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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rod Stewart, Stephen Stills, Stevie Nicks, Green Day, Joni Mitchell and more confirmed for FireAid benefit concerts

FireAid will raise money for those affected by Californian wildfires and efforts to prevent future disasters

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“All you have to do is turn on the TV and you’re inundated by complete lies from people who are supposed to be running this country”: How distortion, chaos and a world gone mad shaped R.E.M.’s game-changing album Document album

On 1988’s Document album, ‘the thinking person’s rock band’ ditched the jangling guitars for distortion, power chords and arena rock singles

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“I’d rather be remembered for our legacy than returning as the top Rush tribute band”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are jamming together – but they have no plans to resurrect Rush with a new drummer

Alex Lifeson reveals he and Geddy Lee have weekly jam session – and they record the results

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“He couldn’t understand amidst the noise that I was the other singer! I almost enjoyed it better that way”: The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson

The brief encounter wasn’t what anyone could have predicted – but it was enough to give the younger singer a tantalising idea.

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“Hendrix took a look at my first album and said: ‘I’ll try it this way’. I don’t appreciate that. But then I can’t play the guitar like him”: The chaotic story of Arthur Lee and Love, the 60s renegades who helped invent the LA scene

The Doors were stars but their Sunset Strip peers Love deserved to be equally famous

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Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is an enthralling depiction of the emergence of a singular musical genius and cultural disruptor, with Timothée Chalamet superb as a young Dylan

James Mangold's excellent Bob Dylan biopic will introduce a whole new generation to the icon's rough and rowdy ways

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“Turn the lights off, put the music on, close your eyes and start to have a waking dream… it might even inspire people to create movies that could be scored with this music”: John Carpenter’s second career in prog

The cult movie director started composing his own soundtracks out of necessity. Eventually he returned to his first love of music to create the Lost Themes album series, and began touring too

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Former 24-7 Spyz vocalist and Black Rock Coalition co-founder Peter 'P. Fluid' Forrest, murdered in New York

Peter Forrest, a founding member of acclaimed funk-metal band 24-7 Spyz, killed in the Bronx on January 13

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Eagles donate $2.5 million to upcoming LA wildfires relief concert

The show will raise funds for those impacted by the wildfires still ravaging parts of Los Angeles

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“You have to destroy things in order to create things. And I did destroy a really beautiful life.” Lucy Dacus announces new album Forever Is A Feeling, shares two new singles and North American tour dates

Forever Is A Feeling, the follow-up to 2021's Home Video, is coming soon

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“I borrowed an iPod for a flight and put Moonmadness on it. Flying through the clouds, I was listening to Air Born thinking, ‘This is great!’” Why Baroness ex Peter Adams loves Camel

Brought up with Pink Floyd and Gentle Giant, the American guitarist discovered The Snow Goose live and never looked back – and Andy Latimer’s band inspired a musical ambition in him

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Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way

New version of Close To The Edge features Steven Wilson mixes and entire London Rainbow show from December 1972

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"We can't quit, we don’t know how, we've come too far": Those Damn Crows release thumping new single No Surrender

No Surrender comes from Those Damn Crows' upcoming fourth album God Shaped Hole

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"We were even rebelling against the people who embraced us": A brief history of cult Paisley Underground psychonauts The Dream Syndicate

How The Dream Syndicate built a career on self-sabotage

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“He was wearing a red satin suit and he’d closed his eyes to do existential-style doodles. Then he got ink on his suit and was pissed off”: Why Captain Beefheart is The Primevals frontman Michael Rooney’s prog hero

Scottish singer met Don Van Vliet a number of times, and the eccentric American’s influence extended through his own career

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"I did have a multitrack tape of that, but it got mislaid": The secret history of Led Zeppelin’s lost masterpiece

Jimmy Page dug up several unheard gems for his deluxe Led Zeppelin reissues. But there's one song that still remains unreleased

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"Right now nobody gives a flying **** when your record drops or the next concert is!" Motley Crue's Tommy Lee isn't impressed by tone-deaf musicians self-promoting while Los Angeles is burning, but there's a plot twist

"Maybe just stop and see who needs help”

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"When you're young you've got all this violence in you, and that music released it for me." U2's Bono on the "genius" musician he considers an "exorcist"

U2 may have emerged in the post-punk era, but the Dubliners looked deeper into the past for inspiration

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Osibisa founding member and singer Teddy Osei dead at 88

Founding member, singer and saxophonist of Afro-beat prog rockers Osibisa Tedy Osei has died, aged 88

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Alt.rock icons Swervedriver release first new music in five years and it's predictably epic

The World's Fair EP was partially produced by hugely popular YouTube personality and Swervedriver nut Rick Beato

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“I’m too old to be famous.” Paramore's Hayley Williams has discovered an unreleased album her 78-year-old grandfather Rusty recorded almost 50 years ago, and you can hear its first single now

"I want people to see how it felt when things were real,” says Rusty Williams, ahead of the release of his debut album Grand Man

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"It's chock full of fist pumpers, head bumpers, stinky dumpers, meaty thumpers and toe stumpers." Cult legend John Reis announces new album Time To Let You Down, shares single Fed To The Dogs

Itching for more top grade punk rock from Rocket From The Crypt / Hot Snakes / Drive Like Jehu leader John Reis? We have good news friends

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"I certainly did not imagine that a son of mine would get rich from being obnoxious!" In 1987, the Beastie Boys were portrayed as the world's most outrageous, offensive band, a danger to civilised society. Their parents found it all hugely amusing

"If World War Three was declared tomorrow I'm sure we'd get the blame," Beastie Boys' Mike D once said. His mum Hester told parents not to panic

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Envy Of None detail upcoming second album Stygian Wavz

Canadian/American art rock quartet Envy Of None will release their new album Stygian Wavz in March

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“It’s a case of writing something you thought was wryly amusing, then it just won’t leave you”: Horrified by his own mission statement, Public Service Broadcasting’s J. Willgoose Esq. calls himself a pessimist with impostor syndrome

He says his natural negativity didn’t top him presenting a positive take on Amelia Earhart’s final adventure on latest album The Last Flight, as he considers where the emotional power of his band’s output comes from

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