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"There had to be some sort of telepathy going on because I've never seen spontaneous inspiration happen at that level”: The genius of Eric Clapton's controversial masterpiece, Layla

"There had to be some sort of telepathy going on because I've never seen spontaneous inspiration happen at that level”: The genius of Eric Clapton's controversial masterpiece, Layla

MusicRadar · Apr 25, 2025

"I said, ‘What’s that?!’ He looked at me strange and said, ‘We’re line checking. We’ll be gone in five minutes’. I said, ‘You won’t - meet me in that room in 10 minutes’": How a happy synth accident inspired a US number 1 single for Terence Trent D’Arby

“I heard this drone. An engineer, Sean Oliver, he had taken the DX7 keyboard and he had just pushed the pitchbend wheel back and forth”

MusicRadar · Apr 25, 2025

The new Yungblud single is basically The Streets meets Blur meets Oasis: watch the entertainingly lairy Britpop-influenced video for Lovesick Lullaby now

Yungblud shares second single from his forthcoming fourth album, Idol

Louder · Apr 25, 2025

Billy Idol on his first album in over a decade, surviving addiction, the Rock Hall and more

Punk rock icon Billy Idol released his first new album in 11 years on Friday

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2025

These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week

Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Ghost, Sabaton and more have spoiled us with excellent songs this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.

Metal Hammer · Apr 25, 2025

“This was 100% a communication from the beyond": Listen to the song that Sammy Hagar claims to have written with Eddie Van Halen in a dream

And he’s got Joe Satriani playing on it

MusicRadar · Apr 25, 2025

“I’m imagining it was a very dry, kind of arid, close sound”: Steven Wilson on the challenges of mixing Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII, how the movie captures a band in transition, and why it is “pure Floyd”

Wilson was in conversation with former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason at a special BFI IMAX screening of Adrian Maben's recently restored and rereleased concert movie

MusicRadar · Apr 25, 2025

“It was the first and last time I've ever argued with Brian May. He was so adamant about us not doing it”: Nuno Bettencourt recalls Extreme’s rebellious Queen medley at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

All bands were banned from playing Queen songs, but Bettencourt wanted to pay tribute to “one the greatest composers of all time” in his own way

Guitar World · Apr 25, 2025

“Thank God I was French and my voice was terrible, so I couldn’t write songs - otherwise I would be like any other musician”: Air's Nicolas Godin reflects on the success of Moon Safari

As Vegyn releases a remix album of the 1998 chillout classic, the pair join producer Nigel Godrich for a wide-ranging conversation that digs deep into Moon Safari's history

MusicRadar · Apr 25, 2025

“I was playing stuff I don’t think James Brown understood. He told me, ‘You have to play the one – you’re playing too much’”: Six years after he quit touring, Bootsy Collins reflects on James Brown and George Clinton, and what he gets out of playing today

One of the world’s greatest bassists talks switching from guitar, how LSD helped him become a songwriter and why he’s finally embracing five-string bass

Guitar World · Apr 25, 2025