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Is Robbie Williams still married and has he split up with his wife?

Is Robbie Williams still married and has he split up with his wife? Why people are questioning the Take That star’s relationship

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10 amazing UK metal bands that couldn’t break America

Despite their undeniable talent, the likes of Carcass, Godflesh and Sikth never got enough praise in the States

Metal Hammer

Lauryn Hill defends late starts to her concerts: 'Y'all lucky I make it on this stage'

The Grammy-winning artist addressed her lateness during her show at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum on Saturday

Evening Standard

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"We had an A&R person at Geffen saying, 'You guys can be the Pink Floyd of the underground.' I was, like, No, we can’t." Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore remembers Nirvana and 'The Year That Punk Broke'

Thurston Moore: "When I was putting this book together my agent basically said, Give me your Kurt chapter"

Louder

The 11 greatest final shows in heavy metal history

From Black Sabbath to Metallica’s Cliff Burton, these excellent gigs also proved to be bittersweet goodbyes

Metal Hammer

“An instrument with class that could still appeal to the most technically driven shredders”: Bruno Mars’ signature Fender Strat tips the cap to his six-string icons Jimi Hendrix and Prince – and it’s one of the finest artist builds we’ve seen

Featuring Fender’s all-new Heirloom aging process, virtuoso-friendly playability and a choice of two pickguards, Mars’ take on the Strat will surprise you

Guitar World

“This is the only pedal in the world that can create these sounds”: Red Witch launches the expanded Synthotron III, an all-analogue workstation for synth, envelope filter and chorus

A pedal for the serious tone-seeker, the Synthotron III combines a four-voice monophonic guitar synth with envelope filter, sample and hold and a BBD chorus

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Dolly Parton reveals that her duet with Stevie Nicks on Rockstar was originally written for Fleetwood Mac, inspired by an affair Nicks had with someone "famous and rich" in the rock 'n' roll world

Dolly Parton reveals the inspiration behind What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done to Me, her duet with Stevie Nicks on her much-anticipated Rockstar album

Louder

Tony Visconti likes The Beatles' final 'likable' single, but says "I think the string writing is boring... I should have written the arrangement for this. Paul used me for Band on the Run because he liked the string arrangements I wrote for T.Rex"

Fabulously grumpy super-producer is on a troll and rails against missing T.Rex credits

MusicRadar

Harry Styles appears to have shaved his head - and fans think it's all down to Taylor Swift

Are you ready for these pics?

Marie Claire

UK festivals 2024: music events and line-ups this summer, from All Points East to Glastonbury

The sun is shining and summer plans are finally starting to come together

Evening Standard

“Unlike any guitar we’ve released before”: Ed Sheeran has unveiled his latest limited-edition Lowden signature acoustic – and it’s a thing of beauty

Created to celebrate the chart-smashing singer-songwriter’s latest album, the Autumn Variations guitar introduces some new specs to the Sheeran by Lowden range

Guitar World

"I said, 'we've added a double wiflocated sploshing flange.' John laughed and said 'let's flange again then'": George Martin and John Lennon thought they'd invented flanging but the whole debate has now taken an odd turn

We discussed whether John Lennon and George Martin really discovered flanging a few months ago. Now the story has taken a wiflocated twist…

MusicRadar

“One of my favorite memories”: Praise rolls in for Tom Morello’s 12-year-old son, Roman, as footage emerges of him nailing Killing in the Name during Rage Against The Machine soundcheck

The youngster, who can “shred circles around” his father, filled an empty arena with Whammy-laden lead lines back in 2022 in the latest example of his impressive soloing chops

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"The contractors had to excavate half a sphere in the ground and blow up a massive circular balloon in it." We’d forgotten how gloriously crazy Vince Clarke’s dome-shaped recording studio was. Here’s what it is now.

He had huge hits with Depeche Mode, Erasure and Yazoo, so decided to build a Hobbit house and fill it with synths. We'd have done the same to be honest.

The Guardian - UK

‘It will change the way we think about their story’: mythical archive of ‘first Beatles historian’ comes to light

Mal Evans neglected his family life to go on tour with the Beatles, amassing a priceless trove of ephemera and diary entries. Long after his untimely death, a new book has finally uncovered it

MusicRadar

“It’s got all the autumnal inlay that you can imagine, a wonderful engraved bridge, and it sounds beautiful:” Sheeran By Lowden releases limited edition Autumn Variations acoustic

Compact, ergonomic, with Spanish cedar leaf inlays, and a tone rich and warm like a pumpkin spice latte, the Autumn Variations is launched to tie-in with Ed Sheeran’s new album

Guitar World

“All this new stuff they call rock ’n’ roll, why, I’ve been playing that for years now”: How Sister Rosetta Tharpe kickstarted the British blues-rock explosion – in 1957

Though Muddy Waters is typically credited as the one who first brought snarling American blues-rock guitar to the UK, he was beaten to the punch by a year

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The Guardian - UK

‘We’re like a frat house’: meet Gob Nation, south London’s oddball music collective

Living in an old care home, recording in a disused police station and constantly playing in each other’s bands, could the likes of the Tubs, Ex-Vöid and Suep have stumbled upon a new model for struggling musicians?

Evening Standard

Weird and wonderful items left after UK gigs: including a signed Justin Bieber keytar

We hope the keytar, boiled eggs and prosthetic legs all made it back to their rightful homes

MusicRadar

"If you could just bear with us, we’re going to go and revive our drummer by punching him in the stomach. He’s out cold...": 5 crazy Keith Moon moments

They didn’t call The Who’s drummer Moon The Loon for nothing…

Metal Hammer

Corey Taylor: My stories of Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Björk and more

Slipknot's Corey Taylor heard the world’s dirtiest joke from Lemmy, hung out with Björk, battled Dave Grohl at table tennis, raided Metallica’s fridge, talked ‘weirdness’ with Mike Patton and almost joined Anthrax

Louder

"He threatened to take me apart piece by piece if I didn’t back off": How bubble-glam producer Mike Chapman turned Blondie from punks into pop stars

One Way Or Another provided the blueprint that turned Blondie into million-sellers and cemented Debbie Harry’s status as one of rock’s foremost badasses

The Independent UK

Sean Martin, lead singer of Liverpool band The Night Cafe, dies aged 26

Announcing the news on social media on Monday, the band said they were ‘still struggling to process the news’

Louder

In late 1967 Pink Floyd stayed at Alice Cooper's house before appearing on American Bandstand: on both occasions Syd Barrett completely baffled his hosts

While in California to promote their Apples And Oranges single, Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett began to show signs of the behaviour that would lead to his departure from the band

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