Latest articles by Beth Simpson
The Primitives' PJ Court on his live TV guitar tone fail during a performance of hit single, Crash
The song had a "second life" after it was reworked and included in Dumb and Dumber
Taylor Swift moves to trademark her voice and likeness in a bid to shake off the bots and protect her big reputation
There will be no unauthorised Life of AI Showgirl, it seems
“Don’t just fund problems, fix them”: Music Venue Trust launches small venue upgrade programme
This is where that £1 arena show levy has been going
What on earth is Fremmede Sprog and what has it got to do with the Rolling Stones?
Answers on a billboard...
“She helped define a sound that would change music”: The last surviving Ronette, Nedra Talley Ross has died
She was 80 years old
Watch the moment when a conductor accidentally knocked a £1 million violin out of its player's hand
It could have been a lot worse
“Hello children, mutha is here to save you”: Madonna gatecrashes LA club and debuts some Confessions II tracks
Plus Olivia Rodrigo plays a Brooklyn open mic night
"I don't know what he gets out of it": The scam promoter who's enraging Scottish techno DJs
“I've pissed off a lot of people," admits Kieran Wells
“It was traumatic": Paul McCartney’s driver on how he felt when Macca’s beloved Hofner was stolen
But it turned up 51 years later
“An innovator who left an indelible mark on the history of music": Nashville session legend Wayne Moss has died
Guitarist played on Oh Pretty Woman, Jolene and on Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde
"I thought the melody was so beautiful": So what unexpected cover has Paul Weller included on his new compilation?
It came from a recent BBC Radio 2 session
“It was like an acid trip that kept coming back to him”: The torturous - and ironic - story of There She Goes
"He had this blueprint in his head for the record, but it was like an acid trip that kept coming back to him, and it would mess him up"
“An inspiring meeting point for professionals and creators”: Thomann are running a live music trade fair in May
Live Days runs from May 11 to 30 at their Treppendorf campus
Peter Hook says he won’t perform with New Order at their RNR Hall Of Fame – unless he receives an apology
Liam and Noel Gallagher could be intermediaries, he says
Boards Of Canada confirm first new album in over a decade
Duo had teased it via mailouts of VHS tapes
“I would never say that to anybody” What did Dave Grohl say to David Bowie the first time he met him?
“I backpedalled so fast,” he recalls
“Without them, you get silence”: New study suggests young people are increasingly giving up on music because there’s nowhere to play
The UK has lost 11,000 venues since 2019
“AI-generated music is now far from a marginal phenomenon”: Deezer says 44% of its daily uploads is AI slop
That’s 2 million tracks each month
“It’s amusing and it’s very real”: Ringo Starr talks about his duet with Paul and the Beatles biopics
His 22nd solo album is out this week
Anna’s Archive ordered to pay over $300 in damages after illegal scraping 86 million files for “truly open library”
But who exactly will pay?
“Used to whitewash and normalise Israel’s genocide": Brian Eno and others call for Eurovision boycott
The event goes ahead in Vienna on May 16
“I’m hoping and praying that some kind soul, will find these items and reach out”: Madonna went Coachella and lost her clothes
She made guest appearance during Sabrina Carpenter’s set
“I’m curious about this new technology”: Jose González has collaborated with ChatGPT on his new album
But the Swedish singer songwriter has a more nuanced view of AI
