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Five basses! Spinal Tap recruit Tal Wilkenfeld and Thundercat for bottom-heavy Jimmy Kimmel performance
By Will Simpson published
Movie and album are both out Friday

Dave Ellefson has his say on whether Metallica did Dave Mustaine a favour by sacking him
By Will Simpson published
It put a rocket under him, he reckons

“A song about a woman involved with birds and magic”: The Fleetwood Mac hit that Stevie Nicks wrote in 10 minutes!
By Neil Crossley published
Nicks’ performance of the song on stage every night “was like an exorcism”

The music theory behind a Depeche Mode classic
By Roland Schmidt published
Dissecting one of Depeche Mode’s most cherished and universally beloved songs reveals some compelling inner-workings

How a teenage Mark Ronson convinced Michael Jackson to write him a bassline so he could make a hit song out of it
By Ben Rogerson published
Oh, and Sean Lennon was there too, and he ended up playing it to Roberta Flack

"It shows the breadth of talent from across all of our nations”: The Mercury nominations are out and diverse as ever
By Will Simpson published
Sam Fender, Pulp, CMAT and Fontaines DC are among the big-name nominees

“If that album bombed we would have been dropped from the label!”: Kiss stars recall the album that saved the band
By Paul Elliott published
It's 50 years since the release of Kiss Alive!

Bryan Adams explains why the only person to do justice to Summer of '69 was Taylor Swift
By Ben Rogerson published
“We only had one rehearsal, so she knows that song really well,” he says of their 2018 duet

King Gizzard albums dominate the Bandcamp album chart after bold ‘name your price’ move
By Will Simpson published
Aussie psych rockers exited Spotify this summer

Derek Trucks says Tedeschi Trucks Band have completed new album and have been sneaking in some of the tracks live
By Jonathan Horsley published
Trucks says TTB has “the best collection of tunes” they have written to date, with 17 in the can, an Atmos mix – and the crowd are liking what they are hearing when they've dropped them in the set
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