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Pink Floyd commemorated in new poem from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Pink Floyd will release Wish You Were Here 50 on various formats on December 12

Louder

Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

Poet laureate pays tribute to ‘message in a bottle tied to a life buoy thrown from a ghost ship’ released when he was 12

The Guardian - UK

"For months and months, I was the only one who ever heard the song. I kept it in my back pocket": The true story of the Aerosmith classic built from a riff its writer almost didn't share

The tale behind one of Aerosmith's most iconic songs

Louder

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“As anniversary editions go, this one is exhaustively thorough”: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s One Size Fits All, five decades on

The original nine tracks expanded to 58 – and while there’s some repetition and flawed live production, the energy is vigorous

Louder

Watch Wolfgang Van Halen demonstrate finger-tapping on promising new music show Song Cake

The first episodes of Song Cake are available to watch online now

Louder

Mega fans line up for merch as Oasis countdown begins

Oasis fans have queued for merchandise as excitement builds ahead of the band's opening concert in Australia.

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“I knew I couldn’t take a ‘56 Junior and butcher the nut to put on the super fat strings that I would need for these low tunings”: Why Three Days Grace’s Barry Stock is embracing the Ibanez Iceman – and picking his trusty Quad Cortex over a 7-string

Alienation finds Three Days Grace reinvented as a quintet, and exploring the destructive power of super-low tunings. Onstage, meanwhile, Stock has been having fun with a Porsche GT Silver-themed Ibanez...

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Reneé Rapp forced to reschedule two shows due to illness

Pop star, who is currently on her Bite Me tour, said her body has ‘finally given out’

The Independent UK

“If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it”: The DIY attitude that led to Tom Waits’ finest album

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of inventive instrumentation

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“My only regret is that I don’t get to play them all as often as I would like”: U2’s Adam Clayton is auctioning off a score of bass guitars that have shaped the band’s sound over the years

U2’s Adam Clayton is auctioning off a score of bass guitars that have shaped the band’s sound over the years

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Jazz great Jack DeJohnette - drummer for Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and others - dies, aged 83

He played on Bitches Brew and Live-Evil

MusicRadar

Jack DeJohnette, acclaimed jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis, dies at 83

Acclaimed jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has died at 83

The Independent UK

‘All roads lead to Grace Jones’: visual artists on the music that fires them up in the studio

Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson enjoys everything from Bach to the Cure. Artists reveal the bangers that get their creative juices fizzing

The Guardian - UK

“I didn’t think it was the most important album since Sgt Pepper. But I certainly knew saying that brought more attention to it, and more sales to it”: Sananda Maitreya on why he talked up his debut album as Terence Trent D’Arby

It was his “Muhammad Ali impression,” he says now

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Jack DeJohnette was more than a jazz drummer – his staggering range made him a superhuman force in music

With a complex playing style that was nevertheless generous towards other musicians, the US musician was in a category all of his own

Metal Hammer

“We were being told that we were going to be the new Nine Inch Nails, the new Nirvana, even though we don’t sound remotely like them”: The story of Godflesh – the cult metal duo worshipped by Metallica, Korn and Type O Negative

Godflesh are far from metal’s most famous band, but they’ve influenced Metallica, been asked to tour with Danzig and almost had one of their members hired by Faith No More

The Guardian - UK

Sananda Maitreya review – the former Terence Trent D’Arby returns in astonishing vocal form

Pop’s lost prodigy returns for the first time in 23 years with a dazzling, genre-hopping show – and a falsetto that still floors the crowd

Metal Hammer

"I think the more metal people are, the nicer they are." Alter Bridge on the huge impact one wrestling star has had on their career - and why metalheads are the nicest people going

One metal-loving wrestling legend using an Alter Bridge song as his theme tune helped gain the band countless new followers

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“Eddie Van Halen said, ‘How do you guys do that with three guitars? I have a hard enough time with just myself!’” A salute to Freddie Salem, the guitar ace who delivered licks for Barbra Streisand, and Southern rock fire and brimstone with the Outlaws

The late guitarist went from hard-rock hijinks to a well-respected session career, and had skills and stories – a smoke with Johnny Depp in full Jack Sparrow dress, a 9 a.m. whiskey with Keith Richards – aplenty, but always remained humble and easy-going

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“This isn’t ‘inspired by’ it. It’s built on the same ingredient that forged it”: Korn pioneered the very sound of nu metal with their debut album – now those tones have been put in a pedal

The Indigo Sludge Preamp + Fuzz offers the band's iconic early tone in a stompbox

Louder

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 27, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Michael Monroe, Mammoth, ZZ Ward and more

Metal Hammer

We asked Metallica’s Kirk Hammett to name the best Motörhead song and this is what he told us

“Lemmy opens up his voice and starts singing, my mind exploded!”

The Independent UK

For Demi Lovato, 'It's Not That Deep.' Her new pop era, album and tour are reasons to celebrate

On her ninth studio album, Demi Lovato has had a revelation: “It’s Not That Deep.”

MusicRadar

“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was, like, ‘If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Radiohead on the resurgent OK Computer track that almost split the band

Guitarist Ed O’Brien admits that he was "astonished" when the song went viral earlier this year

Guitar World

“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was like, ’If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Thom Yorke reflects on the viral Radiohead smash that nearly broke up the band

The song has been doing the rounds on social media ahead of Radiohead’s upcoming reunion tour – but it almost didn’t see the light of day

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