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Billy Joel reveals hit song was nearly axed from album before Grammy winner stepped in

‘Piano Man’ singer revealed he hadn’t wanted to include the track as it was ‘too mushy’

The Independent UK

Sort out your ’board! 7 pedalboard accessories to tidy up your stompbox setup

Make your pedalboard easier to play, maintain and evolve with my go-to trimmings, from ultra-affordable to essential

Guitar World

Rewind to the 1970s with this Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon, cassette player boxset

Tick away the moments that make up your dull day with a cassette edition of the 50th anniversary remaster

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This Pink Floyd X We Are Rewind retro cassette collab is bang on the Money

The We Are Rewind Pink Floyd "Walkman" is a must for The Dark Side Of The Moon fans

"Dressed to kill, all unbridled energy." Some of Small Faces' greatest songs – and a managerial battle – documented on Decca Singles 1965-1967

Still small but perfectly formed after all these years

Louder

"Pull Oasis out of your ass!" Watch System Of A Down's Daron Malakian lead entire stadium in Oasis tapeworm chant

System Of A Down's long-running beef with Oasis has now been simmering for a quarter of a century

Metal Hammer

"I was like, He's either really gone off the rails and he's in jail, he's killed somebody… or he's dead. And it was the latter." Mastodon reveal the exact moment that they learned that their former bandmate Brent Hinds had died

Mastodon were informed of Brent Hinds' death via a phone call from the guitarist's ex-wife

Metal Hammer

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"We thought, 'What the hell is going on around here?' They thought he was some lunatic who got into the castle." How a ghostly apparition ended Tony Iommi's writer's block and inspired one of Black Sabbath's greatest riffs

With Tony Iommi suffering from writer's block, Black Sabbath did the most logical thing: They hired a haunted castle

Metal Hammer

"I’m like, Wow this is wild. This sounds like nothing I’ve ever heard before." Slipknot are recording new material with Faith No More producer Matt Wallace, and Jim Root says there are "at least 50" song ideas being worked on

Work on the follow-up to 2022's The End, So Far has begun

Metal Hammer

BTS Release Normal MV Teaser After Bizarre Single Tabloid Ads: Fans Praise the 'Hilarious Satirical Concept'

BTS released a teaser for their new track 'Normal', featuring a satirical concept that has sparked widespread online discussion and fan reactions. The track debuts on Spotify this Friday.

International Business Times UK

"The merest hint of musical beauty – the merest hint!”: NPR just posted its most brutal Tiny Desk Concert ever as Napalm Death bring blast beats and chaos to the office – and unleash their one-second grindcore masterpiece in its entirety

Taylor Swift, U2, Dua Lipa... the UK grind pioneers join exalted company as they give NPR a performance for the ages

MusicRadar

Kiss to celebrate Ace Frehley's legacy with all-star tribute

The current members of the legendary band – Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer, and Eric Singer – are also set to perform

Guitar World

'We'll Talk in 50 Years:' Este Haim Teases Future Tell-All to Spill Taylor Swift's Wedding Secrets

Este Haim hints at revealing Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding secrets in 50 years. The HAIM sisters maintain a close friendship with Swift, attending her wedding and supporting her career.

International Business Times UK

Unheard David Bowie songs from 1965 to be released – including ones with Jimmy Page on guitar

Compilation entitled David Bowie: The Shel Talmy Recordings will be released in September, collating material from when he recorded as Davy Jones

The Guardian - UK

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"This is is 1000% going on every single mix": Baby Audio's SubCulture is a pitch-tracking bass enhancer designed for "massive low-end"

Baby Audio says SubCulture combines three bass enhancement engines with saturation and compression for "powerful low-end that translates across any speaker setup"

Guitar World

“It’s just a Japanese knockoff of a Tele, but it’s just as good, if not better. It sounds better recorded – it cuts through”: How Greg Freeman is rewriting the country guitar rulebook

The maverick’s latest slice of alt-country-indie comes with an attitude that belies his whimsical portraits of small-town America

MusicRadar

“Peter and I were in a car and he started humming this melody. ‘What’s that?’ ‘Oh, that’s a song I wrote.’ I mean, Peter never wrote a song in his life! But he sings, ‘Beck, I hear you calling…’” Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on the Kiss classic Destroyer

“It was musically and lyrically challenging – we were pushing the boundaries”

MusicRadar

“It holds a special place in Gibson history. As one of our earliest limited-edition instruments, it helped establish a lasting legacy within hard rock guitar culture”: Gibson unveils Custom Shop reissue of a Michael Schenker and Kirk Hammett favourite

They only made 350 of them back in the day but the 1971 Flying Medallion takes flight once more with a stunning VOS reissue

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“Rock ’n’ roll is full of borderline despots”: Why does Bob Dylan get through so many guitarists?

The rock icon has had no shortage of brilliant players lining up to follow him in the jingle jangle morning, but lately they’re dropping like flies

Guitar World

“I did get some bad reviews. Some people called me ‘the guy who ruined the Pretenders’”: Robbie McIntosh on his trial by fire when he replaced the late James Honeyman-Scott

The guitarist had huge shoes to fill, and the press weren’t exactly on his side

Louder

"The world thinks that he’s a scary, mean guy. And he’s the complete opposite." Why former Guns N' Roses drummer Frank Ferrer only has good things to say about Axl Rose, despite his surprise dismissal from the band in 2025

"I knew this thing wasn’t gonna be forever"

The Independent UK

The two genres that continue to surge in the US as more music is being streamed than ever before

Luminate’s 2026 Midyear Report reveals key streaming trends in music, film and TV

MusicRadar

“I didn’t even want to put it on the album because I thought it was too mushy. Linda Ronstadt goes, ‘Are you out of your mind? That’s a hit record!’”: Billy Joel on the classic ballad that Paul McCartney wishes he’d written

Plus: the song Joel wrote in memory of John Lennon

Metal Hammer

"Nice to see ya!" Watch grindcore legends Napalm Death play the heaviest Tiny Desk Concert in history

Grindcore innovators and British extreme music legends Napalm Death have followed in the footsteps of Dua Lipa, Sabrina Carpenter and Turnstile

MusicRadar

“I remember the three of us thinking that it was an absolute stroke of genius that we'd just come up with the most idiotic idea ever”: Mike D talks about the Beastie Boys’ fallout with Russell Simmons and that hydraulic prop

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