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"It was an unmitigated disaster." Beatles legend Ringo Starr reveals why he and Elton John's mother walked out of one of her son's most legendary stadium shows

Elton John remembers his appearance at 1975's Midsummer Music festival at London's Wembley Stadium being "terrifying": his mum and Ringo Starr were part of the problem

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Skunk Anansie release spiky new single An Artist Is An Artist, and if you hate saxophone Skin has news for you

An Artist Is An Artist arrives ahead of Skunk Anansie's European tour, which kicks off next month

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"Haters gonna hate while I live my dream." Seattle R&B/Soul singer Shaina Shepherd responds to hot takes on her one-off performance fronting Soundgarden

If you have an opinion on last month's Nudedragons show in Seattle, Shaina Shepherd doesn't want to hear it, thanks

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Neil Young once threw Bob Dylan off his tour bus because he didn't recognise the legendary singer/songwriter

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English Teacher, Du Blonde, Nadine Shah and more join Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers and Sisters of Mercy on Bearded Theory festival bill

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Rachael Yamagata teams up with TESSAN to inspire journeys through music and connection

Rachael Yamagata knows a thing or two about music being a journey - which is why her collaboration with TESSAN is a match made in heaven

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“You’re 17, it’s a normal dumb night, then someone’s screaming, ‘Get on the floor!’ I’m gonna die. This is the end of my life”: The armed hold-up that set the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on the road to music

Sold on their older brothers’ counterculture dream of living in outer space listening to the Beatles, Coyne and bandmate Steven Drozd very nearly became full-time drug dealers instead of musicians

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"After a lifetime listening to hard rock and heavy metal I discovered Talking Heads and realised how good music could really be": Talking Heads open up new worlds on Remain In Light

In which Talking Heads seamlessly merged funk, afrobeat and early hip-hop rhythms with their more abrasive art-rock ideas

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Bob Mould, The Cold Stares, The Hellacopters and five other warriors on the edge of prime-time

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"These eighteen months have been the hardest thing I've ever been through in my life": Jesse Malin on the spinal stroke that left him paralysed from the waist down and the long road to recovery

One spring day in 2023, Jesse Malin suddenly fell to the floor, and his life effectively fell apart

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"It's only afterwards that you realise, 'Hey, Kayak could really have been something'": the story of the Dutch proggers and their 2018 album Seventeen

When Dutch prog rock legends Kayak released album number Seventeen, longstanding keyboard player Ton Scherpenzeel looked back and pondered what might have been

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“Part of the attraction for Lou Reed was that I had an ample supply of hash”: how a British 70s cult hero became a member of famously grumpy Lou’s crew

The ex-Velvet Underground leader got into the habit of throwing house parties in West London, and always made sure one man was invited

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“We really weren’t compatible. It was kind of cool, but there was a lot left to be desired”: The singer who briefly replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath in 1977 – and then was forgotten

It was a short tenure – but they recorded at least one track together

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“We were supporting a third-rate slide guitarist in an empty roadhouse”: Pulp guitarist Mark Webber on the Britpop legends’ weirdest ever gig

Jarvis & co. headed all the way down to New Orleans for a show, and then wished they hadn't

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“I’ve had prog dates because of our concerts… the great thing is that you don’t have to explain your weird musical tastes!”: Focus guitarist Menno Gootjes’ prog life

He discovered Canterbury bands in his teens before moving on to Frank Zappa, Opeth, Genesis, obscure Dutch trio Three Dwarves Make War – oh, and Kiss

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"Starr's semi-spoken, shoulder-shrugging vocals sit well with these jaunty but wry earworms": Ringo Starr sets sail for unchartered waters on languid country album Look Up

Beatle goes country

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“Our manager started making up rumours that I was back on heroin and the band were breaking up”: How Aerosmith defied grunge and a giant meteor to become bigger than ever in the 1990s

Aerosmith were huge in the 70s and 80s - but the 1990s was their most successful decade ever

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“You only get caught when you’re successful”: Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on the time Willie Dixon came calling for his Whole Lotta Love songwriting credit

It’s 40 years ago this weekend that the veteran bluesman took action against the rock icons for borrowing his song...

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“They said, ‘Uh, okay!’ They didn’t know what I was talking about – and in a way, neither did I”: How William Shatner learned to love prog and make an all-star album with all the humanity of classic Star Trek

Knowing some people would never get over the novelty, Billy Sherwood decided to go for broke with Ponder The Mystery, featuring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Nik Turner, Edgar Froese and others

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“We’re all doing things. I think that keeps Creed healthy”: Mark Tremonti on the importance of Creed’s members working on other projects

The guitarist has a new record out now, and next on his schedule is another Alter Bridge album before returning to Creed duties

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"I was definitely doing too much Bolivian marching powder." Hollywood star Rob Lowe reveals that he once "cut a demo" with AOR superstars Toto, which might just be the most '80s thing ever

Wait, there's an unreleased Rob Lowe/Toto collaboration out there somewhere? Colour us intrigued!

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“Burn Hollywood Burn is a protest song. Has nothing to do with families, losing everything they have in a natural disaster.” Public Enemy's Chuck D calls out edgelords using his song to soundtrack online footage of devastating Los Angeles fires

“Please don’t use our song on your reels and pictures of this horrifying natural disaster.”

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"They’d usually freak, there’d be a lot of threats, a lot of aggression." Why shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine had to hire their own security guard to protect audiences from angry security guards at their gigs

My Bloody Valentine's infamous live white noise freak-out could have strange effects on those subjected to it

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PUP announce UK tour, pay tribute to "the unsung heroes who run the merch table" with their brilliantly inventive lyric video for new single Paranoid

Toronto punks PUP announce UK tour dates, share video for Paranoid, not a Black Sabbath cover

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"They seemed to come out of some New York film where it was all flick-knives on the street." The Damned's Dave Vanian on the gig that changed his life

In November 1973, a US rock band visited London for the second time and helped spark a punk rock revolution

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