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“Nobody listens to one genre. I literally don’t know anybody who listens to one genre. You can be a fan of so many different artists at once”: Laufey on what Gen Z can teach the rest of us about how to appreciate music

On her friendships with Olivia Rodrigo and Beabadoobee, she says: “I could easily find a person that listens to all three of us, even though we’re so extremely different”

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Bon Iver - ranked: from Sable, Fable to For Emma, Forever Ago

As Justin Vernon releases an unexpectedly buoyant fifth album, we chart his path from backwoods crooner to indie-pop icon

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"We were sampling Steve Winwood in between bong rips on my OP-1": How Bon Iver met Haim backstage at a music festival - and ended up collaborating a decade later

Danielle Haim features on Bon Iver's If Only I Could Wait, from new album SABLE, fABLE

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"You won’t want to miss the gig of the year." Fontaines D.C. and Lankum will play a one-off Dublin show together next month, and a tickets ballot is now open

Guinness announces Lovely Days Live, a festival weekender featuring "Ireland’s hottest musical talent alongside global sensations"

Louder

“There’s a danger we could become slaves to our own equipment – and in the past we have been”: Watch a new video clip of Pink Floyd making The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd release a new clip from restored concert movie Pink Floyd at Pompeii -– MCMLXXII, filmed as the band worked on The Dark Side Of The Moon

Louder

Ed Sheeran named as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter opened up in an interview about his new album, mental health, plagiarism battles and his shifting attitude towards his career

The Independent UK

Father John Misty’s trenchant songs about mortality come to life at Royal Albert Hall

4/5 Joshua Tillman and his seven-strong backing band bring the dynamic arrangements of new album ‘Mahashmashana’ to his greatest hits, as well – once he’s warmed up, that is

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"I didn't know you could change the tempo in Pro Tools, so I just made all my songs at 120bpm": Super-producer Benny Blanco reveals the surprising reason why most of his early hits are the same tempo

Kesha's Tik Tok, Katy Perry's Teenage Dream and Taio Cruz's Dynamite are all at 120bpm

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“The Beyoncé effect is, in fact, real. I got a lot of traffic just from people checking the liner notes”: With three Grammy wins and plaudits from John Mayer, Justus West is one of modern session guitar’s MVPs – but it hasn’t been an easy ride

One of John Mayer’s favorite guitarists reveals the challenges of making a living from music, what modern studio sessions are like and why he uses plugins even though he prefers real amps

Guitar World

One to One: John & Yoko – documentary shows how Lennon and Ono shaped protest music, pop culture and each other

The new documentary One to One: John & Yoko offers an illuminating look into John Lennon’s post-Beatles activism with his partner Yoko Ono. It captures an early 1970s climate that was charged with political unrest and media saturation.

The Conversation

"They'd throw shrapnel at us - coins. I collected enough to buy a beer." Burton C. Bell recalls the trials of supporting Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath in the 90s

The former Fear Factory frontman did meet Brian May though, so it wasn't all bad

Metal Hammer

Father John Misty at the Royal Albert Hall review: was this a career peak performance?

5/5 Josh Tillman chose celebration over cynicism on this grand London stage

Evening Standard

How to weave crosspicking and Carter picking into your acoustic guitar playing

In this lesson inspired by Molly Tuttle, Trey Hensley and the O.G. of acoustic folk playing Maybelle Carter, we'll make one guitar sound like two with arrangements alive with rhythm and melody

Guitar World

The Who axe legendary member from group after on-stage 'fall out' with Roger Daltrey and bandmates

An insider said the fallout is ‘a little acrimonious to say the least’

Evening Standard

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Guitar World

“You might laugh a little. The post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root”: This metal fan ordered a new guitar from Sweetwater – but it ended up with the Slipknot guitarist

Root randomly received a new Jackson that was destined for another player, after it went missing for a number of weeks

Guitar World

“The hotshot guitar player at our gig said, ‘Your guitar sounds terrible. You should leave that thing on.’ So I turned on the Big Muff…” How a heckler helped J Mascis unlock his Dinosaur Jr. guitar tone

Mascis first started playing guitar as a means to write and perform with Dinosaur Jr., but his tonal awakening came mid-gig thanks to a rather critical listener

The Guardian - UK

The Who fire drummer Zak Starkey after Royal Albert Hall performance

Move described as ‘a collective decision’ follows reports that Roger Daltrey was unhappy with ‘drums going boom, boom, boom’ at recent gig

Louder

How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun

Eye-popping and wildly entertaining oral history of Perry Farrell's groundbreaking travelling circus (and freak show)

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“FORMAL CHARGES OF OVERPLAYING": Zak Starkey has been sacked from The Who

“The lead singer and principal songwriter of the group, was unhappy with Zak the drummer’s performance at the Albert Hall a few weeks ago”

The Independent UK

Country star Thomas Rhett leaves concert in a wheelchair after being invited onstage to perform

‘Told me to pull up and I left in a wheelchair,’ the country star joked after injuring himself

The Independent UK

The Who fire longtime drummer Zak Starkey after Roger Daltrey complaints

Musician appeared to pre-empt the band’s decision in a social media post earlier this week

Metal Hammer

“The lyrics just blew my mind. That song changed the way I write. I think Steven Wilson is really poetic”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach loves Porcupine Tree

Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach chooses his favourite Porcupine Tree song, and gives some love to Pink Floyd and Mikael Åkerfeldt

The Guardian - AU

$500 for the nosebleeds? Lady Gaga fans furious over ticket prices for Australian shows

The Mayhem tour’s ticketing agencies deny dynamic pricing has been implemented, but fans have complained prices are high and inconsistent

Metal Hammer

“I needed to cleanse my soul from stupidity”: Tobias Forge “shied away” from the media when writing new Ghost album Skeletá

The Ghost mastermind hoped for the band’s new album to not continue the political themes of 2022’s Impera

Louder

ZZ Top add yet more dates to ever-expanding Elevation tour as Frank Beard continues to miss shows

46 shows already played on ZZ Top's mammoth Elevation tour, 63 more to go

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