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Cardi B cancels music festival performance after being hospitalized for ‘medical emergency’

‘Bodak Yellow’ rapper says she’s ‘in the hospital recovering from a medical emergency’ and will have to pull out of Atlanta’s ONE MusicFest

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When can you change the lyrics in song covers? Ask Kelly Clarkson

I’m usually opposed to replacing words when an artist covers a song – but there is room in my heart for satisfying revenge

The Guardian - AU

Just like heaven: the Cure’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ahead of the release of Songs of a Lost World – their first album in 16 years – we rate the best of a band who combine light and dark like no other

The Guardian - UK

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“I was so into that moment, it was like being stoned… not separated from the guitar and what I was playing. It was joyful”: From unexpected ES-335 solos to jams in a barn, here is your guitar guide to David Gilmour’s breathtaking Luck and Strange

Gilmour says it’s his best since 1973. It’s a solo work but was borne of collaboration. But it might just be the guitar album of the year, and we go track-by-track to parse its brilliance

Guitar World

“He offered me Jimi’s guitar and then disappeared!”: How Lenny Kravitz almost got his hands on Hendrix’s Woodstock Strat

Hendrix’s drummer called Lenny “the best thing since Jimi”

MusicRadar

“I got really obsessed with fuzz when I got into stoner rock. I’d never heard a sound like it before”: He’s jammed with Tony Iommi, recorded at Abbey Road, now he’s cooking up hairy stoner riffs with Torus – and Alfie Glass is just getting started

Torus’ self-titled debut album is a feast of mammoth riffs, gnarly energy and grooves that will stick in your brain, and one for all you fuzz freaks seeking “a bold, no B.S. rock sound”

Guitar World

“We’ve all played them, but how many of us can say we know how 7th chords actually work?” Get more out of one of guitar’s most important shapes with 5 chords that demystify the dominant 7th

They are so commonplace that we take the theory behind them for granted. Here are five 7th chords, the theory underpinning them, and some ideas for modifying them

Guitar World

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“There’s not one lyric that’s light-hearted… We’ll see what the tear-shedding level for this album is!” Epica’s Simone Simons waited 20 years to make Vermillion

Singer explains how Arjen Lucassen helped realise her long-held dream, what she’s saying with her songs, and why she chose a colour as her solo record’s title

Metal Hammer

“A great statement guitar. It looks fantastic, plays well and sounds superb”: Epiphone Jimi Hendrix Love Drops Flying V review

Prepare to kiss the sky with Epiphone’s latest ‘Inspired By…’ model, as the Gibson Custom Shop collaboration bears fruit with a Hendrix classic with a serious spec

Guitar World

“It’s his message, to let the world know how he feels about all the things that’s going on in the world”: Kool and the Gang drummer spent 20 years on a solo album but didn’t live to see its release

George Brown, Kool and the Gang drummer, spent 20 years on a solo album, but didn't see its release

MusicRadar

2000 Trees announces five headliners for 2025: Kneecap, Pvris, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed And Cambria and Alexisonfire

The Cheltenham weekender will also host Million Dead, Kid Kapichi, La Dispute, Bambie Thug and dozens more in July

Metal Hammer

Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness review – Aussie punks still spit, but add a bit more polish

With their swearing and flashing, Amy Taylor and co’s return might seem like business as usual – but new melodic depths and lyrical concerns reveal themselves

The Guardian - UK

Korg’s Multi/Poly is a versatile new synth that takes influence from an ‘80s cult classic

It looks like a Mono/Poly in modern clothing, but is Korg’s latest more than that?

MusicRadar

Minister shakes off calls for inquiry into Taylor Swift freebie row

Pat McFadden said he was pleased the ‘show went on’ in London given the terror threat against the Eras Tour in Austria.

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‘The most important DJ in the UK’? Live streamer takes music to streets

DJ AG has built a huge audience by inviting performers such as Skepta to join him in London and elsewhere

MusicRadar

“He asked me to go into the studio and add some sounds and jam with the band a bit, to bring more electronic experimentation into their sound”: Jon Hopkins reflects on being introduced to Coldplay by Brian Eno

Hopkins recently hit number 1 in the US and UK simultaneously thanks to his appearances on Coldplay’s Moon Music and Charli XCX’s Brat reworks album

MusicRadar

"She's kind of known for her pop songs, but they actually go a lot deeper than that. I think she can even be compared to some of the great poets”: Academics debate Taylor Swift at Birmingham University event

Academics debate Taylor Swift at University of Birmingham

Evening Standard

Disqualified Eurovision entrant declines to participate in contest next year

He faced accusations of threatening behaviour towards a female member of the production crew.

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The Prodigy, In Flames, Spiritbox and dozens more added to Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park 2025 lineups

70 of the 100 bands that will play Germany’s two monster metal weekenders have now been named

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Megan Thee Stallion says Spiritbox will appear on her new album this week

The song TYG, out October 25, will mark the prog metalcore sensations’ second collaboration with Stallion

MusicRadar

"There's no heart there. David was the centre of it all... he was the heart of this band”: Graham Nash reveals why he’ll never play with Stills and Young again

“It just would be a much colder scene,” he says

Louder

Watch Thom Yorke play previously unheard song on opening night of Everything tour

Radiohead's Thom Yorke is currently taking his one-man prog band concept to arenas across the Pacific Rim

MusicRadar

“Those hoping for a reissue of the Mono/Poly are going to be disappointed – its capabilities are so much broader than that”: Korg Multi/Poly review

Korg’s latest synth is billed as an ‘analogue modelling’ instrument, but is that description underselling it?

Louder

Larkin Poe announce 2025 US tour, release video for Mockingbird

"Mockingbird is a tender reflection on the perpetual journey of becoming" - Rebecca Lovell

Metal Hammer

"This will be the Metallica Family reunion we've been waiting for!" Metallica announce M72 tour dates in Australia and New Zealand

18 months after Metallica's M72 tour began, the band have finally announced shows down under

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