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“The groove was so thick, and what am I playing? A simple, Boom-Bop-Tish-Bop-Boom-Bop? It was unbelievable”: The making of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love

We go deep behind the scenes with the team behind the hard-hitting global smash that turned around Palmer’s career

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UK reggae pioneers Steel Pulse: ‘We told punk fans – you can pogo, but please don’t spit at us’

They won a Grammy, risked being shot in the US and were adored by Bob Marley. As they go on tour, the band look back on half a century of being a voice for the voiceless

The Guardian - UK

The Cranberries say record label stiffed them out of $5 million in royalties

EXCLUSIVE: In a federal lawsuit, the band accuses Island Records of taking an “excessive” cut of their streaming revenues

The Independent UK

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‘Browsers cannot stay unprotected’ - NordLayer unveils its holistic cybersecurity-focused browser

A new business-based browser is coming to the market from NordLayer.

TechRadar

“How dense was I, singing those songs and not realising those things were happening to me?” Linda Thompson on struggling to sing, struggling to perform live and why her kids aren’t her greatest achievement

The folk icon – who never planned on being one – recalls hilarious haircuts, playing musical bedrooms, boxing clever with label execs and becoming a heavy metal fan

Louder

Watch pro-shot video of Thrice playing post-hardcore classic The Artist In The Ambulance live in full

The Californian dynamos played their masterpiece in full on a North American tour last year

Metal Hammer

English Teacher on winning the Mercury: ‘We are proof that arts funding works’

The Leeds-based band – and first non-London act to win the prize for a decade – were quick to highlight the part that regional funding played and lamented recent cuts

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"I remember this cold, damp day in Barnes Cemetery, lugging this plexiglas coffin around with Mickey Mouse": The curious story of Free's debut album

Recorded for just £800, Free’s Tons Of Sobs remains one of rock’s greatest debut albums

Louder

“Every time Steve Winwood put fingers to a guitar or piano, something came out that transcended the normal. He has his failings as a person, but I guess you can’t have everything”: The story of Traffic

It seems every member of the groundbreaking band paid a price for their involvement – but a three-album run of rare quality remains as testimony to their lofty creative intentions

Louder

"I think everyone has some sort of death wish... but I don't want to die": The spectacular rise and tragic fall of Paul Kossoff

Paul Kossoff should have been one of rock and blues' great guitar heroes. Instead, the light of the Free and Back Street Crawler guitarist shone briefly – and burned out quickly

Louder

“We were challenging ourselves on this record and thought, ‘This might not work, but we’re going to find out!’” The story behind every song on Thrice’s The Artist In The Ambulance, in the band’s own words

Everything from the Cold War to C.S. Lewis shaped Thrice’s post-hardcore masterpiece, frontman Dustin Kensrue explains

Metal Hammer

“It was a no-brainer to get Jeff Porcaro from Toto to produce. He’d played on more hit records than anybody I knew”: how cult melodic rockers The Strand made the greatest AOR debut album you’ve never heard

What links Toto and Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter? Cult US rockers The Strand

Louder

‘Bowie’s teeth were bleeding’: Mott the Hoople on making All the Young Dudes with David

‘We went for a pizza after it came out, with Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit. He was suffering from malnutrition. Starman came on and he said, “Your song will be on soon”’

The Guardian - UK

Cut out the middlemouse: how Disney pop stars took control of their careers

With Disney-championed stars including Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter moving on from the company’s own record label, it seems the house of mouse’s power is waning

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‘He tells you it’s all right to be miserable’: why Nick Drake enchants every new generation

Almost 50 years after his death, an official biography and a forthcoming album of artists reinterpreting his songs are to be celebrated – as is the fact that he still remains an enigma

Louder

The trailblazing story of Sparks: "What we’re doing is making music that we can’t hear anywhere else"

Since their dramatic arrival in the UK via TV screens in the early 70s, Sparks have continued to make extraordinary music on their own terms. Now they’re enjoying a late-career renaissance

Louder

"The Nice and ELP are, for me, where things went too far. Very good musicians don’t interest me. Proficiency blocks you off from real adventure": John Foxx on prog, punk and the problems of being a pioneer

For 50 years, John Foxx has been making genuinely progressive music that defies categorisation. "My plan was always to make every record different from the last,” he says.

Louder

Every Pulp album ranked from worst to best

Jarvis Cocker and co. are national treasures, but which album is their crowning glory?

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Louder

Procol Harum: The epic story of A Whiter Shade Of Pale

More than half a century ago Procol Harum recorded the unlikeliest, best-selling, most bitterly-contested drug anthem of all time

Salon

Sparks on new album, fame: It snowballed

The brothers discuss "The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte," impact of Edgar Wright's documentary & latest movie musical

Newsroom.co.nz

Portrait: Sue's other half

One of the great Māori-Pākehā love stories

The Independent UK

Kidjo, Blackwell, Pärt awarded Sweden's Polar Music Prize

Singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award

Edinburgh Live

New age Edinburgh tattoo studio with former chef artist shakes up industry

The Island in Leith is a situated at the Shore and is a one-of-a-kind studio that is made up of a mixture of resident artists who have all come from extremely different backgrounds to put their own spin on the modern art form.

The Guardian - UK

Contort yourself! The mutant disco mayhem of New York’s Ze Records

Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands. As he returns as a book publisher, he remembers that wild scene

The Guardian - UK

‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos

In search of the new, Richard Williams – then an A&R man at Island Records – captured early Television in an office block salsa studio. But Tom Verlaine wasn’t impressed

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