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The Who U-turn decision to axe Zak Starkey after he ‘apologised’

A statement posted by the group’s guitarist blamed the public fallout on ‘communication issues’

The Independent UK

“Everything I’m doing is purposely very different. If I’d wanted to keep doing what Dream Theater do, I’d still be in Dream Theater”: How Mike Portnoy reinvented himself after the trauma of leaving two massive bands

In 2011, while trying to find homes for his enormous collection of Dream Theater drumkits, Mike Portnoy was planning a new direction with Flying Colors, Adrenaline Mob, PSMS and Transatlantic

Metal Hammer

“It was a great antidote to American earnest rock bands who seemed to think it was all about them”: Supergrass on the making of their timeless Britpop classic I Should Coco

They were young, they ran free: how Gaz Coombes & co. made one of the best British debuts of the 90s

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Watch Love on the Spectrum star James B. Jones meet his metal heroes Disturbed

Metal giants Disturbed share sweet moment with one of the stars of massive Netflix hit Love on the Spectrum

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"There have been some communication issues": Zak Starkey returns to The Who just days after being dismissed

It's been a lively week for Ringo Starr's son

Louder

ABBA: Against the Odds documentary airs tonight on The CW

The music doc ABBA: Against the Odds chronicles the Swedish singing group's journey from the Eurovision Song Contest to becoming a global pop phenomenon

WhatToWatch

“How daring to have a long intro before he’s even singing. It’s like psychedelic Mozart”: With The Rose Of Laura Nyro, Elton John and Brandi Carlile are paying tribute to both a 'forgotten' songwriter and the lost art of the long song intro

“No one starts an album like that anymore!” says Carlile

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Zak Starkey reinstated as the Who’s drummer, days after departure

Pete Townshend welcomes musician back into group after disagreement over his playing at Royal Albert Hall gig

The Guardian - UK

“Driven by a mammoth riff that could give Black Sabbath a run for their money, they never recorded anything so primitive or heavy again”: Four songs that will make you rethink everything you know about Queen

Think you have a handle on Queen’s sound? These songs sound like nothing else they recorded

Louder

“The verse tricks you into thinking that it’s in a certain key and has this ‘simplistic’ musical language, but then it flips”: Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on how they created Sympathy Is A Knife

"With Brat, Charli had put so much thought into it before we even got in the studio," he says

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“We blew this whole scene open, I don’t care what anybody says. We did all the work, and now all these other bands are popping up”: How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader

Korn’s 1998 album Follow The Leader was the sound of the nu metal pioneers pulling away from the competition

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UK Eurovision icon Clodagh Rodgers dies aged 78

Her son Sam Sorbie confirmed the news in a touching statement today, in which he paid tribute to her as the “rock of this family”

Evening Standard

Clodagh Rodgers death: Former UK Eurovision contestant dies at 78

Musician came fourth in the competition with her song ‘Jack in the Box’

The Independent UK

Self Esteem review – straight outta Gilead

A triumphant staging by Rebecca Lucy Taylor of her new album, A Complicated Woman, is part artistic statement, part power pop club night

The Guardian - UK

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“In walked this clown, dressed in silk pyjamas, huge shades on. I shouted, ‘Get out!’ and pushed him into the corridor. That was Steven Tyler”: Randy Bachman‘s wild tales of Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Little Richard and Frank Sinatra

Jamming with Little Richard, turning down the chance to meet Elvis, yelling at Steven Tyler - welcome to the life of BTO’s Randy Bachman

Louder

“I had a massive animosity towards those fans”: Soundgarden’s manager thought it would be a great idea for them to support Guns N’ Roses, the band disagreed

The grunge legends opened up for Axl & co. on the Use Your Illusion tour and came out of it with a lesson in how not to act on the road

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a big night in with Elton John and Brandi Carlile

The two musical mates take over the London Palladium. Plus: how much do you remember about the 70s? Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Independent UK

Keri Hilson's 'We Need to Talk' marks her return to music after a 15-year absence

The year Keri Hilson released her second album, Barack Obama was in his first term as U.S. president, the first iPad was released and Instagram was launched

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Zak Starkey shares epic unreleased studio recording of Guns N' Roses, Ringo Starr and Elton John covering T. Rex's Children Of The Revolution

Starkey's post comes just days after he was fired by The Who

Latin Times

Latino Rock in Mourning After The Death of Founding Bassist of El Haragán y Compañía Jaime Rodríguez

His former bandmates confirmed the Mexican rock legend and bassist's death.

Guitar World

“I could be blazing on Instagram, and there'll still be comments like, ‘You'll never be Richie’”: The recent Bon Jovi documentary helped guitarist Phil X win over even more of the band's fans – but he still deals with some naysayers

The guitarist has been in the band for over a decade, but it seems certain fans still haven’t accepted that Sambora is out of the picture

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“I was always hoping that I would be taken away by aliens at some point”: The strange story of Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: Biomech, the album which launched his solo career

How Devin Townsend made his 1997 solo debut album Ocean Machine

Louder

Those Damn Crows score their first UK No.1 album with God Shaped Hole

Rock is officially back on top again

Guitar World

“I just learned them from the records. I don’t read tabs or anything, I don’t readmusic – Ilearned by ear”: How a teenage Muireann Bradley put a cover of Blind Blake’s Police Dog Blues on YouTube and became a standard bearer for country blues

Bradley's interpretations of original country blues songs are causing quite a stir among players, and breathing new life into a form of music that’s nearly a century old

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Cryptopsy, Rivers of Nihil and The Devil Wears Prada lead this week's best new metal songs

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