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“He’s gonna be on the new record, for sure. He’s writing like crazy”: Mastodon have seemingly confirmed their new guitar player – revealing Nick Johnston is writing and recording for their next albums

The guitarist had been drafted in as a touring guitarist following Brent Hinds’ departure, but it seems he’s part of the band’s long-term planning

Guitar World

Could 2Pac's Lyrics to 'Brenda's Got a Baby' Have Solved a 30-Year Mystery About a Lost Child?

A mother and son were reunited three decades later after Tupac's 1991 song 'Brenda's Got a Baby' inspired a real-life search.

International Business Times UK

Steve Sells interview: the career highlights of a Naim legend whose 27-year “big amp” dream finally became a reality

How an amplifier obsession blossomed during stints at Britain’s most iconic audio companies

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Wretch 32 at the National Theatre: Palpable anger in genre-blending show

4/5 Little Simz and Kano join Wretch 32 to bring his politically and emotionally charged album HOME? to life in an impassioned melding of theatre and music

Evening Standard

Dave Ball of Soft Cell Dies 'Peacefully in His Sleep' at Age 66, Cause of Death Remains Undisclosed

Dave Ball, one-half of synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died peacefully at age 66. Tributes from Marc Almond and collaborators highlight his lasting impact on pop and electronic music ahead of the band's upcoming 'Danceteria' album.

International Business Times UK

Disgraced rock star Ian Watkins died from stab wound to the neck, inquest hears

The 48-year-old died after an alleged attack at HMP Wakefield, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sexual offences.

Evening Standard

Demi Lovato - It's Not That Deep review: dance-pop bangers that peer into the soul

4/5 Time to hang up the air guitars and get to the nearest club

Evening Standard

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Mohinder Kaur Bhamra: Punjabi Disco review – rediscovery of an 80s trailblazer

Punjabi folk vocals backed by hammering electronic percussion, disco basslines and fizzing synth melody: a key predecessor to the Asian dance music explosion

The Guardian - UK

PinkPantheress, Billy Bragg, Jamie Cullum and more to spill hitmaking secrets at Anti Social Camp

Songwriting workshop festival makes UK debut this November

MusicRadar

"Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray": The Lemonheads' first album of original songs in 20 years is up there with their best

The Lemonheads' eleventh album is fun, frantic, and full of classic hooks and self-deprecating refrains

Louder

Lily Allen: West End Girl – a gobsmacking autopsy of marital betrayal

Allen’s first album in seven years traces the fallout from an open relationship, but as well as being cathartic and candid, these stylistically varied songs have melodies that sparkle

The Guardian - UK

"The source material may be way past prime Bon Jovi, but that's almost irrelevant": Jon Bon Jovi gets by with a little help from his friends on revised version of Forever album

Bruce Springsteen, Joe Elliott, Avril Lavigne, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and more clamber aboard the legendary Forever train from New Jersey

Louder

“A fascinating opportunity to look under the hood of the songs and reimagine the strangeness they could conjure”: King Crimson’s In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard ultimate editions

Undervalued 1970 albums, created during period of upheaval, are presented for reinterpretation with help from Steven Wilson and David Singleton

Louder

Demi Lovato review, It’s Not That Deep: Plenty of human heart pumping beneath the bangers

4/5 If the hooks and vocal commitment feel so steel-cored, it’s perhaps because the pop star is hanging onto them for dear life

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

‘It’s scary how many St George’s flags there were’: Blood Orange on coming home to Essex and mourning his mother

After grief brought Dev Hynes home, he reconsidered the county that shaped him. The result is a masterful new album – made with a little help from Lorde and Zadie Smith

Louder

"I was in a cosy thing that went on too long... and I made a great escape": Robert Plant on musical freedom, unfinished business, and getting confused with Robert Palmer

Robert Plant talks about his latest group Saving Grace, and compares nights out in small provincial towns to meetings with Barack Obama and Prince Charles

International Business Times UK

Dave Ball, 66, Dies Peacefully in His Sleep Less Than Two Months After Final Performance

Dave Ball, Soft Cell's synth-pop pioneer and remembered for 'Tainted Love', dies at 66 after his final performance less than two months ago.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on live music: a scheme to spread the sound around deserves support

Editorial: More gigs would be a good thing, and a voluntary £1 levy for grassroots venues could help

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The Independent UK

Foo Fighters announce 2026 stadium tour as Dave Grohl says band is ‘forever devoted’ to playing

New song ‘Asking for a Friend’ is available to stream now

The Guardian - UK

Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound

Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop

Guitar World

“If a guitarist is just riffing away on minor pentatonic licks, it will make their playing sound ‘scale-y’; you don’t want to sound scale-y!” Power-up your blues with a turnaround trick that was a specialty of the great Freddie King

This masterclass in turnarounds explores different ways to approach an essential blues technique, so of course it finishes up with a look at how the master of turnarounds did it back in the day

MusicRadar

Classic Interview: Soft Cell’s Dave Ball – “To my mind, Kraftwerk are as influential as The Beatles”

The late synth-pop veteran on synths, production and keeping things simple

The Guardian - UK

What’s the story? British peer says Oasis will play Knebworth – then rows back

Exclusive: Lady Taylor of Stevenage says suggestion band would perform over five days in July 2026 was ‘hypothetical’

MusicRadar

"He will always be loved by fans who loved his music": Dave Ball, founder of Soft Cell and The Grid, has died aged 66

Ball had recently finished work on a new Soft Cell album alongside bandmate Marc Almond

The Independent UK

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – A rote biopic that doesn’t do the Boss justice

2/5 Jeremy Allen White is perfectly convincing in the starring role, but Scott Cooper’s film reduces Springsteen’s life to cliches and generic pop psychology

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