Rita Ora plots new album and tour in 2026
by 0 Rita Ora is planning a new album and tour in 2026. The Anywhere hitmaker has explained that she wants to release and tour her fourth …
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Melanie C signs with Virgin Music Group
by 0 Melanie Chisholm has signed a new deal with Virgin Music Group. The 51-year-old Spice Girls star and her independent record label Red Girl Records have …
Reneé Rapp is a ‘huge inspiration’ to SZA
by 0 Reneé Rapp is a “huge inspiration” to SZA. The 25-year-old singer covered SZA’s Good Days in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, backed by a …
Playboi Carti charged with assault
by 0 Playboi Carti has been charged with misdemeanour assault in Utah, according to law enforcement officials. Authorities say an incident occurred on 2 October in Park …
Jethro Tull’s Martin Barre Announces New Memoir
by 0 Jethro Tull guitar legend Martin Barre will finally tell his story in a new autobiography, A Trick of Memory, which is set for release on …
How John Lennon Ended His Fight With Todd Rundgren
by 0 Todd Rundgren recalled how John Lennon contacted him privately to end a public war of words that broke out in 1974. The pair met during …
Jake E. Lee’s Producer Tried to Bribe Him $500 To Change One Note
by 0 Jake E. Lee said he’d once been offered a bribe of $500 plus benefits to change one note on a guitar solo – but refused. …
“When the record company heard it, they said, ’This is a number one smash record. Let’s not put it on a B-side and lose it’”: The low-budget recording story of one of Madonna’s most iconic hits
by 0 It might seem an obvious winner now, but Madonna’s Vogue was at first the speedily and cheaply-built flip side to an entirely different single RECORDING …
“That song wanted to be written! You don’t plan something like that”: Nena speaks to us about the making of her era-defining classic 99 Red Balloons
by 0 We catch up with Nena on a song that reflected both the 1980s’ geopolitical tensions and the era’s underlying optimism – and took some inspiration …
“It was just like ‘Oh my God, this is everything I want an album to be,’ and it was unlike anything I’d ever heard before”: When Rick Rubin and Eric Clapton got to hear D’Angelo’s Voodoo album before it was released, they were completely blown away
by 0 A lot has been written about the genius of D’Angelo’s Voodoo album since the star’s death earlier this week, but just in case you were …
“All I did was crank it up to 10 and start to rock and roll. When you stand in front of a Marshall stack and crank it, nothing sounds better!”: The 10 greatest Ace Frehley songs from his glory days with Kiss
by 0 Of all the famous musicians who paid their respects following the death of legendary Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley on 16 October, nobody said their piece …
“Each of our albums had a synth that really excited us. The first was a Prophet ‘08, the second was the MS-20, and this time the Moog Matriarch is on every track”: Maribou State on Hallucinating Love
by 0 On their third LP, Hallucinating Love, Maribou State return with a revitalized sound after battling mental health issues Six years after Kingdoms in Colour cemented …