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A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked after pretending to be on duty in order to gain backstage access at All Points East festival. PC Hasnain Awan was found to have committed gross misconduct at Police Misconduct Hearing held on May 5, according to the Hackney Gazette. Awan allegedly worked a shift for the Met

By 1973, Funkadelic had performed more explorations of musical form in just four albums than most bands manage in their careers. They delved into it all from blues and R&B to hard rock, psychedelic rock and jazz-rock, culminating with back-to-back classics in 1971’s Maggot Brain and 1972’s formidable double album America Eats Its Young. The

Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s management has shared a playlist curated by the late musician and composer, titled ‘Funeral’. READ MORE: Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1952-2023: an inimitable sonic innovator Released today (May 15), his management wrote on social media: “We would like to share the playlist Ryuichi has been privately compiling to be played at his own funeral to accompany

Sting argued that most defunct bands could find value in reuniting – but only once and not on a permanent basis. In a recent interview with Music Week he discussed his experience of the Police’s reunion tour of 2007-8, saying they were very clear about what they wanted to do and had no desire to

A selection of solo works by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto have been gathered on a new Milan Records compilation, ‘Travesía’. The album — which is available to listen to now — has been curated by Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, with the album’s title translating to ‘journey’ in Spanish. Sakamoto collaborated with the acclaimed

A British politician found himself in trouble for posting the Rainbow track “Kill the King” days after the coronation of Charles III. Labour Party Councillor Dave Jones, an elected member of the local authority of Conwy county, north Wales, said he had no intention of insulting the new monarch when he shared the 1978 song

Sweden have won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, after earning 583 points. READ MORE: UK Eurovision entry Mae Muller: “I wanted to write something that made people feel empowered” Sweden was favourite to win ahead of tonight’s final in Liverpool, with Loreen’s song ‘Tattoo’ having odds of 4/9 on bet365 to win. Loreen becomes the first

The worst Kiss songs are usually made when they try to sound like someone else. Apparently not content with simply being one of the biggest rock bands on the planet, Kiss has reached for an even wider audience or attempted to resurrect their flagging commercial fortunes by incorporating whatever musical trends were most popular at the

The Pretenders kicked off their intimate UK club tour at The Great Escape festival in Brighton last night (May 12), debuting some new songs. READ MORE: Chrissie Hynde: “People die of loneliness – it’s an epidemic” ‘A Love’ and ‘Domestic Silence’ from upcoming new album, ‘Relentless’, received their debit ahead of the album release on September

John 5 said the hardest part of joining Motley Crue was telling Rob Zombie about the move. The guitarist spent 17 years in the shock rocker’s band before agreeing to replace Mick Mars in Moltey Crue last year. In a recent interview on Sirius XM’s Trunk Nation, 5 said he still worried that he’d damaged

An 18-year-old man has confessed to fatally shooting the late rapper Pop Smoke during a home invasion in 2020. The man, whose identity has been withheld by a court order due to him being a juvenile at the time of the incident, also confessed to other charges for home invasion robbery. He was charged in

Bryan Adams has released a new anti-war song titled “What if There Were No Sides at All.” You can watch the video below. The plaintive, acoustic ballad features languid slide guitar and Adams’ simple pleas for peace. “Don’t make me hate, don’t make me choose,” he implores. “Why should one side win and the other

The two songs that frame The National’s ninth album — fragile opener “Once Upon A Poolside” and quiet finale “Send For Me” — govern this remarkable record’s tone. This is not The National in rhapsodic, quick-fire mode; the big choruses and sonic complexities have been dampened down and even guest turns from big names –

Tenacious D have dropped their first new original song in five years, titled ‘Video Games’. The country-tinged track is Jack Black and Kyle Gass’s first song since their 2018 album ‘Post-Apocalyptico’ and clocks in at just over a minute. “It’s about growing up and leaving childish things behind… but then realising that video games are

When U2 opens the new MSG Sphere venue in Las Vegas in September, it will become the most expensive entertainment building in the state of Nevada, costing $500 million more than its owners originally expected. It’s now expected to cost $2.3 billion. Announced in 2018, the spherical construction was to cost the Madison Square Garden

Not all band’s names offer immediate clues to the sound of their music. Yet this couldn’t be further from the truth when it comes to North Sumatran band Suarasama, whose moniker is a combination of two Indonesian words: ‘suara’, which means voices or sounds but also opinions, and ‘sama’, meaning togetherness and equality. Formed in

Ed Sheeran could one day make the jump to country music, according to a new interview and a new collaboration with Luke Combs. While in Texas for the Academy of Country Music awards, Sheeran revealed in a new interview with Billboard that he would “love to transition into country,” adding that he speaks to his

RATT singer Stephen Pearcy has called out the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, claiming the institution has a bias against bands from the ‘80s. “They don’t give a shit about us, the ’80s groups, at all,” the rocker declared during an interview with Detroit radio station WRIF (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “The Hollywood scene;

Glastonbury has announced its 2023 Shangri-La line-up – check out the newly announced names below. The Streets‘ Mike Skinner, Nia Archives, Skindred, Cassyette, Flava D, Sam Divine, Empire State Bastard, Panic Shack, Lady Shaka and Craig Charles and Friends are among acts that will perform at the popular live music and late-night area at this

Cream was sitting on top of the world in the spring of 1968. The power trio had followed up their 1966 debut, Fresh Cream, with Disraeli Gears, which hit the Top 10 in both the U.K. and U.S. in 1967. U.S. audiences in particular went wild for the group’s live performances, and Cream – made