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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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"It might kill me to be on the road, but it will certainly kill me to not be on the road": Sweet guitarist Andy Scott reveals why he won't stop touring

57 years on from their first show, Sweet lynchpin Andy Scott is looking forward to a busy 2025 despite ongoing health battles

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"We had turned into grotesque prog creatures": How Rush reinvented themselves

After the "soul-crushing" slog of Hemispheres, Permanent Waves returned Rush to the peak of their powers and put them in a different league

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"It was an unmitigated disaster." Beatles legend Ringo Starr reveals why he and Elton John's mother walked out of one of her son's most legendary stadium shows

Elton John remembers his appearance at 1975's Midsummer Music festival at London's Wembley Stadium being "terrifying": his mum and Ringo Starr were part of the problem

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Skunk Anansie release spiky new single An Artist Is An Artist, and if you hate saxophone Skin has news for you

An Artist Is An Artist arrives ahead of Skunk Anansie's European tour, which kicks off next month

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"Haters gonna hate while I live my dream." Seattle R&B/Soul singer Shaina Shepherd responds to hot takes on her one-off performance fronting Soundgarden

If you have an opinion on last month's Nudedragons show in Seattle, Shaina Shepherd doesn't want to hear it, thanks

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Neil Young once threw Bob Dylan off his tour bus because he didn't recognise the legendary singer/songwriter

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English Teacher, Du Blonde, Nadine Shah and more join Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers and Sisters of Mercy on Bearded Theory festival bill

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Rachael Yamagata teams up with TESSAN to inspire journeys through music and connection

Rachael Yamagata knows a thing or two about music being a journey - which is why her collaboration with TESSAN is a match made in heaven

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“You’re 17, it’s a normal dumb night, then someone’s screaming, ‘Get on the floor!’ I’m gonna die. This is the end of my life”: The armed hold-up that set the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on the road to music

Sold on their older brothers’ counterculture dream of living in outer space listening to the Beatles, Coyne and bandmate Steven Drozd very nearly became full-time drug dealers instead of musicians

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"After a lifetime listening to hard rock and heavy metal I discovered Talking Heads and realised how good music could really be": Talking Heads open up new worlds on Remain In Light

In which Talking Heads seamlessly merged funk, afrobeat and early hip-hop rhythms with their more abrasive art-rock ideas

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