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“I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminium blanket”: Neil Young fears that he may be barred from re-entering the US

UK Subs were the first musicians to be barred this way last week

MusicRadar · Apr 3, 2025

Rock band Muse postpone Istanbul show over promoter comments about anti-government protests

Turkish fans had urged the rock band to cancel the show as thousands of citizens protest the recent arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2025

"Quitting alcohol cost me friends, but quitting nicotine was much harder": Bob Mould on addiction, reconnecting with his audience and social media confusion

The former Hüsker Dü/Sugar man with many hats on is getting back to basics on his new album

Louder · Apr 3, 2025

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The Waterboys’ Mike Scott on his new Dennis Hopper album: ‘He wasn’t just a guy who took lots of drugs and did weird things’

INTERVIEW: The Scottish singer-songwriter has long found inspiration in other musicians, including the curmudgeonly Van Morrison who had one snarky song dedicated to him back in 2020. Scott speaks with Jim Farber about the wild life and times of his latest subject Dennis Hopper

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2025

“I thought, ‘This is boring. I play these songs all the time! Where’s the audience to cheer me up?’” Richard Thompson’s battle against barking dogs, overhead planes and leaf blowers to make Acoustic Classics

Richard Thompson thought 2014 solo album Acoustic Classics would just be a nice product for his merch stall – until he’d got over his reluctance to make it

Louder · Apr 3, 2025

This is the Metallica song that makes Kirk Hammett cry – and it’s really not the one you’d expect

Turns out it’s not Fade To Black, One or Mama Said that gets Metallica’s guitarist misty-eyed…

Metal Hammer · Apr 3, 2025

Elton John and Brandi Carlile deliver outsized, old-school fun on Who Believes in Angels?

4/5 The Rocket Man and his longtime friend Carlile, along with familiar faces Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt, recreate the playfulness and sense of fun of some of John’s Seventies gems

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2025

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Cyndi Lauper review – 80s pop eccentric hasn’t changed a bit

Her farewell tour is a pockmarked history of her roots and wide-ranging influences, full of her trademark elan and vigour

The Guardian - AU · Apr 3, 2025

"Lots of my records melted in the blaze": John Lydon lost part of his vinyl collection after his kitchen was accidentally set on fire - right after his insurance was cancelled

The former Sex Pistol hates shortbread, but loves toffees and biscuit tins

Louder · Apr 2, 2025

Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t about the Devil: “They’ve always been about mankind’s relationship with the concept of life and death”

Despite having written such songs as Satanized and Devil Church, Tobias Forge insists his band aren’t actually obsessed with Old Scratch

Metal Hammer · Apr 2, 2025

“Mick Ronson came to see one of the Springsteen shows, and he was just so proud of me. He had a classic rock ‘n’ roll existence, but I love him for all that”: Shane Fontayne on the kindness of Ronson, serving the Boss –and playing Stairway for Jimmy Page

His career highs include surprising Stevie Van Zandt with an improvised part, jamming with U2, and playing Stairway To Heaven with the Heart sisters while Jimmy Page was guest of honor

Guitar World · Apr 2, 2025

"I am the Pistols, and they’re not.” John Lydon is getting ever more salty about the success and acclaim currently being enjoyed by his revitalised former Sex Pistols bandmates

For a man who supposedly moved on from the Sex Pistols decades ago, John Lydon isn't half spending a lot of time talking about the Sex Pistols

Louder · Apr 2, 2025

“These guys started the band the same year I was born – they have a whole world of history together”: How Nicole Row went from a wild ride in Panic! at the Disco to laying down the low-end in Incubus – and rerecording their biggest album

The former Panic! At The Disco bassist on the challenges she faced when replacing Ben Kenney in the alt-rock institution – and why she’s finally come around to using a pick…

Guitar World · Apr 2, 2025

“Who doesn't want to hear the recording of Ted Nugent and Eddie Van Halen jamming?” Ted Nugent's colossal archive includes sessions with EVH, Billy Gibbons and the Mothers of Invention

Nugent has just launched his most recent project – the Nuge Vault – which includes never-before-seen or heard concert footage and archival audio

Guitar World · Apr 2, 2025

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The National (Scotland) · Apr 2, 2025

Rock band to tell Glasgow's 'radical working-class history' on first tour

A ROCK band which set out to explore the idea of telling Glasgow’s 'radical history' and untold stories through song has begun its first tour…

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2025

‘I was too busy to sleep with millions of people’: ex-boybander Eg White on penning bangers for Adele, Duffy – and a builder

The ex-member of Brother Beyond now writes chart-toppers for stars. Why has he decided to make a musical of seedy, gutter-life classic Midnight Cowboy, a film he can’t bear?

MusicRadar · Apr 2, 2025

“The verse tricks you into thinking that it’s in a certain key and has this ‘simplistic’ musical language, but then it flips”: Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on how they created Sympathy Is A Knife

"With Brat, Charli had put so much thought into it before we even got in the studio," he says

Guitar World · Apr 2, 2025

“I started on guitar because I wanted to be in a band and meet girls. Richie wanted to be a guitar player, because he wanted to play guitar”: Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen come from different worlds, but it all comes back to the blues

Returning with one of the hard-rock records of the year, the dynamic duo talk tone, collaboration, and the limits of technique and gear

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Louder · Apr 2, 2025

The Hives announce new Josh Homme/Mike D-assisted album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, and share punchy new single Enough Is Enough, plus UK and European tour dates

"Every single song a single, every single single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man."

The Independent UK · Apr 2, 2025

Neil Young is worried he will be ‘jailed’ on re-entry to America after his tour

‘Remember Freedom of Speech?’

Guitar World · Apr 2, 2025

“If you’re youngish, cute-ish and can play that axe, you’re for me”: Chaka Khan is holding open auditions to find a new guitar player – but she’s got some very specific requirements

The legendary disco vocalist has announced a worldwide audition to find an additional guitarist

Guitar World · Apr 2, 2025

“I walked in and said, ‘Can I get that guitar, the one at the end there?’ He looked at the name on the credit card and then looked up at me”: Chrissie Hynde on that one time she bought her own signature guitar off the shelf

Turns out having your own signature Fender Telecaster stocked in shops is pretty handy when you're caught without your own...

Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2025

Liam and Noel Gallagher 'to make extra £20m from Oasis tour thanks to savvy move'

The rockers’ hotly-anticipated Live ‘25 tour kicks off in Cardiff in July, before going global with shows in Japan, Argentina, the US, and Brazil

Guitar World · Apr 2, 2025

“I wasn’t into King Crimson at all. Definitely not my kind of music”: How Andy Summers formed one of the 1980s’ most unlikely guitar partnerships with Robert Fripp – despite not being especially keen on some of his work

The worlds of stadium rock and prog came together for a time in the early 1980s, when The Police and King Crimson guitarists teamed up for a handful of avant-garde records

The Independent UK · Apr 2, 2025

John Lydon says he will never return to ‘woke’ Sex Pistols

The singer hit out at his previous band’s ‘dirty deeds’

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