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5 tracks I always use to test a new pair of wireless earbuds

I test wireless earbuds for a living – and I always use these five songs to judge how good they are.

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers might have based their entire career on it": Steven Wilson's 20 favourite British rock albums

Porcupine Tree mainman, solo star and prog remix king Steven Wilson on 20 British albums that blew his mind

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“We grew up with the album Crises from Mike Oldfield… The Beatles’ I Want You (She’s So Heavy) could be on of our songs”: From eco activism to maddening production values, there’s more to Gojira than you might think

Taking influence from Pink Floyd, Björk and Metallica, the French band have never been shy about wanting success – but they’ve never sacrificed any of their progressive values

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Inside the tube of classic surf film Crystal Voyager

A digital remaster of 1973 surf classic Crystal Voyager will screen at the Sydney Opera House, 50 years after it premiered at the newly-built venue.

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"I had never heard anything that raw and heavy and fast in my life": Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy picks the 10 albums that changed his life

These aren't Mike Portnoy's favourite albums - they're much more important than that

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Metallica's Self-Titled Album Hits 750 Weeks On Billboard 200.

Metallica's 'The Black Album' spends 750 weeks on Billboard 200, solidifying its status as one of the longest-charting releases in American history.

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“Syd was always experimenting. He had a very open sort of mind, to an almost dangerous degree”: the truth behind the myth of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s original singer and psychedelic icon

Original Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett died on July 7, 2006. This is the story of the rise and decline of a psychedelic icon

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"70 years on, it’s a sound that is still in demand": The producer's guide to the EMT 140 plate reverb

In the '60s and '70s, you needed a cumbersome metal plate strapped to some springs to create quality reverb, but it was so good that we still yearn for that EMT 140 sound today. Here’s how to recreate it, without a plate in sight…

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Taylor Swift to open her "personal archives" for new V&A exhibition that tells the story of her career

The Songbook Trail takes place in London this (cruel) summer

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The venue that came back from the dead

In the late 60s, a disused Victorian railway shed in North London hosted some of the most unforgettable and legendary gigs, raves and all-night freak-outs of all time

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Wish You Were Here? Former beachfront home of legendary Pink Floyd manager on the market in Sussex for £3.5m

Steve O’Rourke lived at the property while he managed Pink Floyd

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In 1971 Pink Floyd played a show at Crystal Palace in London. Hundreds of fish died as a result

Why you should never hire an octopus

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"Our style has always been defined by the fact that we sound a little like Pink Floyd, Genesis and Marillion." Mystery and the making of One Among The Living

Best known as Jon Anderson’s replacement in Yes, Benoît David rejoins cult Canadian proggers Mystery, as they prepare to release the strongest album of their career.

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The Brainstorms Project will reveal what your brain looks like when it listens to Pink Floyd

Brainstorms: A Great Gig In The Sky takes place at London's Frameless Gallery in Marble Arch

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The week in TV: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd; Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story and more – review

In a bumper week for rock-related programmes, a long-gestating profile of Syd Barrett offers little that’s new, Bon Jovi get the show they don’t quite deserve – and there are glaring gaps in a history of Gary Glitter’s crimes

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TV tonight: the trippy story of Pink Floyd’s lost member Syd Barrett

An immersive documentary about the band’s founder, who left the group to live in solitude. Plus: more explosive drama in Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Immersive high-tech art show inspired by Pink Floyd track comes to London

The show uses cutting edge technology to breathe new life into the music

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"It's the Devil's Music - Hide your kids' stuff!" How Slash made the blues sound like a party again – only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Eagles, Pink Floyd, Kerry King, Sebastian Bach, Lenny Kravitz, Steve Harley, The Black Keys, Walter Trout, Nazareth, Troy Redfern and more

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“Lemmy was standing at the door. He gave me a bullet belt and a leather jacket and said, ‘You’re in!’”: the riotous story of Motörhead’s early years and the birth of “the worst band in the world“

How Lemmy bounced back from being fired from Hawkwind and defied the detractors to launch Motörhead into orbit

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“We weren’t tempted to pursue that particular avenue, no. Led Zeppelin did it much better than us”: the Pink Floyd song that made Nick Mason realise they would have been a “terrible” heavy metal band

In an alternative universe, a late 60s Pink Floyd song could have taken them down an entirely different path

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The rarest and most expensive records by 10 major rock bands

Own one of these rarities from Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, AC/DC and more? You could be sitting on a goldmine

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Lost instruments, logic gates and lots and lots of drunkonyms – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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"Led Zeppelin played to a crowd of 150,000, but no-one on the bill was looking for a big break or even a record deal": How 60s' music festivals turned a generation of blues aficionados into the first rock stars

Some of the events still exist today, but back in the 60s they played hosts to bands for whom future possibilities were entirely unknown

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The BBC is selling off rare Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles and er, Bathory albums from its Gramophone Library if you want to expand your vinyl collection

The BBC are to auction off a staggering 285,000 vinyl records over the next year-and-a-half, starting from January 30

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