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“People have tried to copy it and rip it off, but no one has come close. No one will ever beat it”: The cult metal album Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison said was as good as Reign In Blood

High praise indeed from the late Slipknot drummer

Metal Hammer

Alan Titchmarsh, Benjamin Appl and a bevy of Bevans: the best classical Christmas albums of 2024

The gardener turns storyteller, the star baritone keeps it tasteful and family harmony abounds, while the nation’s favourite festive choir is everywhere…

The Guardian - UK

“I was in full fear that I had just repeated someone else’s song – it was way too accomplished for the kind of stuff I had been writing”: Gavin Rossdale remembers the moment he wrote Bush’s biggest hit – and thought he’d stolen it

With their 1994 debut album, Sixteen Stone, British band Bush established themselves as one of the top acts of the era in the stateside-dominated grunge scene

Guitar World

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Pepsi & Shirlie on the legacy of Wham's Last Christmas at 40: 'It's everything'

EXCLUSIVE The pair were backing singers and dancers for Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael’s ’80s pop duo and appear in a new BBC documentary celebrating the beloved song’s milestone anniversary

Evening Standard

“We had a plan. Jesus Christ, are you kidding? My whole plan was to make an album that sells more than the last one”: How Whitesnake shed their skin and made a solid gold hard rock classic with the 1987 album

David Coverdale looks back on the making of Whitesnake’s hair metal-era classic 1987

Metal Hammer

“Keith Moon was schizophrenic. I saw many sides of him in half an hour. If that‘s not a split personality, I don’t know what is”: Late keyboard legend Ian McLagan’s wild tales of the Stones, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan and more

Jamming with Keith Richards, laughing at Bob Dylan’s gags, buying Rod Stewart’s drinks – former Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan did it all and more

Louder

“There’s all these secret passages where staff seem to just appear and disappear again”: what it’s like to stay at Elton John’s house

An ex-housesitter spills the beans on the “nerve-wracking” experience of lodging at Elton’s pad

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“Nick Cave has this spiritual fervour with the audience”: Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on becoming a Bad Seed

The Radiohead bassist has just completed a stint in Nick Cave’s band and opens up on “the best time with the loveliest people”

Louder

Rolling Loud Miami 2024: Lineup and how to stream for free this weekend

Future, Travis Scott and Playboi Carti are headlining this year’s Rolling Loud festival in Florida

The Independent UK

East 17’s Tony Mortimer surprises commuters with performance of Stay Another Day

The performance at St Pancras International station celebrated the song’s 30th anniversary.

Evening Standard

How Timothée Chalamet transformed into Bob Dylan for 'A Complete Unknown'

How many roads must a man walk down to play Bob Dylan

The Independent UK

“I wondered if I was insane for wanting to do this”: How Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen learned to play again after losing his left arm

The full story of his heroic comeback

MusicRadar

“A unique octave bass fuzz with a built-in, 2-voice ring modulator”: The Maestro BB-1 Brassmaster is a super-rare bass octave fuzz from the ‘70s that sounds great on guitar, sells for $2,000+, and Behringer just made a $69 clone of it

The Bass Brassmaster Fuzz comes hot on the heels of the Centaur Overdrive and '69 Vibe, as Behringer continues its run of megabucks vintage stompbox replicas at entry-level prices

MusicRadar

Yungblud announces Bludfest 2025 return with star lineup

The festival is returning to Milton Keynes’ National Bowl next June

Evening Standard

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Wham! return to No 1 ahead of Christmas chart battle next week

Last Christmas replaces Gracie Abrams’ That’s So True in the top spot as festive classic celebrates its 40th anniversary

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift album spends 10th week at number one as singer celebrates birthday

It comes after Swift became the most decorated artist in the history of the Billboard Music Awards on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Ice Cube's mind stays on music with other endeavors from BIG3 to NFL partnership keeping him busy

Ice Cube could have chased trends to keep up with today's rap sound for his latest release, but instead, he stayed loyal to his signature style since the N

The Independent UK

Robbie Williams addresses rumors about his sexuality: ‘I was annoyed’

In 2005, the ‘Angels’ singer won a libel suit against a tabloid that claimed he had engaged in ‘homosexual encounters’

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"Coated with analogue warmth, and many a chunky nugget for the keen and avid listener to find": Röyksopp get even more Mysterious with new surprise reworking

A new ambient reinterpretation of the electronic duo’s Profound Mysteries project catches their fans by surprise

Guitar World

“Clapton’s manager says, ‘George Harrison wants you to do the tour and play all the slide parts – he doesn’t want to do it’”: When rhythm guitar hero Andy Fairweather Low was recruited by a Beatle to play slide – even though he’d never played slide before

Harrison and Fairweather Low had a mutual love for Ry Cooder’s slide guitar playing, and the Beatle convinced the Eric Clapton rhythm guitarist to develop his own slide chops for a Japanese tour

Guitar World

“He turned it up, and it was uncontrollable”: Eddie Van Halen on the time Billy Corgan played through his rig – and why his setup shocked the Smashing Pumpkins frontman

Finding EVH's rig almost impossible to wrangle, Corgan figured, mistakenly, that there was something he could quickly disable to tame it

MusicRadar

“He thought that he wouldn’t have the ideas, but they were absolutely there": Here’s the songwriting advice that Elton John gave to Chappell Roan

The up-and-coming superstar is just one of today’s artists that have been helped by one of music’s true greats

Guitar World

“I was stunned and angry… They easily could have agreed to that, and the reunion would have been on”: Marty Friedman reveals the real reason he rejected Megadeth's proposed Rust in Peace lineup reunion

Friedman sets the record straight on the much-rumored reunion and claims that the amount the Megadeth team offered him was “right around the first salary I got when I joined Megadeth in 1990”

MusicRadar

“It’s one of my favourite Maiden albums - despite the fact that I'm not on it!”: Bruce Dickinson on the Iron Maiden classic he wishes he’d sung on

He calls it “an updated version of Deep Purple In Rock”

Marie Claire

Taylor Swift Sweetly Dishes on Travis Kelce With a Young Swiftie at Children's Hospital

"I like Travis now," the fan shared.

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