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“He was one of a kind”: Alabama guitar legend Wayne Perkins – who played with the Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, and Joni Mitchell – dies at 74

Perkins made his name as a Muscle Shoals session ace and would go on to have a storied career playing with the greats

Guitar World

Dean Lewis Admitted To Rehab, Breaks Silence On Being Dropped By Label Amid Allegations

Dean Lewis has spoken publicly for the first time since parting ways with Universal Music amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

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“We were a really weird punk band that came out of hardcore and were shot into this vortex”: Fall Out Boy came out of the US hardcore scene. So how did they become poster boys for 21st century emo?

Chicago’s Fall Out Boy were playing to one person a night – and then MTV happened

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“A true cultural giant… His music lifted people through hard times, inspired generations, and helped to shape the global respect that Jamaican culture enjoys today”: Jamaica and the world mourn Jimmy Cliff

Reggae icon has died, aged 81

MusicRadar

Grammys 2026: Sabrina Carpenter Matches Taylor Swift's 'Album of the Year' Record

Sabrina Carpenter matches Taylor Swift's rare Album of the Year record at the 2026 Grammys. See all the 'Big Four' nominations, including nods for Kendrick Lamar , Lady Gaga , and Bad Bunny.

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I’m Only F**king Myself by Lola Young review: 'Teetering on the knife edge of greatness'

4/5 The 24-year-old singer’s third album is a self-assured descent into dealing with self destructive tendencies and a cocaine addiction

Evening Standard

Sabrina Carpenter Strips Down To Pole Dance And Crawl On All-Fours In New Video, Gets Brutally Roasted

The provocative imagery comes just weeks after critics called her Man’s Best Friend album cover “misogynistic.”

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“Hardcore innovators, soulful rockers and, frankly, the best band in the world you’re not listening to”: Every Thrice album ranked from worst to best

From scrappy debut Identity Crisis to refined latest album Horizons/East, we rank the back-catalogue of one of the most underrated bands on the planet right now

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Sabrina Carpenter releases a demure album cover she says has been 'approved by God'

Prudes can purchase a copy of Man’s Bets Friend with less debaucherous album art

Evening Standard

“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

MusicRadar

She grew up feeling 'really white'. Now, Brooke Combe is owning her whole self

Brooke Combe speaks to us from her home in Edinburgh during a rare break from tour rehearsals for her recently released debut album Dancing At The…

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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

"Reggae is more freeform than the blues. But more important, reggae is for everyone": Bob Marley and the Wailers' Catch a Fire, track-by-track

Seminal reggae breakthrough broken down, plus listen to crucial live versions of extra track

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Richard Branson and Island Records boss urged to fund UK Black music exhibition

Petition calls on Virgin Records founder and Chris Blackwell to back venture after profiting from such music

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“Paul Kossoff goes, ‘I’m not really in the mood. I have a friend here who can cut it.’ If it wasn’t for him I could be working at McDonald’s”: Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Al Anderson on the night he went from an unknown guitarist to tracking Natty Dread

Koss had to teach him the basics of reggae guitar as he waited for a cab to the studio. A couple of hours later he’d tracked the solos for Marley classic Natty Dread

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Sabrina Carpenter’s Album Short N’ Sweet Is Almost Here & Is There An Olivia Rodrigo Collab On It?

Could there be an Olivia Rodrigo or Billie Eilish collab in the works??

The Guardian - UK

Darcus Howe’s son Darcus Beese and his activist mother, Barbara: ‘He was imbued with the spirit of the struggle’

He was the first black boss of a UK record label. She was a British Black Panther and one of the Mangrove Nine. They reflect on the ‘madness’ of his childhood, and his memoir that records their groundbreaking legacies

The Independent UK

The Last Dinner Party point out discrepancy with ‘industry plant’ claims

Indie rock band takes aim at speculation around their authenticity

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Sabrina Carpenter’s new music video sees boyfriend Barry Keoghan play a gun-slinging criminal

Singer is seen handcuffing boyfriend before abandoning him in warehouse

Louder

"I'd had forty-four jobs. I knew this was my one and only shot": How Ian Hunter and Mott The Hoople got their riot started

Before they became 70s chart stars and (later) a beloved heritage act, Mott The Hoople were a wilder, more dangerous proposition – as their incendiary debut album proved

Louder

"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

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"Getting her to the studio was tough! But once we got her there, she was wonderful. We really sprung Slave... on her": The story of Grace Jones’ Slave to the Rhythm - tempo changes, stacked Roland synth patches and Trevor Horn

Never stop the action… Join us as musical mis-steps, happy accidents, crushing financial burden and raw unbridled talent give birth (eventually) to one of the enduring hits of the ‘80s

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"Sometimes its songs are a gentle caress, sometimes its songs are a maelstrom": Melissa Etheridge mixes it up on Brave And Crazy

The comparisons with Bruce Springsteen might be merited, but Melissa Etheridge's second album saw her making a name for herself

Louder

"Who knows where we would have gone had we not had that monster hit? It was the beginning of the end for us": The real story of Free, told by those who were there

Free burnt brightly and all too briefly: The story of Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser and Simon Kirke

The Guardian - UK

‘Firebrand, poet and heart-throb’: how the film One Love captures the truth about Bob Marley

I was at the reggae superstar’s side before and after he escaped assassination. The new film took me back to this time, of love triangles, London punks and cold war conflict

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