Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Music

"As the birthplace of alt counterculture, the UK is the perfect home for a festival to pay homage to alternative creative artistry." AEG announce new UK festival Forever Now, a sister event to US post-punk, alt.rock, new wave, goth festival Cruel World

If you're a UK-based fan of '80s post-punk, alt. rock, new wave and goth, you might want to clear a date in your diary next summer for Forever Now festival

Louder

Zayn at Eventim Hammersmith Apollo review: moments of joyous catharsis

4/5 The pop star paid tribute to his friend Liam Payne, but the main focus of the night was delivering on the warmth

Evening Standard

“Jimi was brave, beautiful and powerful!”: On Hendrix’s birthday, a tribute from modern blues master Eric Gales

Gales says: “Until the end of time, we’re going to be wondering how Jimi came up with this stuff"

MusicRadar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“Sometimes it’s not what you play, it’s how you play it”: Palm-muting is the secret to good funk guitar – here’s how you can use it to funkify chords, double-stops and single notes

Learn the secret ingredient to funk guitar parts that groove and swagger

Guitar World

‘The music industry has failed us’: Kate Nash on her decision to join OnlyFans

‘Foundations’ singer said the reaction to her decision has been ‘overwhelmingly supportive’

The Independent UK

Watch Knocked Loose and Poppy destroy Jimmy Kimmel Live! with the heaviest talk show performance in history

The Knocked Loose and Poppy team-up was recently nominated for a Grammy Award For Best Metal Performance

Metal Hammer

Stereophonics drummer Jamie Morrison hospitalised minutes before Nottingham gig

Morrision was playing with his other band, 86TVs, on Monday when the accident happened

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“A simple programmed sub bass synth sound simply won’t cut it”: How to make a trip-hop bass part

"A simple programmed sub bass synth sound simply won’t cut it"

MusicRadar

Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' Returns to Top 20 After Drake Takes Legal Action Against the Song for Calling Him a 'Certified Pedophile'

Kendrick Lamar's summer hit "Not Like Us" returned to Apple Music's Top 20 U.S. tracks list after Drake filed not one but two petitions regarding the song.

Latin Times

Orianthi to return to Alice Cooper's band as Nita Strauss does her own thing

Orianthi will fill in for Nita Strauss on a run of dates early next year after a decade away

Louder

Fans Loved Jason Kelce’s Classy Reason for Turning Down Taylor Swift Ticket Requests

This was too sweet from the former Eagles center.

Sports Illustrated

Drake makes another legal move against Universal over Kendrick Lamar diss track 'Not Like Us'

Drake has taken legal action against Universal Music Group for the second straight day in his feud with fellow hip-hop superstar Kendrick Lamar

The Independent UK

Why Are Shakira & Pitbull Being Blamed for the Cancelation of the 'Besame Mucho' Festival?

Many disappointed fans want to know why the 'Besame Mucho' festival in Los Angeles was canceled and why fans think Shakira was involved.

Latin Times

Drake claims label should have refused to release ‘Not Like Us’ instead of letting Kendrick attack his ‘character’

The Canadian rapper is doubling down on his claims over the smash hit diss track calling him a pedophile

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

MusicRadar

“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music”: The Edge confirms new U2 activity, with Larry Mullen Jr back and Brian Eno "involved", is afoot

Band haven’t released a new album for seven years

Metal Hammer

"When I heard Raining Blood I had this picture of this beautiful vulva raining blood over this male abusive force." How the Taliban inspired Tori Amos to record a Slayer classic, and what Slayer's Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King thought of it

In 2001, US singer/songwriter Tori Amos recorded an ethereal cover of Slayer's Raining Blood for her sixth studio album Strange Little Girls. For this, you can thank the Taliban

Guitar World

“I'm so fortunate to always have such great musicians to work with”: Orianthi will re-join Alice Cooper’s band on tour as a fill-in for her successor, Nita Strauss

Orianthi toured with Cooper from 2011 through 2014, and will reunite with his band for a series of shows from late January through mid-February 2025

The Independent UK

Zach Bryan abruptly halts concert to scold fan for throwing object on stage

Country singer threatened to kick the person out of the venue

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World

“If you lined up Jimmy Page, Jonny Greenwood, and Will Sergeant, I’d pick Sergeant every time”: Courtney Love on why Echo & the Bunnymen's Will Sergeant is her “favorite guitarist on Earth”

Love also reveals that a new solo album – her first since 2004’s America’s Sweetheart – is well in the works

Guitar World

"Yes, the price is more reflective of the fact this is a signature model with the added 'celebrity tax', but it delivers on all fronts.": Jackson Pro Series Signature Diamond Rowe Monarkh DR12MG review

A singlecut designed to meet the demands of metal as we know it in 2024, let's see if the Tetrarch guitarist's signature model delivers

Evening Standard

Bob Geldof says he will chat to Ed Sheeran after his criticism of Band Aid 40 charity single

The singer-songwriter said he didn’t give permission for his vocals to be used on the latest iteration of the classic song

MusicRadar

“You get to a point where you’ve gotten good enough so that nothing is good enough”: Billy Joel explains to John Mayer why he gave up on songwriting

“The writer thing is a curse you take with you throughout life, and when I listen to material or listen to other people’s songs the writer is always at work,” he says

Metal Hammer

A beginner’s guide to Pelagic Records in five essential albums

German label Pelagic Records has become home to some of metal's brightest and most experimental names - these are their five most landmark releases

Evening Standard

'Here comes Ed Sheeran to save Christmas again': Fans react to new song set to rival Band Aid 40

Song sees Love Actually filmmaker Richard Curtis make debut as music video director

MusicRadar

Rod Stewart to “pleasure and titillate” Glastonbury 2025

He says he’ll be playing the prestigious Sunday afternoon ‘legends’ slot

1 … 608 609 610 611

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Universal Music Group

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.