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Noel Gallagher 'taken aback' by Oasis tickets chaos ahead of reunion tour

Millions of fans failed to get tickets to the Live ‘25 tour while others saw standard prices more than double

Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2025

“I was thinking at the time, if anyone wants to try and copy this video, good luck to them!”: How ’60s soul music, African rhythms and a groundbreaking video fuelled Peter Gabriel’s biggest hit

Gabriel had to lie under glass for a total of 16 hours

MusicRadar · Mar 31, 2025

Erykah Badu on first new album in 15 years: ‘It feels natural to me’

The ‘Don’t Cha Know’ singer-songwriter hasn’t released a full new album since 2010’s ‘New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)’

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2025

Forever 89 releases Topos, a topographical effects plugin that (quite literally) puts saturation on the map - and there's a free version

The offbeat software studio launched by former Ableton and Teenage Engineering developers releases an amp and speaker-simulating saturation tool

MusicRadar · Mar 31, 2025

‘I’d been singing the wrong word for 30 years’: Deacon Blue on how they made Dignity

‘It’s become a sort of folk song. It’s played at weddings and funerals. Dundee United play it when we win. I’ve met people who’ve told me, “I was a worker for the council for 20 years” – just like the guy in the song’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2025

"Discover the lasting influence of a band that changed the face of rock music." Kurt Cobain Unplugged exhibition to open in London

Nirvana exhibition to open in London this summer

Metal Hammer · Mar 31, 2025

‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics

A revelation at Pontins fuelled the producer to avant garde acclaim. But with ‘sublime’ sounds came struggles with substances. Her intense new album peels back the plaster

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2025

“A stand-out performance by a group that changed the course of rock history in the 1990s”: The world’s most expensive guitar, Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugged Martin acoustic, is set to go on display in the UK

The legendary acoustic became the most expensive guitar to sell at auction when it went under the hammer back in 2020

Guitar World · Mar 31, 2025

“Jeff was playing through his dodgy Marshall and didn’t like the sound. He said, ‘We’ll do it again, later on…’” Mick Rogers may be in possession of Jeff Beck’s last-ever studio recording

Mark Knopfler’s charity single Going Home, released in March 2024, was widely thought to be Beck’s final recording, but Rogers says he has an unreleased studio track that may very well take that crown

Guitar World · Mar 31, 2025

"I got Bowie’s microphone with his lipstick on it!" Sex Pistols' Steve Jones on stealing David Bowie's musical equipment from a London stage on the night before the final Ziggy Stardust performance

Before he became the guitarist for the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones was an accomplished thief, as David Bowie was to discover to his cost

Louder · Mar 31, 2025