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UK music sales hit record high as Taylor Swift tops album sellers

Spending on streaming subscriptions and physical sales hits £2.4bn as industry recovers from piracy and CD slump

The Guardian - UK

"I had 24 hours a day, seven days a week to take drugs": Peter Perrett and the long road to a genuine late-career masterpiece

A late-career starburst in his drugs-hastened twilight years, formerOnly Ones frontman Peter Perrett’s latest solo album is the best he's ever made

Louder

"We get the electric guitars going and we hit it hard": Brothers Osborne's TJ Osborne on playing out, coming out, and the fine line between country and rock'n'roll

Country rockers Brothers Osborne play UK and Ireland shows in January

Louder

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Streaming and vinyl makes 2024 record year for music sales

The biggest-selling album of the year was Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department with sales of 783,820 albums.

The Independent UK

"In the current world there is little that could be more challenging and complex than achieving peace and love": Slovenian industrial music titans Laibach release uplifting cover of Foreigner's I Wanna Know What Love Is

What a way to start 2025

Louder

Peter Yarrow Of Peter, Paul And Mary Dies At 86

Renowned folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary passes away at 86. Known for hits like 'Puff the Magic Dragon' and advocacy for civil rights.

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Peter Yarrow Of Peter, Paul And Mary Dead At 86

Peter Yarrow -- one third of the beloved folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, whose anthems epitomized the 1960s protest movement -- died Tuesday in New York.

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“Faithfully recreated with modern upgrades, this amp defined ‘90s rock – powering metal, nu-metal, rap-rock, grunge, pop-punk and more”: Mesa/Boogie announces imminent return of the '90s era two-channel Dual Rectifier

Mesa/Boogie says the classic high-gain head will be reissued on 14 January

MusicRadar

Better Man: musical biopic of Robbie Williams as performing monkey will entertain you

I can remember the mixed feelings I experienced as a teenager in 1997, buying Life Thru A Lens – my first Robbie Williams album – cautious it was too poppy to sit with my humble-but-growing CD collection of artists that would later be known as Britpop.

The Conversation

"Tupac stopped me from committing a murder." Public Enemy's Flavor Flav on the night Tupac Shakur talked him out of crushing a thief's skull with a fire extinguisher

Public Service Announcement: don't get caught stealing from Public Enemy

Louder

“Ed Norton was telling me stories about how to keep props. I was like, ‘I’m not stealing this guitar!’” Monica Barbaro played Joan Baez alongside Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan – and her co-star encouraged her to take the 1929 Martin she used onscreen

Barbaro had used a vintage Martin 00-45 during her performance as the folk legend

Guitar World

“He heard this outrageously bad dance version. He was enraged; we love that song. The producer said, ‘You should cover it’”: Oceans Of Slumber’s return to prog metal

With a Chris Isaak track acting as an ode to Type O Negative, the Texans found inspiration for new concept album Where Gods Fear To Speak in America’s current environment of uncertainty

Metal Hammer

“There might be a new song happening very soon... We’re in a great place creatively”: The Edge suggests new U2 single might be imminent

And band are “hoping to do some shows” in 2025

MusicRadar

"Anybody who thinks they can do exactly the same thing they did 50 years ago is mad": Deep Purple's Ian Paice and others on the demands of playing drums in your 60s and 70s

It’s a matter of keeping fit and adapting your style, they say

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“Personally owned and used by one of Britain’s most favoured of all rock ‘n’ roll guitarists”: One of Status Quo legend Rick Parfitt’s stage-played Fender Telecasters is up for sale

It might not be the modded circa 1960 model that was the late Quo man's main stage guitar but this white Tele is worth rocking all over the world

Metal Hammer

“A great motivation at a time when I didn’t really know what to do next”: Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick remembers playing sole gig with Ozzy Osbourne

Skolnick played one concert with The Prince Of Darkness in June 1995 before being ushered out the door by management

The Guardian - UK

‘Audiences can smell fakeness a mile away’: the creative directors behind pop’s biggest stars

Whether making rabbits for Chappell Roan or dangling Pink upside down, these professionals build entire worlds for pop’s A-listers. They explain their singular craft

Guitar World

“I bumped into Eric in a club and I thought we were going to get into a fight! But he went, ‘Hello, man!’ and gave me a big hug”: Jeff Beck took the Yardbirds in a new direction, but the constant Eric Clapton comparisons took years to shake

In the first stages of his career, Beck's relationship with Clapton was just as much (if not more) defined by Clapton's already-legendary reputation than it was by the man himself

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Guns N' Roses, Sex Pistols, Lorna Shore – plus one more day – added to Rock For People 2025

The now-five-day Czech rock fest will be headlined by Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Linkin Park and new additions Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses in June

MusicRadar

“A lot of the guitar parts were totally within my ability, but there were a couple that I just couldn’t navigate”: Steve Vai reveals the King Crimson riff that had him beat and the tip from Robert Fripp that helped him nail it

Celebrating the ‘80s material of prog trailblazers King Crimson, the BEAT Tour gave Vai a welcome fix of “high-information music” but some of Fripp’s material pushed him to the limit

Louder

Ramones would have been gifted Bruce Springsteen's first hit single if Springsteen's manager hadn't intervened

After seeing Ramones play in New Jersey in 1979, Bruce Springsteen wrote a song for the New York punks, but was advised not to give it away

Metal Hammer

“This record is about unapologetically accepting that you are the sum of all of your parts”: Halestorm discuss their next album, inspired by Motörhead, country and Skid Row

Produced by country connoisseur Dave Cobb, Halestorm’s sixth album will be sometimes eclectic, always energetic

Guitar World

“I’ve jammed with him at Kirk’s place. I’ve spent a night at his house and we’ve ended up with guitars in the kitchen”: Jerry Cantrell and James Hetfield have talked about making an album together

The two guitar heroes have recorded together in the past, and collaborated at a number of benefit concerts. Could a fully fledged album be next?

MusicRadar

"For me, it was essential - even though nobody has ever asked me what my qualifications are”: Should you consider music production school?

Attending a music production school could give you the skills to succeed in the industry. But is it really worth the money?

MusicRadar

“You could think of this as theft, but it’s standard practice in the folk world”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Bob Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

As A Complete Unknown hits theatres, our resident music professor puts one of Dylan's best-loved songs under the musical microscope

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