Latest articles by Will Simpson
Has Fyre really gone out?: Billy McFarland’s festival will be limited to just 250 guests and just 12 hours of music
That’s if it even happens at all
“Incredibly good-looking, just like me”: Alice Cooper launches his own reel-to-reel tape recorder
Plus he says Hall Of Fame is spreading its definition of rock n’ roll “pretty thin”
“Tonight is for Clem and it’s for friendship”: Sex Pistols dedicate Sydney show to Clem Burke
“What a drummer, what a friend, what a guy” says Glen Matlock
Why Trent Reznor turned down Richie Kotzen for Nine Inch Nails
But Stanley Clarke “didn’t give a shit” what band he was in
Who Wants To Live Forever? The composer still creating music from beyond the grave
Alvin Lucier’s lab-grown artificial ‘brain’ is creating sound four years after he died
“I don’t want to book a boy band”: Why Perry Farrell didn’t want Green Day on the Lollapalooza bill
He thought they were a record company creation
“Just so if ever that happens again, I’m like ‘here’s the proof that I wrote it’”: Ed Sheeran reveals he now films every recording session
Plus he responds to TikTokker said his music was like “heroin”
“A few Burnage lads created something special”: Tony McCarroll's wistful message to his old Oasis bandmates
“The world is excited to see this” he says
“I had a blast. Thank you”: Beatles original drummer Pete Best retires, aged 83
His daughter says it’s due to “personal circumstances”
“I thought I was going to die”: Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus on surviving cancer and his band’s resurrection
Bassist was diagnosed with B-cell lymphona
“Let them wallow in Walt Disney woke expectations”: John Lydon’s message to the reformed Sex Pistols
“I am the Pistols, and they’re not,” he says
“Turns out they weigh more than I thought”: Mark Ronson injures himself trying to move a stage monitor
But he manages to finish his set
“Stealing the work, art and livelihoods of songwriters”: Suno AI warned over its ‘lyrics generator’
ReMi tool regurgitates lyrics to existing copyrighted songs
“I’m glad you’ll get a chance to finally hear them”: Springsteen to release seven new old albums this summer
Tracks II: The Lost Albums is out this summer
“I didn’t bring a belt”: Watch Jack Black's air-shreddin’, tongue-wagglin’, pants-fallin’ Tonight Show entrance
He was promoting A Minecraft Movie
“So full of energy, joy, anger and life”: The Hives big up their new record
Josh Homme also appears on album, due in August with a tour to follow
“We’re losing the essence of the heartbeat”: Ronnie Wood bemoans technology’s impact on music
He claims “there’s not much new music”
"I may be one of those put in jail”: Neil Young fears that he may be barred from re-entering the US
UK Subs were the first musicians to be barred this way last week
How a fake Daft Punk fooled Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür into a collaboration
They pretended to be Thomas Bangalter
“He was like, ‘You gotta say what’s true for you'”: Will Smith on taking advice from Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar
The younger men said 'keep it real’
“I was a bit taken aback by how big a deal it was”: Noel Gallagher speaks about Oasis ticket chaos
Plus he names his four favourite Oasis songs
“I can assure you there is still plenty left to explore”: Sam Mendes confirms his on screen Fab Four
All four films will be out in April 2028
Guitarist Mick Rogers thinks he's in possession of Jeff Beck's last recording
"Nothing came of it because Jeff was playing through his dodgy Marshall and didn’t like the sound,” he explains
