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Is It Beyonce's Time? Music's A-listers Ready For The Grammys

Music's elite are congregating in Los Angeles for Sunday's Grammy awards, and Beyonce's name is on the tip of everyone's tongue: will Recording Academy voters finally give the megastar her due?

International Business Times

Inhaler singer Elijah Hewson: ‘I’m 25 now – I’m getting old’

INTERVIEW: The Dublin chart-toppers are back with their third album, the pop-skewing ‘Wide Awake’. Ahead of its release, the band sit down with Mark Beaumont to chat about acclimatising to arenas, quarter-life crises, ‘nasty’ politicians – and why their frontman being the son of rock luminary Bono only made them…

The Independent UK

“It had a 13-minute spoken-word black mass on the B-side”: The mysterious late 60s album that Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt says invented Satanic rock

Six months before Black Sabbath released their landmark debut album, another band were praising Satan

Metal Hammer

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Taylor Swift and Beyonce to go head-to-head for best album at 2025 Grammy Awards

The 67th award ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Evening Standard

NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #336 (Sunday, February 2 2025)

We help you find today's Strands answers with some useful hints and tips to win.

Tom’s Guide

"Steely Dan had the capacity to be both inscrutable and popular, an enviable place to be": Steely Dan's tunes are rich and assured on the nonchalant Katy Lied

The Dan has a sonic wingding in 1975

Louder

Pre-Grammys Gala Honoring The Grateful Dead Focuses On Fire Relief

Music world A-listers took the stage Friday to honor the Grateful Dead at an annual pre-Grammys benefit gala, which this year raised millions for musicians impacted by the recent wildfires that devastated Los Angeles.

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What is Kendrick Lamar’s net worth as he headlines the Super Bowl halftime show?

Grammy-winning rapper is set to make his return to the Super Bowl halftime stage on February 9

The Independent UK

“It's a song with enough twists and quirks to make it stand out from the pop landscape”: A music professor breaks down Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe!

We put Chappell Roan's Grammy-nominated hit under the musical microscope

MusicRadar

Kehlani review – R&B tonic is just what the doctor ordered

The US singer might have needed medical attention and a little audience help to get them through, but the star’s charisma and candid material carried the day

The Guardian - UK

2025 Grammys: Residente and J Balvin Could Meet for the First Time Since Their Beef Began

The urban artists seemed like good friends until Residente dissed Balvin in a song. Now they could meet up at the Grammys.

Latin Times

Bullets and blues: Louis Armstrong’s difficult upbringing revealed after discovery of family police records

A new book reveals the jazz musician’s mother and sister were arrested several times for prostitution in New Orleans

The Guardian - UK

“Some do yoga, take drugs or go to a football game and start a fight. Music is what we do”: Soen embedded modern truth and old-school songwriting in fourth album Lotus

Swedish prog metal supergroup on why they flew the flag for classic songwriting values and honest live performances with 2019 release

Louder

Tie-dye and dancing bears: Grammy weekend begins with Grateful Dead honored as Persons of the Year

The Grateful Dead kicked off Grammy weekend being honored as MusiCares Persons of the Year

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“Part of a beautiful American tradition”: A music theory expert explains the country roots of Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ‘Em, and why it also owes a debt to the blues

The lead single from Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s Grammy-nominated country album, goes under the musical microscope

MusicRadar

“Maybe I’ll write out five or six chords, then discipline myself to write something only with those chords involved”: Why David Bowie’s restrictive songwriting strategies provide a lesson for us all

Sometimes imposing rules can force us out of our creative comfort zones. It's a tactic David Bowie used to birth some of his most celebrated songs.

Guitar World

“His performance should be studied by all bassists”: Played by a session great, this Chaka Khan line was hailed by Nathan East as “the perfect bassline”

Antony Jackson tuned his ‘career girl’ – a Fender hybrid consisting of a ’75 Jazz Bass body and ’73 Precision neck – down two whole steps for Move Me No Mountain

Metal Hammer

“The joke has always been, ‘Zakk, are you from the South?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, South Jersey! Down near the shore, bro!’”: Why Zakk Wylde swapped Black Label Society and metal for southern rock on Book Of Shadows 2

Zakk Wylde’s love of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young knows no bounds

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Louder

“Stevie Ray Vaughan was a little worse for wear. He was eating KFC out of a box and then ate the box as well”: Jeff Beck’s wild tales of Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and Frank Zappa

Sharing the stage with Page, giving Hendrix a guitar, being mistaken for Jagger – these were some of Jeff Beck‘s most memorable friendships

Louder

10 huge hits given away from one artist to another

From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had classics going spare and shopped them elsewhere.

WhatToWatch

Shane Lynch and Keith Duffy on filming new docuseries Boyzone: No Matter What - 'It was like an extended counselling session!'

Boyzone's Shane Lynch and Keith Duffy on the Sky docuseries charting the inside story of the events that shaped the band...

Guitar World

“He said, ‘Put it away and get a proper guitar!’ So it went by the wayside”: Andy Fairweather Low had a guitar specially bought for him in America, then brought back across the Atlantic – but Eric Clapton wouldn't let him use it onstage

“I was drawn to it immediately,” the journeyman player says of the guitar in question. “It's got colors and knobs and bits of Lego”

WhatToWatch

Go inside the 67th Annual Grammy Awards tonight with new CBS special

Inside the 67th Annual Grammy Awards special gives exclusive interviews and rehearsal footage with Grammy nominees like Sabrina Carpenter

Guitar World

“We're gonna play something we thought was appropriate for the evening”: Watch Slash join the Black Crowes for a heartfelt Led Zeppelin cover at star-studded FireAid benefit concert

Unlike the surviving members of Nirvana, the Black Crowes were featured on the FireAid bill beforehand, but they had a surprise of their own up their sleeves

Evening Standard

Central Cee’s debut album Can’t Rush Greatness tops UK chart

This is his second number one in the UK albums chart after his 23 mixtape secured the top spot in 2022.

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