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Jo From School shares new single ‘Weight’ ahead of debut EP Grace, Flair & Distance on 7th August
Jo Geller works part-time at Alexandra Palace ice rink and is releasing her debut EP on Chess Club Records on 7th August. ‘Weight’, filmed in Wales by her sister, is the final single.
Phoebe Bridgers shares ‘Lost Boy (Acoustic)’ and announces 300 global midnight listening parties for Lost Weekend
Phoebe Bridgers performed ‘Lost Boy’ on The Tonight Show twice in one week: first with a band of children, then acoustically with veteran musicians. The acoustic version is out now and 300 midnight listening parties follow on 13th August.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw share album closer ‘Something Else To Give’ as Cannonball confirmed as Rough Trade’s Album of the Month
Man/Woman/Chainsaw have shared ‘Something Else To Give’, the closing track of their debut album Cannonball, out 7th August via Fiction Records,…
Asha Jefferies shares new single ‘Cool Guy’ from sophomore album Desire Is An Angel
Asha Jefferies’ album treats desire as a path to self-knowledge rather than a form of lack. ‘Cool Guy’ is what that philosophy sounds like when the longing is not returned.
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Nick Mason on the man who invented “real rock ‘n’ roll”
Pink Floyd are often labelled prog rock, but for Nick Mason, their roots run through the rhythms of a Black American pioneer and the origins of rock ‘n’ roll
Why did David Bowie change his name?
Before Space Oddity made him a star he was David Jones, navigating confusion and identity, until he found his true artistic name
The influence of George Young on AC/DC
Many hail Angus and Malcolm Young as rock legends, but their older brother George quietly laid the groundwork, combining discipline, songwriting, production and hard graft
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Why Joni Mitchell has always been scathing about Madonna
Madonna has described Joni Mitchell as the most profound female influence on her songwriting. Mitchell, by contrast, has called her a terrible role model and compared her to Nero.
The fateful day Bob Dylan introduced The Beatles to cannabis
Bob Dylan thought The Beatles were already getting high. They weren’t – but after the night he spent with them at the Delmonico Hotel, that was about to change.
Why Kurt Cobain hated everything about Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith
Kurt Cobain grew up on Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith. Then punk arrived, and everything he had loved about classic rock became everything he despised about it.
Roger Waters on meeting John Lennon: “He was quite snotty – so was I”
Waters on Lennon: a lifelong debt to a man he only met once, in a studio control room, where both of them were on their worst behaviour.
‘I’m not picking you up from Redditch!’ | The night Robert Plant met John Bonham
The story of how Robert Plant met John Bonham begins with a heckle, a scowl, and one of the best one-liners in rock history.
The day a Fleetwood Mac guitarist went out for a magazine and joined a cult instead
Within a year, Fleetwood Mac had lost both Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer. The story of how they lost the second one is almost impossible to believe.
‘Stab it with their Steely knives’ | The real story behind the Eagles and Steely Dan’s feud
Steely Dan took aim at the Eagles in 1976. The Eagles fired back inside ‘Hotel California’. Glenn Frey eventually explained exactly what it all meant.
How Black Sabbath accidentally poisoned Bill Ward during the making of Vol. 4
In 1972, Black Sabbath were recording Vol. 4 in a Bel Air mansion. One afternoon ended with Bill Ward poisoned, rolling down a hillside, and Ozzy Osbourne deciding he’d be fine.
