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‘Will I cry? Yes!’ Taylor Swift’s era-defining Eras tour comes to a close

After 149 shows, Swift’s global tour has been the most successful of all time. At the final dates, fans explain their devotion

The Guardian - UK

Taylor Swift kicks off final Eras Tour show with ‘one last grand adventure’

‘It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I have ever done in my entire life’ Swift told the audience.

Evening Standard

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including The Wildhearts, Larkin Poe, Dorothy and five other guardians at the rock'n'roll gates

Louder

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Abba ‘chose the UK’ for virtual show which brings £1.4bn boost to economy

Executive producer Michael Bolingbroke said the Swedish pop group ‘chose the UK when they could have gone anywhere else’.

The Independent UK

The Human League review – immaculate electro pop as radiant now as it was 40 years ago

Philip Oakey’s voice remains rich and pristine and sets the tone for an evening of timeless era-defining tunes

The Guardian - UK

“It was just full of guitars, and there was no air in it. No spaces, no gaps”: Bill Wyman reunited with his old Rolling Stones bandmates on their Hackney Diamonds album, but didn't like the track he played on

Intriguingly, Wyman added that he also contributed to a second song that has yet to see the light of day

Guitar World

Sam Fender review – cathartic songs delivered with passion and a humble presence

Even when the entire crowd of 23,000 are bellowing his ‘whoah-oh-ohs’, understated Fender quips ‘got some singers here, haven’t we?’ as if performing in a local boozer

The Guardian - UK

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The stars will come out at the Kennedy Center for Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Raitt and Sandoval

Celebrities, cultural icons and a few surprise guests are gathering for the annual Kennedy Center Honors celebration in Washington

The Independent UK

Les Penning and Robert Reed share video for new single, their cover of Xmas fave Fairytale Of New York

Les Penning and Robert Reed's new five-track EP Fairytale Of New York is out now

Louder

“I played a 5-string with Lauryn Hill, but it didn’t feel like a real bass”: Raised on R&B, schooled by fusion, and empowered by punk rock, Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer remains a 4-string purist

The bass powerhouse behind Washington DC’s Bad Brains pioneered a style that changed the history of punk

Guitar World

"A name familiar to many of our fans." Iron Maiden announce new touring drummer following departure of Nicko McBrain

A day after the sad news that Nicko McBrain will be retiring as Iron Maiden's full-time drummer, his replacement has been revealed

Metal Hammer

“He wasn’t a phoney. He didn’t have to be somebody else – he felt comfortable being himself“: We lost Dimebag Darrell 20 years ago today. His brother Vinnie Paul never let his memory die

Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell died 20 years ago today, on December 8, 2004. In 2007, his brother Vinnie Paul paid tribute to a giant of metal

Metal Hammer

“He’s one of the most gifted songwriters that ever lived. What can I say? I’m not worthy!”: The eccentric prog icon who blew Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris’s mind

The greatest ever songwriter to stand on one leg!

Louder

“They didn’t do the posing rock thing – that attitude has stuck with me ever since”: Ruts DC drummer David Ruffy explains why Edgar Broughton Band are his prog heroes

He hails their punk ethic, their experiments with electronica, and their way of writing songs about real people

Louder

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Evening Standard

End of an era: Taylor Swift to wrap up juggernaut tour in Vancouver

The US pop superstar kicked off her mammoth tour in March last year.

International Business Times

Taylor Swift's Record-breaking 'Eras' Tour Set For Final Show

Taylor Swift's record-shattering "Eras Tour" is set to end on Sunday in Vancouver with the final performance of a cultural phenomenon that has easily become the highest-grossing musical tour in history.

Louder

"His ear was very crusty." Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on meeting Paul McCartney for the first time

Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne smoked a joint with Beatles icon –and was fascinated by Sir Paul's "crusty" ear

Evening Standard

Andrew Ridgeley says George Michael wanted to ‘define Christmas’ through song

Chart-topping single Last Christmas celebrated its 40th anniversary earlier in the month.

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“Could this be the most impressive tube amp under $700? For simpler needs, we definitely think it’s up there”: Blackstar TV-10 B combo amp review

The British amp wizards once again succeed in making boutique tones affordable

Louder

“If we weren’t tied to the whims of another band, things would be different. There’s been a lot of bumps in the road”: The story of Brad, the greatest Seattle band no one ever talks about

Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard’s other band Brad should have been as big as Pearl Jam themselves

The Independent UK

Iron Maiden member to quit touring after 42 years after final show tonight

British musician said the announcement came with ‘sorrow and joy’

Evening Standard

How to do Rome like Harry Styles: An insider's guide to the Eternal City

Long languid dinner, perusing for vintage wares, drinking natural wine on cobbled streets — Juliana Piskorz has the inside track on how to have a Roman holiday the Styles way

Evening Standard

Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain announces retirement from touring with band

The musician, 72, said he will continue to be part of ‘the Iron Maiden family’ through ‘a variety of projects’.

Metal Hammer

“At any venue, every time, this band play like their lives depend on it”: While She Sleeps reiterate their place among the metalcore elite with exhilarating London show

While She Sleeps’ second of two nights at O2 Forum Kentish Town may not have the scale of their Ally Pally concert last year, but what’s lacking in size is made up for in killer songs and blinding lights

Guitar World

“I went to this very posh house in Regent’s Park in London, knocked on the door and this 16-year-old American kid held it up. I said, ‘It’s a red guitar – I’ll have it!’” How Phil Manzanera got his trademark Roxy Music Gibson Firebird

Manzanera’s iconic Firebird has been by his side for much of his career and began life as a custom build from Kalamazoo

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