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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson’s next album features Sepultura members and is being recorded at Dave Grohl’s studio

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser lets some big details slip in a new social media post

Metal Hammer

“The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album

Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him

Louder

“I was at school supposedly trying to get an education and all I could think about was that album. Black Sabbath are the gods, man!”: How Pantera singer Phil Anselmo fell under Sabbath’s evil spell

And why he thinks that Norwegian black metal ruled in the ’90s

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Blue’s Duncan James shares tragic story about his late father

Pop singer opens up about the moment he learnt his father had given an interview about him to the tabloids

The Independent UK

"When people hear my versions of pop songs, they're shocked. They never expect to hear Adele sound like that." Meet Solomon Hicks, the New York guitarist bringing the blues to a new audience

Solomon Hicks just wants to make you feel good

Louder

"When Robert Plant introduced me I achieved closure. I had my song back for the first time since 1961." How Bonnie Dobson's post-apocalyptic first song finally found its way home via the Grateful Dead, Nazareth, Jeff Beck, the Allman Brothers and more

For over three decades, Morning Dew's authorship was in dispute, but its author wasn't afraid to call out the injustice

Louder

Jesy Nelson: I don't want others to suffer the horrendous heartache I've gone through

The former Little Mix singer speaks out after revealing her daughters have been diagnosed with a rare genetic condition

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Grammy win is ‘incredible, surreal and beautiful’, Lola Young says

Her single Messy picked up the award for best pop solo performance.

Evening Standard

"Iʼm not doing it out of guilt. Even if I didnʼt do it, the poverty would still be there." How getting stuck in a "rut", some tempting by Bob Geldof and the most A-list bill in history helped Queen pull off the greatest rock set of all time

Queen's Live Aid performance has become the stuff of legend – we look back at how the iconic set really happened

Louder

“He shoved me down to the floor of the car. He was kicking the windows. The whole time he's yelling at the top of his lungs, ‘Yoko! I want Yoko!’” The wild story of John Lennon's rock ’n’ roll covers album

Recorded under threat of a lawsuit, while in the midst of his infamous “Lost Weekend”, Rock 'n' Roll was the craziest ride of the Beatle's career – featuring top players and a gun-wielding Phil Spector

Guitar World

“Bonzo’s birthday cake was a wedding cake and George Harrison lifted the top layer straight into Bonzo’s face. Bonzo picked Harrison up and launched him into the swimming pool”: When Led Zeppelin broke a Beatles record and celebrated in style

According to Zeppelin's manager, Harrison called it “the greatest night of my life!”

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“He is the funkiest bass player that ever lived. Every note a mighty oak, a bull elephant, a bomb”: William ‘Billy Bass’ Nelson, Funkadelic bassist who coined the band’s name, dies aged 75

Flea has led tributes to the Funkadelic bassist, who was one of the founding architects of funk’s most audacious musical revolution

Guitar World

Mark Ronson to be honoured with outstanding contribution award at 2026 Brits

Ronson joins a distinguished list of artists to have won the award, including David Bowie, Oasis and Sir Elton John

The Independent UK

"Having to resort to writing something like this is so embarrassing." The story behind the extremely controversial Nirvana song that almost got them banned and made a US President smash up his own daughter's CD

Kurt Cobain was convinced no one could misunderstand the intent of the lyrics to this track. Sadly, many still did

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Guitar World

“It’s such an important piece of music history. For me to be associated with it is one of the greatest honors of my career”: Mark Morton’s signature Gibson Les Paul has been in the making for more than 3 years – now it’s finally here

The Lamb of God guitarist signed with Gibson back in 2022 and has been rigorously road-testing various pickup prototypes on the road

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“He was distant and uncommunicative… and wore a different wig every day”: Starsailor singer James Walsh on working with Phil Spector

Fortunately, there were no guns...

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"I shifted from Garbage, Radiohead and Silverchair to black metal." The classic 90s album that changed the life of the singer who'd go on to front one of her country's biggest bands

She's a household name in her home country, and it was the voice of a fellow metal icon who helped her on her journey

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“Mars argues that it is immoral for him to be cast aside... I am not unsympathetic to this argument but it is not for me to weigh in on the morality of the band’s decision”: Judge rules Mötley Crüe were within rights to fire Mick Mars

Guitarist was evicted fully from band when he quit touring in 2022

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The Independent UK

KPop Demon Hunters to perform first live show outside of US

The chart-topping trio will perform their song ‘Golden’ later this month

The Independent UK

NFL commissioner reacts to Bad Bunny’s ICE out speech at the Grammys

The commissioner’s comments come ahead of the Puerto Rican rapper’s Super Bowl halftime show

MusicRadar

“It’s a great feeling. I wish we’d had something like this at my school”: Justin Hawkins opens recording studio at Hereford Cathedral School

“It means the world to have a studio named after me,” he says

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“I heard a few of those things he did with Johnny Cash and I was impressed. So that was one of the reasons I was interested in working with him”: Neil Diamond scored his first US No.1 album at the age of 67 – with help from producer Rick Rubin

“We went in to make demos. We didn’t go in to make a record”

Guitar World

“We bring out a ton of guitars. I pick one up, strum, and it sounds like Wild Horses – because it’s the actual guitar from Wild Horses”: The Rolling Stones guitar tech on the secrets behind their onstage sound

Ryan Bullington has teched with everyone from the Stones to Paul McCartney and Keith Urban. He shares the joy of playing instruments he could never afford, the best amp he’s ever heard, and the invention that’s saved him years of pain

Guitar World

“There is a strong possibility the guitar is sitting unrecognized in someone’s attic”: Search launched for Boston guitarist Brad Delp’s long-lost Taylor 12-string

The Taylor 885 – which went missing in 2009 – starred in the More Than a Feeling music video

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“We had nothing to do with it creatively. We hope it sparks interest in him and his work”: Chili Peppers distance themselves from documentary about founder member Hillel Slovak

Guitarist died in 1988, aged 26

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