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Wi-fi headphones, multi-talented all-in-ones and a slow cassette resurgence are among our 2026 hi-fi predictions

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“Those were the cocaine ’80s. They devoted a whole day to auditioning snare drum samples –just to double-up the actual snare”: Nancy Wilson knew Heart had to adapt to survive the excesses of the 1980s – but she didn’t expect their greatest success

Heart's self-titled 1985 album was just what the doctor ordered, ushering in a triumphant second act for the iconic Seattle rockers

Guitar World

“I was drinking a lot and forgot that I bought it. The folks at Carter Vintage called me and were like, ‘You gonna come get this guitar?’” Marcus King on the vintage guitar he accidentally bought while drunk

King recently played Rory Gallagher’s famed white Fender Telecaster and Jeff Beck’s iconic Yardburst Les Paul

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Serial killers, sex and Satan-crazed filth: How the 1980s tried to destroy AC/DC

By the mid-80s, the huge success of Back In Black was a fading memory, AC/DC were on the ropes, and there was worse to come

Metal Hammer

“I’m still disappointed when people hear the chorus line as ‘got to’ rather than ‘get to’”: How One rescued Achtung Baby and saved U2

Track was written in just 15 minutes

MusicRadar

‘By 15, I was hanging out with Skrillex’: the idiosyncratic club music of reformed EDM kid Villager

Disillusioned by his early EDM success, Alex Young bought hardware, embraced UK dance culture – and reinvented himself

The Guardian - UK

It looks like an iPod, works like an iPod, but don't expect iPod prices – it's cheaper

The Innioasis Y1 is an MP3 player that comes in five colour options and looks a lot like Apple's iPod Classic

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Whiskey Myers: What rock'n'roll would say if it was a person

Unimpressed by the trappings and demands of the music business, Whiskey Myers are in it for themselves and their fans

Louder

"What guitar meant for everyone, he changed it, and he did it with incredible songs": Living Colour's Vernon Reid picks the soundtrack of his life

Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what it's like to be in a stadium filled with people singing War Pigs

Louder

How U2 ticket u-turn put diplomats in ‘embarrassing situation’

U2’s team offered to include ‘key people’ on the guest list for a range of shows

The Independent UK

Why NewJeans' Danielle Was Axed From Group? Alleged Role In Provoking Conflict, Delaying Group Activities

ADOR confirmed talks with Minji, Hanni, and Danielle, but negotiations with the latter failed, and the group leader's status is not yet finalised.

International Business Times UK

What’s your pedalboard persona? Find out with my pick of stompboxes to match your player identity

16 awesome pedals for any type of guitar player, but what does your pedalboard say about you?

Guitar World

“In the actual song you hear today, the guitars, the riff, the bass, the drums and all the vocals are from those initial takes I did in my bedroom”: Sombr on the making of viral hit Undressed, and his formula for creating "a legendary indie rock song"

“I remember playing the guitar riff and thinking, ‘OK, that is great.’ From there, the song just made sense, it flowed"

MusicRadar

Is Britney Spears Facing Total Ruin? Source Claims Money Is 'Flying Out the Door'

Britney Spears faces mounting financial concerns as insiders claim her fortune is rapidly dwindling, amid an IRS tax battle and alleged debts piling up after her conservatorship ended.

International Business Times UK

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Taylor Swift Hands Out $600 to Chiefs Game Staff Working on Christmas Day

Taylor Swift's generosity is back in focus after a stadium worker claimed the singer personally handed out £470 ($600) cash gifts to staff working the Kansas City Chiefs' Christmas Day game.

Louder

How a disintegrating relationship and a Beatles obsession inspired Kurt Cobain to write his first love song, and to plot Nirvana's escape from punk rock prison

Nirvana's first love song offered the world the first real glimpse of Kurt Cobain's songwriting genius

MusicRadar

“Eddie told me, ‘Roth is driving me nuts. I can't take it. I gotta leave. I know you're looking for a lead guitar player. Do you want me in the band?’”: When Eddie Van Halen asked to join Kiss – and they turned him down!

Metal Hammer

“I’d have to stop, gather myself, get through two lines, start crying, leave the room, come back in”: When Linkin Park exposed a different side of themselves with Breaking The Habit

Originally written by Mike Shinoda, this shining moment from 2003’s Meteora moved Chester Bennington to tears and helped Linkin Park break out of the nu metal bubble

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Music technology gear of the year 2025: Our favourite new synths, drum machines, plugins and more

MusicRadar's Si Truss and Simon Arblaster pick the best music tech hardware and software of the past 12 months

MusicRadar

“In the ’80s,MTVbuttered our bread. But after Kurt Cobain wore his grandfather’s sweater in the video forSmells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place on MTV for bands like us and Mötley Crüe”: The life and death of the thinking person’s hair metal band

Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

Louder

"I interrupted the passage of this chalice to the great one!" The night that The Police's Stewart Copeland "mortally embarrassed" himself in front of a Beatles legend

The moral of the story is that you're never too cool to make a fool of yourself

Guitar World

“I had to go outside to the garbage bags and find the certificate because I’d thrown it away!” The Cult’s Charlie Jones didn’t know about his Grammy win for Please Read the Letter… because he didn’t read the letter

Irony is alive and well

Louder

“The publisher told us to forget it. But I didn’t give up so easily – I got his home number and called him”: How Emerson, Lake and Palmer charted with Aaron Copland’s Fanfare For The Common Man in the year of punk

Even cut down to a third of its length, the 1977 track became their biggest hit, and one of the most successful instrumental single of all time

MusicRadar

“I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song. It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The story of the ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles

Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon

Evening Standard

Singer Chesney Hawkes hails son as ‘rock and roll’ ahead of their tour together

Hawkes said 20-year-old Indiana is a good guitar player.

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