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"Would Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin have been as cool if the internet was around to expose everything?" Black Stone Cherry's Chris Robertson on social media, the creative inspiration of dogs and battling Darth Vader

Black Stone Cherry's new EP Celebrate is out next month – and includes a very unlikely cover version

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Florence Welch is one of the UK’s best live acts – and a moment of magic at her O2 gig sealed it

COMMENT: The powerhouse indie singer refused to go on with the charade of an arena full of fans filming on their phones, and released an ecstatic energy with her demand to ‘be present’, writes Patrick Smith

The Independent UK

Mumford & Sons review, Prizefighter – Choosing vulnerability over cynicism

4/5 British folk trio revive the communal spirit of their early years by inviting artists such as Hozier, Chris Stapleton and Gigi Perez to collaborate

The Independent UK

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"The fans want to hear it, so we still play it every night. For myself, I've had enough of that song." Recorded while intoxicated, lyrics written in the back of a van - the story of one of the all-time heavy rock classics

It’s one of the instantly recognisable songs in rock'n'roll. But how did Ace Of Spades come about?

Metal Hammer

"We wake up in the morning and everybody just texts about how much we miss him." As Foo Fighters launch new album Your Favorite Toy, Dave Grohl reflects on life without Taylor Hawkins

Foo Fighters' new album Your Favorite Toy will be released in April

Louder

"Make no mistake - this song is a reckoning." After much anticipation (and some bogus rumours), the new singer for metal veterans Arch Enemy has been revealed - alongside pulverising new single To The Last Breath

Lauren Hart is officially Arch Enemy's new vocalist!

Metal Hammer

Fred Smith obituary

Bass player who provided subtle but potent rhythm and tone to Television on their debut album, Marquee Moon

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“Taylor and Travis Kelce have been listening to my music loads together and have requested that I remix Opalite”: Chris Lake said yes to a Taylor Swift remix before he'd even heard the stems, then had to spend two weeks solid producing it in Ableton Live

“I want to nail this so badly," he says in a behind-the-scenes video. "I want this to, like, blow people's socks off, you know?”

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“By the time we met the Beatles, they were thrilled to meet us. They liked us in part because we were women who could play”: The pioneering ’70s band beloved by the Beatles – who recorded with Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper’s sonic architect

Fanny, led by sisters June and Jean Millington, toured heavily and released five studio albums between 1970 and 1974, including Fanny Hill, engineered by Beatles collaborator Geoff Emerick

Guitar World

APT by Bruno Mars and Rose named best-selling song of last year

It is the first time the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry chart-topping song has featured a non-European or North American singer

Evening Standard

Star Trek actor William Shatner is releasing an all-star heavy metal album featuring Zakk Wylde, Ritchie Blackmore and more, because you try and tell him not to

Captain Kirk is set to cover Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden and uncork some hard-hitting originals

Metal Hammer

“I had to learn how to get the sound. I was just hooked”: Driven by a Van Halen obsession, Jacob Deraps is a YouTube shred superstar on a mission to bring catchy rock ‘n’ roll back to the mainstream

This is the origin story of Jacob Deraps, the player whose brain exploded when he heard Eddie Van Halen for the first time, and he never looked back

Guitar World

“The drums, the guitar and the bass are already in there. What we didn’t have is a vocalist”: Alex Van Halen says a new Van Halen record was virtually finished before Eddie passed away

The Van Halen drummer has also shed more light on Steve Lukather's involvement in the project

Guitar World

"We had the desire to create something extraordinary. And we did." Queen announce remixed, remastered and expanded Queen II Collector’s Edition

"It's not perfect, it has the imperfections and excesses of youth, but I think that was our biggest single step ever"

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Musician and film-maker Flying Lotus: ‘The whole lo-fi beats thing has become like Starbucks music’

Ahead of a new EP, the creative polymath answers your questions on Thom Yorke, Kendrick Lamar and how a sci-fi epic ate up his whole life

Guitar World

What constitutes “fake” guitar playing?

Separate viral videos in recent months have accused multiple young, ultra-popular, social media-savvy guitarists of being “fake”. But what does that mean in this day and age? And what makes that label a new phenomenon?

Evening Standard

The Molotovs vs The World: 'If you hate our band, that's fine'

Desperate for a youthquake with real substance? Meet sibling duo The Molotovs, a peroxide explosion of rebellious teen spirit who have already shared a stage with Blondie and the Sex Pistols

Louder

"It's the fuse to the powder keg of songs." Foo Fighters announce new album Your Favorite Toy, share explosive title track

The follow-up to 2023's But Here We Are album is incoming

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“It’s definitely one of those songs that I’m never gonna be ashamed of. Hell, it opened a lot of doors for us!”: Kings Of Leon frontman Caleb Followill laughed when he first sang the words to this song – but it turned into a No.1 hit

“It was a hook, although I knew it didn’t really make sense”

Evening Standard

U2's Days of Ash EP: Political fury drives a thrilling set of comeback songs

5/5 U2’s surprise EP sees a band coming back with serious political intent on some of their best songs for years

Evening Standard

Ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney says he often agrees with people ‘damning’ him

He also addressed former bandmate John Lennon’s diss track How Do You Sleep?

MusicRadar

“The single biggest leap we ever made. That's when we really started making music the way we wanted to”: Brian May reflects on Queen II, as it's confirmed that the 1974 album is about to get a lavish reissue

Its five CDs will include demos, BBC sessions, outtakes and more

The Guardian - UK

The Streets review – semi-theatrical staging of A Grand Don’t Come for Free resurrects a British classic

Deadpan recital of the era-defining album of downbeat English rap suits the full-album format, presented with a formidable band

MusicRadar

“Joe Satriani said, ‘Every time I do an album, I feel like the first song I have to prove that I can play guitar. I wish I could let that go.’ I thought, ‘I know exactly what you mean’”: Paul Gilbert on why it’s so hard to resist the urge to shred

Gilbert says shred can sometimes be the easy way to give his audience what they want, but their expectations only make him want to work harder on his melodies

Metal Hammer

“A search for spiritual redemption”: Hear new President single Angel Wings – the masked band’s first song after signing with major label Atlantic Records

The fast-rising alt-metalcore outfit are starting “a new chapter” with a new record deal

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