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The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The seasoned tonesmith reflects on spending "some of the best moments of my life" with Jimmy Page, the guitarist with a tone so unbelievable that "no-one on this Earth can touch him" and why Duane Allman is just as important as Jimi Hendrix

Guitar World

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe changed his original lyrics to Everybody Hurts after regrets over a misunderstood lyric in Losing My Religion

Here's why R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe changed a key lyric in his bands's worldwide mega-hit Everybody Hurts

Louder

Watch Foo Fighters open new club venue with special guest and fiery Bad Brains cover

After Dave Grohl spoke at the opening ceremony, Foo Fighters played the first show at new Washington D.C venue The Atlantis

Metal Hammer

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Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

Metal Hammer

“Sometimes I think, 'What would John McVie do?' That’s how I wrote the bassline to Losing My Religion”: The secrets of R.E.M.’s Mike Mills

From the Bass Player Archive: An interview with R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills from 1991, the year that Out Of Time took them from cult status to million sellers.

Guitar World

Bristol's University Challenge team lambasted for not recognising Elvis Costello's voice

The team smashed through the questions until it came to the popular music round

Bristol Post

On anniversary of Kurt's death, Frances Bean Cobain urges fans to seek help for mental illness

Frances Bean Cobain remembers her father, Nirvana frontman Kurt, on 29th anniversary of his death and urges people not to suffer in silence

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Should a Tragically Hip song have been played at a Pierre Poilievre event?

Paul Langlois, a guitarist for Canada’s The Tragically Hip, was more than unhappy when recently alerted via Twitter that his band’s music was heard at a Conservative campaign event with Pierre Poilievre, and in a series of tweets he resolved to stop it.

The Conversation

10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined mainstream awards shows

From Nirvana trashing MTV's stage to Bring Me The Horizon ruining Coldplay's day, here are 10 times rock and metal bands caused mayhem at major awards ceremonies

Metal Hammer

Bowie, Queen, Madonna and more – a look at Slane Castle’s iconic acts through the decades

For over 40 years, Slane Castle has staged the biggest names in music from every genre – here we look back at just some of the incredible performances

The Independent UK

African E-Mobility Company REM To Celebrate 50 Million Kilometers Traveled

African e-mobility company Rwanda Electric Motors is about to celebrate its 50 million kilometers traveled milestone.

RideApart

Colin MacIntyre is 'wrapping a bow' around his early work at Mull Historical Society

The musician and writer will play his first two albums Loss and Us at Celtic Connections and release a huge 85-track anthology Archaeology: Complete Recordings 200-2004 later in February

Daily Record

R.E.M. gets ‘deconstructed and reconstructed’

ATLANTA — This weekend, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra introduces the world premiere performances of “R.E.M. Explored.” The instrumental evenings begin with a suite of selections from the revered Athens band’s catalog, in newly “deconstructed and reconstructed” symphonic arrangements.

Tribune News Service

Vauxhall Motors aiming to continue unbeaten run when they face Litherland REMYCA

Vauxhall Motors take on Litherland REMYCA in the North West Counties League tonight

Liverpool Echo

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Evening Standard

Suede (Crushed Kid) secret gig at the Moth Club review: left the crowd wanting more

The band followed the likes of REM and The Strokes to play incognito as Crushed Kid

Salon

REM's underground "Chronic Town" at 40

Co-producer Mitch Easter speaks with Salon about the beloved and influential EP

Wales Online

19 things all Welsh people remember from their childhoods that we don't see anymore

From only having four TV channels to deadly playground rides

The Guardian - UK

Mo Ostin obituary

American record label chief executive who nurtured the careers of Neil Young, James Taylor and Prince

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Los Angeles Times

Mo Ostin, executive who transformed Warner Bros. into revered record label, dies at 95

LOS ANGELES — Mo Ostin, the music executive who helped transform Warner Bros. Records into one of the most admired music labels in the world and who earned respect and lasting allegiance from musicians from Los Angeles to London for his artist-friendly philosophy, died on Sunday. He was 95.

The Independent UK

Mo Ostin, longtime Warner records chairman, dies at 95

Mo Ostin, a self-effacing giant of the music business who with rare integrity presided over Warner Bros

The Guardian - UK

Access All Areas by Barbara Charone review – my rock’n’roll friends

One of the most formidable music PRs in rock, ‘BC’ opens up about her decades of hanging out with the likes of Keith Richards, Mark Ronson and Madonna

The Guardian - UK

‘The planets aligned!’ How Górecki’s Third Symphony stormed the 90s pop charts

A profoundly mournful classical work, written by one of Poland’s leading avant-garde composers, vied with REM and Paul McCartney to become a huge bestseller in 1992. Those involved recall a truly surprising hit

Wales Online

30 saddest songs of all time include REM, Clapton, Adele and James Blunt

Coldplay and Lewis Capaldi also make the list

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