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“I’m in cricket gear and a duffle coat, side parting, being all spiritual. And people wonder why I’ve been stylistically challenged ever since!” Level 42’s Mark King saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra on colour TV and a fashion crime followed

The future bandleader wasn’t even a bassist when John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer and co burst into his young life on the Isle of Wight

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‘It can bring you to tears’: is this the world’s most beautiful sounding nightclub?

Transformed from a second world war bunker into Germany’s buzziest dance venue, the acoustics at Open Ground in Wuppertal are raved about by DJs such as Floating Points – and may even be good for your health

The Guardian - UK

Memories of my magical mix tape summer

Letters: One reader reminisces about the mix tape that a boy made for her as a teenager, while Christoph Wagner says he’s an avid lover of the lost art form

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“Chuck Schuldiner called to see if I could fill in for some Death shows in Mexico. I was still in high school, but I learned the set in a few days and jumped on”: Paul Masvidal on taking progressive extreme metal to new heights with Cynic and Death

The virtuoso took a detour from heavy music to work on TV and film scores in the ’90s. Now he’s working on new material with Cynic – and a signature guitar with Kiesel. He explains how he came to join and leave Death, and how sexuality has informed his take…

Guitar World

Dave Cousins obituary

Founder and frontman of the Strawbs, the folk-rock group best known for their 1973 hit Part of the Union

The Guardian - UK

“They asked me to play the E string of a Chapman Stick with a bow for six minutes. Somebody else got that gig”: Why Nick Beggs passed on his audition for Blue Man Group – and what he learned from Frank Zappa

Nick Beggs played bass in Kajagoogoo – and almost every band you can think of

Guitar World

“The first pickup had a bad buzz, so I sent the guitar to a shop. When I went to get it, it was gone. And by that I mean the store was gone”: Neil Young's Old Black Les Paul is one of rock's most iconic guitars, and its backstory is appropriately colorful

Much like Young's discography and creative arc, the story of how Old Black became the rugged, howling sonic beast that it is is a twisty one of fits, starts, and strange left turns

Guitar World

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'It's just wrong': Musicians rally behind bid for folk legend to own his life's work

SCOTTISH traditional musicians are backing a campaign to help a folk legend win back ownership of his life's work.

The National (Scotland)

“There’s nobody to mentor us these days. People at the label encouraged us to write and record – those people have gone”: When John Lodge accepted there’d be no more Moody Blues music

Bassist, vocalist, songwriter and proud Brummie on tempering his solo plans because the band came first, why a memoir wasn’t on his list, and knowing very well that a light year is a measure of distance

Louder

“One of metal’s most coveted and exclusive amps was finally brought to the masses… for a few hours, at least”: This is all the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – and how about that dreamy Stratocaster/Jazzmaster hybrid?

An Ariel Posen signature Strat, Jimmy Page’s latest Sundragon amp and a reissue of Metallica's hallowed IIC++ all dropped during a busy week for guitar gear

Guitar World

Charli xcx marries George Daniel in low-key London ceremony

Pop star weds The 1975 drummer, who she has been with for about three years, at Hackney town hall

The Guardian - UK

Charli XCX stuns in mini dress for Hackney Town Hall wedding to The 1975's George Daniel

The modest ceremony is allegedly just the first part of their wedding, with a lavish ceremony in Sicily planned for later this year

Evening Standard

Brat star Charli XCX confirms marriage to The 1975 drummer George Daniel

The wedding reportedly took place at Hackney Town Hall in London on Saturday.

Evening Standard

‘I’ve never asked for the approval of conservative white bigots’: Reneé Rapp on pop stardom, problem fans, and speaking her mind

She made her name in Mean Girls and Sex Lives of College Girls, but it’s her lack of a filter off screen that sent her viral. Ahead of her new album, she talks fame, gossip and Trump’s America – and doesn’t hold back

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‘Aretha Franklin hits notes that bring me to shivering tears of ecstasy’: Mick Hucknall’s honest playlist

The Simply Red singer gets emotional over Aretha and wakes up to Ravi Shankar. But which record healed his broken teenage heart?

Evening Standard

Billie Marten on surviving the 'cesspit whirlwind of pop music'

The rising singer-songwriter has forged her own path with folk music that keeps taking her from strength to strength, away from the demands of the pop world

Louder

“It’s very Spinal Tap of us to have this many drummers”: With Matt Cameron now added to the list, here’s a reminder of all the drummers Pearl Jam have had and lost…

The former Soundgarden man joins a lengthy list of ex-members who’ve drummed for the grunge titans... and now no longer drum for the grunge titans.

Louder

“They said that even if we sold out, we’d lose £5,000. We thought the label would cover the loss. In the end, the band paid”: Camel and a tale of two visits to the Royal Albert Hall, 43 years apart

Unruly brass musicians, unrecordable horns, a runaway film crew and the surprise appearance of female fans… Andrew Latimer recalls the profile-boosting 1975 concert and morale-securing 2018 return

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Aussie rock star living his teenage Meat Loaf dreams

Music has transformed one of the darkest times in the life of the flamboyant frontman of Australian band Chocolate Starfish into a triumphant dream come true.

Metal Hammer

Metallica save dance music festival from cancellation after fire destroys main stage

Blaze wiped out Tomorrowland stage just days before gates opened – but Metallica saved the huge EDM event

Metal Hammer

People lashed out at Linkin Park's Emily Armstrong "because she wasn't a guy" says Mike Shinoda

Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong did not have an easy start to life as the band's new vocalist

The National (Scotland)

Garbage join growing artist coalition against pro-Palestine censorship

SCOTTISH rock band Garbage have joined a growing coalition of artists standing against what they describe as censorship of pro-Palestine views in…

Evening Standard

Cliff Richard, 84, admits 'I could be dead next year' as the music legend shares sad update ahead of new tour

The pop icon, who has enjoyed a career spanning seven decades and sold over 250 million records, admitted that it is now ‘very wearing’

Guitar World

“David Bowie gave them the song, but Mick wrote the intro – the lick of all licks”: A tribute to Mick Ralphs, Mott the Hoople and Bad Company's rock-steady straight shooter

The underrated guitarist, who died aged 81 in June, had an uncanny ability to blend restraint, melody, and songwriting, giving Mott the Hoople and Bad Company hits that remain on radio decades later

Guitar World

“Not many people ask me about that bassline. Back then I only had one bass, and only one set of strings”: How Verdine White crafted “one of his best basslines” with Earth, Wind & Fire

Verdine White was just 23 when he cut this 1975 EWF classic at Colorado’s iconic Caribou Ranch studio

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