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Q&A: Muna’s Katie Gavin on comfort music, creative freedom and her debut solo record

Katie Gavin is self-proclaimed “gay famous.”

The Independent UK

“It was Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, and the engineer. Quincy said, ‘Go in there, and do what you want’”: Steve Stevens on following in Eddie Van Halen’s footsteps to record the ‘spiritual successor’ to Beat It

When Jackson and Jones sought to revisit the sound they experimented with on Beat It, they turned to the Billy Idol guitarist for a hard rock edge

Guitar World

“Male bowerbirds spend the majority of the day creating elaborate and beautiful nests... in music, we can build a sonic ‘nest’ to capture ourselves”: Brian Eno to share creative ‘avant gardening’ tips in new online workshop

Producer will also ponder whether music "should still be called music"

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Albums this week: Shawn Mendes plucks at the heartstrings; Flo fail to make a mark; Warmduscher are here to party

Flo have got the vocals down, but the British trio need more than stunning harmonies if they want to come anywhere close to their professed heroes

The Independent UK

“I have never heard a better ‘rock’ piano”: From The Beatles to Bowie, Queen to Elton John, how the rich, distinctive tone of the Trident Studios house piano graced the grooves of some of the finest songs ever recorded

It’s what Macca played on Hey Jude

MusicRadar

“He said, ‘If you got in the band, what would you do?’ I said, ‘I always wanted a White Falcon.’ Everything I owned, I put into that”: Billy Duffy spent his life savings on his first Gretsch – now he’s got a signature model to mark 40 years of The Cult

The Falcon has played a key part in helping Duffy form his signature blend of psychedelic gothic hard rock over the past four decades

Guitar World

“Captain Beefheart possessed an unrestrained imagination and a totally eccentric form of creativity… I’d have lasted five minutes in The Magic Band”: Colin Edwin’s prog world includes Magma, Cardiacs, Gong and more

Former Porcupine Tree and current O.R.k. member on seeing Daevid Allen live, falling under Tim Smith’s spell, messing about with plastic cameras and, well, Lonnie Donegan

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Linkin Park announce enormous 2025 world tour, including a date at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium

Queens Of The Stone Age, Spiritbox, AFI, Architects, Grandson, Jean Dawson, Jpegmafia and Pvris will support the nu metal superstars

Metal Hammer

“I’m making mistakes in the guitar a little bit but I went home and wept that night. It’s a song I’ve been living with for years and could relate to deeply”: Timothée Chalamet on playing guitar in the Bob Dylan biopic – and the song that made it all click

Chalamet discusses the nuances of Dylan’s guitar playing and the moment his portrayal of the legendary songwriter came together

Guitar World

“That’s a gutless thing to say!” Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine once walked out of spinal surgery because Metallica’s manager insulted him

There’s “determined”, then there’s whatever the hell “climbing off of a surgery table to prove someone wrong” is

Metal Hammer

Rag'n'Bone Man: 'I struggle with being recognised... I don't think I'll ever feel comfortable with it'

The singer talks about fame, opening up and why he hasn’t watched that moment on The Graham Norton Show back

Evening Standard

Linkin Park go full nu metal on new single Two Faced, which lands ahead of tomorrow’s comeback album From Zero

With their new album just hours away, Linkin Park have released another taste of what’s to come

Metal Hammer

"A rallying point to bring the band back from the brink": Linkin Park return from the darkness with the triumphant From Zero

Nu metal giants Linkin Park return after tragedy rebooted and reborn

Louder

Linkin Park’s comeback album shows Emily Armstrong is less ‘stray cat’ and more roaring lion

4/5 Armstrong’s new flavour is balanced by the familiarity of the nu-metal band’s crowd-pleasing chord progressions

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound review – Glasgow postrockers let the music do the talking

Mogwai have been making their beautiful noise for nearly three decades, and while this film is sketchy on the details, it truly soars when capturing them live

MusicRadar

"Biggest ever show": Coldplay to play the world’s biggest stadium in January

Band will play to 132,000 fans at the Narenda Modi stadium in India

Louder

“Sometimes you have to take the piss out of the nerdiness in yourself!” How Geddy Lee geeked up for his Big Beautiful Book of Bass

Rush icon planned to buy 12 instruments for his own enjoyment – but when his collection reached 250 he decided to justify the expense by writing a 600-page book (of which 408 were published)

The Independent UK

‘People take the music industry way too seriously’: Meet Warmduscher, the UK’s most eccentric band

INTERVIEW: The ramshackle six-piece are back with their fifth (and best) album. Frontman Clams Baker Jr and bassist Ben Romans Hopcraft speak to Roisin O’Connor about culture clashes, patriotism, fashion week and Donald Trump

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The Independent UK

The Latin Grammys are almost here for a 25th anniversary celebration

The 2024 Latin Grammy Awards are here and back in Miami

Latin Times

Latin Grammy 2024: Carlos Vives Celebrates as 'Person of the Year' in a Night Full of Emotions, Dance, Tears, and Lots of Colombia

The Colombian icon received a serenade with his own songs, from some of the biggest names in Latin music like Rubén Blades, Juan Luis Guerra, Luis Fonsi, Kany García, Gloria Estefan, Wisin and more

Louder

"People will become conditioned to artificial intelligence and learn to accept it": Kenny Wayne Shepherd on the spark of Stevie Ray Vaughan, smoking with Joe Bonamassa, and the dumb creep of AI

The second volume of US bluesman Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Dirt On My Diamonds series is out now

Metal Hammer

"I couldn’t believe no one had done a song about a white guy trying to be gangsta": The story of The Offspring's global smash Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

Inspired by a baseball-capped server at a dive-thru, the song brought the band a UK No.1 single, lifted them out of the doldrums and set them up for the next period of huge success

The Independent UK

Who sings ‘Sonnet’, the song featured in the 2024 John Lewis Christmas advert?

Richard Ashcroft’s acoustic rendition of The Verve’s 1998 single ‘Sonnet’ features after the musician was announced as an opening act for Oasis’s 2025 reunion

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Dolly Parton's 'Smoky Mountain DNA' Album Celebrates Family Legacy

Dolly Parton's 'Smoky Mountain DNA' album delves into her family history through music, spanning generations and genres.

Guitar World

"Thumping low-end that doesn’t muddy up, and all the throatiness that the real thing does so well": Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles '92 Dual Rec amp pedal review

Universal Audio's guitar rig take-over bid continues, and this time it's aiming for classic '90s Californian high-gain tone

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