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Spotify Wrapped: Taylor Swift is music app's most-played artist in 2024 with 26.6 billion streams

Taylor Swift tops Spotify Wrapped list for second year in a row, followed by The Weekend, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish

Evening Standard

Is music nostalgia really dead as new acts out-ticket established artists?

New gig-going research shows that passion for older acts is being outpaced by music’s increasingly active social stars

MusicRadar

“What do you say when you meet Vernon Reid by chance at the Memphis airport and he suggests you swap signature guitars? You say, ‘Yes sir, coming right up’”: Jack White and Vernon Reid exchange signature guitars after serendipitous airport encounter

Reid received one of White's TripleCaster Telecasters, while White got his hands on a customized Reverend Vernon Reid Signature Totem Series guitar

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“Gene Simmons used a Grabber for a reason – because they play like nothing else on earth”: Epiphone Grabber Bass review

With its classic looks and budget-friendly price tag, is the revived Grabber still as iconic?

Guitar World

Bob Vylan. Alt Blk Era, Kid Bookie, Spider among nominees for Best Alternative Music Act at MOBO Awards 2025

Native James and Hak Baker complete the nominations in the Best Alternative Music Act category at the 2025 MOBO Awards, to be staged in Newcastle on February 18

Louder

Spotify Wrapped 2024 is here, and Taylor Swift is once again the platform's most-streamed artist

’Tis the season to unpack Spotify Wrapped

The Independent UK

“I feel like because I did not make it, I must be cheating”: Is using commercially available samples in a track really that much of a problem?

“There's no such thing as cheating. Just make music you like and stop following rules.”

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"Often mesmerising, sometimes strange but never less than compelling." Sleep Token show London why they've become metal's biggest success story in over two decades

The mysterious masked metallers put on a dazzling second show at a packed-out London O2

Metal Hammer

Bjorn Ulvaeus issues verdict on Donald Trump and Theresa May using Abba’s music

He said Abba has ‘never allowed our music to be used for party political reasons’.

Evening Standard

The busiest band in metal? One day before Slipknot support tour, Bleed From Within announce next album Zenith, release single In Place Of Your Halo

The prolific aggressors have also remixed recent track Hands Of Sin, now featuring Sylosis frontman Josh Middleton

Metal Hammer

“We wanted to carry the torch of the guitar duo – Friedman/Becker, Gilbert/Bouillet – and pay homage to the golden era of shred guitar”: YouTube virtuosos Pete & Vinnie Play started with Racer X covers – now they’ve released their own classic shred single

After meeting at college and building up 150,000 followers online, the duo are stepping into the ‘real’ world as No Writer with help from Kiko Louriero’s producer and the master they studied under

Guitar World

Using arpeggios to imply dominant 9th chords in your solos sounds complicated – but Jim Oblon can explain all, and it might be the secret sauce your improvised leads are waiting for

Understanding the chord shape and the theory behind it is easier than you might think, and it offers another strategy for navigating the fretboard on the fly

Guitar World

Start your neck warmups now: UK metalcore hellraisers Heriot announce biggest-ever headline tour

One of this country’s best up-and-coming metal bands will hit the road in April

Metal Hammer

“I always liked bluegrass a lot because the tempo is a lot closer to a NOFX beat”: Meet the Bad Ups, the Philadelphia punks inspired by country-and-western, reggae and Chet Atkins

The Philly punks kick down the walls of genre orthodoxy on their debut album Life of Sin, complementing their powerchord assault with new-wave vibes, acoustic guitar, and licks Chet Atkins taught 'em

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Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan ignores deadline to questions over Taylor Swift's VVIP security

The mayor was asked to respond to queries about the megastar’s police protection by November 6 - but has still not replied, and has not said why

The Independent UK

The most mispronounced words of 2024 include one of the biggest songs of the year and a Dune actor

Kamala Harris also made the list

Louder

"A profoundly, even exhilaratingly stupid idea": A six-and-a-half-hour track assembled from 50 versions of Television's Marquee Moon has made the world a better place

It's exactly why the internet was invented

The Independent UK

How Eminem’s mother Debbie Nelson became a character in his music: ‘I’m sorry, Mama’

Eminem frequently made his mother a character in his music, although she disputed the accuracy of her drug-addled portrayal

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UK band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint in California while on US tour

Van belonging to popular indie group reportedly ransacked by thief waving gun outside Starbucks in Vallejo

Metal Hammer

"The progressive rock-ness of this huge epic pushed me in a whole new direction": Slash and Duff McKagan have combined forces on a colossal new song

Slash and Duff McKagan appear together on I Can Breathe, a new charity single by Gibson Brand

Guitar World

“His guitar work can be heard all over iconic tracks from their internationally acclaimed Mezzanine album”: Massive Attack guitarist Angelo Bruschini's guitars and gear are currently up for auction

The auction includes a 1968 Fender Telecaster Thinline, a 1996 PRS Custom 24, and a custom guitar made by famed British luthier Johnny Kinkade

Latin Times

Karol G is now 'La Bichota' of Businesswomen As She Develops Her Own Business Empire

The Colombian artist is also delving into the business world with initiatives like Carolina, Provenza, and El Callejón del Gato

The Independent UK

No pressure: Singer Lucinda Williams records album of Beatles songs at famed Abbey Road

Lucinda Williams isn’t easily intimidated, but it would be hard for any musician not to shudder at the task before her

Louder

"Take a breath, say hello to a stranger, give a dog a pet, it’s the wee things that add real wealth to life." Whether or not you like their music, politics or humour, Kneecap's 10 Rules To Live By could change your life for the better

Kneecap unveil their manifesto for a better way to live

MusicRadar

“The massive guitar sound that sparked an entire generation has been completely and faithfully captured in stunning detail”: Nirvana tone guru Aaron Rash releases The Nevermind Sessions IR bundle, and promises a sound “identical” to Kurt Cobain’s

If you’ve been trying to nail the Smells Like Teen Spirit tone and found there was always something in the way, maybe this is the secret sauce you’ve been waiting for

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