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“It’s a team of terrifying quality – but the result is no face-melting noodle-fest. Everything stems from musical ideas”: Gavin Harrison and Nick Johnston’s Early Mercy

King Crimson and Porcupine Tree drummer and new Mastodon guitarist deliver strange, beautiful music with help from Allan Holdsworth bassist Evan Marien

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“The ego is quite useless in a writing situation. I just ask myself, ‘What does this song want?’” Deacon Blue’s polymath guitar genius Gregor Philps dissects his six-string approach, and reveals his favorite Strat (clue: it isn’t a Fender)

The venerable Scottish pop-rock institution returns with another immaculately crafted album, taking us down The Great Western Road

Guitar World

“A classic fuzz with two distinct flavors makes a welcome return”: Shaftesbury Duo Fuzz Heritage Edition review

Rose-Morris resurrects a long-gone brand in conjunction with ThorpyFX for a reissue of a vintage fuzz pedal

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“It wasn’t pure hatred all the time”: Pink Floyd’s The Wall movie and its feuds, falling-outs and friction

Bob Geldof ruthlessly baited Roger Waters, Gerald Scarfe feared he’d created a new skinhead movement and the media hated the morbidity – but the third part of the multimedia trilogy was a triumph

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Oasis reunion to deliver £136.6m boost to Edinburgh, analysis forecasts

OASIS fans are forecast to bring £136.6 million cash injection Edinburgh when visiting the city for the band's reunion shows

The National (Scotland)

Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimée adds special detail to rocker’s death certificate

Singer and actor honoured her father’s legacy on the death certificate that also revealed the rock legend’s cause of death

The Independent UK

"It just sort of happened": Meet the men who prompted R.E.M. to reunite

Actor Michael Shannon and musician Jason Narducy are currently on the road celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.'s 1985 album, Fables of the Reconstruction

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"What matters is that we get the message to younger generations": H.E.A.T's Kenny Leckremo on the state of rock and why Swedes write songs in the dark

Kenny Leckremo talks Erik Grönwall, big hair, ice hockey and the brilliance of cheese

Louder

K Mak at the Planetarium review – cosmic trip into the void

Performed amid psychedelic projections, the Australian singer’s gig has an otherworldly beauty yet fails to take off

The Guardian - UK

Chuck Mangione obituary

Musician who helped to create ‘smooth jazz’, an easy-listening sound that won him two Grammy awards

The Guardian - UK

Father pays tribute to ‘hard-working family man’ who died at Oasis concert

Lee Claydon, who died after reportedly falling from upper tier at Wembley Stadium, remembered as ‘lovely bloke’

The Guardian - UK

Father who fell to death at Oasis Wembley show was a ‘lifelong fan’

Landscape gardener Lee Claydon, 45, of Bournemouth, Dorset, died following the incident at the London event on Saturday, according to his family.

Evening Standard

A former Rolling Stone says the Met has his stolen guitar. The museum disputes it

A guitar once played by two Rolling Stones members is at the center of a dispute between former guitarist Mick Taylor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Independent UK

"I don't have the personality or the playing style to fulfill what he needs": Francis Dunnery quits John Payne’s Asia after just one gig

‘It’s not you, it’s me’, says It Bites man

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Watch Linkin Park thrill 90,000 fans with a killer version of The Emptiness Machine recorded at their spectacular sold-out show at London's iconic Wembley Stadium earlier this summer

Watch the 21st century's biggest metal band on peak form at huge UK show back in June

Guitar World

The all-new October 2025 Guitar World – where Smashing Pumpkins and Sex Pistols mingle openly with Carlos Santana and Khruangbin

Featuring new interviews with Billy Corgan, Kiki Wong, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Zakk Wylde, the Beach Boys' Al Jardine, Inhaler's Josh Jenkinson and dynamic duos from Khruangbin, Momma, the Voidz and Phoneboy

Evening Standard

Ozzy Osbourne exhibition at Birmingham museum extended after public demand

Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero was opened by Sharon Osbourne ahead of Black Sabbath’s farewell concert at Villa Park.

Guitar World

“I was looking at my watch thinking, ‘I’m so miserable doing this.’ That was the last time we did anything with the original lineup”: Steve Jones on why Frank Carter gave the Sex Pistols a new lease on life – and where things stand with John Lydon

Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has recently stated that he will never return to the Sex Pistols

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Terry Reid, the powerhouse English vocalist invited to join Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, dead at 75

Confirmation of Terry Reid's death arrives just days after a crowdfunder was launched to help pay for his medical expenses

MusicRadar

“They’ve raised me on the greatest songs of all time”: Sabrina Carpenter gets her Let’s Groove on and celebrates September a month early as she's joined on stage by Earth, Wind & Fire at Lollapalooza

“I thought, ‘why not bring out my friends from Chicago?’”

Evening Standard

Tributes to ‘loving’ Oasis fan who fell to his death during Wembley Stadium reunion concert

Lee Claydon’s partner said she would ‘never stop loving her soulmate’ after Saturday’s tragedy in north west London

Guitar World

”Stevie told me to call his brother Jimmie and ask him to lend me his amp and then play it with a Strat so he could feel it through me”: Carlos Santana on his “visitation” from Stevie Ray Vaughan, who implored him to borrow his Dumble amp

Santana shares how he managed to borrow SRV's prized Dumble after both he and Stevie Ray's tech had the same dream...

Guitar World

“The first thing that I grabbed when I was like, ‘We’ve got to get the hell out of here’ was the double-neck that Alex Lifeson gave me”: Primus’ Larry LaLonde opens up on losing his house and nearly all his gear in the devastating California wildfires

LaLonde estimates that he lost about 58 guitars in the wildfire, including the “Sailing on the Seas of Cheese” Strat he had since high school

MusicRadar

“It's like he reached into a place that even he'd never got to before”: How Freddie Mercury took on mortality itself for Queen’s majestic final single

It was sadly to be Freddie’s last single with Queen before his untimely death just six weeks after its release

The Guardian - UK

Terry Reid, British musician championed by the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page and more, dies aged 75

Known as ‘Superlungs’, Reid turned down the role of frontman in Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple to focus on solo career

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