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“This is the craziest, most disrespectful thing I ever saw in my LIFE”: Rod Stewart’s ‘tribute’ to Ozzy Osbourne has gone down like a bucket of cold sick
The video of Stewart’s ‘tribute’ has been viewed more than three million times on Twitter/X alone and has stirred up some ...
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“It's like he reached into a place that even he'd never got to before”: How Freddie Mercury took on mortality itself for Queen’s majestic final single
It was sadly to be Freddie’s last single with Queen before his untimely death just six weeks after its release ...
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“Highlights just how often people are experiencing the dangerous side effects of being exposed to loud music”: New survey shows over half of Gen Z have already ex…
A new survey by the Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID) has suggested that over half of Generation Z have already ...
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“I remember my first concert. It was a very memorable night and I watched this incredible band”: After duetting with Weezer, Olivia Rodrigo wraps up her Guts era …
Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts era has been a long one. The album of that name was released almost two years ago, and its accompanying ...
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"Ruins transforms the electric guitar into a study of collapse, texture, and spatial memory": Slate + Ash releases experimental virtual guitar instrument developed with Sunn O ...
Featuring recordings from six avant-garde guitarists and produced by Randall Dunn, Ruins explores how "sound can degrade with purpose, and how decay itself can be compositional" ...
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This next track is a four watermelon banger – Serato DJ 4.0 overhauls the DJ software's library with new search tools, easier analysis and an emoji rating system
Serato has unveiled the latest update to its flagship DJ software, introducing a major overhaul of the application’s library ...
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“Found some cassettes in the attic!”: Former Revolution keyboard player Lisa Coleman reveals that she’s just discovered her own ‘vault’ of classic Prince recordings
It turns out, though, that His Royal Badness wasn’t the only one to have a treasure trove of his music in his possession, as ...
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“It was kind of a character assassination and it was incredibly upsetting”: Roger Daltrey on Zak Starkey’s reaction to his Who ‘sacking’
When asked by The Times why Starkey was then sacked, reinstated and then sacked again, Daltrey countered by saying: “Pete and I retain the right to be the Who. Everyone else is a session player. You ...
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'Superlungs' Terry Reid, the man who turned down Led Zep and Deep Purple, dies, aged 75
Terry Reid, the guitarist, singer and songwriter who was so determined to forge his own path that he turned down offers from Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, has died, aged 75, following a battle with ...
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With guitar amps starting from just £44, Thomann’s massive Hughes & Kettner sale just made modernizing your rig a lot cheaper
The Vintage model has oodles of clean headroom, but if you want something gainier, the Rock version takes things up a notch ...
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“How could you have been so stupid? You’re a Beatle, boy, a Beatle. Your face is in every damn corner of the planet”: The embarrassing blunder that caused Paul McCa…
The Beatles’ legend was detained upon entering Japan at the outset of a week-long tour, and he only had himself to blame ...
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“It makes it sound like the music that I grew up on – the music that made me fall in love with dance music”: Why Silva Bumpa created his own R&B instrumental just to ...
“The sound I was going for was like the classic sort of garage and bassline sound,” he explains. “All the R&B acapellas were sped up, so the runs and vibrato and the slides in the vocals were kind of ...