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Alan Osmond obituary

Oldest member of the family pop group that had Top 10 hits in the US and UK in the early 1970s

The Guardian - UK

“I wanted a bicycle for Christmas, and they gave me a guitar. It pissed me off”: Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has played with everyone from Steely Dan to Dolly Parton – but he didn’t even want to be a guitar player

Baxter would go on to become a bona fide guitar great, but his life might have turned out differently had he got his wish...

Guitar World

Olivia Dean review – soul-pop superstar shimmies into a classy and commanding first arena tour

The glam set design, gleaming brass and Motown moves are knowingly retro, but Dean’s performance is immediate, vulnerable and natural – the work of a singular artist

The Guardian - UK

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“It was cheaper to come here and rent a whole hotel out of season. The bar was open 24/7”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson recalls writing classic albums in empty Jersey hotel

The singer looks back on writing Piece Of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time in a hotel on the Channel Islands

Metal Hammer

“Mark Knopfler, he's soloing kind of all through the record. And that's what I did, too”: Bruce Hornsby explains why a classic Dire Straits song is a “kindred spirit” to his biggest hit

He also reveals which hip-hop interpolation of The Way It Is he likes the best

MusicRadar

“I’m deeply uncomfortable with the amount of old men here. I’m no longer interested in playing blues or whatever the hell keeps attracting y’all”: Grace Bowers has quit YouTube over the number of “old ass creeps”

Bowers has also once again distanced herself from the blues, saying she wants to make music for her own generation

Guitar World

Foo Fighters, Your Favorite Toy review – Dave Grohl’s most revealing (and self-eviscerating) songs yet

4/5 After the numb grief of 2023’s ‘But Here We Are’, the band’s first album in the wake of drummer Taylor Hawkins’ death, ‘Your Favorite Toy’ feels like a back-to-basics blast of fresh air, with Grohl using these songs to face up to himself

The Independent UK

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'Ringo's Never Done This': Paul McCartney Teases Historic Reunion Track That Takes Fans Back to 1940s Liverpool

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite on Home To Us, a new duet from The Boys From Dungeon Lane that revisits their Liverpool roots and long, tangled history together.

International Business Times UK

What’s missing? Everything But the Girl’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

With their sublime confection of heartbreak and dancefloor power, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have never sounded like anyone else. Thirty years since Walking Wounded, here’s the duo’s very best

The Guardian - UK

Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny named Spotify’s most streamed artists of all time

The list charts the most streamed music, podcasts and audiobooks since the platform launched nearly two decades ago.

Evening Standard

“I haven’t spoken to Bernard for… I didn’t even speak to him. He spoke at me. That’ll be 15 years": Peter Hook says he won’t perform or stand with New Order at their RNR Hall Of Fame – unless he receives an apology

Liam and Noel Gallagher could be intermediaries, he says

MusicRadar

"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3

After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...

Metal Hammer

"One love for the world!" French psychedelic rock mind expanders Slift announce North America, Europe and UK tour dates

Slift reveal 2026 tour itinerary

Metal Hammer

After over a decade of silence, Boards Of Canada confirm new album

Duo had teased it via mailouts of VHS tapes

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"The Ramones rescued rock 'n' roll." How Ramones' first album changed the lives of punk rock icons Henry Rollins, Bob Mould, Ian MacKaye and Steve Albini, in their own words

On April 23, 1976 Sire Records released a punk rock record that changed everything

Guitar World

“I haven’t heard anything this cool in a generation”: Nuno Bettencourt names the up-and-coming guitarist who has blown his mind

Bettencourt rarely reposts players on his social media accounts, but this Instagram guitarist-producer has got him all worked up

Metal Hammer

"I wrote a lot of the tracks envisioning powerful live drumming – enter Dave Grohl." How the former Nirvana drummer shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' album With Teeth

Trent Reznor wanted his drummer to play like Dave Grohl on their 2005 album, so he got the Foo Fighter frontman stop by the studio instead

The Guardian - UK

‘When I finish my classes, I feel sad’: anger builds over gyms swapping pop classics for cheap covers

The fitness chain Better has replaced musicians’ tracks with cover versions, causing dismay among punters and instructors who say the change is killing the energy

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Yes reschedule postponed UK Fragile tour to May 2027

Yes will also release their twenty-fourth studio album, Aurora, in June

Metal Hammer

"One of the year’s most instantaneous, joyous, technicolour listens." Mixing reggae, heavy metal, punk, hip hop and pop and never missing a beat, Skindred's You Got This is the burst of sunshine you need

Headlining Wembley Arena, selling out shows and climbing the charts: the future has never looked brighter for Skindred

The Independent UK

It bombed in the charts, critics hated it – so how did the Ramones make one of the best debut albums ever?

INTERVIEW: Half a century ago, four New York misfits released a fast, loud, provocative first album that changed music forever. Kevin E G Perry talks to their manager Danny Fields, producer Craig Leon and photographer Roberta Bayley about how a chart bomb became one of the most influential records of…

The Independent UK

Celeste Rivas Hernandez, girl who singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating wounds

Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old girl singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating injuries

Evening Standard

Zara Larsson says Charli XCX inspired her star-studded remix album

The record will feature 13 female artists.

Louder

"A reminder of just how powerful and wonderful music can be in a world where little else makes sense." Frank Turner charms the capital with a celebration of twenty years of punk rock honesty

Frank Turner closes out his Campfire Punkrock Twenty tour in London

Metal Hammer

Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg reveals he first jammed with the band just 24 hours before they announced the departure of Joey Jordison

Weinberg played with Slipknot from 2014 to 2023, and admits he has "no regrets" about his time in the band as he lines up new projects

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