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Who’d be a musician in London? How creativity in the capital faces a perfect storm

From soaring costs and closing venues to labels taking no risks – the next generation of musicians are struggling to be heard

Evening Standard

“It was probably the best two weeks that I’d had for years!”: Geezer Butler on the time Black Sabbath sacked him for a fortnight

They’d forgotten that they'd fired him

MusicRadar

Big Big Train announce US tour dates for April 2025

Big Big Train will also play their very first live shows in Canada and Portugal in 2025

Louder

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"People like the feeling of anticipating what's going to come next - almost like ascending to the top of a rollercoaster before the breath-taking plunge": Write better songs by learning song forms

All the theory in the world can’t make you a competent songwriter, to make a song work you need to understand how common song-forms engage listeners

MusicRadar

Guns N’ Roses are hitting the road in 2025 – and they’re bringing punk and hip-hop legends with them

Having last played live in 2023, Guns N’ Roses will play stadiums around the world – incorporating a number of countries the band have never played in before

Guitar World

“I played and sang Suffragette City and everyone else was doing Foxy Lady – I was so drunk, I didn’t even know”: The Cure’s Robert Smith on his disastrous first show as a singer and guitarist... when he butchered a Jimi Hendrix classic

Smith only carried on fronting the band because he’d fallen out with everyone who filled the role

Guitar World

Sam Fender People Watching Tour at The O2: Who is supporting and what tracks will be played?

Tomorrow’s gig marks the first time the singer-songwriter plays London since summer 2022

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'Her Love for Taylor Swift Ruined Our Marriage': Men Take To Reddit To Discuss 'Swiftie Divorces'

The Taylor Swift fandom can make or break relationships, with husbands expressing concerns over their wives' obsessive devotion to Swift.

International Business Times UK

“They weren’t quite as glamorous as they are now. You could have mistaken them for a band from York”: The night The Killers played above a pub in Lincoln

They were reportedly “amazed” by the fog in the cathedral town

MusicRadar

System Of A Down announce three co-headline stadium shows with Korn, Avenged Sevenfold and Deftones

American and Canadian metal fans will be spoiled next year, thanks to these three blockbuster events

Metal Hammer

“It’s high and low, it’s poetry meets drugs, it’s earnest meets arrogance”: Which classic album could Charli XCX be talking about?

She namechecks its influence at Variety’s Hitmakers awards

MusicRadar

“Jimi Hendrix came in with an old Duo-Sonic. I had just put together a Strat I’d strung up left-handed, and I went, ‘I’ll trade you.’ I was docked three weeks’ pay”: Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter recalls the questionable guitar deal he made when he met Jimi Hendrix

A young Baxter was working in a local guitar store when Hendrix came searching for a new guitar

Guitar World

Guns N’ Roses announce 2025 tour with two nights in UK

Sweet Child O’ Mine rockers are on the road next year

Evening Standard

“The Beatles' Because is based on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (played in reverse). So, was John Lennon cheating when he flipped Ludwig Van?”: Digging into the long history of the sampling debate

“The Beatles' Because is based on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (played in reverse). So, was John Lennon cheating when he flipped Ludwig Van?”

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Geezer Butler names one “cringy” Black Sabbath song: “Maybe because I wrote it, and I hate listening to stuff that I’ve written”

The beloved bassist also reveals how Black Sabbath’s lyrics have been “misinterpreted” over the years

Guitar World

“I blew it up and replaced it with a black-panel Deluxe. He probably doesn’t know...”: Steve Hill on the time he recorded at Foo Fighters’ studio – and broke Chris Shiflett’s prized Fender Princeton

Hill’s experience of recording at the Foo Fighters’ legendary Studio 606 turned into a costly endeavor

Guitar World

“I won seven guitar contests in a row. When I went to enter again, they said, ‘No, don’t even enter – you’re going to judge the next one’”: Dimebag Darrell discusses his love of soloing – even when it was uncool – and dishes advice in his final interview

20 years ago, we lost one of guitar's brightest, most gregarious talents to a horrific act of violence. In his final interview, Dimebag Darrell reflected on the changing nature of the business, and the wide musical palette that informed his oft-imitated playing

Evening Standard

'Orgy was happening' at party where rapper Slowthai is accused of rape

Frampton had performed at The Bullingdon music venue in Oxford on the evening of September 7 2021

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“Some of the things that age most quickly are electronic drums, which I’ve used tons of, but they usually sound very of their time”: Finneas on how he and Billie Eilish made a conscious effort to make Birds Of A Feather sound “timeless”

“The drums on this song - real and programmed - all have a kind of organic feel,” he explains

Louder

Unitopia announce new live release Alive And Kicking to be released in March

New Unitopia live release Alive And Kicking was recorded at the band's 2023 show at Boerderij

The Guardian - UK

Taylor Swift’s Eras tour smashes touring revenue record with more than $2bn in ticket sales

Pop singer’s 149-date tour, which ended on Sunday in Vancouver, more than doubles the previous record for a completed tour

The Conversation

Rashid Vally: South African visionary whose indie record labels shaped the jazz scene

Some record labels create huge market and financial clout. Some stay much smaller, but punch way above their weight in terms of their impact on the spirit of a country’s music. For South Africa, one such label is As-Shams/The Sun, whose founder, Rashid Vally, passed away on 7 December aged…

MusicRadar

“This particular 808 is arguably the single most important drum machine in history”: The origin of house music in 5 key tracks

The origin of house music in 5 key tracks

Guitar World

“We are both at the top of our game”: Steve Vai and Joe Satriani have formed a new band together – and will release new music ahead of upcoming tour dates

The two virtuosos hit the road next summer for a string of European dates – and a new original track is set to land shortly before

The Independent UK

149 shows, five continents and 10 million fans: Taylor Swift’s $2bn Eras Tour comes to an end

Pop titan has played to millions of fans, shattered records and experienced a number of personal milestones in the 21 months since she first set out on her career-spanning tour

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