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Pro-Ject's feature-packed affordable stereo amp wants to be your gateway into hi-fi

The Pro-Ject Stereo Box E is small, flexible and affordable amp, offering a range of connections and an adaptable design.

What Hi-Fi? · Nov 6, 2024

Judas Priest to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary on 2025 European tour

The Metal Gods will play across the continent on their Shield Of Pain run from June to July

Metal Hammer · Nov 6, 2024

It worked for the Beatles on Yesterday and it can work for you, too – here’s how to use the melodic minor scale to add intrigue to your songwriting and glide over minor chord progressions

Get to grips with this invaluable and interesting addition to the songwriter's vocabulary used by Paul McCartney and jazzers alike

Guitar World · Nov 6, 2024

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 · Nov 6, 2024

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 · Nov 6, 2024

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 · Nov 6, 2024

"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 · Nov 6, 2024

‘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 · Nov 6, 2024

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 · Nov 6, 2024

“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?

Louder · Nov 6, 2024