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‘It’s like sex ... and we’re the foreplay’: the Oasis tribute bands gearing up for the big reunion

Missed out on tickets to the biggest gigs of the summer? From Italy to Indonesia, there’s a covers band ready to fill the void. They’ve got the parkas, the swagger and the tambourines, but can they bring the sunshiiiine?

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve always had a soft spot for Lady Gaga’: John Lydon’s honest playlist

The Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd frontman prefers drinking to karaoke and loves the Kinks, but which out-there rock song changed his life?

The Guardian - UK

‘Noel Gallagher had this massive Man City flag. I thought it’d be funny to stick a big black-and-white Newcastle flag over the top. It didn’t go down too well’ Andrew Cushin’s touring banter with Oasis icon

Newcastle-born Cushin opened for Noel Gallagher on his last tour and couldn’t resist a subtle dig

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Netflix adds ABBA documentary that shows how they beat the odds — and it has some great stories

Netflix has just got this ace doc

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“Acts of daring support the contention that their label set them free to do whatever they pleased”: Pentangle’s exhaustive The Albums: 1968-1972 is a lavish celebration of folk’s first supergroup

Box set featuring their first six records is enhanced with out-takes, live tracks and solo material by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn

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“The whole prog movement is about fairies and elves and we’re proud of that. But there are no fairies and elves on this album”: How prog metal icons Dream Theater went full nerd-mode with epic concept album The Astonishing

There’s big, and then there’s Dream Theater’s 2016 prog metal blow-out The Astonishing

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“I cherish the band, but I don’t expect anyone else to”: it’s nine years since the last Radiohead record and I accidentally got the only interview for it

As A Moon Shaped Pool turns 9, this writer recollects a night on the tiles in Paris with Thom Yorke & co.

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Swiss Eurovision star: I would love for Celine Dion to be in Basel

Dion has stepped away from touring in recent years, due to increasing health issues while living with stiff-person syndrome.

Evening Standard

Mexican American singer Johnny Rodriguez, whose 1970s country hits topped charts, dies at 73

Country music star Johnny Rodriguez has died at age 73

The Independent UK

“Prince was really excited and kept pumping us up, saying ‘We’re making history tonight’”: How Prince summoned one of the greatest guitar solos of all time from thin air

The heart-rending heights of Prince’s most affecting piece of music were conjured largely on the spot, during a now mythical performance

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Johnny Rodriguez death: Country singer dies, aged 73

Pioneering musician is described as an ‘extraordinary talent’ known by his loved ones for his ‘warmth, humour, and compassion’

The Independent UK

“Tom listened to it and said, ‘It sounds kind of jazzy.’ I went back and changed the chorus, and that’s the version I played for Don”: Mike Campbell on writing The Boys of Summer with Don Henley – after Tom Petty passed on it

Campbell made an all-important change to the song before handing it over to Henley

Guitar World

Scottish musician releases single condemning Israel's war crimes in Gaza

Scottish musician Doug Veitch has released a new single condemning Israel’s war crimes in Gaza

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“I will use mattresses for isolation and try not to bother the neighbors too much… Iwas just following the songs to see what happens”: How Jonathan Hultén channeled Nick Drake’s Pink Moon and recorded an entire album in his walk-in closet

The former Tribulation guitarist goes full on dream pop on his sophomore release, Eyes of the Living Night

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The Guardian - UK

‘Ich komme!’ The smutty Eurovision songs that dodge the censors

From ensuring your swearwords are in languages other than English to outrageous euphemisms, contestants in the famously camp extravaganza have ways to avoid being toned down …

Guitar World

“Paul Simon called Stax and said, ‘Who are those Jamaican musicians?’ They told him, ‘Those are some white boys from Alabama!’” David Hood on being starstruck by Aretha Franklin, what Otis Redding taught him, and tales from golden age of Muscle Shoals

In this interview from the Bass Player archive, Hood reflects on his career as a ‘Swamper’, playing on hits by Paul Simon, the Staple Singers Aretha Franklin and more

Metal Hammer

“Partly a tribute to a fallen bandmate, it’s as emotionally raw as thrash ever got”: 10 epic ballads that show thrash metal’s emotional side

There was more to thrash metal than speed

Evening Standard

Baxter Dury enters his brat era: 'I want to escape the trap of mature man music'

Baxter Dury’s new album Allbarone is a dancefloor filler resulting from a love of Charli xcx and a producer who wouldn’t listen to him

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"John made himself out to be the big working-class hero: he was the least working-class in the group." In 1984, revisiting his work with The Beatles, Paul McCartney shed new light on his relationship with John Lennon in his most revealing interviews ever

"If you ever got a speck of praise from John, a crumb of it, you were quite grateful." Paul McCartney on John Lennon

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“If you’re a singer, you’re totally reliant on your body. You can't put a bit more distortion on your amp or use effects. You can’t compensate. You’re very exposed”: Why Iron Maiden had to change their singer to reach the next level

Guitarist Adrian Smith remembers a pivotal moment in Maiden’s history

Evening Standard

John Legend says he feels sad to see ‘devolution’ of mentor Kanye West

The singer said it had become difficult to sustain his relationship with the rapper due to their differing political views.

The Independent UK

John Legend says the death of Kanye West’s mother started the rapper’s ‘descent’

‘It does feel sad, sometimes shocking, to see where he is now,’ says the singer

Evening Standard

Harry Styles' epic gap year: from the Berlin Marathon to romance in Rome

While on a break from promoting his music, Harry Styles has embraced a very different type of world tour — travelling everywhere from Somerset to Tokyo

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift slams 'clickbait' subpoena as Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni legal row deepens

The 35-year-old singer, currently on her global Eras Tour, was served a legal notice on Friday by Baldoni’s lawyer

Louder

“Dismissed as bland, complacent and of the establishment, it was now outsider music. If you wanted to be a true rebel, you came out as a prog fan”: Five essential neo-prog albums of the 80s

The second-wave movement didn’t last long – but its bands revitalised the genre with an attitude and energy that’s still being felt today

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