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Ed Sheeran: Play review – A musical buffet lacking a signature dish

3/5 The singer-songwriter returns with a new album that’s rich in influences – but short on bangers

The Independent UK

Album reviews: JADE – That’s Showbiz Baby, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Perimenopop

JADE’s solo debut is at its best when it echoes the maximalist racket of its lead single, while Sophie Ellis-Bextor is back to her commanding, confident pop-star self on ‘Perimenopop’

The Independent UK

Motörhead: 50 Years Louder - A celebration, only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Robert Plant, Terry Reid, Grand Funk Railroad, Luke Morley, Spinal Tap, George Harrison, W.A.S.P, Vernon Reid and more

Louder

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Radiohead condemn ‘exploitative’ touts and resale sites ahead of tour

Band urges fans to avoid secondary sites, where more than 1,000 potentially fraudulent tickets for their shows have been found

The Guardian - UK

‘Addiction teaches you a lot’: breakout pop star Lola Young on sex, substances and self-loathing

The south Londoner’s honesty about her vices has made her a gen Z hero: she was in rehab when her biggest hit was blowing up. Singing about sex on her new album, she says, is a way to mask the pain

The Guardian - UK

Garth Brooks to play first UK gig in three decades at BST Hyde Park next year

Brooks was announced as the first headliner for the British Summer Time festival in June

Evening Standard

Ed Sheeran: Play review – subcontinental sounds and shards of darkness – but still unmistakably him

Despite embracing Indian and Persian sounds, Sheeran’s eighth album goes back to basics after two records of muted melancholy – albeit with some surprising undercurrents

The Guardian - UK

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Ireland won’t participate in Eurovision 2026 if Israel does: Broadcaster

RTE says participating would be ‘unconscionable’ as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza and the ‘appalling loss of lives’.

Al Jazeera

Here is the setlist for Lewis Capaldi at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow this weekend

If you're planning on attending one of his concerts this weekend, here is everything you need to know about the setlist for Lewis Capaldi at the OVO…

The National (Scotland)

“Memo for radio show - list of favourite records": Jeff Beck, Roxy Music and Miles Davis all make the list of David Bowie’s 15 favourite tracks

List was made for a putative radio show

MusicRadar

“Heavy metal and drop D is a match made in heaven”: Eddie Van Halen used it, Jimmy Page loved it, and all of your heavy metal heroes have tried it – drop D made drop-dead simple

Drop D tuning is one of the easiest alternate tunings to get to grips with. Here’s our step-by-step guide

Guitar World

Watch Metallica play Master Of Puppets to just 500 people at ultra-intimate show last month

The heavy metal giants held one of their smallest-ever shows in Long Island on August 28

Metal Hammer

“I saw the message and I was like, ‘Who the hell is this guy?’ He called me the next day and offered me a world tour”: How Yungblud bassist Silke Blansjaar got the gig of a lifetime – despite not playing bass

The Gibson Grabber-wielder was actually a drummer when she went from playing to a room of 100 to an arena of 6,000 overnight. She explains the golden rule of session work and why she likes to keep her rig old-fashioned

Guitar World

Hitmaker Bert Berns is posthumously included in Songwriters Hall of Fame

Songwriter and producer Bert Berns has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Independent UK

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“We’d done 11 songs. Nobody wanted to do another except me and Mutt. But I said, ‘Sorry, boys – you can’t turn this chorus down!’”: How Def Leppard created a mega-hit song in 10 days after spending three years on an album

"It was really based on rap stuff – not your standard rock song”

Louder

Spock's Beard return with The Archaeoptimist, their first new studio album in seven years!

US prog rock quintet Spock's Beard will release their new stidio album, The Achaeoptimist, in November

Guitar World

“I grabbed his hand saying, ‘Thank you for everything.’ He goes, ‘You were the only guitar player who said no to me’”: Nuno Bettencourt remembers his final exchange with Ozzy Osbourne – a reminder of the gig he once turned down

As a 15-year-old, Bettencourt auditioned to become Randy Rhoads’ replacement. When the gig presented itself years later, he declined

The Guardian - UK

And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion

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Bad Bunny Shocks Fans: The Real Reason He Refuses to Tour the U.S. in 2025

Bad Bunny stunned fans by revealing why his 2025–2026 world tour skips the United States. The Puerto Rican superstar says fears of ICE raids outside his concerts convinced him to keep his shows abroad, leaving U.S. fans disappointed.

Evening Standard

Hot Chip: 'They said we were a weird boy band version of the Spice Girls'

Hot Chip have a greatest hits album out which is a perfect time to talk to frontman Alexis Taylor about their unassuming rise to being national treasures

Guitar World

“He wanted to show me his really nice old Les Paul, and I just said, ‘I don’t like Les Pauls,’ and walked off”: When Joe Bonamassa was introduced to Joanne Shaw Taylor – who “offended” him on their first meeting

The two blues guitar greats crossed paths at a festival in 2008 – but Taylor wasn’t interested in what Bonamassa had to show her

MusicRadar

“All of this posturing is Jim Morrison meets the bloke from Stone Temple Pilots meets everybody else who’s ever owned a pair of leather trousers”: Justin Hawkins backs up his brother’s criticism of Yungblud’s VMAs Ozzy Osbourne tribute

“It’s not authentic”... says the frontman of The Darkness

Guitar World

“I said, ‘That’s my music.’ His manager said, ‘You’re a girl. You don’t have the money to fight this’”: Rita Coolidge alleges she helped write Eric Clapton’s Layla – but never got credit for it

In a resurfaced interview, Coolidge recalls the time she sought a songwriting credit for composing the song’s piano coda – but was rebuffed

The Guardian - UK

Belinda Carlisle review – gleeful veteran lassoes devoted audience with ageless hits

Rattling through her 80s hits the singer is clearly revelling in the nostalgia – in a showcase that makes her a strong candidate for the Glastonbury legends slot

Metal Hammer

Motörhead to be celebrated on punk rock tribute album featuring Pennywise, Anti-Nowhere League and others

Killed By Deaf: A Punk Tribute To Motörhead will be out on October 31

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