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Five bands you must not miss at this weekend's Pelagic Records Festival

Pelagic Festival runs from August 24-25 at Maastricht's Muziekgieterij

Metal Hammer

“If this is not good, please don’t put it on YouTube, because I don’t want to get in trouble with Taylor": Chris Martin and Maggie Rogers pay tribute to Taylor Swift and her fans with Vienna performance of Love Story

Swift, meanwhile, has just released her first statement on her cancelled Vienna Eras Tour shows

MusicRadar

“Everybody was trying to make money off us, and we were oblivious. I thought everybody understood what we were doing. We weren’t trying to be Nirvana”: Page Hamilton on Helmet’s 1994 classic Betty – the unsung curveball the critics tried to kill

After the claustrophobic intensity of Meantime, Hamilton opened up the doors and chased down different sounds on album number three. No one was ready for Betty

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Paul McCartney joins Andrew Watt and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith to perform Beatles and Neil Young classics at tiny show

The Beatles legend also revealed that he has written an as-yet-unreleased song with Watt

Guitar World

“Rory Gallagher’s a saint in my house. There’s even a saintly painting of him above where I hang my guitar”: Meet Louise Patricia Crane, the solo-loving songwriter, seeking new prog sounds with King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk

Netherworld is the sound of Crane and producer Jakszyk testing the boundaries of where guitar can go, in the company of special guests Tony Levin, Gary Husband and Ian Anderson

Guitar World

“It’s like you’re hearing a song within a song”: How to turn a guitar solo into a mini composition

Ibanez signature artist Andy Timmons shows you how writing a solo is like writing a song, and why you should apply the same dynamics

Guitar World

Mercury Prize 2024 announces winner reveal date and ceremony details

Charli XCX, Ghetts, Barry Can’t Swim and Corinne Bailey Rae are behind some of this year’s shortlisted albums

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Noah Kahan at the O2 review: soulful, witty nostalgia for the dance-crazy crowd

London has heard the gospel of the US folk-pop star, and it’s been converted

Evening Standard

“The special sauce is the Enhance facility, which mimics the input stage of tube amps”: Blackstar Polar 2 review

Blackstar presents a USB audio interface that it proudly proclaims has been “designed by guitarists for guitarists”

Guitar World

The Sheepdogs drop Paradise Alone EP led by "dumb rock song" Take Me For A Ride

Paradise Alone is the first release by The Sheepdogs on their own Right On Records label

Louder

"Unravels the horrors and joys of the world through a rouge-tinted pair of spectacles. The results are epic." Simone Simons soars on solo debut Vermillion

After 22 years and eight studio albums with Epica, vocalist Simone Simons is spreading her wings as a solo artist

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Imagine Dragons fans concerned by ‘crazy’ band post after drummer announces departure

Musician confirmed his departure after going on hiatus from the band last year

The Independent UK

“Tchaikovsky was a sort of mentor; if it was good, ABBA or whatever, we didn’t shut anything out”: When Gentle Giant revisited seventh album Free Hand

The reissue, complete with Steven Wilson remixes, was the band’s chance to look back on what the band had liked about 1975 release, and what they hadn’t

Louder

Taylor Swift's Wembley gigs see surge in Tube journeys as mayor hails 'spectacular summer' of music

Sadiq Khan said the hundreds of thousands who saw Swift at Wembley this summer proved ‘London is truly the music capital of the world’

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Taylor Swift breaks silence over foiled Vienna terror attack: ‘Let me be very clear’

Singer’s shows in the Austrian capital were cancelled due to a foiled terror attack

Louder

"Rock music is so dominated by all-male bands so it feels cool to have a super-pregnant lead singer on the cover": Blues Pills have finally made exactly the album they wanted

Ten years, four albums and some huge changes on from their breakout debut, Blues Pills have ditched the self-imposed constraints

Louder

"I'm doing a two-hour show with a six-and-a-half-minute bass solo": Glam icon Suzi Quatro is not resting on her laurels

Suzi Quatro on paving the way for other women in rock, social media, age and working hard

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Helmet cancel US tour over financial concerns and poor ticket sales

New York noise-rock heroes Helmet have pulled the plug on 14-date US tour due to kick off next month

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The Guardian - AU

Taylor Swift says she felt ‘tremendous guilt’ after Vienna shows cancelled over terror threat

Singer shares ‘rollercoaster of emotions’ at end of European leg of Eras tour, saying she is grateful ‘we were grieving concerts and not lives’

International Business Times

House Used For Early Beatles Gigs Becomes Holiday Rental

A Liverpool house famous for hosting some of The Beatles' first gigs in the basement has been given a new lease of life listed on Airbnb.

MusicRadar

“Superstar Guitars showcases the most famous six-strings in the history of music, in exquisite detail”: Hendrix’s Woodstock Strat, Kurt Cobain’s Mustang, the Exile On Mainstream Burst and more iconic guitars to feature in stunning new book

Eleanor Jane has photographed the world's greatest guitarists and their instruments, and her new book collects her images of the guitars that changed pop culture and the stories behind them

MusicRadar

“We were told to stop making pop music and sent dance music playlists on Spotify and told ‘your music has to sit on here’”: How Clean Bandit fell out with Atlantic Records

How Clean Bandit fell out with their record company

The Guardian - UK

Liverpool venue that hosted some of the Beatles’ earliest gigs turned into Airbnb

Fans can stay at the Casbah Coffee Club where the Quarrymen, the precursor band to the Beatles, had a residency

Guitar World

“I played it to him on an acoustic guitar and he went, ‘That sounds kinda French… let me write some lyrics’”: Gary Moore on how Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott helped shaped one of his most iconic guitar tracks

The two were regularly at loggerheads over personal and creative differences, but they did collaborate on Moore’s 1978 solo album Back on the Streets

MusicRadar

“I think she is one of the most singular, inspiring, powerful artists I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting”: Chappell Roan graduates from support act to guest star as Olivia Rodrigo invites her on stage to duet on Hot To Go

Roan had previously opened for Rodrigo on the Guts World Tour

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