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Quinie: Forefowk, Mind Me review – collecting songs on horseback, this Scottish musician is alive with ideas

With folk songs gathered from a gallop across Argyll, Josie Vallely’s album is a resonant tribute to her ancestral land

The Guardian - UK

“Don’t get too precious about your songs. We’re probably going to tear them apart”: Legendary producer Mutt Lange’s first words to the young Def Leppard

How Leppard's 'sixth member' took them to a new level

MusicRadar

Skunk Anansie’s Skin: ‘We got slated when we were booked to headline Glastonbury’

Pioneering rock artist was the subject of a racist, homophobic and misogynistic backlash when her band were booked to top the Pyramid Stage, but says they used it as fuel for their fire when they performed in 1999

The Independent UK

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Black Sabbath - The Farewell Interview: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill, only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Ghost, The Doobie Brothers, Skunk Anansie, Motörhead, Masters Of Reality, Robin Trower, Goo Goo Dolls, John Lydon, The Stranglers, When Rivers Meet and more

Louder

"Skunk Anansie's most musically ambitious album yet": Skin & Co's The Painful Truth is their best work in decades

Veteran Brit-rockers Skunk Anansie defy challenging timeswith ambitious midlife reboot The Painful Truth

Louder

"Bands who should probably never have made it out of the garage, let alone onto a major label": It's not just the familiar names on the Young & Wild glam metal compilation

The good, the bad and the ugly from a colourful 10-year period of American hard rock gathered together on Young & Wild - A Decade Of American Glam Metal 1982-1992

Louder

"That scene really embraced me, but I never really felt I fitted into that box": Chantel McGregor may have been welcomed by the blues scene, but her next step may surprise them

With elements of prog on her new album, guitarist/singer Chantel McGregor ishopeful people will see her in a different light

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Dave Shapiro, groundbreaking music executive, dies in San Diego plane crash at 42

Groundbreaking music executive Dave Shapiro has died in a San Diego plane crash

The Independent UK

Bono issues call to ‘stop war’ as U2 perform Sunday Bloody Sunday at The Ivors

The performance came after the group became the first Irish songwriters to be awarded an academy fellowship.

Evening Standard

Blake Lively’s team celebrates Justin Baldoni withdrawing ‘inappropriate’ Taylor Swift subpoena

Lively’s representative accused Baldoni’s legal team of ‘exploiting’ Swift’s fame by trying to put her ‘at the center of this case since day one’

The Independent UK

Charli xcx named songwriter of the year at Ivor Novello awards

Pop star recognised for sharp yet candid songcraft on Brat, but loses best album category to Berwyn at awards honouring songwriting excellence

The Guardian - UK

Kneecap’s TRNSMT performance would need major operation, say Police Scotland

ALLOWING Kneecap to perform at the TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow would require "a significant policing operation", Police Scotland…

The National (Scotland)

“Horsemeat sounds a lot like a good amp": PRS redefines transparent overdrives with its Horsemeat pedal – packing three essential, performance-ready functions in one

Designed and assembled in the U.S.A., this overdrive pedal is part of Paul Reed Smith's debut pedal offerings – and promises to enhance your tone without coloring it

Guitar World

Taylor Swift has the chance to reclaim her original masters with the help of an unlikely source

Pop superstar has spent years trying to gain ownership of the original recordings of her first six albums

The Independent UK

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"The first thing I notice is a bit of surprise": A guitarist tries 9.5 gauge guitar strings for the first time with the new Ernie Ball Tim Henson signature set

Are these strings a sweet spot for players? Guitarist Pete Emery finds out with this long-term test

Evening Standard

Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film review: 'insurrectionist pop thrills'

5/5 Stereolab return with their first album in 15 years and bring a political fury beneath their sophisticated pop grooves

The Independent UK

Sparks has been making music for more than half a century. They see no reason to retire

They’ve spent more than half a century together as bandmates and put out dozens of records

Evening Standard

'We're back': Kneecap announce surprise London gig hours after terror charge

Mo Chara was charged over the alleged display of a flag in support of Hezbollah at a gig in London last year

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“It’s like playing a concert for millions of people all at once, without ever stepping on stage”: A guitarist’s guide to sync licensing

Your guitar belongs on TV, and the way into one of the fastest-growing sectors of the music business may already be in your sights. Emmy-winning composer Mike Meiers breaks it down.

MusicRadar

“It means everything to me. It’s the song that gave us our first big break, and it sounds great on the radio!”: The ’90s smash hit that pretty much wrote itself

“We never actually rehearsed the song — just played it!”

Guitar World

“Being a great guitar player is always coming up with the right part for the right song, or the right solo”: The Fleshtones’ Keith Streng explains what he learned from a misspent youth at CBGB’s –and the merits of pointless practice

Streng’s rhythmic garage riffs keep the punk-era legends vital after five non-stop decades

The Guardian - UK

Scotland’s most reliable sunshine! Teenage Fanclub’s greatest songs – ranked

As their album Grand Prix turns 30, we rate the standout moments from a group Kurt Cobain called ‘the best in the world’

Evening Standard

Singer CMAT says ‘fake version’ of Irish culture is being ‘built up’ by English

The 29-year-old, whose real name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, gave an interview to Glamour UK.

Metal Hammer

"Intense. Beautiful. Devastating." Seven bands who defined Desertfest London 2025

Desertfest 2025 took over five venues in Camden, north London at the weekend, and crushed our tiny brains into jellied chunks

Evening Standard

Paul McCartney was ‘pretty terrified’ to work with Barbra Streisand on new duet

The Beatles star recorded a new version of his track, My Valentine, with the Funny Girl star.

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