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“Someone borrowed it and when it was returned the speakers were blown”: Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones is auctioning off his gear – including his Them Crooked Vultures amp that he left at Dave Grohl’s house

Other picks include a host of rack-mounted studio gear and a rare mechanical echo

Guitar World

“It was Michael Jackson’s label. The people that worked there mostly thought that alternative, heavy music was garbage”: How cult fixtures Prong found their brief mainstream moment

1994’s Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck was a hit, but it wasn’t enough for the hardcore-turned-metal band’s big-label bosses

Metal Hammer

“It’s like this little country tune, played with triads on the piano... I thought, ‘how do I make those chords bloom with this very simple melody?’": How Prince and The Revolution turned the bare bones of Purple Rain into a lighters-in-the-air epic

Thanks to Stranger Things, a whole new generation of listeners is now getting to appreciate this 1984 mega-ballad

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“It’s like players are stepping into a different musical skin”: Evolution or revolution? Taylor rolls out its Next Generation Grand Auditorium lineup – potentially its most advanced guitars yet

Taylor's flagship model gets a power-up for 2026, with an all-new pickup, new bracing system, and innovative Action Control Neck joint

Guitar World

Morrissey returns: Former Smiths frontman announces new solo album

Controversial singer is preparing to release his first album in six years after a number of delays

The Independent UK

Morrissey announces first album in more than five years called Make-Up Is A Lie

The album was produced by Joe Chiccarelli and was recorded in France.

Evening Standard

“This song sounds like a group of friends going their separate ways forever”: The story behind the 2015 dream pop gem that TikTok can’t get enough of

It might be over ten years old, but nothing soundtracks an emotional pivot quite like Space Song

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‘A perplexing, astonishing finale’: world pays tribute to David Bowie a decade after his death

Celebrations of his life include David Bowie Day at Foyles bookshop and a re-release of classic family film Labyrinth as well as a slew of club nights

The Guardian - UK

"Nazis popped out of a U-Haul van, walking around the city." The craziest break-up ever, political black metal and Zakk Wylde's wingman: the best new metal bands you need to hear this month

From 'nu deathcore' pioneers Autumn Lies Buried to Finnish black metallers Svarta Havet, Black Label Society side project Dark Chapel and psychedelic sludgers Witchrot, these are the metal bands you need to hear in January 2026

Metal Hammer

“I actually cried when I heard his version of this song. I’m stoked!!”: David Byrne has covered Olivia Rodrigo’s Drivers License

Song is the first of Rodrigo’s Sour covers project

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Bruno Mars' First Tour in a Decade Heads to the UK in 2026 as Ticket Details Emerge

Bruno Mars announces his first tour in nearly a decade, with Wembley shows confirmed and UK ticket prices and presale details emerging.

International Business Times UK

Who is Skye Newman? Meet the BBC Sound of 2026 winner

‘To think that Sound Of started the year I was born, 2003 and now I’m a winner,’ says the 22-year-old singer

The Independent UK

'Genuinely exciting acts': Elton John says Irish music is having a moment

The legendary singer-songwriter reveals his excitement about a new wave of Irish talent

Evening Standard

David Bowie's childhood home in London is set to open to the public next year

David Bowie’s childhood home could soon become a tourist attraction

The Independent UK

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Singer Skye Newman named BBC Radio 1’s Sound Of 2026

The 22-year-old has toured with Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capaldi.

Metal Hammer

“We were supposed to sign our contract, but we had so much champagne celebrating that we forgot”: The story of Human Waste Project, the lost nu metal band who should have been huge

Fronted by the magnetic Aimee Echo, the four-piece had a major record deal and were close friends with Korn. But their career was sadly short-lived.

Louder

“He was grateful just to play some music rather than just dwell on death”: When two members of Yes and one member of Led Zeppelin got together, anything could have happened. Sadly, very little did

The demise of the world’s biggest rock band coincided with two prog icons’ descent into bewilderment. The only evidence of their existence is four unreleased demos and a few other hints at what might have been

Metal Hammer

“People were saying that the style we were playing would mean we never got signed”: Sounding nothing like anyone else, how System Of A Down overcame the odds and started their climb to dominance

1998 single Sugar brought the future nu metal superstars to the dance – and they were weird as hell

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Stylistically radical, Ibanez’s multi-scale Alpha series might just be the 21st-century prog-metal player’s favourite new guitar – but do you get the 7-string or the 8?

The Alpha series has everything you'd need form a high-performance guitar, with stainless steel frets, Fishman Fluence Modern humbuckers, locking tuners and more

The Independent UK

Bruno Mars ends decade-long wait for new album by dropping single and announcing stadium tour

Pop star will embark on a stadium tour in support of new album ‘The Romantic’, including two dates at London’s Wembley Stadium

Louder

"Towering riffs come to them as easily as dreaming does to the rest of us": Alter Bridge are at their most Alter Bridge on the unwaveringly confident Alter Bridge

It's more of the same on Alter Bridge's self-titled seventh album, but who’s complaining when their same is this good?

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“The first time I played it, I had such a connection with it. I thought, ‘This is it. This is the one’”: On his 26th birthday in 1970, Jimmy Page played his beloved Les Paul Custom ‘Black Beauty’ at the climax of a legendary Led Zeppelin show

And soon after, that famous guitar vanished

Louder

"I was naked in the vocal booth. At first, I did it as an experiment to see if it would help, then it became a tradition": The story of the spandex-clad classic that launched its creators into the stratosphere

Recorded on 9/11 and once voted the Greatest Song Of The Twenty-first Century So Far, I Believe In A Thing Called Love could have been a hit in any decade

Louder

“If you’re talking dazzling sleight of mind, radical ideas and a willingness to create shock-art for the masses, there was no one more brilliant”: Revisiting David Bowie’s career from a prog perspective

Beyond his work with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman and others, plus comparisons to Rush, ELP and krautrock, a commitment to audacious experimentation ran through the true icon’s entire life

The Independent UK

Let’s Eat Grandma’s Jenny Hollingworth: ‘My parents being boomers probably drilled all those Eighties synths into my head’

INTERVIEW : After overcoming personal tragedy, the 27-year-old, who achieved pop fame while still a teenager, was determined to have fun making music again. She talks to Patrick Smith about conquering stage fright, trauma, and why her friendship with her bandmate is so important

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