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Parade, Protests Kick Off Eurovision Song Contest Week

The Eurovision Song Contest burst into Basel on Sunday, but a parade launching a week of build-up to the grand final was marked by protests over Israel's participation.

International Business Times

“We shouldn’t have touched her music when she wasn’t around. I thought I would never see her again”: Knox Chandler on the less-than-ideal recording session that flourished into a decade-long working relationship with Cyndi Lauper

Chandler's list of collaborators includes the Psychedelic Furs, R.E.M., Siouxsie and the Banshees and Depeche Mode

Guitar World

Irish rappers turned Fox News villains

Belfast rap trio Kneecap made global headlines at Coachella — and right-wing enemies. It's a classic Irish story

Salon

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Prince was a master guitarist with a singular musical vision, but he didn't always go it alone on the instrument. These are the oft-overlooked players who joined him onstage, and in the studio

From Dez Dickerson's timeless Little Red Corvette solo, to Wendy Melvoin's sublime work on Purple Rain, a number of guitarists made significant contributions to Prince's stage and studio output. Here's a guide to all of them

Guitar World

“Brent had an Iron Maiden jacket on so I went over to him to talk to him and he was like, ‘Hey you’re that crazy drummer dude’”: The chaotic birth of prog metal giants Mastodon

How Mastodon crawled from the Atlanta underground metal scene to become one of the most important bands of the 21st century

Metal Hammer

Marie and Rosetta review – Beverley Knight’s mighty voice soars as the godmother of rock’n’roll

Didactic two-hander sees trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe face down racism with song as she tours the segregated US south with her fawning protege

The Guardian - UK

Yungblud reveals he has thought about becoming a politician

The singer said music has become ‘a thing of privilege’ and that he ‘cannot play a festival where it’s like 800 quid a ticket’.

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Vikram Shankar’s Five Favorite Instrumental Prog Albums

The keyboard player with instrumental US prog rock trio Lux Terminus, who recently released second album, Cinder, picks his best of instrumental prog

Louder

Maren Morris: ‘I never said I’m leaving country music’

The outspoken country star is moving into her pop era and is keen to set the record straight over what that means for her life in Nashville

The Guardian - US

‘It’s like sex ... and we’re the foreplay’: the Oasis tribute bands gearing up for the big reunion

Missed out on tickets to the biggest gigs of the summer? From Italy to Indonesia, there’s a covers band ready to fill the void. They’ve got the parkas, the swagger and the tambourines, but can they bring the sunshiiiine?

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve always had a soft spot for Lady Gaga’: John Lydon’s honest playlist

The Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd frontman prefers drinking to karaoke and loves the Kinks, but which out-there rock song changed his life?

The Guardian - UK

‘Noel Gallagher had this massive Man City flag. I thought it’d be funny to stick a big black-and-white Newcastle flag over the top. It didn’t go down too well’ Andrew Cushin’s touring banter with Oasis icon

Newcastle-born Cushin opened for Noel Gallagher on his last tour and couldn’t resist a subtle dig

FourFourTwo

Netflix adds ABBA documentary that shows how they beat the odds — and it has some great stories

Netflix has just got this ace doc

WhatToWatch

“Acts of daring support the contention that their label set them free to do whatever they pleased”: Pentangle’s exhaustive The Albums: 1968-1972 is a lavish celebration of folk’s first supergroup

Box set featuring their first six records is enhanced with out-takes, live tracks and solo material by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn

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“I cherish the band, but I don’t expect anyone else to”: it’s nine years since the last Radiohead record and I accidentally got the only interview for it

As A Moon Shaped Pool turns 9, this writer recollects a night on the tiles in Paris with Thom Yorke & co.

Metal Hammer

“The whole prog movement is about fairies and elves and we’re proud of that. But there are no fairies and elves on this album”: How prog metal icons Dream Theater went full nerd-mode with epic concept album The Astonishing

There’s big, and then there’s Dream Theater’s 2016 prog metal blow-out The Astonishing

Evening Standard

Swiss Eurovision star: I would love for Celine Dion to be in Basel

Dion has stepped away from touring in recent years, due to increasing health issues while living with stiff-person syndrome.

The Independent UK

Mexican American singer Johnny Rodriguez, whose 1970s country hits topped charts, dies at 73

Country music star Johnny Rodriguez has died at age 73

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“Prince was really excited and kept pumping us up, saying ‘We’re making history tonight’”: How Prince summoned one of the greatest guitar solos of all time from thin air

The heart-rending heights of Prince’s most affecting piece of music were conjured largely on the spot, during a now mythical performance

The Independent UK

Johnny Rodriguez death: Country singer dies, aged 73

Pioneering musician is described as an ‘extraordinary talent’ known by his loved ones for his ‘warmth, humour, and compassion’

Guitar World

“Tom listened to it and said, ‘It sounds kind of jazzy.’ I went back and changed the chorus, and that’s the version I played for Don”: Mike Campbell on writing The Boys of Summer with Don Henley – after Tom Petty passed on it

Campbell made an all-important change to the song before handing it over to Henley

The National (Scotland)

Scottish musician releases single condemning Israel's war crimes in Gaza

Scottish musician Doug Veitch has released a new single condemning Israel’s war crimes in Gaza

Guitar World

“I will use mattresses for isolation and try not to bother the neighbors too much… Iwas just following the songs to see what happens”: How Jonathan Hultén channeled Nick Drake’s Pink Moon and recorded an entire album in his walk-in closet

The former Tribulation guitarist goes full on dream pop on his sophomore release, Eyes of the Living Night

The Guardian - UK

‘Ich komme!’ The smutty Eurovision songs that dodge the censors

From ensuring your swearwords are in languages other than English to outrageous euphemisms, contestants in the famously camp extravaganza have ways to avoid being toned down …

Guitar World

“Paul Simon called Stax and said, ‘Who are those Jamaican musicians?’ They told him, ‘Those are some white boys from Alabama!’” David Hood on being starstruck by Aretha Franklin, what Otis Redding taught him, and tales from golden age of Muscle Shoals

In this interview from the Bass Player archive, Hood reflects on his career as a ‘Swamper’, playing on hits by Paul Simon, the Staple Singers Aretha Franklin and more

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