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Explore the top 10 English songs of 2023, featuring empowering anthems, haunting vocals, and soulful ballads.

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“We are all blown away and extremely excited!” Mike Portnoy has finished recording drums for the next Dream Theater album

The Dream Theater drummer, who recently returned following a 13-year absence, finished his work on album 16 over the weekend

Metal Hammer

John Lee Hooker: "Eric Clapton, John Mayall and all those other people over in England made the blues a big thing. In the States, people didn't want to know"

Legendary bluesman on his latter-day fame

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‘Bowie said he’d sell his soul to be famous’: Suzi Ronson on sex, ruthless ambition – and dyeing David’s hair red

She’s the ex-hairdresser who turned Bowie into Ziggy Stardust, then set off around the world in his entourage. Ronson relives those wild days – and recalls seeing a darker side of David

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The story of the Resynator, the long-lost '70s synth beloved by Peter Gabriel and Butch Vig: "Most synthesizers I encounter are more like domesticated animals, but here was this thing, like a wolverine"

Miles ahead of its time upon release, this instrument-controlled, pitch-tracking synth is the subject of a new documentary directed by inventor and synth pioneer Don Tavel's daughter

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“He’s like, ‘Ed, I got an idea... first song, AC/DC Highway to Hell, you take a verse, I take a verse....’: It's now been 10 years since Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder rocked Australia with their covers of a Bon Scott-era AC/DC classic

Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and Tom Morello playing Highway to Hell in Melbourne and Brisbane in 2014 was a good time for everyone involved

Louder

‘When we get into a room, it feels like it’s 1995’: Jebediah on their first album in 13 years

In our new monthly series Headline Act we spotlight the Australian artist we’re most excited about – and they make us a playlist

The Guardian - AU

Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello announces super-intimate London gig

Former Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and Prophets Of Rage player Tom Morello will perform to just 1,500 people in London this summer

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"Its impact on music will continue to resonate for decades to come": Sequential to discontinue the Prophet X due to component shortages

'X' marks the stop of this fantastic Sequential hybrid synth…

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Watch Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale fill in for Ann Wilson of Heart by performing Don’t Tell Me live with Disturbed

Disturbed’s performance of Don’t Tell Me (originally featuring Ann Wilson of Heart) got some extra star power at Knotfest Australia, thanks to Halestorm leader Lzzy Hale

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King Crimson outfit Beat add 21 more dates to North American tour

Adrian Belew has teamed up with Tony Levin, Danny Carey and Steve Vai as Beat to perform King Crimson's 80s reportoire

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"If we do this correctly, I think this could be one of the best blues songs ever!": How Joe Bonamassa and Kevin Shirley took an obscure Tim Curry track to a whole new level

"When I first heard it, I was really stricken by the guitar playing, and I was really taken by the whole vibe of it"

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“John was constantly seeking better solutions, which manifested as astonishing woodwork and innovative electronics”: Remembering John Diggins – the luthier who built guitars for Tony Iommi and the first Red Special replica

Diggins was the mastermind behind Jaydee Custom Guitars and had over five decades of experience in making top-quality instruments

Louder

“Such a spectacle: 80,000 fans, eight-way spatial audio”: Did Roger Waters top Pink Floyd at Desert Trip in 2016? His guitarist Jonathan Wilson thinks so (and he wasn’t in the band at the time)

While not living his “Canyon life,” American musician and producer’s prog world includes Rush, Frank Zappa, Roy Harper, Robert Wyatt and others

Guitar World

“I felt Jimmy's excitement for music... He played with absolute conviction and passion and power at all times”: Rich Robinson reflects on the time Jimmy Page performed with The Black Crowes

The band has unreleased recordings of Page playing on Black Crowes songs in 1999 – and plan to release them next year

Evening Standard

Lizzo’s dancers call out star after ‘I quit’ post branding it ‘a joke’

The dancers’ lawyer Ron Zambrano responded to the Grammy winner’s announcement

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Billie Eilish has now addressed the Taylor Swift 'wasteful' criticism

"It would be so awesome if people would stop putting words into my mouth."

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Kanye West And Ty Dolla Sign Cancel 'Vultures' Arena Tour

Stay informed about the abrupt cancellation of 'Vultures' album listening sessions with Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign.

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Beyoncé’s country album drowns out the Black music history it claims to celebrate

For all her declarations of being authentically country, Cowboy Carter arrives on the back of booming business for the genre and is all about the star, not the roots music supposedly at the project’s heart

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"You cannot underestimate the impact of seeing a woman blaze a trail right before your eyes." Why Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow means so much to me – and to women in the metal scene

Svalbard singer/guitarist Serena Cherry writes about the impact Arch Enemy’s formidable ex-vocalist had on her life

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“I bought it with lawnmowing money!” Tool’s Danny Carey reflects on the first album he ever paid for himself

Tool drummer Danny Carey has named the very first album he bought with his own money – and it was funded by him doing chores around the house

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“It was the loudest thing I’d ever heard in my entire life”: Jet’s Nic Cester on the time he auditioned to be the new singer in AC/DC

The Jet frontman was in the running when Brian Johnson was ruled out of the Rock Or Bust tour in 2016

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"He knows very little about an awful lot, but it’s how he applies that knowledge - and it’s down to confidence, too": How Brian Eno became music's ultimate renaissance man

Producer, collaborator, hard-to-use synth champion, ambient maestro, app developer and chancer Brian Eno is certainly a pioneer, but of what? Well, how about everything?

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