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“This is humble music for everyone. It’s for people who have sunk a million hours into fighting zombies on Xbox”: Meet University’s Zak Bowker, the punk guitarist who believes your biggest inspiration should be yourself

University might be inspired by the Oasis ethos and the harmonies of the Beatles, but Bowker explains why they're going their own way

Guitar World

11 sublimely mellow Smashing Pumpkins cuts

Despite all their rage, sometimes Billy Corgan & co. made some of the most perfectly tranquil music of the 90s

Louder

“I didn’t think that Oasis were very good songwriters. This obsession with Britishness just didn’t really compute with us”: Placebo on drugs, Bowie and standing out from Britpop ‘like a sore thumb’

Band have a new documentary coming on

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‘She’s leaning into the idea that her image is a gilded fantasy’: how Taylor Swift embraced the showgirl

Swift, who returns with her 12th album in the guise of the ultimate iconic performer, is the latest pop star to take on the 19th-century tradition

The Guardian - UK

“Lars has a thing that every time they’ve done an album, he comes and plays it to me, and hopes that I nod and say, ‘That’s a good lad’. I said, ’You forgot the bass!’“: Flemming Rasmussen is still confused by Metallica’s bassless ...And Justice For All

Part of it was to annoy Jason Newsted, producer speculates

MusicRadar

“I wanted to sculpt something off-kilter, a shape that’s equal parts eye-candy and ‘what the hell is that?’”: KHDK has made killer pedals for Scott Ian, Chino Moreno, Gary Holt and more – now it is making electric guitars, with artist collabs coming

KHDK Electronics supremo David Karon debuted his new designs at Guitar Summit, in Mannheim, and while they are not all über-metal, the "all pointy" Model 101 certainly is... metal

MusicRadar

I'm an Iron Maiden fanatic and decided to rank every single one of their live albums from worst to best

Iron Maiden are the undisputed heavy metal daddies of live albums. Here's every one they've released so far, in reverse order of excellence

Metal Hammer

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Huge pop star cancels all three sold out Glasgow gigs after medical emergency

A HUGE pop star has cancelled all three of her sold-out Glasgow shows a week before the gigs after a medical emergency ...

The National (Scotland)

“Every time I picked up a guitar I got the horrors”: Radiohead were the world's most talked-about guitar band. Then they burned the rulebook, and made the instrument sound like no-one else had before

Released 25 years ago, Kid A subverted all of the lofty expectations that had been placed on the band, and cemented their status as one of popular music's leading creative lights

Guitar World

"The core piano sounds have a rich tone with a surprising amount of depth": Roland E-X50 arranger keyboard review

We test drive Roland's beginner-friendly arranger keyboard

MusicRadar

Taylor Swift to make UK appearances to mark release of The Life Of A Showgirl

The US singer will be a guest on Capital Breakfast and The Graham Norton Show on Friday.

Evening Standard

Damiano David at the Roundhouse: 'A megastar work-in-progress'

3/5 The Maneskin frontman is carving out a solo pop career but this show is marred by a disjointed set and the sniffles

Evening Standard

Nirvana child abuse lawsuit over Nevermind album cover dismissed again

Spencer Elden claims appearing on the cover caused him ‘extreme and permanent emotional distress’

The Independent UK

I saw Black Sabbath play three days after their debut album was released - and tickets cost 30 pence

When bluesman Freddie King pulled out of a show in early 1970, a young band from Birmingham stepped in

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“They’re portrayed as unhip, exploitative capitalist men of the rock world. But it’s entirely down to them that the movement can move. And they didn’t get anything out of it”: When Peter Gabriel received death threats, Genesis reunited to help him

Their former leader found himself in serious trouble after his WOMAD festival lost money. So the classic line-up returned to stage their Six Of The Best show in 1982, leaving an indelible mark on prog history

International Business Times

Let The 'Showgirl' Era Begin: Taylor Swift's New Album Is Almost Here

Swifties, the wait is nearly over. Swifties will also cram into movie theaters all weekend for special release parties featuring the video from "The Fate of Ophelia," behind-the scenes footage from its shoot, and so-called "lyric videos" -- when a song's lyrics are featured onscreen.

Metal Hammer

"You forgot the bass!" Metallica's ...And Justice For All producer recalls his shock at hearing album's final mixes

Flemming Rasmussen produced Metallica's ...And Justice For All and was as surprised as anyone else by the bass guitar sound

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AC/DC smashed "permitted noise level" during Edinburgh show

AC/DC performed at Murrayfield Stadium in the Scottish capital in the summer and – surprise, surprise – they were very loud

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CMAT pulls tonight's Brixton Academy show and rest of UK tour over wisdom tooth emergency

The musician, whose real name is Ciara Mary‑Alice Thompson, was scheduled to play Brixton Academy tonight

MusicRadar

“It possesses the horsepower to remain clean, even at the loudest volumes, and handles – and delivers – the highest dynamic content from your picking hand”: Mesa/Boogie reissues a cult classic that takes the amp brand back to the beginning

Loved by the likes of John Petrucci, the Mark IIC+ HRG presents super-clean tone at super-high volume and a super-tight crunch voicing for rock and metal rhythms

Guitar World

“We couldn’t beat it”: Alex G is a guitar icon for Gen Z – and he gets some of his favorite tones from a stock Logic preset

Most of the guitar tones from Alex G’s latest record were created using a factory DAW preset

Metal Hammer

Debate: who are the greatest metalcore band of all time?

Killswitch Engage? Converge? Architects? Tell us who’s the best of the blegh-st

Cinemablend

We Are Close To Liftoff With Life Of A Showgirl, And Swifties Think Travis Kelce May Have Spoiled A New Lyric

What's 87 + 13?

Metal Hammer

Nine Inch Nails announce new North American tour dates for 2026

The Peel It Back tour isn't done yet, with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross heading back out for a fresh batch of shows in the US and Canada

MusicRadar

“I drove everyone crazy with it because I was the only one who noticed at first, but once I pointed it out we all heard it and wanted it gone”: The curious case of The Weeknd’s mic distortion, and how his live sound team fixed it

“We came to realize that it was the result of the combination of The Weeknd’s unique vocal timbre and the hyping of compression and high-end,” says front of house engineer Derek Brener

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