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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

unpeople, Bring Me The Horizon and Ho99o9 are just some of the bands who are vying for your vote in this week's new song round-up

Metal Hammer

Olivia Rodrigo: You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love review – who’s she singing about? Who cares when the songs are this good

Gossips have rushed to the lyrics for details about her personal life, but the rest of us can just get on with luxuriating in Rodrigo’s funny, Cure-infused craft

The Guardian - UK

Duffy seen in public for first time in 16 years after revealing kidnap and rape ordeal

The Welsh singer disappeared from the spotlight in 2010

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Keanu Reeves reveals the most important bass lesson he learned from Flea

The Hollywood A-lister made his musical comeback in 2023 with his band, Dogstar, and looks back on the rare occasion when his music and acting matrices collided

Guitar World

“One of the customs guys in Canada decided he hated Black Sabbath, so he smashed the neck with a hammer”: How Geezer Butler’s P-Bass survived a Sabbath hater’s attack – and ended up on the band's most iconic tracks

Butler’s iconic tone – sculpted by blasting his bass through a blown guitar cabinet – was made possible thanks to a beat-up 1968 Fender Precision Bass

Guitar World

“Even though words are supposed to kind of be my thing, I will never be able to express my gratitude to you guys for doing that for me”: Taylor Swift pays tribute to her parents at Songwriters Hall Of Fame ceremony

She’s the youngest female to be inducted

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"Celebrate this iconic album on the grandest scale possible." Billy Corgan adds additional shows to his orchestral Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness opera tour

"This magical dream doesn’t have to end"

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How the band David Bowie called “a psychotic Beatles”made the '80s weirdest and most influential alternative rock album

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

Louder

The most advanced gig bag ever created? D’Addario has launched climate-controlled guitar cases with integrated humidity control

The premium bag looks to be the ultimate solution for guitar players on the go

Guitar World

Top new proggy sounds from Haken, Polyphia, A-Tota-So and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog you must hear fromRodrigo Y Gabriela, If These Trees Could Talk, Redshift and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

Louder

“It used to be, like, 25 minutes long!”: How Axl Rose took inspiration from Elton John to create a classic Guns N’ Roses ballad that was years in the making

Rose called it “a song about not wanting to be in a state of unrequited love”

MusicRadar

"If one were to cut the crap from The Clash's final album, it could be released as a seven inch single, with no B-side." Ten forgettable punk albums with one killer song

Each of these thoroughly mediocre punk albums features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt

Louder

‘Windrush is a love story too’: Renell Shaw on paying homage to Black British life in his new jazz trilogy

The Ivor Novello-winning musician has written works inspired by his family history. He talks about building music from testimony – and why the Windrush generation deserves new narratives

The Guardian - UK

“Did Bob Dylan sue me? He teased me about it but didn’t sue”: Elvis Costello won’t be suing Olivia Rodrigo over supposed plagiarism

It’s alleged her 2021 track Brutal rips off Pump It Up

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The Independent UK

Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love review: An extraordinary tale of heartbreak from a generational talent

5/5 US artist scatters warning signs through the first side of the album in a way that feels pre-emptive, like she should have seen them all along

MusicRadar

“I think he’s the most underrated guitarist in rock history. People don’t realise how inventive he was”: Geddy Lee, Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci on the guitar genius of Rush legend Alex Lifeson

Lee explains how Lifeson made the Canadian prog trio greater than the sum of their parts

Metal Hammer

"This album reflects everything we've experienced, the lessons we've learned, and the challenges we've overcome." The Warning announce new album Everything’s Falling, release Ritual single

The Villarreal sisters have confirmed that their fifth album, Everything's Falling, will arrive in August

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“I was sitting there thinking, 'I have no idea how I'm learning that,' but somehow it's working because I learned those songs in a completely different way”: How Anika Nilles prepared for the Rush tour

She says she went down “the Rush rabbit hole”

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Evening Standard

Olivia Rodrigo labels new album ‘time capsule of highs and lows of relationship’

She released You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love on Friday.

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Madonna interviewed by Graham Norton for ‘world exclusive’ TV show

The programme will be broadcast later this month ahead of the release of her much-anticipated new album, Confessions II.

Guitar World

“The bar made no profit from it, especially since producing costumes like these is not exactly cheap”: It turns out the fake Russian Angine de Poitrine isn’t actually a real band. Here’s what actually happened

Footage from a Moscow show had led the internet to believe the microtonal mavericks had an imposter band

Metal Hammer

"My mom skipped my show to go see Korn." Olivia Rodrigo tells Jimmy Kimmel that her mother had her priorities in order when attending last year's Lollapalooza in Chicago

Olivia Rodrigo was on Donald Trump's least-favourite US talk show to promote her new album

Louder

Jethro Tull announce newly expanded and remixed reissue of their 1999 album J-Tull Dot Com

New three-CD and Blu-ray release J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast Of The Net will be available in August

International Business Times UK

Ariana Grande Branded 'Scarily Thin': 10 Photos of Singer's Visible Ribcage During Her Tour Opening Night

Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine Tour has sparked online debate over her appearance, with fans and critics discussing her weight and health.

Evening Standard

Harry Styles Wembley bag policy: Full list of banned items and luggage rules explained

The singer, 32, kicks off the UK leg of his Together, Together tour in the capital from Friday, June 12

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