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Solstice announced as extra night headliners as Summer's End celebrates three full-day 20th anniversary

The 20th anniversary of Summer's End Festival takes place at the Chepstow Drill Hall from October 2 - 5

Louder

Girls Aloud to release tribute to Sarah Harding as Children In Need song

The new ‘Sarah’s Version’ of the song features the late singer on lead vocals in the group’s first single since 2012

Evening Standard

Girls Aloud to release first song since 2012, solely with vocals by late Sarah Harding

Group revisit their chart-topping 2004 cover of the Pretenders’ I’ll Stand By You to benefit BBC Children in Need

The Guardian - UK

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"It's what the overwhelming majority of us listen to first and foremost": How to become a master of melodies

"It's what the overwhelming majority of us listen to first and foremost"

MusicRadar

‘Played on over 250 albums’: was Nicky Hopkins the greatest unsung pianist ever?

He helped shape classic songs by the Rolling Stones, The Who and the Beatles but his influence on music has been largely ignored. A new documentary aims to correct that

The Guardian - US

Celeste fans end up at French avant-garde metal band’s show by mistake

Audience member at the Birmingham gig shared his ecounter with five women who turned up thinking they were going to see the British soul artist

The Independent UK

“The band played the Reichstag in Berlin to a crowd of 250,000. He went home and told everyone… They were more excited that somebody had won a tenner at the bingo!” The grounding experiences of Barclay James Harvest

Unrelentingly Northern in attitude, both parts the slow-burning band that split in two seemed happy with their lot – but is their story one of unfulfilled achievements?

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What Hi-Fi? Awards 2024: CD players alive and well as Arcam, Cyrus and Marantz give you good reason to dust off your discs

A trio of easy recommendatione for anyone looking to dust off and rediscover their CD collection.

What Hi-Fi?

"I can’t see us knocking Taylor Swift off the top of the charts": Balaam And The Angel are back but they're still not quite sure where they fit in

Former too-rock-for-goth family affair Balaam And The Angel are about to kick off an eight-date UK tour

Louder

Judas Priest's historic three-guitarist, two-drummer performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is now online

It's only taken the Hall Of Fame two years to upload the official footage

Metal Hammer

Prince's Sister Tyka Nelson Dies At 64 In Minnesota

Tyka Nelson, sister of Prince, passed away at 64. A singer-songwriter known for her music and efforts to preserve Prince's legacy.

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Alicia Villareal Says Jenni Rivera's 'Joyas Prestadas' Was Her Idea

Villareal revealed in a recent interview that she never had beef with her fellow singer even after Rivera recorded an album she had planned on making first.

Latin Times

Minneapolis musician Tyka Nelson, Prince's sister and only full sibling, dies at 64

Minneapolis musician Tyka Nelson, Prince’s only full sibling, died Monday

The Independent UK

Oasis announce five huge stadium shows in South America

The Gallagher Brothers have now confirmed 38 stadium shows for 2025

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“As soon as he is in the studio, he hears his voicing come back at him through the speakers and says, ‘No, I don’t like that’”: Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor on how “manic goat” Freddie Mercury found his voice and became rock’s greatest frontman

The making of Queen’s debut album was a learning process for all, none more so than Mercury who used the studio as a tool for radical self-improvement and take full command of his instrument

Guitar World

“McLaughlin’s ferocious picking and mastery of the fretboard raised the bar for what could be achieved on the guitar”: Learn the trailblazing style of John McLaughlin, one of the true pioneers of jazz-rock fusion

McLaughlin's experiments with complex harmony, Eastern scales, and chromaticism – in conjunction with the rigs associated with the rock and proto-metal players of the late 1960s and early 70s – cemented his position as the well-spring of fusion guitar at a crucial moment

Guitar World

“This album’s the only one where I’ve sat down and planned out a solo. Otherwise, the record button’s pressed, and I just go, ‘Pentatonic scale!’”: Orange Goblin’s Joe Hoare on life’s simple pleasures –Les Pauls, Marshall ampsand signature beer

The UK metal stalwart's new album, Science, Not Fiction is a career high, but if Hoare is stretching out beyond the Pentatonics in search of new horizons for lead, the power of the riff lies in its primitivism. Some things will never change...

Guitar World

“The most famous high-gain amp to emerge in 1992 was the 5150, and that’s exactly the character the Anti pedal offers”: Universal Audio UAFX Anti 1992 High Gain Amp pedal review

Universal Audio expands its superlative UAFX amp modelling pedal lineup with a high-gain tribute to a Eddie Van Halen’s fire-breathing Peavey 5150

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“That’s true. We smoked Jimi Hendrix’s guitar... I thought it’d be fun to crumble a bit of the wood off and pop it inside a joint”: Steve Cradock once smoked the shavings of Hendrix’s Strat by rolling them in a page from the Bible

A regular studio session took a turn in the spirit of Purple Haze, when the Ocean Colour Scene guitarist ended up getting high on Hendrix's guitar

Guitar World

“I've not got a huge history with Gibson, but this one I bought to have a different tone”: From a forensic Black Strat replica to a Gibson that caught his ear and a ‘90s Zoom unit, here's everything David Gilmour used on his new solo album, Luck & Strange

Gilmour's tech, Phil Taylor, provides GW with an exhaustive list of the guitar gear used to record the prog icon's first solo album in nine years – and there are some surprising pieces of kit

MusicRadar

“You have these silly lists that come out about the greatest guitar players; I usually don’t even make them... or they’ll put me behind somebody who I could play circles around”: Billy Corgan feels he’s underrated as a guitarist

Billy Corgan thinks he's under-rated as a guitarist

The Guardian - UK

Wrangling with Abba, risking jail for the Stone Roses … the lawyer behind pop’s big spats

John Kennedy sparred with the Swedes over Mamma Mia! and took on the Rolling Stones for Richard Ashcroft – he tells us why he’s still arguing with Bob Geldof after 40 years

Evening Standard

Primal Scream: Come Ahead review – the album of the year

5/5 Their first album in eight years is a masterpiece of personal songwriting, rage for the exploited and funk... yes, funk!

The Independent UK

Prince’s sister, singer Tyka Nelson, dies aged 64

‘She had her own mind. She’s in a better place,’ Nelson’s half-sister Sharon Nelson said

MusicRadar

“I did a demo. I had Sheila E playing on it and Michael sang on it. I played it for Quincy and he said, ‘No.’”: Greg Phillinganes on the Michael Jackson song arrangement that Quincy Jones rejected because it wasn't "sexy" enough

Phillinganes reveals that he last saw Jones earlier this year, when they “talked and reminisced”

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