The Machine

The guitarist had radical ideas when Rage Against The Machine started out - and was shocked when they started selling loads of records

Metal Hammer · Jul 29, 2023

"We’re fried": Thom Yorke on keeping it together as OK Computer blew up big

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke was having a rough time of things in 1998, as this MTV interview footage makes clear

Louder · Jul 29, 2023