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“Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike”: How becoming more in-tune with our feelings when listening to music made us better creators - with a little thanks to David Byrne

Whether it’s by being exposed to new genres or digging out some of your favourite records - zoning in to how music affects your emotions gives you the best creative blueprint for music-making

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“People on their mobiles, getting bombarded with this information –it’s kind of like brainwashing”: Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen are waging a two-man war on the modern world with Smith/Kotzen

Transatlantic supergroup Smith/Kotzen is the sound of two worlds colliding

Louder

“I just want to make sure that it’s the best material I’ve ever released”: King Diamond offers update on new solo album, says another single will “definitely” drop this year

King Diamond offers update on new solo album, says another single will “definitely” drop this year

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"It would be ridiculous to try to rock there." Watch the trailer for Queens of the Stone Age's Alive in the Catacombs film, documenting a unique performance underneath Paris "surrounded by several million dead people"

See Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age as you've never seen them before, performing in the world-famous Catacombs of Paris

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Eurovision lawyers called in after ‘potential hack of rehearsal footage’

Switzerland, where the competition began in Lugano in 1956, will host Tuesday’s first 2025 semi-final.

Evening Standard

Eurovision 2025: release date, host country, finalists, Remember Monday interview and everything we know

Get ready for glitter and catchy tunes becasue Eurovision 2025 is here.

WhatToWatch

It's showtime: Eurovision competitors battle it out in the pop extravaganza's first semifinal

Competition in the Eurovision Song Contest is kicking off with the first of two semifinals

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“He gave the CD to George. The next thing I know he calls to ask if we’d play at their Christmas party”: How Robin Nolan went from busking on the streets of Amsterdam to collaborating with George Harrison – and hanging out with Paul McCartney

The gypsy jazz virtuoso would later go on to complete a long-lost Harrison song that had been scribbled on an envelope

Guitar World

New Tube map celebrates London's grassroots music venues and history

Map reimagines Underground lines as different aspects of London’s musical heritage, with stops highlighting venues, nightclubs and record shops

Evening Standard

“Disrespecting Her Is His Love Language”: Justin Bieber Sparks Fury Over “Vile” Mother’s Day Post

A video captured Justin Bieber sweetly surprising Hailey Bieber with a band, serenading her with live music. But a separate cryptic message left fans horrified.

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“This gentleman was someone we looked up to. He was right up there”: Peter Frampton joins Pearl Jam and trades solos with Mike McCready over Black during Nashville performance

Frampton – who has had to adapt his playing technique as he battles a degenerative disease – traded licks with McCready during the surprise guest spot

Guitar World

"I have a whole crowd in front of me, and all I want to do is hug him”: Someone just paid $12,495 to be Kiss icon Gene Simmons' roadie for a day

After dreaming up the ultimate fan experience and then cancelling 17 gigs, Simmons’ aborted tour finally got its first, paying member of staff

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“His prized possession was a 1972 D-35 that he played for all those years. Shortly before he passed away, he gave it to me”: Rockie Lynne was abandoned as an infant – years later, his birth father left him his most important legacy

Lynne didn't know his parents growing up, but when he met his biological father through a DNA test, they connected over a shared love of the guitar

Guitar World

Sauna fiends, space dogs and Jesus Christ Superstar: it’s the 10 best Eurovision songs of 2025!

From an Estonian rap-dance celebrating Italian cliches to a Serbian power ballad sung by a karate-champ philologist, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest

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Chad Smith just destroyed the Wu-Tang Clan in his latest drum tuition video

Taking to the studio for Drumeo, Smith has just given an old favourite a through beating up

The Independent UK

Eurovision organisers issue update on possible Celine Dion return

The Canadian singer won the 1988 contest with "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi"

Guitar World

“I didn’t care if it succeeded or not. I just wanted to make fun of Bruce Springsteen”: Todd Rundgren reveals the real reason why he decided to produce Meat Loaf's off-kilter debut Bat Out of Hell

The Wagnerian rock record was initially rejected by many a record label – but would go on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time

The Independent UK

5 new acts to see at Wilderness festival

Oxfordshire festival is the perfect place to discover your new favourite artist

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Slipknot wrote “a bunch” of new music during the pandemic – and guitarist Jim Root says they’re scrapping all of it

“We need to just kind of, like, maybe sweep all that shit under a rug and start fresh”

Evening Standard

Eurovision organisers still hope Celine Dion might take to the stage

Dion, 57, previously won in Dublin 1988 with Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi.

Evening Standard

Gallagher brothers back grassroots music projects ahead of return to Manchester

Council chiefs predict 1.3 million tourists will flock to the city in ‘the summer of all summers’ for live music.

MusicRadar

“I used the snare drums I played on those early records, including the snare I played on Two Princes”: Why the Spin Doctors are still rocking with the same old gear they used in the ’90s

Also featured: a Strat that was in dust balls for a decade

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“She played it for us, and we were like, ‘Oh, my God’”: The last song Jill Sobule wrote before her death was entitled JD Vance Is A...

The social activist singer songwriter penned one last scathing future classic before tragically leaving us earlier this month

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“He mentioned how much he admired Pol Pot and Nicolae Ceaușescu for the way they could control the populace”: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous

Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous

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"We got escorted out of town the next day because the big lawnmower went into the swimming pool": Grunge may have burst the big-hair bubble, but it saved Heart

The Wilson sisters look back on hit records, death threats and a career like no other

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