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Taylor Swift becomes first female artist to reach 100m monthly Spotify listeners

The music streaming giant announced the news via social media on Tuesday

Evening Standard

Adele Collapses Backstage at Las Vegas Residency, Says Her Team “Picked My Whole Body Up Off the Floor”

She had a flare-up of sciatica, a spinal condition.

Marie Claire

Taylor Swift appears to reference infamous Kanye West VMA interruption during Eras Tour

Rapper ran on stage at the 2009 event as the ‘Cruel Summer’ singer was accepting Best Video by a Female Artist

The Independent UK

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Ariana Grande addresses ‘bullying’ from fans: ‘I was very sad’

Pop star’s debut album originally included a pink and floral cover image

The Independent UK

"I still confront the expectations of my audience. I rarely give them what they want": Steven Wilson on the "privilege" of being able to do what the hell he likes

Steven Wilson will never again give the music industry what it wants: "We were pressured to try to write a grunge radio anthem. I did it, but I felt so dirty"

Louder

How to assemble the ultimate live acoustic guitar rig

From how to banish feedback to sweetening your tone through EQ, get yourself gig-ready now

Guitar World

She started out posting scary-accurate Pantera covers that saw her hailed as the guitar reincarnation of Dimebag Darrell – then Kayla Kent found herself in the running to be the band’s new guitarist

The YouTuber was invited backstage at a recent Pantera show by Dimebag’s guitar tech Grady Champion, where she received the news from Phil Anselmo – not to mention an in-depth tour of Champion’s intense effects duties

Guitar World

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Kesha Goes Naked on Instagram to Promote Her New Album, 'Gag Order'

The album is out now.

Marie Claire

See Taylor Swift Nod At Kanye West Feud In Rare Dig During Her Eras Tour

Taylor Swift made a rare dig at Kanye West during her Eras Tour.

Cinemablend

“We put a lot of money, time and effort into it, then it disappeared.” The story of Metallica: Through The Never – how metal’s biggest band and a Spider-Man star disastrously bombed at the box office

Metallica wanted to make their answer to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains The Same, and even hired future Spider-Man star Dane DeHaan to help. But then Metallica: Through The Never became one of the band’s most costly misadventures.

Metal Hammer

"When I heard that on the radio, I went, Dammit, I should have written that song": Alice Cooper names the emo and grunge anthems he wishes he had written

The Godfather of Shock Rock singles out the emo and grunge classics that he wishes were his songs

Louder

"It appeared that he had fallen down an elevator shaft, but we knew that he was murdered": the traumatic story of Deep Purple's visit to Indonesia in 1975

At the beginning of the Come Taste The Band tour, Deep Purple stopped off in Jakarta to play a show en route to Japan. It did not go well

Louder

Cliff Richard honours ‘dear friend’ Olivia Newton-John with ‘emotional’ reworked song on new album

‘Grease’ star died last year, aged 73, from longstanding breast cancer diagnosis

The Independent UK

The 10 greatest nu metal bands of all time

Nu metal is undoubtedly the genre that defined a generation of heavy bands. Here are the ten greatest to ever be blessed with the nu metal tag

Metal Hammer

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Guitar World

“Sick”: In 1985, Kurt Cobain carved one word into this Teisco Del-Ray guitar. Now it has sold at auction for $153,000

The instrument recently sold at auction for a price that far exceeded the $10,000 minimum bid

Evening Standard

Haim at All Points East review: the perfect chaotic ending to Victoria Park’s summer takeover

The Los Angeles band was in party mode with a playful headline set

Cinemablend

Will Taylor Swift Ever Host The Halftime Super Bowl? The Specific Reasons That Have Kept Her From Doing It So Far

Taylor Swift has yet to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show, but there are some good reasons for it.

The Conversation

With 'Goodbye Mary,' Molly Tuttle extends country music's lineage of reproductive rights songs to the post-Roe era

Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In A Small Town” extols small towns as bastions of conservative values standing up against a litany of violent big-city bogeymen. The song, and the backlash against it, threatens to strengthen popular conceptions about the inherent conservatism of country music.

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“It was a finished product, called A for Anderson, intended as a solo record. Then the record company heard it." The story of Jethro Tull and A

When 1980's A came out it featured a new Jethro Tull line-up, a new sound and songs about the threat of nuclear war and terrorism. Not everyone was impressed.

MusicRadar

Unlock Josh Homme’s QOTSA tones with the Skeleton Key, the new £99 drive pedal from Funny Little Boxes

Is this the pedalboard solution that Queens Of The Stone Age fans have been waiting for?

Louder

"It would just have reminded me of being back in Nirvana. It would have been sad, for me personally": Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on why he turned down joining Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty once asked Dave Grohl to become an official Heartbreaker, but the Foo Fighters frontman wasn't keen

MusicRadar

“The first time I saw a Martin, it was like an exotic creature”: Watch Eric Clapton run the rule over his Guitar Center exclusive signature acoustics

Check out the other models in a limited run that celebrates 25 years of Crossroads Guitar Festival – including signature Clapton Strats and a PRS Private Stock Carlos Santana

Metal Hammer

"That kind of bare-bones grit they had in the early days was replaced with this driving sonic overload": Why I ❤️ AC/DC's Back In Black, by Kiss's Paul Stanley

Kiss legend Paul Stanley has a theory about what makes great bands great

MusicRadar

The KLF remake scrapped 1987 album and donate it to British Library

1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) was withdrawn from sale following a dispute with ABBA over unauthorized samples

Louder

Steven Wilson shares first music from The Harmony Codex. Watch the video for Economies Of Scale here

Steven Wilson will release new album The Harmony Codex on September 29

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