Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News on Music

The Eurovision Song Contest is back. Here's how and who to watch

The Eurovision party is officially underway

The Independent UK

“While we were all eager to return to the stage, Sean's health is our top priority at this moment”: Alice In Chains pull tour after drummer experiences "non-life-threatening medical emergency"

It’s unclear whether they’ll make Villa Park Sabbath date in July

MusicRadar

Rod Stewart reveals he’s on voice rest following previous health concerns

Singer will mark end of his large-scale touring career with ambitious performance run

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“It felt like every song was 20 minutes long. It was not comfortable”: Suzanne Vega explains why she had to play her groundbreaking 1989 Glastonbury set wearing a bulletproof vest

Suzanne Vega explains why she had to play her 1989 Glastonbury set wearing a bulletproof vest

MusicRadar

The Eversolo Play streaming amp wants to be your do-it-all device for digital music

Amplification, decoding, and streaming are all part and parcel of Eversolo's latest digital music device.

What Hi-Fi?

Mastodon recruit prog fusion virtuoso Nick Johnston as surprise new stand-in guitarist following Brent Hinds’ departure

The Canadian instrumentalist – known for his rock and fusion chops – has linked up with Bill Kelliher and co for the start of Mastodon's 2025 Infinite Arc tour

Guitar World

Does Eurovision really hate the UK? Here are the stats

The last time the UK won Eurovision was in 1997

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

"It's not a political statement, it is a human reaction to a horrific and unimaginable situation." Watch The Murder Capital perform a free acoustic gig in a Cologne park after two German gigs are cancelled over Palestinian flag display

Watch The Murder Capital play Love of Country and Swallow acoustically in Cologne's Rheinpark

Louder

Who are KAJ? Meet Sweden’s Eurovision 2025 entry and this year’s favourites to win

Comedy music trio are behind the first Swedish-language song the country has sent to the contest since 1998

The Independent UK

Eurovision 2025 final running order as UK places hopes on Remember Monday

Final of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest is taking place tonight in Basel, Switzerland, with the UK’s entry Remember Monday hoping to avoid the dreaded nul points

The Independent UK

What weather can we expect at Glastonbury Festival 2025?

Mud and Glastonbury are practically synonymous, but will they meet again at this year’s edition?

Evening Standard

How Eurovision 2025 promises the comeback of a little-known musical trick

This years’ 37 entries will be more musically varied, analysis reveals

The Independent UK

"For all the madcap genius of Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan sounds like the star of the show": The Move's Looking On signposts better things further down the road

What happened to Jeff Lynne in between the Idle Race and the Electric Light Orchestra

Louder

‘LSD? Been there, done that’: the Grateful Dead’s 60 years of drugs, epic noodling and obsessive fans

Forget Swifties. The Grateful Dead have the world’s most devoted following. As he heads for Britain, founder Bobby Weir talks Vegas spectaculars, bootleggers and life after Jerry Garcia

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

“I had a white MkIII Cortina with the Warrior On The Edge Of Time poster on the back. Anyone who got in had to listen to Hawkwind”: Paul Hardcastle once used the space rockers’ titles for his own songs

The multi-instrumentalist synth pop icon recalls trying and failing to play Silver Machine on a music store synth, years before he impressed Lemmy by asking about Orgone Accumulator

The Independent UK

UK Eurovision 2025 hopefuls Remember Monday: ‘We’d be mad not to do this’

INTERVIEW: The trio lark about and talk to Kate Solomon about their Eurovision entry ‘What the Hell Just Happened?’, avoiding nul points, getting drunk together and their matching tattoos

Evening Standard

How does Eurovision voting work?

The country at the top of the scoreboard becomes the 2025 winner

Evening Standard

Why was Eurovision controversial last year?

The event began with a boycott, featured protests, and a rare disqualification.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Eurovision 2025 sees comeback for key changes and unusual time signatures

This year’s contest includes entries with three, five or six beats in the bar, as well as songs in 4/4 time.

Evening Standard

UK pins Eurovision hopes on first all-female group since 1999

The contest has only once been won by a female duo and has never been won by an all-female group.

International Business Times

Parade, Protests Kick Off Eurovision Song Contest Week

The Eurovision Song Contest burst into Basel on Sunday, but a parade launching a week of build-up to the grand final was marked by protests over Israel's participation.

Guitar World

“We shouldn’t have touched her music when she wasn’t around. I thought I would never see her again”: Knox Chandler on the less-than-ideal recording session that flourished into a decade-long working relationship with Cyndi Lauper

Chandler's list of collaborators includes the Psychedelic Furs, R.E.M., Siouxsie and the Banshees and Depeche Mode

Salon

Irish rappers turned Fox News villains

Belfast rap trio Kneecap made global headlines at Coachella — and right-wing enemies. It's a classic Irish story

Guitar World

Prince was a master guitarist with a singular musical vision, but he didn't always go it alone on the instrument. These are the oft-overlooked players who joined him onstage, and in the studio

From Dez Dickerson's timeless Little Red Corvette solo, to Wendy Melvoin's sublime work on Purple Rain, a number of guitarists made significant contributions to Prince's stage and studio output. Here's a guide to all of them

Metal Hammer

“Brent had an Iron Maiden jacket on so I went over to him to talk to him and he was like, ‘Hey you’re that crazy drummer dude’”: The chaotic birth of prog metal giants Mastodon

How Mastodon crawled from the Atlanta underground metal scene to become one of the most important bands of the 21st century

1 … 416 417 418 419

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.