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Morrissey cancels two tour dates due to ‘extreme exhaustion’

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

The Independent UK

“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

Louder

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

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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 Guardian - 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…

The Independent UK

Sudan Archives: ‘My favourite fact? I’m 100% that bitch’

The violin-playing sonic experimentalist on gadgets, guilty pleasures, and her most controversial pop culture opinion

The Guardian - AU

“That’s the last barrier we have to tear down”: The one thing stopping headless guitars being embraced by traditional players, according to Ola Strandberg

Strandberg instruments have been pigeonholed as metal guitars, but the company wants guitarists to realize they aren't just for prog players

Guitar World

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“I asked them, ‘What’s it like to be famous?’ and they all said, ‘We hate it’”: The story of the landmark grunge album that paved the way for Nirvana’s Nevermind but set the band that made it on the path to darkness

A year before Nirvana broke out with Nevermind, Alice In Chains Seattle’s grunge scene on the map

Metal Hammer

Sources Weigh In on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Private Relationship Rule

Marie Claire

Kesha Backs KPop Group NewJeans After Court Defeat: 'My Heart Is With You'

Kesha sends support to K-pop group NewJeans after their failed bid to end their ADOR contract, drawing parallels to her own legal battle with producer Dr Luke.

International Business Times UK

Liam Gallagher furiously chastises fan who launched flare into crowd at Oasis gig

Liam Gallagher has issued a furious rebuke to a fan at a recent Oasis gig who discharged a flare in the middle of the crowd.

The Independent UK

“Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history

Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold

Louder

“I hate new basses. I think they are terrible. I don’t want to have one in my hands”: How Sting’s 1953 P-Bass set the tone for this Police classic

Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline

Guitar World

“Who’d have thought the Oasis reunion would be such an event for signature guitars?” All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the Hummingbird’s evil twin

A host of highly anticipated signatures, some surprising company-firsts, and the evil twin of the classic Hummingbird all landed this week

Guitar World

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Evening Standard

Gustaffson's Andrew Gower: 'We want people to listen to music, not just hear it"

The new single from Gustaffson - fronted by Ellis star Andrew Gower - is an ode to real music with all its imperfections

Guitar World

“Me and Chino rowed a lot when we were working on it. It was a really abrasive process”: Deftones' White Pony was one of the first metal masterpieces of the new millennium. Its creation was anything but smooth sailing

Resident riffmaster Stephen Carpenter minced no words in this 2000 interview, rolling his eyes at “our friends” Korn, and even – before walking it back – calling his bandmate's guitar-work “awful.” Still, though, he was proud of the band's “really awesome record”

Tom’s Guide

This Cassette Boombox just blew away every other Bluetooth speaker — but it's not cheap

It might look old, but the GB-001 is filled with modern features — and it delivers some truly epic sound.

Metal Hammer

“You’ll hear him say everything from, ‘I never wanted it to be a single’ to ‘I hated the song’”: The huge Linkin Park hit that Chester Bennington didn’t even want on Hybrid Theory

Even Chester admitted that he was wrong

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Louder

“As sprawling musically as it is thematically, closing an epic cycle in style”: Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun is a triumphant journey’s end

Riverside’s Mariusz Duda concludes his circle-of-life-and-death story with eighth instalment (that takes place between the fifth and fourth)

Louder

“I was with Ozzy nine months and it didn’t end in a good break-up”: Drum legend Carmine Appice on getting high with Jimi Hendrix, falling out with Ozzy Osbourne and the late guitar hero he spoke to just before he died

Drum legend Carmine Appice has been in the business for 60 years – and he’s crossed paths with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Dave Grohl

The Guardian - AU

‘G’day Australia. Did you miss us?’ Oasis kicks off Australia tour with euphoric show

The bucket hats were out in force at Marvel Stadium as Liam and Noel Gallagher made a polished – and even affectionate – return to Melbourne

Guitar World

“It’s become impossible to operate sustainably as a predominantly brick and mortar musical instrument retailer in the UK”: Scotland’s Kenny’s Music is the latest guitar shop chain to close its doors – despite strong sales figures

Kenny’s had a physical presence in Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dunfermline and its closure continues a worrying trend that has seen UK gear heavyweights GAK and PMT go to the wall

Guitar World

“Matt and MGW have collaborated for several years to fine-tune the pedal… And the results will astonish you”: Manson Guitar Works' debut fuzz pedal is here, but will Matt Bellamy’s high-end boutique stompbox be worth the wait?

Co-designed by the Muse frontman, designed to go into your amp or direct to desk, and built in partnership with Thorpy FX, the Supermassive Black Fuzz is a lot of pedal – and it ain't cheap

MusicRadar

“I think we’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying”: When David Bowie gave an amazingly accurate prediction of how the internet would change everything - and even hinted at AI

Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was going to change music and content forever

Evening Standard

Arcade Fire couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne split after 22 years of marriage

Break-up comes after Butler faced misconduct allegations, which he denies, three years ago

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