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“By day they worked on the official record. At night they taped an entirely different record, without the knowledge or approval of the label”: The story of Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, Quiet Sun and their sly posthumous album

Guitarist’s mid-70s juggling act proved his previous band’s worth via their LP Mainstream, assembled in a rush while he was tracking solo debut Diamond Head

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"To my shock, as I was singing Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin walked into the club." The story behind the night that Led Zeppelin watched Heart play a Led Zeppelin set

The Wilson sisters once walked out of a Led Zeppelin gig. But six years later, Led Zeppelin walked in to a Heart gig to find the sisters playing Led Zeppelin songs

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How much difference does upgrading your stylus make to the sound of your vinyl?

Upgrading your stylus could be the single best thing you do for your hi-fi. But why, exactly? We take a deep dive into how you can enhance your listening experience in just a few simple steps

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"I learned this note-for-note because it really touched me emotionally; it was so vulnerable." The eight songs that fuelled Steve Stevens' teenage rock'n'roll dreams

Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens recalls the songs that rocked his world during his formative years

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"I held these pieces of paper in the palms of my hands like I was holding a newborn child." The story of the platinum-selling, two-minute blast of Celtic punk inspired by historic musical documents

Dropkick Murphys' I’m Shipping Up To Boston was a collision of legless pirates and beyond-the-grave lyrics from American folk hero Woody Guthrie

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"I didn't choke! No furballs!" Watch Foo Fighters' five-song Tiny Desk Concert

Dave Grohl returns home to Washington DC to play intimate NPR Music show

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"The whole truck just disappeared, all our gear, gone!" How a $40,000 robbery in New Orleans in 1970 forced Pink Floyd's David Gilmour to purchase what has become the highest-priced guitar in history

"The police hadn't helped us much, but the FBI got to work"

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“The cycle of album-tour-album-tour is dying. It’s long been dead at our end of the scale”: This prog band took a risk to escape broken music industry models. So far, it’s paying off

Anglo-Welsh quintet wrote enough material for a double album, but that’s not the format it’s being released in. Have they found a way to break the mould?

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"Somehow I’m still here, and I’m still in one piece." The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon shares first new solo music in five years

Listen here to new Brian Fallon songs Not Bad For New Jersey and Better Before

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"If Michael Hutchence says anything about me, I'll go back down there and kick his ass!" The "horrific" Guns N' Roses show with INXS that led a disgusted fan to break their copy of Appetite For Destruction into pieces and mail it to Slash

"It was a huge disaster in front of 65,000 people. We fell apart"

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“Music, art, death, time – they’re all part of the same thing. I can’t articulate it. I’m just some stoned goofball with a guitar”: How Gong became more Gong than ever with latest album Bright Spirit

The most stable line-up in the band’s six-decade history have completed their first trilogy, with new spiritual insight and an old but well-loved guitar style borrowed from Syd Barrett

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Remixed and remastered version of Quiet Sun's legendary Mainstream album due in September

Quiet Sun featured Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera alongside Matching Mole's Bill MacCormick with Dave Jarrett and Charles Hayward

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Ritchie Blackmore finally confirms that yes, Christopher Cross really did replace him at a Deep Purple show that one time

The incident took place in Texas in 1970 after Blackmore reacted badly to some flu shots

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Jack Douglas, celebrated producer for Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, John Lennon and more, dead at 80

Jack Douglas also worked on recordings by James Gang, Alice Cooper, Montrose, Mountain, The Who, Patti Smith, Blue Öyster Cult, New York Dolls, Starz and many more

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Journey add 40 more dates to mammoth Final Frontier tour

Journey's long-running soap opera has been extended for another season

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"I can't think of anything more fun than irritating the elite." Listen to Deep Purple's "Highway Star-style" new single Arrogant Boy

Arrogant Boy comes from Deep Purple's upcoming 24th album, Splat!

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"70s metal was definitely the coolest. AC/DC had some fly records, Sabbath had some cool s**t." Ten Beastie Boys songs featuring samples of classic rock anthems

"When hip hop DJs started using those chunky riffs, we started checking out old metal again"

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Marshall unveil cosmic Jimi Hendrix 60th anniversary collection: New velvet-covered Bluetooth speaker and amp bundle now available

Marshall celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix famously plugging into one of their amps with striking new range of hardware complete with Acton III speaker covered in crushed purple velvet

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"It's Muppets-level joie de vivre, bodies sailing over shoulders, legs flailing, hands held aloft in triangles. It’s smart. It’s funky. And it really rocks." Viral sensations Angine de Poitrine dazzle, confuse and delight at debut London show

Avant-garde Canadian twosome Angine de Poitrine justify all the hype at their sold-out London debut

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I write about music tech for a living - here are my tips, tricks and products that'll help keep your record player clean and your vinyl collection in tip-top condition

We all spend a lot on our turntables and record collections, so don't leave them to gather dirt and grime

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"Men could make you feel like you were really silly for even trying." Heart's Ann Wilson recalls the sexism of the '70s rock scene

Ann Wilson speaks out against sexism as her new documentary, Ann Wilson - In My Voice, is screened in the US

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Beastie Boy Mike D announces first ever solo headline tour

Mike D will kick off his first ever solo headline tour with two nights at a 1,150-capacity London club

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"It's about a man driven mad by betrayal who murders the woman he loves." The misunderstood Tom Jones cover that became the Sensational Alex Harvey Band's biggest hit

Seen on Top Of The Pops alongside the sugary-sweet songs of the era, Delilah affected the band permanently, and not all in a good way.

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Fancy trying a European festival this year? Here's five reasons to hit Mad Cool 2026

Foo Fighters, The Black Crowes, Nick Cave and dozens more play Spain's Mad Cool festival in July

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"When we go up there on stage I'd almost liken it to a sexual experience." Ann and Nancy Wilson on love, sobriety, politics and the changing face of Heart

They play soft stuff, hard stuff… and even some in-between stuff. But whatever you do, don't dismiss Heart as ‘that ballad band'

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