Selena Gomez Just Sold a $3,000 Benny Blanco Ring to a Fan for $12 Someone now owns Selena's diamonds, NBD. Marie Claire · Mar 13, 2025
“I fell in love with an independent creative genius. I started waking up”: The trailer for One To One: John & Yoko documentary has been released Film covers couple’s early years in New York MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025
Rihanna 'cancels comeback concerts in London just before their announcement' Reports say RiRi got ‘cold feet’ about London Stadium shows Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2025
“I knew that to do something so blatantly pop… there was a resistance”: Guitarist in huge ‘80s power-pop band says she had reservations about their biggest hit, which was released shortly before they broke up “I was a freakin’ rebel. I was determined to make The Bangles the rock band that we started out as," says Vicki Peterson MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025
“I never would have approached anything associated with suicide for a song, but after I heard about Chris Cornell’s passing I wrote that lyric”: Bon Jovi guitarist Phil X digs deep on his new album “It took me ten years to make this record," he says MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025
“What is this garbage?”: 25 years on, Nick Cave has made his peace with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and reveals what happened when Flea came face to face with a bear… Get ready for the hair-raising outcome that nobody saw coming, courtesy of Cave’s latest… newsletter? MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025
Sleep Token announce new album Even In Arcadia – listen to saxophone-powered lead single Emergence now Metal’s newest arena-fillers have kicked off their next era with a song, album news and a big tour announcement Metal Hammer · Mar 13, 2025
Annie and the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review – a gospel masterpiece to drag you out of despair Forty years into their career, this family band deliver their debut – and it’s a life-affirming album full of spontaneity and seemingly telepathic harmonising The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025
“There is no one who can do this process with me as well as he can”: Alex Van Halen says he is working with Steve Lukather to complete a new Van Halen album Reports in Dutch newspaper say a new Van Halen album is happening with the Toto guitarist filling in for the late Eddie Van Halen MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025
“Playing the parts of one of my favorite guitarists ever is no easy task, but it was a joy”: YouTuber Ben Eller thanks fans and his Mastodon bandmates after stepping in to replace the departed Brent Hinds at the last minute Will it turn into a full-time gig, though? MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025
The Brand New Heavies review – acid jazzers are as slick and funky as ever While their hits from their 90s hip heyday are now more likely to be heard on Magic FM’s drive-time slot the band’s punchy melodies can still get the party started The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025
“Dime recorded tons of unfinished riffs, and there were things he had lying around... hidden gems”: Zakk Wylde says there have been talks about recording new Pantera material based on unreleased Dimebag Darrell demos Wylde has teased the possibility of using old Dimebag riffs, which currently live on an old tape recorder, for future Pantera releases Guitar World · Mar 13, 2025
“There was no malice intended; it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then.” Nick Cave once famously dismissed Red Hot Chili Peppers' music as “garbage”, now he's working with Flea on a song with “arguably the greatest lyric ever” “I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre” Louder · Mar 13, 2025
“When I met Billy, I didn’t really have an amazing guitar. He said, ‘Oh, you gotta have a Les Paul, mate’”: Steve Stevens on why the ’80s were Hamer time for the Billy Idol guitarist – and it was all thanks to Paul Stanley Steve Stevens turns the clock back to May 1986 to tell us all about the Hamer SS1 he is holding on the cover of GW, and what became of all those other Hamers Guitar World · Mar 13, 2025
Guitar World · Mar 13, 2025 “Jimmy was still playing the Telecasters that he played in the Yardbirds. I laid it on him and said, ‘Try this out.’ I gave him a good deal, about 1,200 bucks”: How one of rock's most storied Les Pauls changed hands from one guitar hero to another Page had known Joe Walsh, then a budding guitar hero with the James Gang, since his pre-Zeppelin days with the Yardbirds. And Walsh had a proposition for him
MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025 “It didn't take more than a few minutes before we started getting emails from all kinds of drummers”: Rush’s Alex Lifeson reveals the rush to replace Neil Peart There’s been no shortage of offers and he and Geddy Lee are still playing together, so is a Rush reunion on the cards?
The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025 Nick Cave addresses ‘obnoxious’ comment he made 25 years ago Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea responded to the remark in 2006, admitting that it had hurt his feelings
MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025 “He noticed that the studio had a marimba sitting in the corner, and the rest is history”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind ABBA's Mamma Mia On Mamma Mia's 50th birthday, our resident music prof puts ABBA's infectiously catchy karaoke staple under the musical microscope
MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2025 “We haven’t forgotten the situation of folks affected by Helene. You are the comfortable rocking chair of America’s musical front porch”: US radio host organises free instrument giveaway to communities hit by Hurricane Helene “It is simply the right thing to do,” says Michael Johnathon
Louder · Mar 13, 2025 “Gong’s appeal? Not becoming too commercially successful”: Daevid Allen bade a grateful farewell with I See You – but he still believed in the future Months before his death from cancer, he encapsulated his unique vision in a forward-looking album, then left others to continue his work
Metal Hammer · Mar 13, 2025 Deftones announce more North American dates for 2025 with IDLES in support Deftones will play an additional 14 dates in Canada and the US in August and September of this year
Guitar World · Mar 12, 2025 “I brought a musicality that Tom wasn’t capable of. I had techniques that I could express to him in his songs that he couldn't have done on his own”: Mike Campbell on what he brought to the Heartbreakers as Tom Petty’s guitar foil The Heartbreakers guitarist will release his career-spanning memoir next week
Metal Hammer · Mar 12, 2025 Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher explains Brent Hinds exit: “Like a marriage, sometimes people grow apart, and they get interested in other things” Hinds parted ways with the pioneering progressive/sludge metal act last week, ending his 25 years of service
MusicRadar · Mar 12, 2025 “Sonically we approached the songs with instruments that were broken, not mic-ed right, or out of tune”: How Trent Reznor created the Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Fragile “You have to question yourself as an artist," he said
MusicRadar · Mar 12, 2025 “I think I brought a musicality that Tom wasn’t capable of”: Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell opens up on his productive but sometimes fractious relationship with bandmate Tom Petty “Sometimes he made me so angry I couldn’t look at him,” Campbell says of Petty in his new memoir