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The Who 'sack' drummer Zak Starkey for a second time

The musician has spoken out to share his side after the legendary band issued a statement

Evening Standard

“He once made a chicken walk on varnish, to transfer the prints of its feet onto the guitar's body”: The bizarre vintage guitar used in Italy's Eurovision entry has caught eyes all over the world

’70s-flavored singer-songwriter and guitarist Lucio Corsi opted for a rare guitar made by off-kilter Italian guitar manufacturer Antonio Vandrè Pioli – better known as Wandrè

Guitar World

“No reason was given. I’m not angry, just a bit shocked and disappointed”: Foo Fighters have parted ways with Josh Freese – and will explore “a different direction” with their next drummer

The move ends Freese’s two-year tenure with the group, after he was drafted in to replace the late Taylor Hawkins

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Kanye West’s South Korea concert cancelled ‘due to recent controversies’

Rapper recently released a new track titled ‘Heil Hitler’ which was removed from Spotify and SoundCloud but racked up millions of views on X

The Independent UK

“Mayer on guitar, Grohl on drums. A lot of fun making this”: Ed Sheeran forms an unlikely hard rock power trio with John Mayer and Dave Grohl – and they've written a song for a Brad Pitt movie

Drive will feature in this summer’s high-speed blockbuster, F1

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“People think I’ve been to the moon, they think I’ve met an alien”: The National’s Matt Berninger on how people react when they find out he’s worked with Taylor Swift, and why she’s such a great lyricist

“She manages to get a listener inside a world and feel like they have a confidante and a dear friend who gets them”

MusicRadar

71 Funny And Savage Eurovision Memes That Sum Up What Europeans Lived Through In A Week

I will never get Espresso Macchiato out of my head.

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The Who fire drummer Zak Starkey – again – as Sean Lennon wades in

Band’s longtime drummer made it clear he was upset by the decision and claimed he had been asked to say he was quitting, instead of being fired a second time

The Independent UK

Remember Monday singer reveals she’s lost her wedding ring after Eurovision performance

‘I’m gonna have a breakdown,’ singer said

The Independent UK

"The lie is or would have been that I quit – I didn’t": Zak Starkey sacked from The Who - again

News comes on brutal weekend for drummers, as Josh Freese also ejected from Foo Fighters

MusicRadar

The Who fire drummer Zak Starkey for second time in a month

The band’s drummer since 1996 says there have been ‘weeks of mayhem’ since he was fired then reinstated three days later

The Guardian - AU

“My first love was always acoustic guitar. That was the element that I brought, the idea of embracing electric and acoustic sounds”: Nancy Wilson says she felt pressured to ditch the acoustics as Heart went for the mainstream in 1985

The band’s self-titled eighth record saw them evolving into a mainstream superpower, but Wilson would clash with producer Ron Nevison over the use of acoustic guitars

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Scissor Sisters review – effervescent maximalism from 00s glam-pop freaksters

Decked out in bedazzled denim and surrounded by inflatable body parts, the US band sound as thrillingly absurd on this reunion tour as when they brightened up the charts the first time around

The Guardian - UK

Chaos in the CBD, patron saints of adult contemporary house music, are coming to Shoreditch

Ahead of their street party in EC2 this weekend, Will Hosie’s down with London’s hottest DJ duo

Evening Standard

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“Geffen thought we were too young to write our own songs. Bob Dylan wrote a song, Bruce Springsteen had a song”: Ryan Hedgecock on Lone Justice's brief but fierce ’80s run – and how Tom Petty and Mike Campbell ended up penning a song on their debut

The promising young band were the subject of a flurry of publicity after they were signed to Geffen, but a behind-the-scenes mismatch in vision led to the outfit's premature demise

The Guardian - UK

Tyler, the Creator review – a fiery performance from a giddy rap god

Performing solo to a backing track, the rapper nevertheless generates extraordinary heat with his fluid and furious flow atop foundation-rumbling bass

Evening Standard

Former Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson ‘so blessed’ after birth of twins

Nelson said the girls had been named Ocean Jade and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster.

Evening Standard

Remember Monday say Eurovision gave them ‘memories that will last a lifetime’

The contest was won by Austria’s JJ with his emotional song Wasted Love.

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The Independent UK

Austria is awaiting JJ's homecoming after he wins Eurovision Song Contest with 'Wasted Love'

Austrians were getting ready to welcome back home and celebrate classically trained countertenor JJ, who has won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with his pop-opera song “Wasted Love.”

The Guardian - UK

Hairy Biker Si King’s Honest Playlist: ‘Led Zeppelin is perfect for when you’re speeding along’

The chef, author and presenter wants to be John Bonham and might be found busting out Baker Street at karaoke, but which song reminds him of lost love?

Radio France Internationale

Austria's JJ wins Eurovision 2025 with opera-techno fusion

Austria's JJ won the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, with his operatic song "Wasted Love" triumphing at the world's biggest live music television event.

Evening Standard

UK crashes out of Eurovision as public delivers brutal zero points for second year in a row

UK act Remember Monday secured a disappointing 19th-place finish out of 26 countries

Louder

“Bright and clear – but polite and unobtrusive almost to a fault”: Anthony Phillips’ remastered, extended Sail The World is literally yacht music

It’s smooth sailing in every sense from the original Genesis guitarist, packed with extensive insight and unheard material

Louder

“This has been far from a singular endeavour”: your guide to every player who’s ever passed through Nine Inch Nails, from Pretty Hate Machine to now

Ahead of Trent Reznor & co.’s UK tour next month, here’s your chance to swot up on the industrial-rock titans' evolving line-up over the years

The Independent UK

At the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, politics once more intrudes upon this formerly big fun pop lark

4/5 Viewers had plenty of time to revel in the bombastic anguish and madcap pop schemes on former ‘The Voice’ rejects, but politics still overshadows Eurovision’s post-war ideals, Mark Beaumont writes in his review

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