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"This isn’t a contest. This isn’t a gimmick. This is your chance to join." Here's everything you need to do if you want to become the new vocalist for multi-platinum rockers Skid Row

Skid Row's announce world-wide search for new vocalist

Louder

Ghost’s Tobias Forge says it was a relief when he lost his anonymity: “I can’t eclipse what Ghost is. I’m not interesting enough.”

Forge was revealed to be the man behind the band when he was sued by four former members in 2017

Metal Hammer

The Independent to host Peaches headline show at The Great Escape Festival 2026

Pop artist will play a spotlight show at the Brighton Dome Concert Hall in May

The Independent UK

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Mayhem, Sleep Theory and Green Carnation are among the best new metal songs this week

Metal Hammer

“There’s nothing they did for me that other amps hadn’t done before”: Eric Gales says he doesn’t understand all the fuss about Dumble amps

Yes, they sound great, says Gales, but they're not the only amp in the world to give you great tone

Guitar World

"I have this memory of killing myself, blasting my head off, and then throwing the guitar at the amp over and over." The story behind the most intense song on the most ambitious rock album of the '90s

Life isn't always easy as a perfectionist

Louder

Lola Young announces first comeback gig since tour cancellation

‘Thank you all so much for believing in me,’ said Young after sharing news of the concert

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Behringer unleashes the BMX, its $459 clone of the Oberheim DMX

Just a few days after unveiling its Juno-60 clone, Behringer has dropped another affordable recreation of an '80s classic

MusicRadar

"This is not a contest or a gimmick. It's a genuine search for the right voice, presence and authenticity to carry Skid Row forward": Could YOU be the next Skid Row frontman?

Band are now looking for their sixth vocalist

MusicRadar

“I was too young to get in. Then T-Bone Walker walked by and said, ‘Let me talk to ’em, son’”: When a 13-year-old Jimmie Vaughan was stopped from watching B.B. King play, another blues great came to his aid

Vaughan wanted to watch his guitar hero play live for the first time – and another hero saved the day

Guitar World

“I'm like, ‘OK, put the drum machine in.' When I played it, she said, ‘Oh, I like that. I like that.' And she said, 'I want to do a song about the nasty boys’”: How Janet Jackson and Jam & Lewis made Control – with a little help from the Ensoniq Mirage

“We were like, let's make a record like we're making it for a rock and roller or a rap artist. Let's make the beats super hard"

MusicRadar

Lola Young to play ‘small intimate show’ six months after stage collapse

The 25-year-old singer said she will perform at The London Palladium next month after announcing she would be ‘going away for a while’ last year.

Evening Standard

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi review – big, generous, provocative music-making on a small stage

Grammy-winning Giddens fused folk, opera, jazz, pop and classical elements in a recital ‘honouring composers who don’t often get called composers’

The Guardian - UK

“Hope Your Soul Finds Peace And Justice Comes”: Support For Justin Bieber After Epstein Theory

The lyrics and music video for Justin Bieber’s 2020 song 'Yummy' are being reexamined amid a newly unsealed email from the Epstein files.

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How three Irish stars ended up in Taylor Swift’s Opalite video

The six-minute music video owes its casting to a meeting of celebrities on the Graham Norton Show.

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift enlists Graham Norton guests (and Norton) for Opalite music video

The pop star says she had the idea when Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson joked about wanting to star in one of her music videos

Metal Hammer

“The BBC showed one minute and 10 seconds of it!” Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter: How a banned, censored and divisive single became Iron Maiden’s only UK number one

Despite a BBC ban, winning a “Worst Original Song” award and being pulled from the band’s setlist, Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter remains one of Iron Maiden’s biggest tunes

MusicRadar

“A perverse or healthy attraction to crazy ideas”: Soulwax aka 2manydjs are throwing a rave – at Abbey Road Studios

Call the Soulwax rave hotline on 07886 072699

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Fans Cry Foul After Justin Bieber Abandons Wife Hailey And Exits The Grammys With Another Woman

"This couple has to be the most embarrassing one ever."

Guitar World

“Always ready to ribbit”: The Frog Pedal is a surprisingly versatile octaver that makes your guitar sound like, erm, a frog

The monophonic octave pedal from Jordan Wav and FruitFX turns your guitar signal into a frog – but this isn’t a mere gimmick

Guitar World

“I was the most vocal about being unhappy. That's when George grabbed Bootsy Collins and his band to replace us”: He was schooled by James Jamerson and freaked Larry Graham out – how William ‘Billy Bass’ Nelson founded the Funkadelic sound

The late Funkadelic co-founder tells the story of his encounter with Larry Graham, bass lessons with James Jamerson, and life in George Clinton’s ever-changing band

What Hi-Fi?

This 2-in-1 automatic turntable has an integrated CD player in a design we've never seen before

The Mixx Analog+ features Bluetooth streaming, too

What Hi-Fi?

I love the convenience, but is Tidal making me antisocial?

What happened, man? I used to be cool!

Metal Hammer

“I guess people just don’t think like we do”: Maynard James Keenan thinks Puscifer are in the “third side-project category” but is happy on the side of the underdog

The singer believes the band have been “marginalised” due to the greater commercial success of his other two projects, Tool and A Perfect Circle

Metal Hammer

"James says, 'Kill him!' This guy looks at the two of us and says, 'Who’s gonna kill me?' And James pointed at me." Dave Mustaine looks back on Metallica's wild early days

Metallica's early years were a wild ride

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