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Bruce Springsteen’s angry anti-ICE song is on-the-nose in the right way

The star’s urgent and to-the-point protest song is not subtle about its target and right now that’s why it works so well

The Guardian - US · Jan 29

Blood, butter and boys in luv: BTS’s 20 best songs – ranked!

As the superstar K-pop boyband prepare for their first album in three years – after its members completed their military service – we count down the best of their toothsome pop

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29

Earth and Other Planets review – reimagined Holst with harmonica and a hoedown

Left-field duo Stevens & Pound threaded funky folk stylings with poetry by Robert Macfarlane and virtuoso playing by Britten Sinfonia to create The Silent Planet, a rethinking of Holst’s Planets Suite, with the addition of the newly composed Earth

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29

“Why would I want to play with those guys?” Dave Mustaine doesn’t want to reunite with certain former Megadeth members because they bad-mouthed him in interviews

It doesn’t help that other ex-members have apparently given up their instruments, as well

Metal Hammer · Jan 29

“The music meant a lot to me even before I was playing those iconic basslines”: Bassist Simone Marie Butler announces her departure from Primal Scream

Butler followed in the footsteps of previous bassists Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield and My Bloody Valentine's Debbie Googe

Guitar World · Jan 29

Post your questions for the Cardigans’ Nina Persson

As the Cardigans go back on the road, their frontwoman will answer your questions on her remarkably varied career

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29

“I’m taking care of myself for the first time ever”: Metallica, Slayer and Kiss members appear in new trailer for Paul Di’Anno documentary Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer

Written and directed by Lemmy’s Wes Orshoski, the rock doc is due to come out later this year

Metal Hammer · Jan 29

"New York is an eccentric city. We met a police officer smoking a cigar outside JFK and got in a cab while Africa by Toto blasted out of the radio." How memories of a "surreal" first US trip re-lit a fire under one of Britain's best young bands

Marmozets announce first new album since 2018

Metal Hammer · Jan 29

'He is very charming': Blur's Alex James admires Britpop rival Liam Gallagher

Blur bassist Alex James can't help but like "fantastic" Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher despite the rivalry between the two groups at the height of Britpop during the 1990s.

BANG Premier · Jan 29

Bruce Springsteen shares anti-ICE protest song Streets of Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen has released the moving anti-ICE protest song Streets of Minneapolis in response to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents in the US city this month.

BANG Premier · Jan 29