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Great new proggy sounds you need to hear from Crown Lands, A.A. Williams, Devin Townsend, Tarja and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Top new prog from VMBRA, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Lost In Kyiv and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

Louder

Please Please Me review – fascinating tale of Brian Epstein, the Beatles and that trip to Torremolinos

Tom Wright’s play explores how the Fab Four, and a rumoured affair with John Lennon, helped shape their manager’s tragically short life

The Guardian - UK

On Zara Larsson's 'Midnight Sun' Tour, the Fashion Fun Never Ends

Ahead of 'Midnight Sun' deluxe dropping on May 1, we spoke with Larsson's stylist about the singer's Y2K, summery aesthetic.

Marie Claire

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Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny named Spotify’s most-streamed artists of all time

The Weeknd, Drake and Ariana Grande also featured highly on Spotify’s list

The Independent UK

"I had to fight for everything I wanted and got treated like a child." How Amy Lee fought to take back control of Evanescence

As Evanescence prepared to release Synthesis, Amy Lee reflected on her position as one of metal's most prominent women

Metal Hammer

“Jimi got it into his head that he wanted to do All Along the Watchtower. He said to me, ‘That’s the coolest song! …You want to come and do it with me?’” When Dave Mason met Jimi Hendrix and played on the greatest cover of all time

Hendrix had arrived in London, his greatness was about to come, and the late Traffic guitarist Dave Mason was there to witness it

Guitar World

“I was working on this song which he liked, and then he died, and it turned into more of a tribute to him”: How Chrissie Hynde channeled grief into The Pretenders’ classic comeback hit

And why George Harrison claimed to have inspired the song

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Add to playlist: the disaster-baiting jazz-rock brinkmanship of Taupe and the week’s best new tracks

The trio combine sludgy rock, homemade electronics and squawking into a watertight groove that makes light work of their complex musicianship

The Guardian - UK

"We had a song that was humongous, but we were just dumb and young." How Hoobastank wrote a billion-streaming hit single and entrenched themselves in pop culture forever

This California four-piece were once viewed as an Incubus clone, then they discovered how to write a power ballad with strings

Louder

“He got hit in the face with a beer… We’re all a little mad when we get pelted – I don't understand why they throw cans at us”: Inside the rabble-rousing country rock guitar madness of Treaty Oak Revival

A beer can in the face? That ain’t nothin’ for these punk-country-rock troubadours (who you might’ve already heard if you’ve binged on Landman)

Guitar World

Please Please Me review: Clumsy look at Brian Epstein's sexual obsession with John Lennon

2/5 Tom Wright’s play at the Kiln takes on the life and times of The Beatles’ manager in a stripped-back production

Evening Standard

“My dad said, ‘Take a seat – a band is coming in to make a record.’ I spotted a guitar case entering through the side door… carried by none other than B.B. King”: Billy Gibbons on how B.B. King changed his life

At the age of 7, seeing B.B. King lit the path for Gibbons as a blues guitarist. The ZZ Top legend discusses B.B.’s lasting impact

Guitar World

"I didn't want to be like stage dad." Dave Grohl shares his pride in his daughter Violet's emergence as a star on her own terms

Dave Grohl reveals the guidance he's offered his daughter Violet as she launches her own career

Louder

Cruz Beckham sends heartfelt message to Brooklyn after 'getting emotional' at his gig

Their mother Victoria recently broke her silence on the family’s ‘challenging’ feud

Evening Standard

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Metal Hammer

"I want to dedicate this next one to a dear friend of mine in the sky tonight!" Watch a tearful Yungblud pay emotional tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with his cover of Black Sabbath's Changes in Birmingham last night

Yungblud made the most of playing Ozzy's home city

Guitar World

“Something I’ve always needed, but has never existed”: The Flipjack is a cable that can go from straight to angled in an instant – and it could solve your guitar-swapping woes

It’s designed to be a lifesaver for mid-gig guitar swaps

Louder

"Look at the bands that are out there now, crap like Radiohead. You can't tell us that we don't deserve to be more than that." On the eve of the release of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, Smashing Pumpkins wanted to take on the world

"Everyone keeps telling us how pretentious this album is without even hearing it"

Metal Hammer

"I was grossly overconfident because I was 21 years old: ‘Of course I’m going to get the gig.'" Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson opens up on what it was like joining the metal legends just as they were blowing up

Bruce Dickinson joined Maiden at a crucial point in their career. We all know what happened next

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"This is the sound of a band finding their spark again amid the wreckage." Foo Fighters bounce back from turbulent few years with punky, at-times surprisingly thrashy new record Your Favorite Toy

Dave Grohl and co. go back-to-basics to kick out the jams

The Guardian - UK

Walter Smith III: Twio Vol 2 review – classic jazz is vividly alive in the hands of this incisive saxophonist

The redoubtable musician and guests including Branford Marsalis and Ron Carter make standard song-shapes sparkle with focus and rugged phrasing

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not much but, at the same time, it’s very much’: the enduring impact of Sade’s style

The 1980s band are being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year – but why does singer Sade Adu’s pared-back look still resonate in 2026?

Metal Hammer

"He's jumping up in the air and breathing really heavily, making these animal noises. I'd never seen anything like it." The story of Andrew W.K. and the strangest TV performance in music history

In 2002 Andrew W.K. was interviewed on New Zealand TV series Space. It did not go according to plan

Louder

“Even when I got pretty good fees, I lost money on everything. I was thinking so idealistically”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg releases Vox Occulta, with hard lessons learned from the past

He wants to use a large band to tour his boredom-beating second album – and thinks he’s come up with a way to keep it in budget this time

The Independent UK

Kneecap, Fenian review – Irish rap trio save the worst for Keir Starmer on this frenetic, bluntly political album

4/5 Fresh off the back of a highly publicised legal battle, the outspoken hip-hop group return with a record that delivers on all fronts

Louder

"It's like The Who channelling Cheap Trick, filled with catchy pop songs slathered with hard rock guitars." How the folk songs of Pope John Paul II buried one of rock'n'roll's great lost albums

Signed by Heart's management and to the same record label as the head of the Catholic Church, TKO toured with everyone from Cheap Trick and The Kinks to Foreigner and Van Halen: It wasn't enough

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