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"Reggae is more freeform than the blues. But more important, reggae is for everyone": Bob Marley and the Wailers' Catch a Fire, track-by-track

Seminal reggae breakthrough broken down, plus listen to crucial live versions of extra track

MusicRadar

Richard Branson and Island Records boss urged to fund UK Black music exhibition

Petition calls on Virgin Records founder and Chris Blackwell to back venture after profiting from such music

The Guardian - UK

“Paul Kossoff goes, ‘I’m not really in the mood. I have a friend here who can cut it.’ If it wasn’t for him I could be working at McDonald’s”: Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Al Anderson on the night he went from an unknown guitarist to tracking Natty Dread

Koss had to teach him the basics of reggae guitar as he waited for a cab to the studio. A couple of hours later he’d tracked the solos for Marley classic Natty Dread

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Sabrina Carpenter’s Album Short N’ Sweet Is Almost Here & Is There An Olivia Rodrigo Collab On It?

Could there be an Olivia Rodrigo or Billie Eilish collab in the works??

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Darcus Howe’s son Darcus Beese and his activist mother, Barbara: ‘He was imbued with the spirit of the struggle’

He was the first black boss of a UK record label. She was a British Black Panther and one of the Mangrove Nine. They reflect on the ‘madness’ of his childhood, and his memoir that records their groundbreaking legacies

The Guardian - UK

The Last Dinner Party point out discrepancy with ‘industry plant’ claims

Indie rock band takes aim at speculation around their authenticity

The Independent UK

Sabrina Carpenter’s new music video sees boyfriend Barry Keoghan play a gun-slinging criminal

Singer is seen handcuffing boyfriend before abandoning him in warehouse

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"I'd had forty-four jobs. I knew this was my one and only shot": How Ian Hunter and Mott The Hoople got their riot started

Before they became 70s chart stars and (later) a beloved heritage act, Mott The Hoople were a wilder, more dangerous proposition – as their incendiary debut album proved

Louder

"I remember this cold, damp day in Barnes Cemetery, lugging this plexiglas coffin around with Mickey Mouse": The curious story of Free's debut album

Recorded for just £800, Free’s Tons Of Sobs remains one of rock’s greatest debut albums

Louder

"Getting her to the studio was tough! But once we got her there, she was wonderful. We really sprung Slave... on her": The story of Grace Jones’ Slave to the Rhythm - tempo changes, stacked Roland synth patches and Trevor Horn

Never stop the action… Join us as musical mis-steps, happy accidents, crushing financial burden and raw unbridled talent give birth (eventually) to one of the enduring hits of the ‘80s

MusicRadar

"Sometimes its songs are a gentle caress, sometimes its songs are a maelstrom": Melissa Etheridge mixes it up on Brave And Crazy

The comparisons with Bruce Springsteen might be merited, but Melissa Etheridge's second album saw her making a name for herself

Louder

"Who knows where we would have gone had we not had that monster hit? It was the beginning of the end for us": The real story of Free, told by those who were there

Free burnt brightly and all too briefly: The story of Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser and Simon Kirke

Louder

‘Firebrand, poet and heart-throb’: how the film One Love captures the truth about Bob Marley

I was at the reggae superstar’s side before and after he escaped assassination. The new film took me back to this time, of love triangles, London punks and cold war conflict

The Guardian - UK

Pop star Madison Beer on fame, Justin Bieber and family guilt: ‘There’ve been a lot of dark points in my life’

The pop singer talks to Ellie Muir about her new album ‘Silence Between Songs’, working with powerful men and being rushed to grow up

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The Guardian - UK

Gary Wright obituary

Singer and songwriter whose 1976 hit Dream Weaver combined yearning vocals with a haunting and distinctive synthesiser sound

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Taylor Swift Leads With 8 ‘MTV Video Music Awards’ Nominations

The Guardian - UK

‘I felt his vibration!’ Sonny Roberts, the UK’s first Black music studio owner

The Jamaican immigrant producer and entrepreneur, who is being honoured with a blue plaque this week, laid the foundations for a vibrant British reggae scene

Manchester Evening News

'My muscular dystrophy didn't stop me being part of the youngest band to ever play Glastonbury'

The lads wrapped up their GCSEs last week before hitting the stage at Glastonbury

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Bristol Post

Teen boys become youngest band to ever play Glastonbury - after being discovered at school talent show

The boys only finished their GCSEs a week ago

Louder

The trailblazing story of Sparks: "What we’re doing is making music that we can’t hear anywhere else"

Since their dramatic arrival in the UK via TV screens in the early 70s, Sparks have continued to make extraordinary music on their own terms. Now they’re enjoying a late-career renaissance

Salon

Sparks on new album, fame: It snowballed

The brothers discuss "The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte," impact of Edgar Wright's documentary & latest movie musical

Metal Hammer

Every Thrice album ranked from worst to best

Post-hardcore idols Thrice recently revisited The Artist In The Ambulance – so we’re revisiting their entire back catalogue.

The Independent UK

Kidjo, Blackwell, Pärt awarded Sweden's Polar Music Prize

Singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award

Evening Standard

Who was Steve Mackey? Pulp bassist dies aged 56

Mackey’s wife announced the news via social media on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Against the odds: Miraa May on her rise to success and her acclaimed debut album

The Tottenham-born musician is flying high with MOBO nominations and her debut album garnering instant acclaim — Lara Olszowska speaks to a bold new voice in British music

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