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Sly Dunbar, legendary reggae drummer who anchored tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan, dies as 73

Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar has died at 73

The Independent UK

"And you know what? I'm just sharing ten years of groupies with ya, frat boy!" Why one of the biggest bands in rock music put a major music service out of business (and made one of the 2000s' strangest comedy sketch videos)

This was certainly a time of change in the music industry

Metal Hammer

Leo Fender’s favorite amp, recreated? Fender ’62 Super Amp review

The original, ’62-era Super was said to be Leo Fender's favorite amp. Let’s see if this exacting recreation captures the original magic

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Sly Dunbar, reggae drummer and producer with Sly and Robbie, dies aged 73

Drummer helped to define the sound of roots reggae and dancehall, and worked with stars including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Grace Jones

The Guardian - UK

“It feels good to have a thousand people flipping you off. Just to see the amount of middle fingers go up when we go into it is amazing”: The alt-rock superstars who trolled their fans with a 70s easy listening cover – and scored a huge hit with it

Faith No More had already covered War Pigs

Metal Hammer

Mexico president asks South Korea for more BTS concerts

The Independent UK

“My 1956 ES-225 was my only opportunity to get into that world at an acceptable price. The P-90s from that period are wild – it’s like trying to tame a beast”: How Georgie Hume’s “surf exotica” is taking instrumental guitar into a whole new world

Starting out in a London pub, Georgie Hume and the Pity Party are taking a wayfaring approach to jazz, soul, and surf guitar, and Hume has some help from a left-field “secret weapon” pedal

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Kanye West apologises for antisemitism and claims 'I lost touch with reality'

The disgraced rapper claimed that his anti-semitic and offensive behaviour was the result of his struggles with bipolar disorder

Evening Standard

‘We get a lot of requests for it to be used in sex scenes’: how Goldfrapp made Ooh La La

‘I couldn’t think of a line for the chorus – but we had just been to France. I Baudelaire into the lyrics somewhere, too’

The Guardian - UK

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 26, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from the Claypool Lennon Delirium, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Elles Bailey and more

Louder

“Bass players are the glue – we’re the one that brings it all together”: Blink-182's Mark Hoppus names his three (or four) favourite bassists

And the reason he sold his Banksy...

MusicRadar

Mick Jagger's granddaughter's partner goes missing in seaside village as police launch hunt

Sir Mick’s daughter Jade Jagger shared an appeal on Instagram two days after he went missing

Evening Standard

"A Russian girl came to my parents’ door with suitcases and said, ‘I have sold everything in my life. I’m going to marry your son and live with you now." How two unknown European bands changed the face of metal in the 90s - and broke up its boys club

In 1997, two key releases by two emerging bands had a game-changing impact on the metal scene as we knew it

Metal Hammer

“Fast under the fingers and confident in any setting”: Two-Rock’s Studio Overdrive head is a small-but-mighty tube amp that promises both gain and clarity

Kitted out with subtle but useful tone-shaping tools and enough gain to belie its smaller size, the Studio Overdrive is all about the feel it creates

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“Jim Irsay was so proud of having acquired this guitar. It was like the jewel in the crown of his collection”: Getting up-close with a $10m trio of guitars once wielded by Kurt Cobain, Eric Clapton and David Gilmour

The truly iconic guitars are due to go under the hammer at Christie's soon – and Guitarist got an exclusive look ahead of the sale

MusicRadar

“We’ll be back here sooner than you think. And we might have a whole new record of fucking songs that we just finished the other day”: Dave Grohl seems to confirm new Foos album is on its way

Plus he brings on stage miner who inspired Ballad Of The Beaconsfield

Metal Hammer

"It wasn't as big as Guns N' Roses - but it could have been. It just didn't last long enough." A member of one of rock's most celebrated supergroups says things could have got even bigger if the wheels hadn't fallen off

This band of rock icons were a big deal in the 2000s - but could they have been even bigger?

The Guardian - UK

Pharrell Williams sued by former Neptunes partner Chad Hugo over alleged lost earnings

The producers who helped define the sound of pop music in the 90s and 00s are in dispute over earnings from their final album as NERD

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“It’s a story about a bloke who’s not sure whether he’s died and been reborn, or whether he’s just been dreaming. Kind of like a bad hangover!”: The Iron Maiden anthem inspired by near-death experiences

Plus: Bruce Dickinson on the epic Alexander The Great

Louder

"I said something like: 'It would be really, really dreadful if that got wiped' and I found out later that that's exactly what he did": The story of the UFO classic inspired by a pair of murderous twins

For a much-loved ballad on 1981's The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent, UFO turned to the criminal underworld for inspiration

Louder

"We left mistakes in, we didn't clean it all up – which is a hard thing to do when you're a musician": How His Lordship hit the rock'n'roll bullseye with one of the best albums of 2025

Pretenders' sidemen James Walbourne and Kris Sonne's second album as His Lordship is a savage blast of high-octane, garage-rooted R&B

Louder

Yungblud responds to backlash over controversial Till Lindemann photo: “You all know what I stand for, always. I’ll be more for it in the future”

Yungblud responds to fans’ disappointment after a photo appeared online of him with Rammstein’s Till Lindemann

Evening Standard

Victoria Beckham reunites with Spice Girls to celebrate Emma Bunton’s birthday

Part of the girl group were seen together in a photo on Instagram.

MusicRadar

“On the first album I avoided doing a lot of cutting on the tape. The problem is, I always change my mind with an arrangement, so there’s always gonna have to be a razor blade handy”: The perfectionist rock legend who has made just six albums in 50 years

“The work in the studio is very high pressure. And there aren’t any breaks”

Guitar World

“We ended up taking it down to the Royal Albert Hall, and played a concert with it with Eric Clapton the following night”: Laney puts the philosophy of Nathan East’s signature head into an all-powerful, dual-input preamp pedal

Packing all the features of the bass guru’s signature head into a portable unit, he says it’s a “game-changer” all over again

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