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More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine

Brighton event’s opening showcase scrapped after performers join Massive Attack and Brian Eno in boycott of sponsor Barclays

The Guardian - UK

“When Chris heard it he was like, That song is the best thing you’ve ever written!“ Coldplay's Chris Martin and The Killers' Brandon Flowers help Travis pay their respects to their favourite NYC bar

Travis preview forthcoming tenth album with an elegy for a much-loved NYC drinking den

Louder

“Our music is for sale but our humanity and morality is not.” Massive Attack voice their support for artists boycotting music festivals in protest against “corporate support for genocide in Palestine”

Massive Attack stand behind artists pulling out of festivals sponsored by companies funding the Israeli military, after Nick Cave tells a conflicted musician: "Play"

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David Sanborn obituary

American alto saxophonist who played with many of the jazz greats and collaborated with David Bowie and Stevie Wonder

The Guardian - UK

Ella Eyre Radiates Chic Vibes In Black Outfit With Friend

Ella Eyre shares a glimpse of her personal life on Instagram, radiating joy and camaraderie with a friend. The post highlights her authenticity, style, and...

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“The Beatles broke up at the right time… Imagine them going through synth pop in the ‘80s. It would have been shocking”: Paul Weller on how the Fab Four “set the benchmark” and being a Billie Eilish fan

“What Was I Made For? is an incredible tune," he says

MusicRadar

Sam Ryder could represent UK for a second time at Eurovision after Olly Alexander's disappointing result

The Space Man singer secured the UK its highest score in decades in 2022

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Taylor Swift files trademark for 'Female Rage: The Musical' as Eras Tour continues

The phrase harks back to a line the singer used during her show in Paris last week

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift has filed a trademark for 'Female Rage The Musical' - here's what it means

She has dozens of trademarks already

Marie Claire

“You don’t need to spend 10 years to make an album”: Ex-Tool bassist Paul D’Amour slams band’s songwriting process

Tool’s former bassist has explained how the prog metal icons’ “frustrating” songwriting led to him leaving the band

Metal Hammer

“It makes me sick to even think that I spent that much money on a guitar. Nile Rodgers was like, ‘What is that?!’” Tash Sultana on the magic of Strats and blowing a guitar legend’s mind with an extremely rare model

The musical polymath reveals what the future holds for their signature Strat, and why jamming with Nile Rodgers, Mateus Asato and Tom Morello was just what the doctor ordered

Guitar World

Watch Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Phil Collins serenade the Queen with Black Sabbath’s Paranoid in 2002

In 2002, The Prince Of Darkness cleaned up his act for one night only, performing a Black Sabbath classic to help mark Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee

Metal Hammer

“If you stand outside of the zeitgeist and try to get people gassed up on the guitar, it doesn’t really work. We should be taking the guitar to the public”: Marcus King on mental health, recovery, and the timeless style of vintage guitars

Mood Swings is the sound of Marcus King rebounding from dark days with a record of hope and truth. Produced by Rick Rubin, it's an early career masterpiece. He tells us all how it came together

Guitar World

“More than just a favourite instrument of one of rock's greatest living guitarists”: Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’ 000-28 Martin acoustic is heading to auction (again)

Clapton shed tears when the stalwart acoustic left his collection in 1999, and now it is up for sale once more, complete with Don Williams tribute sticker and cigarette burns

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“Listen to and lock with the drums. Do that and you’ll sound like a pocket genius!” How session legend Neil Jason put on a slap bass masterclass on David Sanborn’s 1979 instrumental classic Hideaway

The studio session for Hideaway took place in early 1979, at Minot Sound, in White Plains, New York

Guitar World

“It was all automatic Eddie Van Halen comparisons. I wanted something different”: Vito Bratta explains why he switched from Stratocasters to his iconic Steinberger

The shred trailblazer recalls how links to EVH's Frankenstein – and a fondness for high-tech gear – prompted his switch to a headless alternative in the '80s

Marie Claire

Pink Isn't Interested in Replacing Katy Perry on 'American Idol,' Says "I Like My Day Job"

Fair enough!

Metal Hammer

Ghost fans think the metal stars will release a brand-new single very soon

Armchair detectives have raided the ASCAP songwriting directory and potentially found details of a new Ghost track

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The Guardian - UK

‘People are forfeiting meals’: musicians on the struggle to financially survive

Following our report into how bands are struggling to make ends meet from touring, over 100 musicians shared their stories with us – from Brexit woes to the cost of rehearsing

Metal Hammer

“James said: ‘You guys are ballsy as hell!’” Alien Ant Farm frontman Dryden Mitchell reveals the surreal moment Metallica’s James Hetfield took him and his parents to dinner

Metallica frontman Papa Het continues to earn his stripes as the nicest man in metal

Evening Standard

Childish Gambino announces New World Tour: London dates and how to get tickets

This is the American rapper’s first tour since 2019 — and tickets to the UK dates go on sale this week

The Guardian - UK

Teddy Swims review – dark’n’stormy soul singer shakes the room

The Atlanta viral sensation enraptures tonight’s audience with molasses-thick vocals and bombastic emotion – though he’s a little one-note

Guitar World

“A one-of-a-kind collectible of immense cultural significance”: Eric Clapton was moved to tears when he sold the Martin 000-28 he used to write Wonderful Tonight – now it’s headed to auction again

The acoustic guitar was used to pen one of Clapton’s most popular tracks – and has a few distinguishing characteristics…

Metal Hammer

Kerry King didn’t tell his solo band that Slayer were reuniting: “I didn’t want anybody to start getting cold feet”

Slayer’s guitarist also reveals that the thrash metal giants turned down offers to come back “probably every month” for five years

Guitar World

“I couldn’t believe it… the list of players could have gone from here to Leeds!” Mark Knopfler on how he enlisted Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and dozens more for the all-star Guitar Heroes version of his Local Hero theme

Corralling dozens of A-list guitar talent onto one epic track, Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes pulled out the impossible to raise money for teen cancer charities – here's how it all went down

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