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“Every day, you’d go round the house and Johnny would play some riff sat having a spliff in his jimmy-jams. You’d be like, ‘That’s amazing. What’s that?’”: Mike Joyce remembers the early days of The Smiths

His memoir, The Drums, is out this week

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Ravyn Lenae review – art-school dreamer at ease with her own melancholy

The Chicago musician’s fans are delighted by her alt-R&B, but for all the adventurous new songs tonight’s show does not quite live up to its ambition

The Guardian - UK

“In all the years I’ve been playing since I was a child, I don’t remember ever adjusting a tone knob. I’m not going to miss it”: Why Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe believes that tone knobs on guitars are overrated

The fast-rising metal guitar star released her very first signature model with Jackson last year – which also marked the first signature guitar model for a Black female heavy metal artist

Guitar World

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“We started with the drum beat and I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to do something kind of like The Way You Make Me Feel.' And I sat at the Wurly and I went, ‘duh-du-duhh’”: Olivia Dean on writing Man I Need and the Michael Jackson hit that helped to inspire it

“I just remember driving to and from the studio and I just played it again and again. And I was like, ‘OK, well if I can listen to this again and again, I think other people might want to”

MusicRadar

Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025

Roping in hardcore, mathcore, doom, black metal, industrial, post-rock...Pupil Slicer do it all in style on new album Fleshwork

Metal Hammer

Two Metallica fans have been arrested after climbing over part of the band's set at a show in Perth, Australia on Saturday

Metal Hammer

Richard Ashcroft: ‘Why not Sir Liam and Sir Noel?’

The former Verve singer talks about his supporting role in the big Oasis reunion shows, his AI fears and what he thinks of fans who Shazam his songs

The Guardian - UK

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Savatage announce European headline shows and festival dates for 2026

Prog metal legends Savatage reformed earlier this year after a nearly two-decade hiatus

Metal Hammer

"Speaking to your own child about that is very personal, vulnerable and emotional." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian reveals why he covered a Chris De Burgh classic - and teamed up with an EDM legend

Serj Tankian made some surprising musical choices for his new solo album

Metal Hammer

“He had Double Trouble on a couple of his records. He had a relationship with Stevie Ray Vaughan. He was a touring machine who did it the hard way”: Eric Gales on his all-star blues tribute to his brother, the man who started him on guitar

With a stirring tribute to his older brother Manuel, who performed as Little Jimmy King, the master southpaw returns with one of thefinest albums of his career

Guitar World

Andrew Lloyd-Webber says lesson of Evita ‘more important’ now due to extremism

Theatre impresario called Eva Peron a ‘very attractive extremist’

The Independent UK

‘I took mushrooms before my audition’: Smiths drummer Mike Joyce on wild gigs, Marr’s jim-jams and Morrissey’s genius

Breaking dancefloors, recording in the dark, crying at I Know It’s Over, winning in court, splitting over chips … the musician relives his tumultuous years in ‘the best British band ever’

The Guardian - UK

Cat Burns Shocks Fans by Halting UK Tour to Prioritise Mental Health

Cat Burns halts her UK tour to focus on mental health, leaving fans stunned but supportive as the singer opens up about wellbeing and self-care.

International Business Times UK

"A vivid chronicle of Bob Dylan's rapid ascent and growth as an artist": The latest edition of The Bootleg Series tracks Dylan from Minnesota to Greenwich Village

A legend ascends in the latest forensic deep dive into Bob Dylan’s back pages on Volume 18: Through The Open Window 1956-1963

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The Independent UK

Benson Boone cancels UK show minutes before taking stage

Boone’s American Heart World Tour began on August 22

Guitar World

“I would run across the stage and ‘break’ the bass over my head while our sound guy played samples of trees cracking”: Described as the 4-string equivalent of painting with a sledgehammer, Van Halen’s Ultra Bass was not your typical bass solo

Michael Anthony’s Yamaha BB2000 would get rebuilt after every show following his foundation-shaking solo spot

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6 Iconic Albums I'd Love To See Get The Biopic Treatment Next

Like the albums, these biopics would be instant hits!

Cinemablend

Taylor Swift Dated Harry Styles A Million Years Ago. How She Allegedly Feels About Pal Zoë Kravitz Dating Him Now

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“From 1991 to 2016, I did no lead playing at all. By the time I started playing again for my YouTube channel, I’d forgotten everything I knew”: Why Rick Beato stopped playing solos – and why it was good for his playing

Beato’s approach to soloing was revolutionized by his break as he came back with a clean slate

International Business Times UK

'Petty Or Genius?' Lily Allen's Bizarre 'B*tt Plug' Album Launch Giveaway Leaves Fans Stunned

Lily Allen handed guests blue-and-white polka-dot butt plugs at a London dinner for her new album West End Girl, a stunt tied to explicit lyrics on the record.

The Independent UK

Morrissey cancels two tour dates due to ‘extreme exhaustion’

Former Smiths frontman had been due to play in Mexico City and Guadalajara

Louder

“It was those first two lines. I felt like it was speaking to my life. I knew I could deliver that song with conviction”: One day Sebastian Bach was playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents. The next he was singing one of hair metal’s greatest anthems

The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild

The Guardian - UK

Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I Want Your Soul by Armand Van Helden is so relentlessly catchy I’m sick of it’

The comedian and presenter would do LL Cool J at karaoke – if his family’s lives depended on it. But what song would make his funeral ‘pop off’?

The Guardian - UK

Rosalía’s Berghain is a thunderous goth-pop hit – but is it opera?

The Catalan star’s epic new single is delighting and dividing classical music fans in equal measure

The Independent UK

‘My parents had what we call a shotgun wedding. They were just kids doing the best they could’: Stephen Wilson Jr on grief, hymns and resilience

NEW SENSATIONS: After quitting his gig as a research scientist and releasing his first song aged 40, Stephen Wilson Jr has established himself as one of the most intriguing, and talented, country music newcomers in years. He speaks with Roisin O’Connor about the loss that inspired his astonishing debut album‘søn…

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