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Festival-goers warned to watch out for ‘ticket traps’ when booking summer events

Music fans desperate to get their hands on coveted tickets could be susceptible to scams.

Evening Standard

“Each time I pressed Enter on the Akai S1000 I saw my life changing”: Air’s Nicolas Godin reveals the secrets of their Sexy Boy

Here’s how the band used a talkbox and a Leslie effect to create their '90s trip-hop masterpiece

MusicRadar

Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why Steven Wilson stopped producing their albums: “I could hear some ideas in my head that I like to think he would have brought up”

Prog idol Steven Wilson co-produced Opeth’s Blackwater Park, Deliverance and Damnation albums – Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why he didn’t return for Ghost Reveries

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“When we first opened, we never imagined that we’d still be in London three years on”: Abba: Voyage just got four new songs to mark its third anniversary

New fan favourites join the virtual gig’s all-hits line-up following an all-star anniversary party

MusicRadar

Glastonbury announces full lineup for 2025 … but who are Patchwork?

Festival adds secret sets to lineup at prime slots on Pyramid and Park stages, as it reveals full timings and artist details

The Guardian - UK

"He's got a way of reaching into my soul": The soundtrack of Samantha Fish's life

Guitarist and singer Samantha Fish picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the greatest cover version of all time

Louder

"We didn't want to become known as a ballad band. That's how you become Air Supply": Night Ranger look back on their sudden rise, equally sudden fall, and return to mid-level happiness

How did Night Ranger, a hard rock band with a few good licks and a few bad hairdos, suddenly find themselves in charts and stadiums all over the world?

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“My hand ran off the keyboard… I ground to a halt, threw my hands in the hair, and everyone looked at me. My father thought I was taking a bow and was very proud!” Genesis’ best and worst moments on stage

Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford on the band’s messy first show, hitting the road without Peter Gabriel, and what makes touring fun

Louder

"It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up." Watch the trailer for Every Time You Lose Your Mind, a new documentary saluting cult alt.rockers Failure, featuring interviews with Maynard James Keenan, Hayley Williams and more

Watch the inside story of the rise, fall, and rise again of Failure

Metal Hammer

Finneas announces new band called The Favors with US singer Ashe

Finneas has won 10 Grammys and two Oscars for his song writing and producing.

Evening Standard

Pulp is back for 'More,' their first album in 24 years. Even the Britpop band is surprised

The singular Britpop band Pulp has returned

The Independent UK

“In all the years I’d played with Albert, I’d always wanted to hear him play something in a minor key – and he smoked it!”: Robert Cray tells the story behind the greatest all-star blues team-up of the ‘80s

In 1985, Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, and Robert Cray got together for Showdown! – a bona-fide blues classic, and, as Cray tells us, a real fun time, too

Guitar World

“There are so many musicians that, live, you could be blown away by, but once they get into the studio, they can’t come up with parts that will last”: Andrew Watt on the essential studio skill that’s enabled him to work with rock gods and pop icons alike

He's worked with and played guitar for the likes of Bruno Mars, Pearl Jam, and Ozzy Osbourne, but there’s one player he believes nails his catch-all approach

Guitar World

“It's built in Jack White's spirit, with abundant potential for dialling in sounds that range from the practical and useable to wild and anarchic”: Donner x Third Man Hardware Triple Threat review

This Jack White collab collects high-gain distortion, phaser and echo in one $100 unit. It's big on value, but how does it sound?

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"It’s a completely different thing to a band where I’m hiding in the back." Lars Fredrik Frøislie and the story of his debut solo album Fire Fortellinger

Wobbler's defiantly old school keyboard player Lars Fredrik Frøislie finall went solo with his debut solo album Fire Fortellinger

The Independent UK

Shakira’s sixth concert canceled as DC mayor urges star to reschedule Pride show

‘Shakira, girl get yourself here!’ said Mayor Muriel Bowser

Guitar World

“I had this little house in California, back in 1984. My Marshall stacks and a reel-to-reel were set up in the living room. I remember getting my drummer to have a jam at 3am”: From his live show, to cutting classics, Yngwie Malmsteen lives off-the-cuff

He explains why his guitars are numbered, not named, his warts-and-all approach to studio work – and why his “I won’t conform or follow” attitude has nothing to do with arrogance

Evening Standard

Rod Stewart cancels Las Vegas concert over health issues just weeks before Glastonbury

The rocker, 80, also cancelled three concerts in his mammoth world tour earlier this year

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“I’ve never been very confident as a player. I’ve always felt like I had to work hard”: Alex Lifeson is one of the greatest guitarists of his time – but he says he’s often lacked faith in his skills

The Canadian virtuoso went through a period of guitar dormancy when Rush ended –now he says he feels reborn as a player

Guitar World

“My guitar was busted up on the flight – totally destroyed. When I got to Nashville and told Dan Auerbach, he said, ‘Try something new’”: After her beloved Gibson was ruined on a flight, Valerie June found new inspiration in this iconic acoustic brand

She was in the market for a new guitar following her beloved Clyde's demise – and, thanks to the Black Keys' guitarist and vocalist, she managed to find her perfect match

Louder

"I don’t want to pretend everything’s hunky dory." Shirley Manson says that she feels "isolated" in Garbage, admits "there's very little proper communication about anything at all"

Shirley Manson admits to frustrations with the Garbage "boys’ club"

Metal Hammer

"Partially responsible for hastening the demise of nu metal." We've ranked every Killswitch Engage album from worst to best

Reordering the catalogue of one of metalcore's greatest bands in reverse order of awesomeness

Creative Bloq

The lesson all creatives can learn from Taylor Swift's ownership victory

The singer's landmark right deal offers a lesson for all creatives… but perhaps not what you think.

Guitar World

“I wake up the next morning and my SUV is gone. We had just opened a show for Vince Gill, and he'd signed my Telecaster”: Rascal Flatts’ Joe Don Rooney had just finished a run of shows with Chely Wright – when his very first guitar got stolen

Rooney still hopes to one day reunite with his beloved guitar, which was bought for him by his late dad

The Independent UK

Country star Lorrie Morgan ‘devastated’ after sixth husband dies of cancer at 72

Country singer had been married to Randy White since 2010

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