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Blake Lively’s team celebrates Justin Baldoni withdrawing ‘inappropriate’ Taylor Swift subpoena

Lively’s representative accused Baldoni’s legal team of ‘exploiting’ Swift’s fame by trying to put her ‘at the center of this case since day one’

The Independent UK

Charli xcx named songwriter of the year at Ivor Novello awards

Pop star recognised for sharp yet candid songcraft on Brat, but loses best album category to Berwyn at awards honouring songwriting excellence

The Guardian - UK

Kneecap’s TRNSMT performance would need major operation, say Police Scotland

ALLOWING Kneecap to perform at the TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow would require "a significant policing operation", Police Scotland…

The National (Scotland)

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“Horsemeat sounds a lot like a good amp": PRS redefines transparent overdrives with its Horsemeat pedal – packing three essential, performance-ready functions in one

Designed and assembled in the U.S.A., this overdrive pedal is part of Paul Reed Smith's debut pedal offerings – and promises to enhance your tone without coloring it

Guitar World

Taylor Swift has the chance to reclaim her original masters with the help of an unlikely source

Pop superstar has spent years trying to gain ownership of the original recordings of her first six albums

The Independent UK

"The first thing I notice is a bit of surprise": A guitarist tries 9.5 gauge guitar strings for the first time with the new Ernie Ball Tim Henson signature set

Are these strings a sweet spot for players? Guitarist Pete Emery finds out with this long-term test

MusicRadar

Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film review: 'insurrectionist pop thrills'

5/5 Stereolab return with their first album in 15 years and bring a political fury beneath their sophisticated pop grooves

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Sparks has been making music for more than half a century. They see no reason to retire

They’ve spent more than half a century together as bandmates and put out dozens of records

The Independent UK

'We're back': Kneecap announce surprise London gig hours after terror charge

Mo Chara was charged over the alleged display of a flag in support of Hezbollah at a gig in London last year

Evening Standard

“It’s like playing a concert for millions of people all at once, without ever stepping on stage”: A guitarist’s guide to sync licensing

Your guitar belongs on TV, and the way into one of the fastest-growing sectors of the music business may already be in your sights. Emmy-winning composer Mike Meiers breaks it down.

Guitar World

“It means everything to me. It’s the song that gave us our first big break, and it sounds great on the radio!”: The ’90s smash hit that pretty much wrote itself

“We never actually rehearsed the song — just played it!”

MusicRadar

“Being a great guitar player is always coming up with the right part for the right song, or the right solo”: The Fleshtones’ Keith Streng explains what he learned from a misspent youth at CBGB’s –and the merits of pointless practice

Streng’s rhythmic garage riffs keep the punk-era legends vital after five non-stop decades

Guitar World

Scotland’s most reliable sunshine! Teenage Fanclub’s greatest songs – ranked

As their album Grand Prix turns 30, we rate the standout moments from a group Kurt Cobain called ‘the best in the world’

The Guardian - UK

Singer CMAT says ‘fake version’ of Irish culture is being ‘built up’ by English

The 29-year-old, whose real name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, gave an interview to Glamour UK.

Evening Standard

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"Intense. Beautiful. Devastating." Seven bands who defined Desertfest London 2025

Desertfest 2025 took over five venues in Camden, north London at the weekend, and crushed our tiny brains into jellied chunks

Evening Standard

Paul McCartney was ‘pretty terrified’ to work with Barbra Streisand on new duet

The Beatles star recorded a new version of his track, My Valentine, with the Funny Girl star.

Louder

Jethro Tull announce six-disc Living In The Past reissue

Jethro Tull's newly expanded Living In The Past features Steven Wilson remixes, edits, demos, Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 and four promo films.

Guitar World

“My hand got totally trashed. I looked down and could see the bone of my pointer finger. I lost the ability to bend it”: An accident defined Chris Poland’s playing, but it didn’t stop him handling the high demands of Megadeth’s debut

Chris Poland offers an eye-witness account of a seminal moment in metal history, when Dave Mustaine channeled his fury through his Marshall and debuted with a thrash classic

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“There are more guitars than usual”: Tony Iommi lends his hellfire riffwork for his most obscure collaboration yet – a new single with the pop icon whose biopic starred a CGI monkey

The heavy metal legend has dragged the UK popstar’s fresh rock-influenced sound to intriguing new depths

Metal Hammer

“The mix was outrageous… the bass was so high they couldn’t play it on the radio”: Ian Gillan is really, really glad Tony Iommi wants to remix Born Again, one of Black Sabbath’s most maligned albums

Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, who briefly fronted Black Sabbath in 1983, likens his album with the band to Spinal Tap

Evening Standard

Metallica announce London Stadium gigs for 2026

The London gigs will be a No Repeat Weekend, where each concert will feature a different setlist and support line-up

The Independent UK

Eurovision winner JJ calls for Israel to be excluded from 2026 contest

Israel’s Eurovision entrant Yuval Raphael finished second to the Austrian singer in the 2025 contest

Evening Standard

Eurovision winner JJ urges Israel to be banned from song contest amid 'rigging' claims

The contest this year was overshadowed by protests against Israel's participation for the second-consecutive year, fuelled by the ongoing war in Gaza

MusicRadar

“I sat in this chair here and - ‘cos I’m not the best player, let’s be honest - I recorded one note at a time": Calvin Harris on being inspired by the Grateful Dead and the unconventional way he recorded the guitar riff on new single, Blessings

“I bought this guitar which was the guy’s favourite guitar, apparently,” he says of his recently acquired Martin dreadnought

The Guardian - UK

Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film review – after 15 years, the retro-futurists make a radiant return

Motorik grooves, Marxist critique and vintage synths – in their first album since 2010, Lætitia Sadier et al pick up where they left off yet sound more timely than ever

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