Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News on Music

Martin Phillips death: ‘Genius’ frontman of New Zealand band The Chills dies aged 61

Musician founded the jangle-pop band the Chills in 1980 when he was 17

The Independent UK

“Can genuinely hold its own in any genre, with direct tones that stand up to market-leading amp modelers”: Mesa/Boogie Mark VII 1x12 Combo review

How can Mesa/Boogie possibly have improved on the Mark V so much that it skipped the Mark VI? Join us as we plug in and find out

Guitar World

Post your questions for LL Cool J

As he prepares to release The Force, his first album in over a decade, the rapper and actor will take on your questions

The Guardian - UK

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

If you can’t play syncopated rhythms, you can’t be a funk guitar player – and improving your groove will help your playing in all styles

Taking small chord shapes, single notes and 16th-note strums, we unpack the essentials for funk guitar and target those offbeats for rhythmic intrigue in your playing

Guitar World

"Lars felt so sorry that he got us a slot on the main stage.” Apocalyptica's Eicca Toppinen on stoned soundguys, collaborating with Metallica and how they helped revolutionise both metal and classical music

Metal Hammer

"The Prophet-6 is my most used synth. It’s got a nice balance of not trying to do too much, but doing enough to be flexible": In the studio with Max Cooper

The UK producer invites us into his studio for a tour of his hardware synths and creative stompboxes

MusicRadar

Celine Dion shares poignant throwback photo after emotional Paris Olympics performance

Canadian star sang an Edith Piaf classic as she made her hugely anticipated comeback at the opening ceremony

The Independent UK

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

Brat Summer, Hot Girl Summer, the Summer of Love – the summer trends throughout history

As some are pronouncing Charli XCX’s Brat Summer dead, we take a look at the cultural trends that have taken over summers throughout history. Emma Loffhagen reports

Evening Standard

“I wanted to bring the R40 show to everyone, but circumstances have made that impossible… I didn’t have a lump in my throat until the very last show”: Geddy Lee’s feelings when there was still an even chance of a new Rush album

Soon after the trio’s final tour had ended, the ever-optimistic frontman insisted his band should still be discussed in the present tense

Louder

Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple review – seeing Springsteen’s sidekick take on apartheid is an air-punch moment

He’s raised a ruckus with the Boss, smashed segregation in South Africa and sparkled in The Sopranos – this entertaining documentary showcases a wild life

The Guardian - UK

“A bar for live rock music that is surely impossible to match.” Bruce Springsteen bosses it at England's national stadium

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: the world's greatest rock 'n' roll revue

Louder

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Dorothy, Jane's Addiction, Trucker Diablo and five other guardians of the rock'n'roll galaxy

Louder

KCON LA 2024 to air performances from some of K-pop's biggest names tonight

KCON LA 2024 is the first time a K-pop performance show will be broadcast on national TV in primetime

WhatToWatch

Martin Phillipps, founder of New Zealand rock band the Chills, dies at 61

Band set up by guitarist and lead singer in 1980 garnered cult following in Europe and US and had a number of hits

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘People of all ages get very emotional at our gigs’: how ‘trad punk’ folk band the Mary Wallopers became a live sensation

Their punked-up versions of traditional Irish songs have wowed audiences. Ahead of recording a third album, the Dundalk band talk about their journey from playing for beer and whisky to this year’s Glastonbury

Louder

From solo albums to The Smile and Peaky Blinders to Flea: the 10 best non-Radiohead Thom Yorke songs

The Radiohead frontman has built up a huge body of work away from the group and here’s some of his best

Guitar World

“The boys thought the bass needed more bottom-end. So I laid on the floor and punched the organ pedals with my fists”: How Bill Wyman transformed a landmark Rolling Stones track

The Rolling Stones were working to finish their Aftermath album when Bill Wyman made a musical detour

The Independent UK

PLAYLIST: A musical guide to each Paris Olympics sport, from archery to wrestling

From the dazzling opening ceremony to warmup songs, music is intrinsic to the Paris Olympics now underway

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

“The greatest Pink Floyd moments are the ones where he is in full flow”: revisiting David Gilmour’s tribute to Richard Wright on what would have been the keyboardist’s 81st birthday

The Pink Floyd pair were on good terms before Wright’s death from cancer in 2008

Louder

"The beauty here is how far he strays from The Who": Pete Townshend finds new ways to play old songs on Live In Concert 1985-2001

Live In Concert 1985-2001 comprises 14 discs of live recordings from The Who guitarist Pete Townshend

Metal Hammer

Queens of the Stone Age cancel more European shows as frontman Josh Homme recovers from emergency surgery

A further string of Queens of the Stone Age festival dates in Europe pulled as Josh Homme remains in doctors' care

The Guardian - UK

Why Édith Piaf’s plaintive song was the perfect fit for Céline Dion at Paris Games

The melody for the first live performance since 2020 by the singer, who has suffered with ill-health, was suitably tragic

Marie Claire

Travis Kelce Felt Like an "American Idiot" Meeting Prince William

He described the royal using some pretty explicit language.

Salon

Police's Synchonicity box set pops at 40

If you were in earshot of a radio at the time, “Every Breath You Take” was embedded in your daily soundtrack

The Independent UK

Celine Dion determination to make comeback in ceremony revealed by Paris 2024

It was the first time she has sung live since revealing her diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome in 2022.

1 … 713 714 715 716

People

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

Organisations

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.