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No Apologies review – what if Kurt Cobain was transgender?

In a poetic performance, former teenage grunge obsessive Emma Frankland takes heart from a fantasy about the Nirvana musician

The Guardian - UK

“Astonishing and formidable music”: there’s more to British jazz rock than Soft Machine, Brand X, Bruford and Nucleus

Here are six underrated and overlooked albums from the 1970s that will reward investigation

Louder

Album reviews: The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers, and Memory of Jane – Unsinking the Cypress

The Black Keys sound surprisingly muted after experiencing one of their most tumultuous periods as a band, while Memory of Jane finds clarity on his delightful debut

The Independent UK

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"This is the moment to rediscover Chicago": Greatest Hits Expanded charts the band's evolution from a jazz-soul-psychedelic-brassy-hippy melange into accomplished balladeers

The bonkers and the ballads

Louder

"A surprisingly vibrant, bright-side kind of album": The Black Keys sound euphoric on the dreamy 60s psych-soul sound of No Rain, No Flowers

Beleaguered retro rockers the Black Keys sprout fresh, soulful intent on thirteenth studio album No Rain, No Flowers

Louder

King Crimson affiliates Beat release live video for classic Frame By Frame

Starring Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Danny Carey, Frame By Frame comes from the upcoming album Beat Live, out next month

Louder

Michael Jackson’s estate battle: A timeline of the feud between star’s daughter Paris and executors

Paris Jackson has alleged that lawyers are ‘skimming money’ from the late King of Pop’s estate

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Mariah Carey Calls Brighton Pride 2025 Crowd 'Amazing' as She Debuts New Single 'Sugar Sweet'

Mariah Carey wowed fans at Brighton Pride 2025, calling the crowd 'amazing' and debuting her new single 'Sugar Sweet'. The singer celebrated love, resilience, and her connection to the LGBTQ+ community.

International Business Times UK

“It’s safe to say it has become the talk of the town every time it is used”: Gibson teases release of the P-90-equipped Les Paul Noel Gallagher has been playing at the Oasis reunion shows

Available from the Gibson Garage London on August 21, this limited run guitar is the spitting image of Gallagher's "hybrid" Les Paul –and it looks like he will be signing them too

MusicRadar

“I got fired because I couldn’t get it”: Eric Johnson has written some of the greatest lead lines of all time – but once got sacked from a session because he couldn’t come up with anything

The Cliffs of Dover icon spent the early years of his career cutting his teeth on the session circuit – but says he had a few studio disasters along the way

Guitar World

Edinburgh Council remarks about Oasis fans ‘snobby’, Scottish Secretary says

Ian Murray also described the ban on drinking alcohol at stadiums as ‘classist’.

Evening Standard

"I didn't plan on making music anymore." How Paradise Slaves gave Brock Lindow a new lease of life after 36 Crazyfists

After a final show in December 2019, 36 Crazyfists' Brock Lindow thought he was done. But a message from Killswitch Engage's Joel Stroetzel brought him back to music

Metal Hammer

“Literally the first chord I hit on it after I put it together just gave me goosebumps”: Nirvana tone guru Aaron Rash solves Kurt Cobain’s Heart-Shaped Box guitar mystery – and opens Pandora’s box for the tonewood debate

Rash's latest break in the In Utero case arrived via a late-night epiphany and the help of ChatGPT, and it might just reignite the conversation about the impact of body wood on tone

MusicRadar

Any reasonable gig-goer knows that dancing is part of the show. So why are some people such anti-boogie bummers?

If you can’t be in public without trying to control other people’s every movement, maybe you should just stay at home

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The Independent UK

Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You review – a dark, Lynchian coming-of-age story

4/5 The American singer-songwriter follows up her 2022 debut ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ with a concept album that’s often mesmerising

The Guardian - UK

Terry Reid obituary

Rock singer and guitarist whose 70s albums River and Seed of Memory were acclaimed by new audiences in the 2000s

Guitar World

“My grandma asked me why I was spending so much time pretending to play the guitar when I could just get a real guitar and try to learn how to actually play”: Inhaler’s Josh Jenkinson reveals that Guitar Hero was his launchpad to picking up the guitar

Jenkinson also credits his grandma for booking some guitar lessons for him – which would eventually lead him to joining Inhaler

MusicRadar

“It’s not signed, sealed and delivered... but speaking to me and asking my opinion I would love to do it”: After being "blown away" by U2 at the Sphere, Lars Ulrich suggests that Metallica would be keen to play there in 2026

And they’d love to play next year’s Super Bowl, too

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Evening Standard

Kelly Clarkson’s ex-husband Brandon Blackstock dies aged 48 years old after a three-year battle with cancer

The announcement comes amid speculation after the singer took unexplained time off from her hit daytime talk show

Marie Claire

Selena Gomez Shares the Sweet (and Relatable) Story Behind Her Friendship With Taylor Swift

Guitar World

“We played a local gig and Jeff said, ‘Why don’t we go on tour with Brian Wilson?’” Nicolas Meier was playing in a London jazz club, when he looked up and spotted Jeff Beck standing a few feet away – it proved to be a life-changing moment

This former Jeff Beck collaborator re-recorded the songs he wrote for an unreleased Beck project. The results will likely have you freeway jammin’ in no time

Guitar World

“If I were to strum a full barre-chord voicing for each chord, it would feel too ‘chunky.’ Instead, I do what Nile advised me to do”: Cory Wong on the most important technique you can learn from Nile Rodgers

The kingpin of funky strumming defers to the O.G. – as Wong explains what he learned from the Chic master

The Guardian - UK

‘Working with Kanye? That’s definitely in the past’: rap legends Clipse on beef, Bono and Mr Bean

Amid their triumphant reunion, the brothers Pusha T and Malice answer your questions on the wisdom of the apostles, the catharsis of writing about their late parents and the greatness of Billy Joel

Evening Standard

BBC to air hour-long documentary titled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home

The programme will screen on August 18.

Louder

The nine best artists to see at London's All Points East festival this month, from Doechii and Confidence Man, to Warmduscher and Chloe Qisha

All Points East festival returns to east London's Victoria Park this month, and, as usual, there's lots to get excited about across the coming weekends

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