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“The guitar I play live is secretly a Squier. I replaced the neck plate – I was like, ‘I’m too big for this!’” How Frankensteined Fenders and vintage Gibsons supercharged the rise of Jack White-backed rockers Die Spitz

With a yin and yang guitar partnership, rarebreed pedals and a DIY attitude, the Texans’ blend of metal, punk and shoegaze is the latest addition to Third Man Records’ roster

Guitar World

V&A David Bowie Centre to feature entire section on ‘unrealised’ projects

The centre in Stratford will house more than 90,000 objects from the late Starman singer’s archive.

Evening Standard

‘We were ready to be the next Spice Girls’: X-Cetra, the Y2K girl group earning cult fame 25 years late

When four Californian pre-teens made an album together it was just one of many creative adventures and quickly set aside, but its reputation as naive avant pop has quietly grown. Still friends, the band explain their odd rebirth

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“That’s one of the key things that most people don’t get when they hear the song. But when I sang it with her, we nailed it”: Bryan Adams explains why the only person to do justice to Summer of '69 was Taylor Swift

“We only had one rehearsal, so she knows that song really well,” he says of their 2018 duet

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor at KOKO: her star has re-risen for a whole new generation

4/5 The pop star has had a remarkable post-Saltburn revival which is being capped off by a new album and irresistible shows like this

Evening Standard

“I was drinking a lot and forgot that I bought it. The folks at Carter Vintage called me and were like, ‘You gonna come get this guitar?’” Marcus King on the vintage guitar he accidentally bought while drunk

King recently played Rory Gallagher’s famed white Fender Telecaster and Jeff Beck’s iconic Yardburst Les Paul

Guitar World

“You get emails saying they’d like to try a guitar and you think, ‘It’s not going to be THAT Audley Freed, is it?… Then the penny drops”: How Ivison Guitars became Britain’s hottest high-end brand

With new staff, in-house pickups and the continuing success of the Dakota, there’s plenty to discuss. We grab Neil Ivison for a quick chat

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Why Is Reneé Rapp's Bite Me Tour Set to Become 2025's Most Anticipated Show? Here's What We Know

Reneé Rapp's Bite Me Tour kicks off in 2025 after her chart-topping album. Here's why fans are calling it the most anticipated show of the year.

International Business Times UK

Oasis 'set to add five Knebworth dates' to reunion tour for 30th anniversary

Oasis played two legendary gigs at Knebworth in 1996 - at the time, it was said 2 per cent of the UK population applied for tickets

Evening Standard

"What someone loves about you one day might be cited as a reason they hate you now." Fast-rising US hardcore crew Militarie Gun share new single Throw Me Away, announce UK and European shows for 2026

Be prepared to throw down hard with Militarie Gun in 2026

Louder

Rock acts Fontaines DC, Sam Fender and Wolf Alice shortlisted for the 2025 Mercury Prize

An Irish act could win for the first time in Mercury Prize history, with both Fontaines DC and pop singer CMAT shortlisted, while North Shields singer-songwriter Fender will be hoping for a homecoming triumph as the ceremony takes place in Newcastle

The Independent UK

Pulp, CMAT and Sam Fender among artists nominated for 2025 Mercury Prize

Britpop band Pulp previously won the prize in 1996 for Different Class.

Evening Standard

CMAT, Pulp and PinkPantheress among Mercury prize shortlist light on new names

Only two debut albums – among them the ‘token’ jazz release – feature among this year’s list of nominations for the coveted UK and Irish music prize

The Guardian - UK

System Of A Down announce European stadium tour with support from Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath

The nu metal-era four-piece will bring a star-studded lineup to seven stadiums in the UK and Europe next summer

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Britney Spears appears to defend Justin Bieber while addressing her own critics

Pop star seemed to be in a reflective mood as she aired her thoughts to her followers

Louder

"The three of us were put on this planet to make different kinds of music": Stewart Copeland on why it's unlikely The Police will ever reform

Former Police man Stewart Copeland is about to embark on a trip around the UK telling stories about the band and more

Louder

“The album happened not unexpectedly – but it was like, ‘Wow, we have enough songs!’” Nosound’s rush return after seven years with To The Core

Giancarlo Erra had been avoiding guitar in favour of synths in solo and collab projects. Then he realised he’d assembled enough music to form a release, and had a good reason to do it quickly

Louder

“His response to seeing a wilderness being bulldozed, he can’t resist also mentioning Bonnie Prince Charlie, Vikings and an ill-fated brontosaurus”: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s Tomorrow Belongs To Me is a prog epic

Gravel-voiced bandleader plays eco-warrior, futurist and satirist on 1975 genre-crossing album wrapped in a sleeve where Roger Dean meets Marvel

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Show me the nipple-baring Ziggy knitwear! A tour inside David Bowie’s mind-boggling 90,000-item archive

From the plans for a Major Tom movie to the Aladdin Sane mask and some wild ‘artworks’ sent by fans, this Bowie treasure trove is now open to the public – and it’s the freakiest show!

Louder

Massively expanded edition of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold As Love announced

The multi-disc Bold As Love set includes 28 previously unreleased tracks - listen to a demo of Stone Free/Up From The Skies now

The Independent UK

Katseye discusses their whirlwind year and, yes, that Gap ad

Global girl group Katseye has quickly risen to fame

MusicRadar

“They’re kind of singing along… but no one knows the words:” Derek Trucks says Tedeschi Trucks Band have completed their next studio album – and they’ve been sneaking in some of the new tracks live

Trucks says TTB has “the best collection of tunes” they have written to date, with 17 in the can, an Atmos mix – and the crowd are liking what they are hearing when they've dropped them in the set

MusicRadar

“I’m a big preset guy. If a preset’s called Fat Bass, there’s a 90% chance it’s actually a fat bass”: Rico Nasty and Benson Boone producer Imad Royal on saving time and staying focused in the studio

In the next episode of Universal Audio's Apollo Creators series, the Grammy-nominated producer/songwriter unpacks his instinct-driven creative process

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"Not to disparage older artists who still want a piece of the spotlight and to stay in the spotlight... there comes a time when you're just not yourself anymore": John Oates explains why there’s no chance of a creative reunion with Daryl Hall

“I'd hate to go out there and play the old hits and not have them sound as vibrant and as punchy and as great as those records,” he says

Guitar World

“The only person who did a version of Summer of ’69 and did it justice was Taylor Swift”: Bryan Adams looks back on the time he crossed Fenders with the world’s biggest popstar on one of his most iconic hits

Adams recalls the time he joined Swift on stage to perform one of his most well-loved songs

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