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“We love her, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years.” L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer

L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and is undergoing treatment. Finch will no longer take part in...

“Did he ask me to write a song with him? I didn’t take that seriously. We’d had a few pints.” The night Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder partied ’til dawn with Bob Dylan in an Irish bar

The list of performers assembled at New York's storied Madison Square Garden on October 16, 1992, to celebrate Bob Dylan's 30 year recording history was...

Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks Review

Emptiness, nothingness, absence, non-being: such evocations of negation abound in extreme metal, often justifiably given the visceral analogy between dense dissonance and existential dysphoria. Among...

“Queen’s tech said, ‘The lads would love to see you.’ It was a set-up – when I got there they’d set up the studio for me”: Steve Howe’s favourite moments as a guitar for hire, and the one that got away

Before Steve Howe joined Yes in 1970, he’d built a respectable career as both band member and session player. Even after becoming one of prog’s...

“He came into the kitchen, gave me a tape and said, ‘Listen to this. It’s not just any tape’.” How a mouthy teenage guitarist scored his band a record deal with Britain’s coolest indie label, and kickstarted a musical revolution

Johnny Marr knew instantly that the riff was special. The 19-year-old been messing around on his little brother's guitar at his parents' house, and was...

Strawbs share live video of Benedictus as 1972 classic Grave New World gets new limited edition live release

A new live version of Strawbs' legendary 1972 album, Grave New World, is to be released as a limited edition live release through Witchwood Records...

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