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"Lots of my records melted in the blaze": John Lydon lost part of his vinyl collection after his kitchen was accidentally set on fire - right after his insurance was cancelled

The former Sex Pistol hates shortbread, but loves toffees and biscuit tins

Louder

Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t about the Devil: “They’ve always been about mankind’s relationship with the concept of life and death”

Despite having written such songs as Satanized and Devil Church, Tobias Forge insists his band aren’t actually obsessed with Old Scratch

Metal Hammer

“Mick Ronson came to see one of the Springsteen shows, and he was just so proud of me. He had a classic rock ‘n’ roll existence, but I love him for all that”: Shane Fontayne on the kindness of Ronson, serving the Boss –and playing Stairway for Jimmy Page

His career highs include surprising Stevie Van Zandt with an improvised part, jamming with U2, and playing Stairway To Heaven with the Heart sisters while Jimmy Page was guest of honor

Guitar World

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"I am the Pistols, and they’re not.” John Lydon is getting ever more salty about the success and acclaim currently being enjoyed by his revitalised former Sex Pistols bandmates

For a man who supposedly moved on from the Sex Pistols decades ago, John Lydon isn't half spending a lot of time talking about the Sex Pistols

Louder

“These guys started the band the same year I was born – they have a whole world of history together”: How Nicole Row went from a wild ride in Panic! at the Disco to laying down the low-end in Incubus – and rerecording their biggest album

The former Panic! At The Disco bassist on the challenges she faced when replacing Ben Kenney in the alt-rock institution – and why she’s finally come around to using a pick…

Guitar World

“Who doesn't want to hear the recording of Ted Nugent and Eddie Van Halen jamming?” Ted Nugent's colossal archive includes sessions with EVH, Billy Gibbons and the Mothers of Invention

Nugent has just launched his most recent project – the Nuge Vault – which includes never-before-seen or heard concert footage and archival audio

Guitar World

Rock band to tell Glasgow's 'radical working-class history' on first tour

A ROCK band which set out to explore the idea of telling Glasgow’s 'radical history' and untold stories through song has begun its first tour…

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‘I was too busy to sleep with millions of people’: ex-boybander Eg White on penning bangers for Adele, Duffy – and a builder

The ex-member of Brother Beyond now writes chart-toppers for stars. Why has he decided to make a musical of seedy, gutter-life classic Midnight Cowboy, a film he can’t bear?

The Guardian - UK

“The verse tricks you into thinking that it’s in a certain key and has this ‘simplistic’ musical language, but then it flips”: Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on how they created Sympathy Is A Knife

"With Brat, Charli had put so much thought into it before we even got in the studio," he says

MusicRadar

“I started on guitar because I wanted to be in a band and meet girls. Richie wanted to be a guitar player, because he wanted to play guitar”: Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen come from different worlds, but it all comes back to the blues

Returning with one of the hard-rock records of the year, the dynamic duo talk tone, collaboration, and the limits of technique and gear

Guitar World

The Hives announce new Josh Homme/Mike D-assisted album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, and share punchy new single Enough Is Enough, plus UK and European tour dates

"Every single song a single, every single single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man."

Louder

Neil Young is worried he will be ‘jailed’ on re-entry to America after his tour

‘Remember Freedom of Speech?’

The Independent UK

“If you’re youngish, cute-ish and can play that axe, you’re for me”: Chaka Khan is holding open auditions to find a new guitar player – but she’s got some very specific requirements

The legendary disco vocalist has announced a worldwide audition to find an additional guitarist

Guitar World

“I walked in and said, ‘Can I get that guitar, the one at the end there?’ He looked at the name on the credit card and then looked up at me”: Chrissie Hynde on that one time she bought her own signature guitar off the shelf

Turns out having your own signature Fender Telecaster stocked in shops is pretty handy when you're caught without your own...

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Liam and Noel Gallagher 'to make extra £20m from Oasis tour thanks to savvy move'

The rockers’ hotly-anticipated Live ‘25 tour kicks off in Cardiff in July, before going global with shows in Japan, Argentina, the US, and Brazil

Guitar World

“I wasn’t into King Crimson at all. Definitely not my kind of music”: How Andy Summers formed one of the 1980s’ most unlikely guitar partnerships with Robert Fripp – despite not being especially keen on some of his work

The worlds of stadium rock and prog came together for a time in the early 1980s, when The Police and King Crimson guitarists teamed up for a handful of avant-garde records

The Independent UK

John Lydon says he will never return to ‘woke’ Sex Pistols

The singer hit out at his previous band’s ‘dirty deeds’

Guitar World

“He fined me 50 bucks and fired me, even though I didn’t mess up”: The bassists of James Brown reveal what life was really like playing alongside the Godfather of Soul

Fred Thomas, Ray Brundidge and Bootsy Collins dig into what it meant to play with Soul Band No. 1

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Elton John declares his voice on new album 'the best it's ever been'

EXCLUSIVE: The music icon has teamed up with fellow singer-songwriter Brandi Carlisle on Who Believes In Angels? with a follow-up already planned

The Independent UK

Skunk Anansie to headline The Independent’s stage at The Great Escape Festival

Rare intimate performance will take place a week before the release of the band’s first album in nine years

Evening Standard

Lola Young scores UK’s biggest song of 2025 so far with hit single Messy

Young’s single, Messy, has racked up 597,000 chart units since the start of the new year, ending the first quarter at the top of the leaderboard.

Metal Hammer

"I'm not a dictator. I'm a good king": Tobias Sammet on the democracy of Avantasia, the late Tony Clarkin, and whispering Bruce Dickinson

With some big names in the studio and on the tour bus, Here Be Dragons continues Avantasia's all-star journey

Metal Hammer

“I didn’t just walk away from Nightwish. I walked away from everything, so I could figure out what the problem was”: Marko Hietala had to adjust to a new normal, and the result is Roses From The Deep

Marko Hietala explains why he had to leave Nightwish, and believes there’s no hate involved in the split, as he focuses on second solo album Roses From The Deep

Metal Hammer

“All these men were like, ‘Lose your brother, lose the band, lose your buddies – you should be in pop’”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale reveals industry pressure to start a solo career

Halestorm’s singer/guitarist says that a number of businessmen tried to pull her away from being in a heavy metal band during her teens

The Independent UK

Beatles biographer Ian Leslie on John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s ‘erotic’ bromance

INTERVIEW: Fascinated by psychology, Ian Leslie found much to sink his teeth into in the relationship between the two greatest Beatles. Nick Duerden speaks to the writer about his new, critically acclaimed book exploring pop music’s most tumultuous, competitive and ultimately loving friendship

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