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The Guide #167: Could Kendrick Lamar’s GNX jumpstart a new wave of surprise releases?

In this week’s newsletter: Just when it seemed there was nothing shocking about an unexpected album drop, Lamar made a truly transgressive move

The Guardian - UK

Surviving Bonzos feature in hilarious new Still Barking unboxing video

A 20-disc, career-spanning Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band box set Still Barking is released in December

Louder

Spotify Wrapped reveals top artists' favourites (and which ones love themselves perhaps a little too much)

Sharing your Wrapped playlist is increasingly the way to show your great taste… And perhaps reveal a little too much

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“When she asked me if I would come be her lead guitar player, I just was like, ‘Um, how can I say no to Shania?’” Lindsay Ell on the “pinch me moment” she became Shania Twain's lead guitarist

Ell never saw herself doing a sideman gig – however, when she got the call from the Canadian legend, she couldn't resist the offer

Guitar World

“Man, the place that he built as his home, it’s so deranged”: After recording at Prince’s Paisley Park complex, Jack Antonoff can confirm that it’s “even cooler than you could imagine”

“It’s so divorced from anyone else’s version of interesting but his own,” he says

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Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk recruit skate legend Tony Hawk to announce North American tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of their game-changing Autobahn album

German electronic music legends Kraftwerk promise “Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art” for 2025 multi-media tour

Louder

“Your faithful companion, musical soulmate... the tool that lets you express your creative vision”: Modern, versatile, affordable, the Les Paul Studio Session offers a compelling update on Gibson’s most-loved electric guitar

The player-friendly Les Paul Studio Session switches up the Studio format with a figured maple cap, '57 Classic humbuckers and expanded controls

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“This band has allowed me to diversify my playing 10-fold. I would consider myself a one-trick pony prior to joining”: Kiki Wong on how playing with Smashing Pumpkins has made her a better guitar player

From bedroom riffing with a Line 6 Spider to playing through tube amps in stadiums, Wong says her time in the band has opened her eyes to a whole new world of tone

Guitar World

What is the 2024 Jingle Bell Ball line-up at the O2 arena?

Some of the biggest names in pop and rock are performing this weekend

Evening Standard

"Sometimes a gig is more than just a gig." Friends of the late, great Mark Lanegan - including Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde and Bobby Gillespie - assemble in London for an emotional, once-in-a-lifetime celebration of a truly singular talent

On what would have been Mark Lanegan's 60th birthday, friends and peers salute a much-missed musical maverick

Louder

TWICE Shares What Music Shaped Them—And What's on Their Playlist Now

With their new mini-album 'STRATEGY' out, the K-pop girl group opens up about their musical preferences for the 'Marie Claire' series "Listen Up."

Marie Claire

Sabrina Carpenter to headline BST Hyde Park 2025: How to get tickets

Grammy-nominated pop star is one of the biggest breakthroughs of the year

The Independent UK

Machine Head’s next album seems to be right around the corner…

The groove metal behemoths previously teased a new album for April, and now they’ve offered a glimpse inside the studio

Metal Hammer

Metalcore champions Shadows Fall return with first new song in 12 years, In The Grey

The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal beloveds were twice Grammy-nominated before going on hiatus in 2012

Metal Hammer

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The Independent UK

Reading and Leeds 2025 unveils most eclectic lineup yet

Chappell Roan, Travis Scott and Hozier are all making their headline debuts

What Hi-Fi?

New to vinyl? Avoid making this common mistake with your first turntable system

Vinyl systems don't just require a record player, amplifier and speakers to work. There is one obscure but crucial extra ingredient...

Louder

“Eccentric characters at the centre of songs was all the rage… maybe it was all the acid!” Steve Howe’s bandmate, a tragic grocer and an unfinished concept album – was Excerpt From A Teenage Opera the strangest prog hit single ever?

Tomorrow singer Keith West found himself at No. 2 in the Top 40 in 1967 with a song he’d never been meant to sing

Louder

Classic Rock magazine's best rock albums of 2024

The Black Crowes' comeback album Happiness Bastards has been voted the album of the year in Classic Rock magazine's annual end-of-year writer's poll

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Louder

The best albums, the biggest shows, and the megastars who rocked our world - only in Classic Rock's Best Of 2024 special edition

Also in this issue: AC/DC, David Gilmour, Foreigner, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Ghost Bruce Dickinson, Hawkwind, the Black Crowes and more - and three exclusive gifts

The Guardian - AU

K-pop idol Rosé of Blackpink fame grew up in Australia – but she could never have made it big here

Asian Australian musicians are finding massive success overseas but receive little acclaim or recognition back home. Why?

The Independent UK

Specially minted Paul McCartney UK coins to go on sale as part of legends collection

Beatles legend Paul McCartney is being honored in a specially minted British coin collection The Royal Mint, which has struck the coins of monarchs from Alfred the Great in the ninth century through to King Charles III, revealed Friday that it is launching a McCartney coin collection for collectors to…

Louder

"Filled with ghosts from rock'n'soul’s illustrious past": True believers DeWolff express their love of music on Muscle Shoals

Soul power: Dutch rockersDeWolff tap into the musical ley lines on tenth studio album

The Independent UK

Fight erupts in crowd during Mariah Carey Christmas concert

The pop star was performing ‘All I Want for Christmas’ when a couple of crowd members got into a physical argument

The Guardian - UK

Chappell Roan, Hozier and Travis Scott to headline Reading and Leeds for first time

Bring Me the Horizon, the Sheffield metal band who headlined the festival in 2022, complete the lineup

Evening Standard

Chappell Roan and Travis Scott among Reading and Leeds headliners for 2025

Other artists slated to perform include The Kooks, Wallows, AJ Tracey, Suki Waterhouse, and Amyl And The Sniffers.

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