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How to Get Tickets to BLACKPINK’s 2025 World Tour: One-Off UK Date at Wembley Stadium

The K-pop icons are set to make history with their first-ever Wembley headline show

Evening Standard

Milk It: Two strands of Kurt Cobain’s hair expected to fetch thousands at new punk-themed auction

Plus GG Allin’s stained underpants...

MusicRadar

Nuthing ta F’ wit: Wu-Tang Clan’s greatest albums – ranked!

As hip-hop’s greatest group announce their final tour, we pick out the best of their LPs – from solo albums to a history-making, gamechanging debut

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“He's smoking and making jokes, and he goes, ‘You play, right? Let me see what you got.’ What am I gonna play him? I'm not gonna play Van Halen…” Billy Corgan on the time Eddie Van Halen asked him to showcase his chops – during a Guitar World interview

Turns out EVH was impressed by the Smashing Pumpkins frontman's guitar skills

Guitar World

“You can look at like a thousand interviews where my dad says it, Gene says it, I say it, Nick says it. It’s, like, no”: The sons of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are recording together but won't be "Sons of KISS"

Don’t expect them to don makeup

MusicRadar

Is Charlotte Plank the saviour of rave?

Charlotte Plank has clubbing in the blood and is uniting ravers old and new with her soulful-yet-banging dance music which she has dubbed ‘melantrolic’

Evening Standard

“Some people might think it's a waste, but it's fun for me. Isn't that what matters?”: Why there’s nothing wrong with collecting gear as a hobby - even if you don’t use it

Gatekeepers will tell you to sell your synths if you’re not using them “enough” - but isn’t your personal relationship with them sufficient reason to keep them around?

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Myles Smith at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire review: a thoughtful performance from a rising star

4/5 British pop’s brightest new commercial hope asserts himself as an artist with more depth

Evening Standard

“I really don’t think that ’80s guitar style has stood the test of time very well”: Tommy Thayer emerged in a scene of shredders and guitar heroes – but the style they pioneered never appealed to him

The Kiss guitar player was surrounded by shredders in an era of evolution for guitar music, but felt a stronger affinity for what came before

Guitar World

“They just asked me if I wanted to join – they hadn’t asked if I actually play”: Thin Lizzy guitarist and Live Aid mastermind Midge Ure was asked to join the Sex Pistols – but he didn’t think twice about turning them down

Ure claims he was scouted for his look by Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and his punk co-conspirator (and later, the Clash manager) Bernard Rhodes

Guitar World

‘The love child of Mick Hucknall and Crazy Frog’: is Eurovision’s Lumo the worst mascot ever?

Meet the song contest’s first ever mascot – a sentient heart with a bizarrely sexy mouth that looks like the result of the ChatGPT prompt ‘please ruin my day’. Why oh why has this happened?

The Guardian - UK

That Pedal Show bring their YouTube show to life at the UK's biggest guitar show this weekend

Mick and Dan from That Pedal Show, plus Yolanda Charles and more exhibitors than ever before: Full line-up for The Guitar Show revealed

MusicRadar

Pro-Ject’s AC/DC turntable will shake you all night long

You'll be thunderstruck by this special edition turntable

Mixx’s Revival 65 turntable blends vintage charm with modern connectivity

A suitcase-style design offers retro appeal with Bluetooth streaming and built-in speakers

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The Guardian - UK

Panda Bear: Sinister Grift review – Animal Collective star’s bad trip through divorce to the dark side

Noah Lennox’s powerful and adventurous album has plenty of playlistable psych-pop, but then turns introspective: it’s a striking emotional arc

Guitar World

“It was like unraveling a mystery, trying to imagine what George might have meant”: Lost chords that George Harrison wrote down before his passing have been turned into a new song – and it was recorded using three of his famed Beatles guitars

For the Love of George is taken from a new George Harrison tribute album, which was recorded using the late Beatle’s own guitars

Evening Standard

Michael Bolton shares family picture following brain cancer diagnosis

‘Spending my birthday filled with love and gratitude,’ he wrote. ‘Wishing you all the same, today & everyday!’

Guitar World

“I’ve never been one that talks about my bass playing, but I really am proud of my playing on that album – it was the first time I was sober”: In an era dominated by look-at-me shred guitarists, Nikki Sixx showed that playing bass could be cool, too

Mötley Crüe's 1989 blockbuster, Dr. Feelgood, is a prime example of Sixx's gritty bass approach

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Guitar World

“These songs were written by our drummer. It’s my sound, but they’re not my riffs”: Jinjer’s Roman Ibramkhalilov on why his drummer’s riffs hit harder, how to confuse people in 4/4, and why Blues Drivers beat Tube Screamers

The Ukrainian metal aces’ latest album is a tour de force of rhythmic pummel and dynamics, and if it sounds difficult to play live then that’s because it is. But Jackson signature artist Ibramkhalilov tells us he’s okay with that

MusicRadar

“The dreamy sound of a classic ’60s single head tape echo complete with the harmonic richness of the accompanying tube preamp”: Strymon launches the EC-1, a tape-echo emulator based on a vintage EP-2 modded by SRV's tech

All the mojo of a vintage tape echo, none of the servicing – and the EC-1 is typically feature-packed, with Strymon giving us true stereo, tap tempo and 300 presets

Evening Standard

Boyband Five to reunite with original members for the first time in 25 years

The band will embark on a 12-date tour of the UK in 2025.

MusicRadar

“For those about to rock… best try another genre”: New stats show that bands are dead, solo and collabs are the way to go and rock has well and truly rolled…

Want to make it in music? Take a few hints from UK chart performance data from 1980 to the present day…

Louder

"I started crying. I was completely overwhelmed by how special it was that we were there": How a band of Dutch retro-rockers ended up recording at two legendary recording studios

The Queen Of Soul, the birth of the Allman Brothers Band, and the new album from retro-rock flag bearers DeWolff all have something in common

MusicRadar

“Untethered and exploratory rock music made by four musicians who seemed to epitomise the notion of intellectual cool”: Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii to be rereleased at cinemas and IMAX

Plus new mix of soundtrack by Steven Wilson

Evening Standard

Boyband Five announce 12-date reunion tour 25 years after they split

The Everybody Get Down hit-makers will be joined by special guest Naughty Boy

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