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Let's get physical! The brands helping us fall in love with physical media all over again

The age of the collector is back — and we speak to one of the companies embracing physical media once more.

"We certainly weren't strutting around like Deep Purple. My God, they had a lot of fun. We did not have fun." How the UK college rock scene shaped the genesis of Genesis

An excerpt from a new book celebrating the endearingly amateurish British university gig scene that launched the career of some of the world’s most famous bands

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Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album

K3 might undermine the conventional wisdom that U.S. firms can maintain their extended lead by simply outspending Chinese competitors on computing power.

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Time and Money well spent: This retro-styled Pink Floyd x We Are Rewind cassette player lights up The Dark Side Of The Moon

Audio firm We Are Rewind release a limited-edition portable cassette player alongside The Dark Side Of The Moon on high quality tape

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“We're happy we can play a part in helping preserve the physical album experience”: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon officially returns on cassette –Nick Mason has some thoughts on what’s next for the prog classic

The latest co-branded cassette player release from We Are Rewind celebrates the totemic record that all-but demands playback on a physical format

MusicRadar

Rewind to the 1970s with this Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon, cassette player boxset

Tick away the moments that make up your dull day with a cassette edition of the 50th anniversary remaster

What Hi-Fi?

“When are we going to stop with this Pink Floyd stuff and start playing some metal?”: The story of the most ambitious song in death metal history

In 1996, Sweden’s Edge Of Sanity filled an entire album with one winding track, inspired by black metal, melodeath, prog and plenty more. It remains a towering achievement long after the band’s break-up.

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From basements to one of the biggest movements in guitar tone: 12 iconic stompboxes that built the boutique pedal boom

How a dedicated group of DIY tone chasers changed the face of the guitar industry

Guitar World

“I was obsessed with him at school – it didn’t help with the girls! Because of him I got my first guitar, so he’s got a lot to answer for”: The prog hero who links The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord to Pink Floyd and The Beatles

Soord’s inspiration comes from a man who made his name in the studio before releasing a series of acclaimed concept records in his own right

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"Roger immediately said, 'What's that?' Some riffs have a little bit of magic to them, and it's obvious." Watch David Gilmour play Pink Floyd classic Wish You Were Here in his home studio, and talk about the song's creation at Abbey Road

"I remember the moment of creating it quite often"

Louder

"Clive recognised the light in people. He encouraged artists to trust their own voice and step into their destiny." Legendary music executive Clive Davis dead at 94

During a decades-long career, Clive Davis signed Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Santana, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen and many more

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"Our crew was being bombed in real time while filming."Roger Waters releases charity version of Pink Floyd's classic Comfortably Numb with new lyrics in English and Arabic

The new version of Comfortably Numb finds Roger Waters singing alongside acclaimed Palestinian singer Mona Miari

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“The rock business has become so established, and so much like a society, that I have revolted against it." After killing off Ziggy and breaking up the band, David Bowie recorded a covers album in a French castle. This is the story of Pin Ups’ creation

After Aladdin Sane, Bowie recorded Pin Ups to pacify his label – but the critics weren't impressed

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"They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?" In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers

The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

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New album to celebrate Syd Barrett’s 80th birthday

A new album is being launched to celebrate what would have been Syd Barrett’s 80th birthday.

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Syd Barrett 80th birthday celebrations include tribute concert in Cambridge and tribute album featuring Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and more...

A special tribute concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where Syd Barrett played his last ever live show, will take place in October

MusicRadar

“Just the quirky 7/8 time reminds me of Roger. It’s not a song I would have written. It points itself at Roger”: The classic track from The Dark Side Of The Moon that gave Pink Floyd their first US hit

“We created a 4/4 progression for the guitar solo and made the poor saxophone player play in 7/4”

Evening Standard

Pink Floyd rainbow prism effect coins launched by The Royal Mint

Pink Floyd join David Bowie, George Michael, Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Paul McCartney and Freddie Mercury in The Royal Mint’s ‘music legends’ series.

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Royal Mint launches rainbow prism coins celebrating legendary rock band Pink Floyd

The band has joined David Bowie and Freddie Mercury in the Royal Mint’s ‘music legends’ series

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"The whole truck just disappeared, all our gear, gone!" How a $40,000 robbery in New Orleans in 1970 forced Pink Floyd's David Gilmour to purchase what has become the highest-priced guitar in history

"The police hadn't helped us much, but the FBI got to work"

Louder

Pink Floyd collaborator Polly Samson, wife and creative partner of David Gilmour, has a London photo exhibition featuring her documentation of the creation, recording and live performance of Gilmour's Luck and Strange album

Polly Samson - Between This Breath and Then is at the Leica Gallery London

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Roger Waters blasts back at Disturbed frontman David Draiman after being accused of ‘massive betrayal’ to ‘Jews everywhere’

In an escalation of a public row over the pair’s opposing stances on the Israel–Palestine conflict, Roger Waters has hit back at Disturbed frontman David Draiman after being accused of a “massive betrayal” to “Jews everywhere”.

Latin Times

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters calls for Maduro's freedom outside NYC detention center

Roger Waters, the co-founder of Pink Floyd and one of rock's most polarizing political activists, has joined demonstrators outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to demand the release of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, adding another chapter to his long record of anti-war activism and high-profile attacks…

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"The vibe is definitely Slipknot except no screams." Slipknot fan compares Look Outside Your Window album to Pink Floyd after getting early listen, claims Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia appears

Look Outside Your Window, a long-shelved project recorded in 2008, is due to come out on Record Store Day, April 18

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"A starting point for new listeners to discover the depth and breadth of their peerless album catalogue." Pink Floyd announce new compilation album including extended version of classic track

New Pink Floyd collection 8-Tracks features songs recorded between 1971 and 1979

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