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King Crimson announce listening sessions in conjunction with London's Polygon Portal

King Crimson will release a newly mixed version of 1971's Islands on CD and Blu-ray and on vinyl in September

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"He thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship": The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame

How Dire Straits went from the pubs of London to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s

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"This old lady really freaked out and said: 'Turn the backing track down!'" How Jimi Hendrix recorded the song that established his otherworldly abilities

A month after arriving in London, Jimi Hendrix recorded a song that transformed ancient blues into modern hard rock

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"A lot of modern rock has lost the fun factor – like, whatever happened to grandiosity?" Meet Brass Camel, your new favourite chaotic Canadian prog-funk melting pot rockers

Brass Camel's musical ingredients might not be new, but it's how they blend them that counts

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"Everyone has the right to be furious right now. And if that comes out in your music, I celebrate that." Why Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi are dancing and playing through the fury

For the Tedeschi Trucks Band, loved ones, music and the business of really living are as intertwined as the husband-and-wife pair at the helm

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The fumble and the fill: Two moments of genius from Anika Nilles' emotional first show with Rush

Rush have returned to the stage, and we're feeling it

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"I'm releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality." Beastie Boys legend Mike D announces debut solo album Thank You

Listen to True Colors, the latest preview of Mike D's forthcoming debut album

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: June 8, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Europe, Mastodon, Stanley Simmons and more

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"Anthony Kiedis and Flea showed up wearing dildos." The night Jane's Addiction played a freaky private Halloween party for a debauched Hollywood legend

Mexican voodoo plus pagan witchcraft plus giant pythons plus Jane's Addiction? Where was our invite Perry?

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"It must be hard for him when people write, 'How could you leave Gwen, she’s so great'." Gwen Stefani wrote a whole album about her bandmate dumping her, and it made No Doubt huge

The Californian ska-pop quartet went supernova with Gwen Stefani's heartbreak anthems

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Watch 90 minutes of previously unreleased, high-quality, pro-shot footage from Marillion's Clutching At Straws tour

The rare footage comes from Marillion's headline set at the Lesyin Festival in Switzerland in July 1987

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"We think we played for eight hours. I can't say for sure, because everyone was tripping." The acid-fried story of Man, the Welsh jam band with its heart in San Francisco

"We're a pretty unmanageable bunch of stoned musos, which might have something to do with our lack of commercial success."

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We have liftoff! Watch Rush return to the stage in Los Angeles - includes full setlist

After 3964 days, Rush are back

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“He asked, ‘Will you guys ever tour again?’ We said, ‘We’re going out in 2026.’ The crowd laughed – then realised we weren’t kidding”: How Rush transformed from political pariahs to comeback kings

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson draw a career line from the early 80s to 2027. They say they might continue after that, if they can stand each other – and if they can stand

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"Avalon sits easily alongside ABC's Lexicon Of Love or Duran Duran's Rio." The album that consolidated Roxy Music's shift from weirdo art-rockers to gossamer smooth purveyors of sultry adult pop

Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera and Andy MacKay reach peak maturity

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"I've got some ideas." Glen Matlock open to writing new Sex Pistols material with Frank Carter

Sex Pistols bassist says Frank Carter has "revitalised" the band and could sing on new songs

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“They said a four-minute single containing lyrics about Jesus would never get played on pop radio”: The US singer loved by John Lennon and hated by right-wing Christian groups who wrote the last great hippie anthem – and then vanished into obscurity

Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit In The Sky was one of the greatest one-hit-wonders of the early 1970s

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“I was still sending him music. He was saying, ‘That sounds great, but you should use it for your solo album.’ I thought, ‘OK, I’m getting the message’”: Richard Barbieri on the much-needed Porcupine Tree hiatus

Keyboardist admits he wasn’t such a nice person in the run-up to their 2010 hiatus, explains what changed when they released 2022’s Closure/Continuation, and hints at what might be next

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“Derek Shulman took me to a Bon Jovi show. The whole audience was freaking out, and Derek said to me: ‘Are you ready for this? It’s going to happen to you.’ And I fully believed in it.”: The unlikely rebirth of Dan Reed Network, funk rock’s nearly men

How funk rock pioneer Dan Reed overcame death, drama and drug addiction to make the Network’s first album in 25 years

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“I lost my virginity to a member of Legs & Co…” From the Bar-L to the Barrowlands, a day out with the Skids

We go inside Scotland’s biggest prison, Barlinnie, for a gig by time-served and rehabilitated post-punks the Skids

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"Football unites us." Blur's Alex James to host Britpop party nights in London's Trafalgar Square ahead of England's World Cup group stage games

Blur bassist promises "the perfect aperitif for England's big games"

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Phoebe Bridgers announces UK and European dates for The Lost Tour, with every ticket sold benefitting organisations supporting those impacted by sexual assault and violence

European dates for The Lost Tour will begin in Ireland in November

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"People went, 'That's woke.' Well, go f*** yourself." Elvis Costello explains why he's rewritten the most controversial lyric in his provocative 1979 single Oliver's Army and is playing it live again

Oliver's Army is back in Elvis Costello's live shows: here's why

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"He glared out into the audience like he wanted to kill each and every one of us, one at a time." The story behind the gig which inspired the birth of Joy Division

The night that changed Manchester's music scene forever

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Cool new proggy sounds from Gentle Giant, Voyage 35, Mastodon and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Long Earth, Pelagic United, Ditch The Demon, John Bassett and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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