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“Let’s get clear: a lot of the white men in suits loved Jagged Little Pill and got excited about female artists for myriad reasons, one of them being ‘women make us money now’”: Alanis Morissette reflects on how the music industry has changed for women

“I was kind of crafting my own scaffolding the whole time, and it was cardboard and water,” she says

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“Oh God, it’s hard to listen to.” The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right

On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The song the trio taped that day would become the subject of a bitter legal battle

Louder

Taylor Swift Faces Nightmare Threat to Her Music Catalog Just Days Before Wedding to Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift's catalogue faces fresh scrutiny after a nine‑figure Max Martin deal, just as she plans a Madison Square Garden wedding to NFL star Travis Kelce.

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“A guy approached me one night after a concert. He had a map, he had all the times, and he had a stopwatch. And he showed me how it was impossible”: The story of how the classic song By The Time I Get To Phoenix found the right interpreter

“It's a kind of fantasy about something I wish I would have done” said Jimmy Webb

MusicRadar

“It feels like the start of something heavier and more direct”: Nightwish’s Floor Jansen returns with metallic new single Run and announces 2027 tour dates

The symphonic metal singer is keeping busy during her band’s live hiatus

Metal Hammer

“There was a message from Jason Momoa – a video of him in his car saying, ‘You gotta call me. Here's my number’”: Jason Momoa saved their career. Keanu Reeves rocked up to a show. Flea let them crash at his house. How did the Bobby Lees get here?

After calling BS on streaming services payouts, guitarist and vocalist Sam Quartin announced her band’s hiatus. She never could have anticipated what happened next…

Guitar World

Blur drummer loses court battle for £200 million in unpaid songwriter royalties

David Rowntree claims that PRS pays ‘black box’ royalties, also known as unidentified royalties, to producers, but not to songwriters

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Blur drummer loses bid to continue £200m royalty legal battle

David Rowntree claims that PRS pays ‘black box’ royalties, also known as unidentified royalties, to publishers, but not to songwriters.

Evening Standard

“We discovered pretty early on that we were not going to succeed by trying to emulate the likes of Bob Dylan. There are some very strange things on ZZ Top records”: Billy Gibbons on ZZ’s blues roots, ’80s mega-hits and their unique “sense of weird”

“In Texas there’s still a little of that gunslinger mentality in the air”

MusicRadar

Bad Bunny review – Puerto Rican star’s London show is celebratory, unifying and simply phenomenal

5/5 The Grammy-winning musician lights up London with a triumphant celebration of Puerto Rico alongside a 16-person salsa band, Salma Hayek, and Blur and Gorillaz star Damon Albarn

The Independent UK

Fleetwood Mac and ZZ Top come to the audiophile’s format of choice – but you’d better hurry

Two landmark albums have landed on reel-to-reel tape

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“It took me 10 or 11 takes to get the timing on the intro right. Jimi easily could have just done it”: The life and times of Dave Mason, the former Traffic guitarist who made a habit of playing on iconic tracks

The Traffic guitarist’s best work of the ’60s and ’70s was magical, but the stop/start nature of his career held him off household-name status

Guitar World

“He would show up in a station wagon full of Les Pauls, Teles and Strats. I bought probably 20 pieces from him over the years”: The classic (and unlikely) gear behind the Eagles’ Hotel California

What Joe Walsh and Don Felder needed was Les Pauls and Teles, and lots of them – and Felder in particular made use of a Texan horse trader who also stocked some thoroughbred guitars

Guitar World

“I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century

Inspired by Corey Taylor’s divorce and redefined after the death of Paul Gray, Snuff shows The Nine at their most beautifully vulnerable

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Evening Standard

Lauryn Hill honoured with living legend icon gong at BET Awards

The ceremony featured a tribute performance from stars including SZA, Lizzo and Queen Latifah.

Metal Hammer

"It was darker than other bands but it really got me to let go of the old and embrace the new." The late 80s alt-metal album that Korn guitarist Head says accidentally invented nu metal

The alt-metal classic that came out of nowhere and changed everything

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Ezra Collective at Love Supreme festival

The Guardian is partnering with Love Supreme this year, where we will have a live Q&A with the UK jazz heroes – leave us your questions for them

Louder

"A nurse came in and said, 'You should stay another night or two because you almost died yesterday.'" How a near-death experience inspired the making of Failure's Location Lost

Failure's seventh album Location Lost was shaped by frontman Ken Andrews’ long road back to full health

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International Business Times UK

Did Ed Sheeran Just Hint He's Singing at Taylor Swift's Wedding? Surprise Wedding Crash Fuels Fresh Speculation

Ed Sheeran and Martin Garrix surprised a couple by crashing their Chicago wedding, sparking speculation about Sheeran performing at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding.

Louder

"Give The People What They Want proves that The Kinks were still alive and kicking as the 80s began." Ray Davies successfully trades music-hall whimsy for slabs of radio-ready arena rock

The Kinks' 19th studio album explored the band's harder edges and saw the reintroduction of an old friend

Evening Standard

Fatboy Slim shares love for grassroots music scene at ‘intimate’ venue

The Brighton-based DJ, real name Norman Cook, brought the party to a sell-out gig at a 60-person capacity venue.

The Independent UK

Treasury should return tax on £1 gig ticket contributions, say industry bosses

It comes after the Government secured more than £1 million through VAT on contributions on tickets bought by concert attendees since last year.

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“Trying Not To Fall Down And Break A Hip”: Madonna’s Time Square Performance Sparks Hilarious Reactions

“She looks like an old lady trying not to fall down and break a hip,” wrote one user.

The Independent UK

Singer Aaron Lewis shocked as unreleased album used as packing paper for Taylor Swift merch

Aaron Lewis reshared a Taylor Swift fan's unboxing video showing his shredded album covers being used as packaging for her merchandise

Louder

"He only became a heavy metal guy after he’d spent time touring with Deep Purple and started in Rainbow." What happened when Ronnie James Dio met Ritchie Blackmore

Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore recruited a largely unknown vocalist to sing on his new project. The rest, as they say, is history

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