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Our 2026 listening resolutions: from Radiohead to Kendrick Lamar, critics try to get into music they’ve never liked

Streaming’s algorithms make it easy to avoid whole discographies – so in the interest of deeper listening, our writers dedicate time to the ones who might have got away

The Guardian - UK

“I had letters threatening me with death for getting Bert Jansch to play through an amp”: The life and wild times of Danny Thompson, the legend of upright bass who “brought greatness to everything he played”

The fabled upright acoustic bassist leaves us with a thousand tales of misadventure and an extraordinary body of music that weaves through the rock ’n’ roll era

Guitar World

Danny Thompson obituary

Bass player and founder member of Pentangle who worked with John Martyn, Nick Drake and Kate Bush

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“His body of work is unparalleled in its quality and also in the incredibly varied number of musicians he worked with”: Danny Thompson, Pentangle bassist supreme, who played for Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, Nick Drake, and more has died

Tributes have come in from Tony Visconti, Graham Coxon and others

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“Pentangle sold out the Royal Albert Hall and the next night I was playing in a jazz quartet for 40 quid”: From gigging in strip clubs to recording with John Martyn and Kate Bush, Danny Thompson walked a singular path in bass playing

Beginning with his early days amid London’s jazz and blues boom in the ’50s, to his famed partnership with singer-songwriter John Martyn, the late Danny Thompson excelled at everything he touched

Guitar World

From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds

The bassist, who has died aged 86, was an extraordinary and wildly versatile presence in British music, bringing his personality into everything he played

The Guardian - UK

“A force of nature. A player who served the song and who enriched the lives of every single person he met”: Danny Thompson, innovative bassist who played with Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, Nick Drake, Pentangle, and countless others, dies at 86

Though he grew up with a love of jazz, it wasn't long before Thompson branched out stylistically, and embarked on a career of extraordinary musical breadth

Guitar World

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Pentangle and John Martyn bassist Danny Thompson has died, aged 86

Danny Thompson was a founding member of Pentangle and worked with John Martyn, Kate Bush, Nick Drake, Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk and more

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“Unusual chord voicings and inversions, which would be impossible in regular tuning, can be played relatively easily”: How Jimmy Page used open C tuning to open up a whole new world of acoustic blues

In this tab and video lesson, we show you how open C tuning is great for slide, it can present adventurous players with fresh chords and help them reach notes they couldn't in standard

Guitar World

“My friend told me if I go to a folk club I have to know how to play Angi. When I played it, they said they haven’t heard it in 10 years!” How seven years of busking and Nick Drake’s influence were the making of England's new folk guitar hero Chris Brain

For fans of Nick Drake, John Martyn, Bert Jansch and AnneBriggs, Chris Brain's bucolic folk sound is driven by his technically formidable but delicate fingerstyle approach – and some of it was recorded in his shed

Guitar World

US singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame: ‘It shocked me out of depression. I had this spiritual awakening’

The musician was living in his mother’s basement when he blagged a job in LA. Soon, his mesmeric live shows sparked a bidding frenzy. He describes how finding his wavelength on stage can fill audiences with joy

The Guardian - UK

PP Arnold on her star-studded life in music: ‘Peter Gabriel and I used to hang upside down in gravity boots’

After singing with everyone from Tina Turner to the Small Faces, she takes your questions on her Glastonbury plans, life as an Ikette and getting a leg up from Mick Jagger

The Guardian - UK

“I will use mattresses for isolation and try not to bother the neighbors too much… Iwas just following the songs to see what happens”: How Jonathan Hultén channeled Nick Drake’s Pink Moon and recorded an entire album in his walk-in closet

The former Tribulation guitarist goes full on dream pop on his sophomore release, Eyes of the Living Night

Guitar World

“Sometimes his lyrics are so indistinct they may as well be wordless. Sometimes they are actually wordless”: Jonathan Hultén’s Eyes Of the Living Night is briliant and beautiful

After channeling Nick Drake and Bert Jansch on his first record, the Swedish guitarist’s pivot from extreme metal brings him to a Kate Bush-like world

Louder

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“Lionisation is too late when you’re dead… I’ve often thought of faking my own death and watching the record companies drum up all the stuff they can”: A fight, a show then a drink with John Martyn

All the evidence you need to be convinced the hard-living singer-songwriter was as progressive as they come

The Guardian - UK

Amanda Morris-Drake obituary

Other lives: Teacher whose dedication to helping people extended far beyond her work

Louder

A beginner's guide to progressive folk in 10 acts - it's not all 'hey nonny nonny', y'know

Folk and folk rock bands are responsible for some of the most progressive music ever made. Not only that, but they influenced the rock world as we know it

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National Album Day: 9 of the best British albums for testing your hi-fi system

To Celebrate National Album Day, we've compiled a list of favourite British albums to test your system.

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‘Thrilling, unforgettable … there is nothing else like it!’: readers on their Proms highlights

As 2024’s festival comes to a close, readers tell us about their favourite performances of the eight-week season that saw 90 concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and beyond, all live on BBC Radio 3

The Independent UK

Barack Obama shares his summer playlist, from Charli XCX to The Rolling Stones

Former US president has been sharing his favourite anthems annually since 2015

The Guardian - AU

How we made Romulus, My Father: ‘I said no to 10 to 12 offers – I didn’t want there to be a film’

Director Richard Roxburgh, actor Kodi Smit-McPhee and author Raimond Gaita share how their tiny adapation of Gaita’s book became a beloved Australian film

MusicRadar

"Some of his best songs are b-sides": 8 non-album Chris Cornell tracks that showcase his brilliance

On what would have been Chris Cornell's 60th birthday we delve a little deeper to celebrate his legacy with Soundgarden, Audioslave and solo

Louder

"My girlfriend had to leave the room when I played the album": The 10 records that changed Fish's life

Former Marillion frontman Fish takes a trip to the past to explore the records that shaped his path through music

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the right to fail in the arts: a principle that must be upheld

Editorial: Not every great work of art is an instant hit – just look at Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-winning Merrily We Roll Along

The Guardian - UK

Françoise Hardy: France’s girlish yé-yé star was a groundbreaking musical artist

Hardy shot to fame singing airy, carefree pop before she took control of her career, hung out with 60s rock aristocracy and became a sophisticated singer-songwriter of rare sensuality and melancholy

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