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Ariana Grande Health Battle Prompts Family to Speak Out as New Claims Spark Deep Concern Among Fans

Ariana Grande's first world tour in seven years has sparked concerns about her health, with close sources expressing anxiety over her demanding schedule and wellbeing.

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“I wanted to leave, but I didn't have the guts to quit. Just as I reached for the phone, it rang. ‘Hi, Flea, you’re fired’”: The call that ended Flea’s days as a pick-playing punk and set him on the path to worldwide fame with the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Flea went on to have major success with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who released their self-titled debut album later that year

Guitar World

"It's the last physical format we'll ever have." How the demand for CDs, tactility and good design led to Ruark's new R710 streaming amplifier

Our first look at the R710 streaming amp and Talisman-R floorstanders

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"When he died, I cried. And I actually jumped into the ocean at San Francisco. And let me tell you, the ocean at San Francisco is cold": Bass legend Jaco Pastorius

We salute a true bass guitar virtuoso

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“Of any song that I've ever written, it's most blatantly about my time in Nirvana.” The story behind the Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl wrote about his Nirvana bandmates while crashing on Kurt Cobain's couch

Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain

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Keith Urban didn't set out to record a yacht rock record. But then he entered the 'Flow State'

Keith Urban didn't set out to record a yacht rock covers album

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“Thank you for the kind words. I deserve them”: Randy Newman playfully accepts Taylor Swift’s praise as they sing You Got A Friend In Me together at the Toy Story 5 premiere

“He is the king of making us feel the absolute most and pulling at our heartstrings and making us laugh,” Swift had said

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“My stroke was caused by stress." Tarja Turunen on Nightwish, buried hatchets and fighting back to good health

In 2023, the original queen of symphonic metal shared some reflections on her past

Metal Hammer

From Metallica surprise shows to Slipknot triumphs, these are the 13 greatest Download festival sets ever

For over two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

Metal Hammer

“We have regularly heard players request one change”: Gibson gives in to overwhelming fan demands and supercharges its Victory shred machine with one key upgrade

The Victory has finally got the spec that fans have been begging for

Guitar World

“The violin bow was laying on the floor of the studio. Just to be class clown, I picked it up and tried to emulate Jimmy Page from The Song Remains The Same”: How The Cult created their classic signature song

“The words give hope, which marries well with the uplifting nature of the music”

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"She’s banging out songs, saying ‘what do you think of this?’ And I’m like, ‘it’s great’. I’m not really sure, but it took me 16 years to do the last album!'": Robert Smith can't match Olivia Rodrigo's work rate but teases 'dismal' and 'poppy' Cure albums

"I’m slightly in awe at how easy she finds it all. It’s not really comparable to how I do things"

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Pixie Lott reveals how she utilises social media to ‘help decide’ on new music

The British singer, 35, has reflected on how the music industry has changed since she first rose to fame with her debut album Turn It Up 17 years ago.

Evening Standard

"My wife says she's leaving the country if Nigel Farage gets in, and I don't blame her." Horrified by the state of the planet, Queen's Roger Taylor is pulling no punches on new solo album Violence Insane In A Beautiful World

"What a beautiful world we live in, don't f*** it up"

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Harry Styles fans can get Wembley tickets for just £34 ahead of London shows

The singer kicks off his 12-night residency this weekend as part of his Together, Together tour

The Guardian - UK

LA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the Fall

Featuring cover bands, walking tours and the poet laureate as DJ, The Fall: Futures and Pasts is the ultimate Fall fan experience. But can our writer get through Eat Y’Self Fitter at karaoke?

Metal Hammer

The memory remains! Rare UK TV footage of Metallica playing Reload hit officially unearthed after almost 30 years

Just in time for the metal behemoths’ reissue of their 1997 album at the end of the month

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"I have to get people to slap me across the face in case it’s all just been a dream." For the first nine years of their career, No Doubt were seen as a joke. But when they released Tragic Kingdom, no-one was laughing at them anymore

An archive interview with No Doubt from 1997, as the world started falling at their feet

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One small pedal for your ‘board, one giant step for reverberation: EHX expands the Pico series with a "cosmic reverb" for adventures in soundscape generation and otherworldly guitar sounds

EHX expands its compact DSP series with a pedal packing three reverb types, each with its own otherworldly potential

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"The more you look at it like some tech-boy producer, the less you get it": 5 great songs with questionable mixes

From Burial to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we examine five examples of unconventional and rule-breaking mixing that resonated with listeners

Louder

"If you watch the video, you can see Jimmy dribbling onstage, Robert not hitting the notes, and me miming, playing the air." Phil Collins' memories of Led Zeppelin's "dark, sulphurous" Live Aid reunion are brutal, and spare no-one

The prospect of Led Zeppelin reforming to play Live Aid, the biggest music event of the 1980s, sparked great excitement. But their return to the stage on July 13, 1985 did not work out as anyone had planned

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The Karma Effect: big ideas, big ambition, big shows and the road to big success

From "modern vintage" to playing Robert Plant: Six things you need to know about The Karma Effect

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Rush mix it up on night two of the Fifty Something tour - and play the whole of 2112

Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Anika Nilles and Loren Gold make more memories at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles

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"We were increasingly attracted to the beats, yet the Allman Brothers remain some of our biggest heroes." How ZZ Top mixed Depeche Mode and southern rock to deliver one of the biggest songs of 1983

The story of Sharp Dressed Man, the second of the Eliminator video trilogy that catapulted ZZ Top into pop culture superstardom

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Jack White confirms "raucous, raw, and frenetic" new album Frozen Charlotte, releases Dollar Bill single

Frozen Charlotte will be released via Third Man next month

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