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Flying with Angels reminds us that Suzanne Vega has always excelled at channelling life’s outsider observers

3/5 At times, Vega’s use of clunky rhymes undoes the elegance of her more literary lines, but it’s still lovely to have her back in action

The Independent UK

Singer Låpsley on the three-way relationship that inspired her album: ‘There’s this assumption that if you love a second person, it takes away from the first’

INTERVIEW: After an unconventional relationship breakup, the singer wrote a new album that explores a love triangle involving her ex – also the album’s co-producer – and her now-fiancé. Felicity Martin speaks to Låpsley about this inspiring romantic entanglement, the serious financial problems of being an artist in the UK,…

The Independent UK

‘I Kissed a Girl’ singer-songwriter Jill Sobule dies in a fire

The award-winning singer-songwriter was scheduled to perform in Denver on Friday night

The Independent UK

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Mammoth return with horror-themed video starring Danny Trejo, Slash, Valerie Bertinelli and multiple zombie flesh-eaters

Wolfgang Van Halen is back with a new single, The End

Louder

"We were hoping to get as big as Fugazi. So it was really exciting and really frightening." Billie Joe Armstrong looks back on Green Day's "out of control" rocket ride to success, as his band celebrate getting star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

"It was a really scary time because it was definitely do or die."

Metal Hammer

"I don’t want people thinking, ‘We’re getting ripped off'." Ozzy Osbourne says he will "do the best I can" at Black Sabbath's farewell show, admits that fans will only be getting a "sample" of his solo career and Sabbath's catalogue

Ozzy Osbourne is determined to give his fans a memorable farewell show

Metal Hammer

Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne says he ‘may be sitting down’ for his final gig this summer amid health woes

Ozzy Osbourne will join his Black Sabbath bandmates for their first show together in 20 years in Birmingham on July 5

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Michael Bolton Brain Cancer: What Is Glioblastoma, What Are the Symptoms and Can You Prevent It?

Poprock legend Michael Bolton, 72, recently opened up about his cancer diagnosis and what his symptoms were— but what is glioblastoma, the disease killing 10k Americans yearly?

International Business Times UK

All of the Kneecap gigs that have been cancelled amid police probe

Politicians are pushing for the group to be dropped from the Glastonbury Festival line-up.

Evening Standard

Morgan Wallen’s label sells $200 million stake in his catalog

Big Loud sold the stake to music rights management company Chord Music Partners

The Independent UK

‘I’ll be there’: Ozzy Osbourne insists he will perform final concert amid health doubts

Exclusive: Black Sabbath frontman details training he is doing to ensure he is fit to play all-star reunion gig in July

The Guardian - UK

“If you messed something up on a production, admit it, fix it, and move on”: 8 cost-free tips to improve as a producer in 2025

Get ahead on your mixing game in 2025 with these spend-free tips from a master mixing engineer and producer

MusicRadar

“I subsequently became the world’s most famous guitarist with The Police. I wanted to play with somebody else to see how I’d do, like an experiment on myself”: At the height of his ’80s success, Andy Summers needed a challenge – he found Robert Fripp

As Summers’ and Fripp’s avant-garde albums of the 80s are reissued, we hear all about how the side-project came to be – and whether it could happen again

Guitar World

"I switched to a Stratocaster - I got a really good deal in the middle of the night for $120 - and then in 1972, Lowell George showed me his MXR compressor pedal”: Bonnie Raitt on how she developed her famous slide guitar style

“That feel is something you can’t teach - it’s something where I just listened and listened,” she says

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She wowed Sonny Landreth and Carlos Santana called her the “future” – Erja Lyytinen shares her 6 go-to slide licks for unlocking more expressive soloing

Latin Times

Former Menudo Star Sues Band Creator Over Decades of Rape, Names José Menéndez as Abuser in Shocking Court Filing

Ray Rosselló is providing a detailed recount of the abuse allegedly suffered in the hands of Edgardo Díaz, the creator and manager of Menudo at the time. The recount is hard to read.

What Hi-Fi?

Do you stream hi-res music or download hi-res tracks? We want your opinions

How do you listen to hi-res music? We want to know your preferences, opinions and experiences in our latest Ask the Reader column

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“The melodies work so well in this CGDGAD tuning. I’ve absolutely fallen in love with this arrangement”: Magic Mike Dawes is at it again – he’s turned a Sleep Token track into a work of solo acoustic guitar genius

Dawes makes this sort of thing look easy but on the scale of difficulty his version of Euclid is up there with impossible

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Evening Standard

Cynthia Erivo reveals she has been influenced by Blur and Oasis on new album

Erivo will release her second studio album I Forgive You, in June

The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran announces release date for eighth album ‘Play’

British pop star will share a new project later this year, featuring the singles ‘Azizam’ and ‘Old Phone’

Evening Standard

Ed Sheeran leaves maths series behind as he announces release date for Play

The latest record will see him delve into ‘new musical ground’.

Guitar World

“We had accidentally stored the bass in Seattle and paid $2,500 in rental fees!” 32 years ago, Jeff Ament rented a ’61 Jazz Bass from Norman's Rare Guitars to record Pearl Jam’s iconic Vs. record – and now he’s been reunited with it

Ament recently reconnected with the vintage four-string more than three decades after using it to track Vs in the early 1990s – and he immediately played it on stage

Evening Standard

Bob Geldof says he's 'blue in the face' hearing Freddie Mercury's Live Aid performance with Queen

The musician and activist was at Wembley for the launch of Just for One Day - The Live Aid musical ahead of it’s West End opening

MusicRadar

“He’d start, ‘You’ll never guess what I dreamed last night…’ and the groaning would begin”: How Rush marshalled Alex Lifeson’s dreams to write a bona-fide prog-rock classic

A tour-de-force of instrumental prog, La Villa Strangiato is the sound of Rush at the height of their powers, and this is how the Hemispheres epic came together

Guitar World

“Eddie’s musicianship blossomed when I joined the band”: Sammy Hagar on his musical dynamic with Eddie Van Halen – and why the virtuoso stopped releasing music in the 2000s

The former Van Halen frontman asserts that EVH flourished as a musician “because he got a singer that could say, ‘I can sing that’”

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