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Ones to Watch 2025: the music acts set to break out this year

From Ceechynaa and Wishy to Rachel Chinouriri – these rising stars are set to make a splash

Evening Standard · Jan 9, 2025

Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart was originally written for a Nosferatu musical: “If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark"

Jim Steinman wrote Bonnie Tyler’s smash power ballad Total Eclipse Of The Heart - once titled Vampires In Love - for an abandoned Nosferatu musical, before it once again found its home in another fang-toothed Broadway show

Louder · Jan 9, 2025

“I fell off the bed laughing!” Why Jimmy Page thought a Whitesnake video was hilarious - and why he ended up making an album with that band’s singer David Coverdale

“Shall we get this story straight?” Page said

MusicRadar · Jan 9, 2025

“Dad's gift to the world was music. I'm so happy to come together with some very special friends to honor the beauty of his life”: Dickey Betts' legacy to be celebrated in star-studded tribute concert

In Memory of Dickey Betts will take place on February 28 at the Allman Brothers Band's stronghold of Macon, Georgia

Guitar World · Jan 9, 2025

Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out review – stomps straight to the top of British punk’s table

Championed by Iggy Pop and riot grrrl royalty, the Brighton duo pile on the jagged riffs, scabrous humour and swearing for their politically charged debut

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2025

“A moment I won't forget in a hurry”: Amateur musician unknowingly performs Green Day classic in front of Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong was visiting some of Liverpool's iconic music locations, and happened upon a local musician playing one of his own songs

MusicRadar · Jan 9, 2025

“He only really ever played Free Bird on that guitar. I broke rank”: Charlie Starr on the spiritual moment he played Gary Rossington’s famed ‘Free Bird’ 1961 Gibson SG

Starr had the chance to use Rossington’s iconic Gibson to perform a Lynyrd Skynyrd medley last year, after it was announced the Les Paul/SG would be loaned out to a host of players for live use

Guitar World · Jan 9, 2025

“I’ve been sober for a few years now, so it’s kind of about that”: Jinjer singer Tatiana Shmayluk names her favourite song on upcoming album Duél

“I honestly think it is the best song Jinjer have ever written,” adds bassist Eugene Abdukhanov

Metal Hammer · Jan 9, 2025

Hear ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo team with wife Paula and current Slayer guitarist Gary Holt to cover Scorpions’ Animal Magnetism

The mini-Slayer reunion is taken from To Cross Or To Burn, the second album by the Lombardos’ project Venamoris

Metal Hammer · Jan 9, 2025

Steven Wilson announces screening and shares trailer for new The Overview movie

Steven Wilson will release The Overview, a concept album featuring two long-form pieces of music, on March 14

Louder · Jan 9, 2025