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Live Aid, as told by those who weren’t there: ‘We switched it off when Status Quo came on’

IN FOCUS: When we tell the story of Live Aid, which happened 40 years ago this weekend, we tend to focus on Bob Geldof and the performers. But the truest sense of the day could be found outside of Wembley: the students who found it cheesy, the communities it galvanised,…

The Independent UK

Foo Fighters release punk cover song that was recorded across three decades

The American rock icons offer their own take on track ‘I Don’t Wanna Hear It’

The Independent UK

‘Liam had been drinking all night. Noel was not in a great mood’: photographers pick their best Oasis shot

Lairy, drunk, fighting, laughing … five photographers who shot Oasis recall what it was like capturing them in depressing pre-fame hotels – and at their Champagne Supernova heights

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Addison Rae: how a TikTok influencer became the new cool girl of music

Few people have managed to made the pivot from internet personality to music superstar - Rae has

Evening Standard

The Lottery Winners’ Thom Rylance: ‘Robbie Williams said my biggest talent is bravery’

NEW SENSATIONS: The Manchester band have worked their way from obscurity to two No 1 albums. As they embark on a stadium tour supporting Robbie Williams, their charismatic frontman talks to Mark Beaumont about coming to terms with his neurodivergence, apologising to Kate Nash, and being the ‘new Morrissey’

The Independent UK

“He was a master of the cryptic instruction. He’d say, ‘This song, can you loosen its tie a little?’”: How The Strokes created the most influential rock song of the early 21st Century

It inspired The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and countless other bands

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"Britpop was the Make America Great Again of its day, xenophobic, misogynist, just horrible. We hated it, and it fuelled our anger." Compulsion were the greatest '90s band you never listened to, and now they kinda understand why

Garret 'Jacknife' Lee is one of the world's most respected producers due to his work with U2, R.E.M.,Taylor Swift and more. But 30 years ago he and his brilliant band Compulsion hated everyone and everything

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“Clever flurries of musical activity keeping multiple balls in the air. Then it all goes, against expectations, a bit King Crimson”: A prog band won last year’s Mercury Prize. Did you notice?

English Teacher might sound like another cookie-cutter post-punk NME-frendly group, but debut album This Could Be Texas proves they’re about as progressive as it gets

Louder

Letter: Johnny Tillotson obituary

Stephanie Harrison writes: I used to read NME and recognised Johnny Tillotson and Del Shannon

The Guardian - UK

LE SSERAFIM recruit JADE for new remix of Hot

LE SSERAFIM and JADE have joined forces on a new English version of 'Hot'.

BANG Premier

“Don't kill him - he's Beatle Paul!”: The dramatic birth of Paul McCartney’s greatest post-Beatles song

Vaulting between three distinct sections, the Wings classic was conjured with the same spirit as Abbey Road’s closing medley

MusicRadar

“I was begging for tickets, now I turn out to be hosting”: Jason Momoa reveals how he got the job compering Black Sabbath’s final show

The Minecraft Movie actor still has no idea what he’s going to do onstage, though

Metal Hammer

"Touring Australia with the Sex Pistols was horrendous. Seeing the audience doing Nazi salutes really wore me down, and Johnny Rotten didn’t say anything." Skunk Anansie's Skin recalls "violent" 1996 tour with the Sex Pistols

For Britrock stars Skunk Anansie, joining the Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre reunion tour was one of the worst experiences of their lives

Metal Hammer

Noel Gallagher 'taken aback' by Oasis tickets chaos ahead of reunion tour

Millions of fans failed to get tickets to the Live ‘25 tour while others saw standard prices more than double

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My wild year with Oasis: 'Liam threw all the furniture in the pool'

Legendary photographer Kevin Cummins takes us through his new book which lifts the lid on the wildness around Oasis in the year they broke through

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘I photographed Oasis in a street in London just because it shared the name of a Manchester City midfielder and Liam and Noel Gallagher loved it’ Legendary snapper Kevin Cummins on the secret behind his cunning masterplan

A new book reveals Oasis' early links to Manchester City and famous photoshoot that nearly never saw the light of day

Metal Hammer

"Friends of mine were saying, Give up on the dream, it's not happening." Tobias Forge recalls how forming Ghost helped him deal with a dawning realisation that his dream of becoming a successful musician wasn't ever going to become a reality

And the moral of Tobias Forge's story is: Don't give up on your dreams

Metal Hammer

"When people make beds of sound like that, it goes into you in a visceral way." Hollywood superstar Cate Blanchett names her favourite rock bands

"I love their music, but I became addicted to it when I heard it live"

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Oasis confirm reunion tour documentary film produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight

After much speculation, Oasis have confirmed a documentary film in conjunction with their reunion tour.

MusicRadar

“Tell me who your source pots are that keep giving you info about Oasis”: The 'confirmed' 2025 reunion line-up is out there and Liam Gallagher wants to know how it got leaked

So, which familiar Gallagher-appeasing faces have made the cut? And – wait a sec – who’s that surprise new addition on drums?

The Guardian - UK

Flamboyance, creativity, club culture – and no smart phones: why the 1980s are all the rage again

A series of major exhibitions focusing on the era has unleashed a wave of nostalgia for those who were there and curiosity from the young who envy its freedom

MusicRadar

“It was a mind-bender. Your brain tells you this isn’t supposed to work”: From unplayable rhythms to lost astronauts – the genius of David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes

"It’s childlike and melancholic in that children’s story way,” Bowie said

Evening Standard

What happened to Rebecca Black? Friday star gives interview 14 years after hit song

New EP Salvation being released... on Friday (of course)

MusicRadar

“It’s an old-fashioned piece of conceptual rock”: Steven Wilson issues album update and promises no less than the reinvention of the “extended classic rock solo”

The prog visionary says Randy McStine's solo is one of the highlights of an album that's animated by a grand musical ambition in the vein of Mike Oldfield and Pink Floyd

Louder

Five truly brilliant and cruelly underrated British rock albums turning 25 this year which I can't believe no-one else is banging on about

Some of the very best rock music of the new millennium was being made in the UK, and 25 years on, these brilliant albums shouldn't be allowed to fade into obscurity

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