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“I can’t play the violin. I bought this crappy, cheap violin, and I’d be in the booth and Charli would walk in like ‘what the...?’”: Charli xcx and Finn Keane on the "nails-on-a-chalkboard" strings behind the Wuthering Heights soundtrack

Finn Keane says his deliberately "bad, raspy playing" lent a rough and textured sound to the film's evocative music

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“Albert King took me aside. He said, ‘The biggest thing about music is you can’t play what people want you to play.’ My dad said that, too”: Bernard Allison grew up surrounded by blues legends – and hid the fact he was learning guitar for years

Luther Allison’s son played with Stevie Ray Vaughan for his 16th birthday, toured in a band where pedals were forbidden, and achieved his ambition of being in his father’s band, and even leading it

Guitar World

Tool hope to release a new album and put on a residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere in 2027: “I think we’re the perfect band for that”

Drummer Danny Carey says the prog metal band have been “talking to” the owners of the Vegas venue

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“He exemplified how top instrumentalists can adapt to a remarkable range of styles and settings”: Steel guitarist Pete Finney – who performed with Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and the Monkees – dies aged 70

The Nashville legend played with a variety of high-profile artists, including the Chicks, the Judds, and Patty Loveless – and was known as a connoisseur of American music history

Guitar World

YouTuber Look Mum No Computer chosen as UK entry for Eurovision 2026

Singer-songwriter Sam Battle has built online fanbase through building and playing unusual instruments

The Guardian - UK

“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to write a song with just one chord?’ And in the restriction of writing with one chord I found a freedom that I’d never found before”: When Neil Diamond broke new ground with The Band’s Robbie Robertson

“That song had to stay on that one chord to maintain the tension of the whole thing”

MusicRadar

YouTuber and 'experimental' singer Look Mum No Computer to represent UK at Eurovision 2026

The 36-year-old - real name Sam Battle - is a singer/songwriter, live electronics performer and composer and inventor of unique musical machines based in Kent

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‘It’s a nice surprise to be treated like kings!’ Why are mid-level British indie bands massive in China?

My group, Swim Deep, plays to crowds of hundreds across the UK – but in China, we play to tens of thousands. And we’re not the only ones

The Guardian - UK

UK’s Eurovision entry announced: who is Look Mum No Computer?

Electronic musician born Sam Battle says he’s taking his role ‘very seriously’ as he prepares to unveil the song he will perform in the Eurovision final this year

The Independent UK

"I knew what each of my friends was capable of, but I didn't know how that would blend together." How John Lydon left the trainwreck of the Sex Pistols behind with a trailblazing statement of intent

Johnny Rotten became John Lydon and the dense punk sound became spacious dub for his new band PiL’s first real statement of intent

Louder

Lambrini Girls play riotous Brits Week London gig supporting War Child

Robbie Williams and Olivia Dean are also playing intimate shows.

Evening Standard

‘Like a Virgin’ and ‘Eternal Flame’ songwriter Billy Steinberg dies at 75

Together with his songwriting partner Tom Kelly, Steinberg wrote some of the biggest hits of the 1980s

The Independent UK

"I was so shocked I just fell on the floor, gasping for air." Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea pays tribute to the "beautiful boy" who changed his life and broke his heart

"I looked up to him. I was in love with him"

Louder

“Pretentious, perhaps. But let’s call it pioneering instead”: Peter Gabriel called it “knock and knowall” – but five decades on, here’s why we still like Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Surreal imagery, crediting classic poets and philosophers, trying to scare each other with freak-out jams, inspiration from mime artists… it’s without doubt the most adventurous music any member the band ever made

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“I thought my computer actually broke”: Bass phenom Kinga Głyk recalls the moment her rendition of an Eric Clapton classic went viral – and made her career

Głyk also touches on how social media can be used as a democratizing tool for musicians to access the industry

MusicRadar

“One day it was nothing but laughs. We're on stage and Dave's looking at me every night like, 'You're killing it, dude!!!' And then it was just... over": Josh Freese is still puzzled as to why he was fired from Foo Fighters

He’s now back behind the kit for Nine Inch Nails

Guitar World

“Even if no-one’s applauding, this is still going”: Mark Speer was so afraid the audience wouldn’t applaud at early Khruangbin shows, he figured out how to do it on guitar

The Khruangbin guitarist also admits that this guitar trick was inspired by a legendary boxing video game

Guitar World

“I would sneak off with her guitar. She’d get really p***ed off at me”: Nancy Wilson’s first guitar was unplayable – so she kept stealing her sister’s

Wilson needed to play a six-string that was better than the $30 rental guitar she had herself

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“He said, ‘It’s not going to happen.’ He gave me that tough-guy New York thing. I said, ‘How about something that is going to happen?’ It was career suicide, but it felt really good”: How Steve Morse took on a media mogul and got away with it

Guitarist worried about asking friends John Petrucci and Eric Johnson to guest on his new album – but decades ago he had no hesitation in confronting industry giant Clive Davis to get what he wanted

The Independent UK

Skrilla: How the 6-7 craze from his drill rap hit almost didn't happen

Skrilla says his drill rap hit "Doot Doot (6-7)" and the global 6-7 phenomenon that came with it almost didn't happen

Louder

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 16, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Sheepdogs, All Them Witches, Starbenders and more

MusicRadar

“I think we’re the perfect band for that. We’ve been talking to those guys”: Tool are looking into a 2027 residency at the Las Vegas Sphere

Shows will coincide will a new album, says drummer Danny Carey

Metal Hammer

"My main memory is thinking if I stood still for too long, I’d get hit with a beer can." R&B superstar Thundercat looks back on his nine years in hardcore punk legends Suicidal Tendencies

Former Ariana Grande, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg bass legend revisits his punk rock past

Guitar World

“I did tours sleeping in a tent to save money. I asked this family if I could pitch up in their garden. That helped me get my first P-Bass”: Rock ’n’ roll's ‘Forrest Gump’Leo Lyons shares the story of Ten Years After and their iconic Woodstock set

The Ten Years After bassist survived Hamburg’s Star-Club, sparked the blues boom, achieved immortality at Woodstock – and is still going strong at 82. “Music,” he says, “it’s a drug…”

Louder

"Hey, everybody. It's me, Dee Snider, and I'm not dying!" Twisted Sister frontman "still rocking, ain't stopping", despite reunion tour cancellation

"Don't worry about old Dee"

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