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REVIEW: Arab Strap impress at sold-out Barrowlands show

AS instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton slinks and frontman Aidan Moffat swaggers onto stage with supporting band in tow, the crowd and band are raring…

The National (Scotland)

Liam Gallagher issues furious rebuke to criticism of his singing at Wembley boxing fixture

‘We don’t want the likes of you at our concerts next year,’ wrote the Mancunian singer

The Independent UK

Los Campesinos! review – a hero’s welcome for cult indie stars

Despite having only spent £190.86 on marketing their new album its songs are greeted with sweaty glee by new fans and old alongside the band’s indie disco stalwarts

The Guardian - UK

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Rock in Rio's sign language pumps up Brazil's deaf audience

Brazil's mega music festival Rock in Rio has sign language interpreters on its screens around main stages for the first time in its 40-year history

The Independent UK

“It’s sloppy and out of tune, but it seems to benefit the track”: How Ryan Martinie redefined metal bass playing for a new generation with Mudvayne

Ryan Martinie stepped out as a 21st-century bass hero on Mudvayne’s The End of All Things to Come

Guitar World

Oasis would ‘snub’ Glastonbury because it ‘can’t afford them’, claims Isle of Wight boss

Band have ruled out performing at any festival next year

The Independent UK

“We were torn between trying to make it big and making our music more crossover, but failing… that happened because we became conscious of what we were doing”: The Power And The Glory signalled the beginning of the end for Gentle Giant

They’d reasserted themselves after a line-up change and enjoyed the results – but the surprisingly polarised response to their sixth album led them to start second-guessing their own work.

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"I remember being sat in the car the day after I got arrested and Danny was coming up with lines in the car, going ‘Caught by the fuzz!'": Supergrass on the making of their classic debut single

Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey on how the Britpop scamps made their riotous debut single

Louder

“I had become Musical Director, which I always hate. But I took the money and took the title and did the job!”: The Cure’s Reeves Gabrels on the time he became David Bowie’s touring MD

Bowie needed someone to be his first lieutenant in the 90s, and his ex-Tin Machine bandmate was the person he turned to

Louder

“The aim was to be ‘the best group in the world’… this easily becomes confused with ‘the most successful group in the world,’ at which point the music may get lost”: Robert Fripp’s observation of King Crimson

Ever wondered what the band is all about? Here are several ways of approaching the question, suggested by the man who’s done the most thinking about it

Louder

From 'metal' to banda: Metallica thrills Mexico with their cover of "La Chona"

Metallica thrills Mexico with their cover of "La Chona", during their first show after seven years without a show there

Latin Times

Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music review – the racism that’s seen artists brutally ripped off for 100 years

Nile Rodgers, Ice T and Trevor Nelson join music historians to lay bare the horrific industry practices that have denied Black musicians millions. It’s just a shame it doesn’t offer more anti-capitalist analysis

The Guardian - UK

“You would see them lift their masks, puke in a bucket and keep going!” Slipknot’s first manager remembers wild 90s Iowa shows

Sophia John reflects on the rabid gigs Slipknot played as they made themselves known in the mid-to-late 90s

Metal Hammer

“I contacted Steve Howe and got very little back. Eventually you say, ‘OK, I’ve got to move on’”: Jon Anderson is finally over the idea of rejoining Yes

Jon Anderson says he’s found the Yes he “always wanted” on his new solo album

Louder

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The Guardian - UK

Chappell Roan review – a super graphic ultra modern showbiz star

The slow-burn breakout US star, in one of her last small-venue shows, delivers a show packed with witty queer energy, pulsating pop and even a torch song or two

Salon

How "American Idiot" speaks to Gen Z

We're still walking along that boulevard of broken dreams 20 years later

Metal Hammer

“Had we not made this record the way it sounded, I’m not certain there would have been another album”: How Opeth ditched the death growls and fully embraced prog on Heritage

In 2011, Opeth released Heritage – and cut the the last cord with their death metal past

Guitar World

“There were no fret markers on it, so all I could do was try to keep a straight face and guess!” Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting is unstoppable on bass. Here’s how he developed his style

Songwriter, actor, author, activist, rock star, jazz freak... Gordon 'Sting’ Sumner is quite the renaissance man. Oh, and he played bass in The Police…

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Guitar World

“Fret-hand muting is a technique that’s not often talked about, but I find it invaluable while using an overdriven tone”: How fret-hand muting can clean up your picking technique – especially with gain

Texan maestro David Grissom shows us how we can tidy up our hybrid picking and help accentuate syncopated rhythms in our playing

Evening Standard

Oasis to announce more reunion tour dates in fresh hope to fans

Liam and Noel Gallagher are set to appear on stage together for the first time since 2009 when they perform a series of shows around the UK next summer

Louder

"We're playing Creep and looking terrible": revisiting Radiohead's most deranged performance ever

Thom Yorke & co. played the MTV Beach House in 1993, and the singer wasn't shy in showing his displeasure about it

Louder

"If Cocteau Twins counts as a ‘job’ then of course that was the best": former Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde on the magic of his old band and being a record label chief

The former Cocteau Twin has written a memoir looking back on his life and career

Louder

"It’s always been the song that we would say, ‘This is our best song'": Creed's Mark Tremonti on the track that the band think is their finest

On the 25th anniversary of their mega-selling second record Human Clay, the Creed guitarist looks back on its success

The Guardian - UK

Tim Dowling: they asked me to play ‘bad piano’, but no one thought I’d be quite this bad

The band wanted something skeletal, naive and unrehearsed for the new song. I gave them inept, tortured and hesitant

Guitar World

“Borland isn't just a guitarist. He’s redefining what it means to be a rock star”: Wes Borland’s go-to Limp Bizkit amps and effects pedals have made available as a signature Tonality plugin by STL Tones

Featuring three amps, five pedals and some meticulously crafted digital speaker cabinets, the plugin bottles Borland’s live rig for the digital realm

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