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Spotify Wrapped 2024: Female Artists Dominate With The Most Listeners

2024 was a year where women reigned supreme in the music industry.

Latin Times · Dec 4, 2024

2024 Was World's Taylor Swift Era Once Again: Spotify Reveals Top Artists, Songs, Albums, Podcasts

Taylor Swift is the most streamed artist on Spotify for a second straight year. A look at the most streamed songs, albums and artists in 2024.

Benzinga · Dec 4, 2024

Live Is But A Dream…: Avenged Sevenfold announce European summer tour for 2025

The hard rock/heavy metal titans will play arenas and festivals across the continent in June

Metal Hammer · Dec 4, 2024

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Is Travis Kelce Coming to the Eras Tour in Vancouver?

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Marie Claire · Dec 4, 2024

How Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Are Spending the Holiday Season Once the 'Eras Tour' Ends

"They will learn so much about each other."

Marie Claire · Dec 4, 2024

“We made a handwritten tab book. I wanted to make some sort of DIY zine, and I had all these guitar solos from the EP that people were asking about”: Musical polymath Luna Li on blending harps with Fender Jaguars – and the art of arrangement

Hannah Bussiere Kim is now touring with more instruments than ever before, but it’s the people she’s working with who help make the magic happen

Guitar World · Dec 4, 2024

“If I was only doing blues, we wouldn’t be sitting here. The mix of what I do is what makes it stand out”: Bonnie Raitt on why pushing beyond the blues was key to her success – that, and making her guitar “sound like bacon smells”

Praised by the likes of B.B. King and Sheryl Crow, Raitt’s guitar playing continues to influence – and transcend – genres and generations

Guitar World · Dec 4, 2024

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“Phil and I were both on our knees trying to find this screw”: Scott Gorham's bootleg Les Paul fell apart during his disastrous Thin Lizzy audition, but his struggles inspired a key tweak he now makes to all of his Les Pauls

Gorham wasn't unprepared for his tryout with the future rock legends – he just had a guitar that almost seemed to have a vendetta against him

Guitar World · Dec 4, 2024

“Over the last 10 years, I’ve been a bit disillusioned by popular music. The business sucks.” A revitalised Trent Reznor is ready to to be “back in the driver’s seat” again with a new Nine Inch Nails project

Nine Inch Nails might be back with us sooner than we had imagined

Metal Hammer · Dec 4, 2024

Lauren Mayberry steps out of the band Chvrches for a solo album that shows her influences

The birth of Lauren Mayberry as a solo artist should be marked by something like a wolf cry

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2024

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour: A Global Phenomenon Comes To End

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, a global phenomenon, celebrates her music journey and connection with fans, grossing over Taylor Swift's Eras Tour: A Global Phenomenon Comes To End billion by 2023.

“This one shifts gears from the fast and furious energy of our two recent singles”: Hear Arch Enemy put the “melodic” into “melodic death metal” on new single Blood Dynasty

The stomping track is taken from the Arch Enemy album of the same name, out next year

Metal Hammer · Dec 4, 2024

“I can’t play jigs or reels or any of that traditional Irish stuff, but I have got a good ear for blues, the tonality of it”: 3 ways to supercharge your lead guitar playing like Rory Gallagher

Improve your blues with this lesson on the Irish rocker's style

MusicRadar · Dec 4, 2024

"A standout year for female artists": But Taylor Swift didn’t bag Spotify Wrapped’s most streamed song of 2024

The all-important year-end figures, released today, show that another artist snagged the song of the year

MusicRadar · Dec 4, 2024

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Louder · Dec 4, 2024

“Dismissed by some as too lightweight, time has reframed it as a pivotal album musically and historically”: Marillion’s This Strange Engine Deluxe Edition

Marking an and and a beginning for the band, this extended version of the 1997 original states its case as an elegant outlier in their catalogue

MusicRadar · Dec 4, 2024

“After you’ve caressed them with Stairway To Heaven, now you’re going to disturb them!”: How Jimmy Page constructed the perfect Led Zeppelin album

“We were crafting albums for the album market,” Page said

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2024

The end of an Eras tour approaches, marking a bittersweet moment for Taylor Swift fans

The global phenomenon that is Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is coming to an end after the popstar performed more than 150 shows across five continents over nearly two years

MusicRadar · Dec 4, 2024

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”: Nils Frahm hits out at genre snobbery

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”

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Metal Hammer · Dec 4, 2024

Vote for the best metal song of 2024

From Judas Priest to Poppy, Spiritbox, Ghost and beyond, 2024 has offered some great new metal tunes. But now we need your help deciding the best of the best

MusicRadar · Dec 4, 2024

Meet the dongle nightmare that’ll get your original iPod working with your M4 Mac

Attention hipsters. Still rocking Apple’s first ever 5Gb iPod from 2001? We've got some great news

Louder · Dec 4, 2024

“At almost eight minutes long, it's pretty brave for the record company to pick it as a single!” The Wildhearts return with epic new single Failure Is The Mother Of Success, about “getting back on your feet after things have gone wrong”

"A new chapter in Wildhearts history – new music, new line-up, new label, new focus...”

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2024

Spotify Wrapped: Taylor Swift is music app's most-played artist in 2024 with 26.6 billion streams

Taylor Swift tops Spotify Wrapped list for second year in a row, followed by The Weekend, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish

MusicRadar · Dec 4, 2024

Is music nostalgia really dead as new acts out-ticket established artists?

New gig-going research shows that passion for older acts is being outpaced by music’s increasingly active social stars

Guitar World · Dec 4, 2024

“What do you say when you meet Vernon Reid by chance at the Memphis airport and he suggests you swap signature guitars? You say, ‘Yes sir, coming right up’”: Jack White and Vernon Reid exchange signature guitars after serendipitous airport encounter

Reid received one of White's TripleCaster Telecasters, while White got his hands on a customized Reverend Vernon Reid Signature Totem Series guitar

Guitar World · Dec 4, 2024

“Gene Simmons used a Grabber for a reason – because they play like nothing else on earth”: Epiphone Grabber Bass review

With its classic looks and budget-friendly price tag, is the revived Grabber still as iconic?

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