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Blink-182 announce Missionary Impossible tour dates, with a former member's band in support

The Mark, Tom and Travis show is hitting the road once more, and Blink-182 fans will recognise the support band's frontman too

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“I’ve gone from having the greatest time of my life, to wanting to kill myself.” An audience with a tired, homesick, and somewhat irritable Red Hot Chili Peppers on the final night of their One Hot Minute world tour

In the summer of 1996, rumours spread that the Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to break up following the conclusion of their One Hot Minute world tour. I was sent to the tour's final show to find out the truth

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Audio-Technica's limited edition gold turntable is the perfect excuse to go shopping this Record Store Day

Available in US stores only

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‘It ain’t over till one of us is gone’: the pop stars who refuse to bury the hatchet

Madonna and Elton John thawed their frosty relationship this week – but from Mariah and J-Lo to David Gilmour and Roger Waters, plenty more are still at loggerheads

The Guardian - UK

Hardcore sensations Turnstile announce first album in four years, Never Enough

Stream the title track ahead of the album’s release on June 6

Metal Hammer

“I need to build a sound of my own that has the power that I want”: Floating Points hates festival sound systems so much that he’s invented his own

The DJ and electronic performer is set to hit the road with his own bespoke system christened The Sunflower

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“How daring to have a long intro before he’s even singing. It’s like psychedelic Mozart”: With The Rose Of Laura Nyro, Elton John and Brandi Carlile are paying tribute to both a 'forgotten' songwriter and the lost art of the long song intro

“No one starts an album like that anymore!” says Carlile

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“I had a blast. Thank you”: Original Beatles drummer Pete Best retires, aged 83

His daughter says it’s due to “personal circumstances”

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“It was so inspiring to see them put animosity to one side and just go on stage to play”: Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser explains his love for Yes and Steve Howe

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser cares so deeply for Yes that his band named an album after one of the prog giants’ songs

Metal Hammer

“What’s going through our mind is ‘What the…?’ And if you see Bob’s face, you could see he’s thinking the same thing”: When Bob Dylan played with an LA punk band to promote the album he made with Mark Knopfler

1983's Infidels, Dylan's first secular album in half a decade, was graced with a bounty of sweetly tasteful leads from the Dire Straits man. To recreate two of its songs on Late Night with David Letterman, Dylan hired LA punks the Plugz

Guitar World

“It was the most disgusting thing I could ever imagine. It makes me sick just thinking of it!” The Cars’ guitarist Elliot Easton recalls the worst thing that ever happened to him on stage

The band had a rude awakening on their first trip to England

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“I really thought I was going to die... and it absolutely was so freeing”: Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus talks surviving cancer and his band’s resurrection

Bassist was diagnosed with B-cell lymphona

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“Trent Reznor told me, ‘You’re by far the best guy that we’ve tried. I would love to have you in the band’”: Richie Kotzen came close to joining Nine Inch Nails – but one detail stopped him getting the gig

The former Poison guitarist aced his surprise audition but never got a call back

Guitar World

“From the very start of his social media rise Giacomo has been using other people’s compositions”: Social media guitar influencer Giacomo Turra accused of using other musicians’ arrangements and passing them off as his own

Turra releases an apology video but denies selling tabs using other artists' material

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Old is gold: why I massively prefer buying old vinyl to new

I've stopped buying new copies of older albums – here's why.

The Independent UK

Joan Armatrading shouts out Sabrina Carpenter and Shaboozey: ‘Music hasn’t died, it’s just different’

Revered singer-songwriter, whose career spans five decades, is known for championing up-and-coming artists

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"I got taken in by a group of older witches."How Bambie Thug went from ballet and Catholic school to witchcraft, Eurovision and touring with Babymetal

How Bambie Thug went from ballet and Catholic school to witchcraft, Eurovision and touring with Babymetal

The Guardian - UK

Everyday people: the parking wardens, estate agents and more who inspired classic songs

After the death of Joe DePugh, the high school baseball player hymned in Springsteen’s Glory Days, we look at the ordinary inspirations for extraordinary hits

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Clem Burke obituary

Drummer with Blondie who provided the backbone of their string of hit singles and live performances

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“We finally buried the hatchet!!!”: 20 years after he accused her of miming and called her “a fairground stripper”, Elton John and Madonna are speaking to each other again

Best not get him started about that time he stole Patti LaBelle's Tupperware…

Guitar World

“In the beginning, I was a terrible rhythm player. I avoided it like the plague”: Martin Barre once distanced himself from rhythm playing – but some Steve Lukather wisdom changed his mind

The former Jethro Tull lead guitarist reassessed his playing priorities after hearing some wise words from the Toto legend

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“I didn’t think people would mind that I didn’t play it, but it became a problem. I got myself into a pickle”: Clairo says it was Charli XCX who convinced her to perform one of her most popular songs again

“We played a few shows, and she told me she watched my set the day before. But she was like, ‘Where’s ‘Sofia?’”

The National (Scotland)

Scottish band’s song about Spanish Civil War to go on show in international museum

A SCOTTISH rock band is to have one of its songs showcased in a museum dedicated to the Spanish Civil War ...

Guitar World

“One of the most unbelievable things I’ve ever seen in music”: Popular social media guitarist Giacomo Turra accused of stealing other musicians’ songs for content

The funk and R&B guitarist has responded to the accusations

Metal Hammer

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs hone their dream to be as potent a live band as Download festival favourites Vengaboys

Newcastle's finest Pigs x 7 deliver a masterclass in stoner/doom/psych riffathons on the release day for their new album Death Hilarious

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