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The 10 greatest Silverchair songs

• Far Out Magazine ranks Silverchair's ten greatest songs across their career.
• List spans 1995's Frogstomp to 2007's Young Modern.
• Highlights include 'Israel's Son', 'Spawn Again' and 'Young Modern Station'.

Far Out Magazine has compiled a list of the ten greatest songs by Australian rock band Silverchair, celebrating the trio's ability to reinvent their sound across five studio albums released between 1995 and 2007. The feature argues that few bands matched Silverchair's range, as they moved from raw…

Rihanna working on new music, A$AP Rocky confirms in podcast interview

• A$AP Rocky says Rihanna is recording new music.
• No album release date or further details were given.
• Rihanna’s last full album, Anti, was released in 2016.

A$AP Rocky has said that Rihanna is currently recording new music, suggesting she may be preparing to end her near decade-long break from releasing studio albums. His comments matter because Rihanna has not issued a full album since 2016’s Anti, despite sustained public interest in a follow-up. Speaking…

A$AP Rocky Gives Update on Rihanna’s Next Album: “She Cooking”

• A$AP Rocky confirmed Rihanna is actively working on new music, dismissing theories that their relationship caused the decade-long album delay
• Rihanna's last studio album 'ANTI' (2016) was commercially successful; she has only released soundtrack singles during the ten-year gap
• Rocky ruled out a collaborative album, arguing their musical styles are too different to work together

It's been a decade since the Grammy winner released her last album, 'Anti,' in 2016.

Excide don’t want to be Turnstile or Knocked Loose. They want to create something new: “Post-hardcore just meant trying new and different things.”

• Hardcore band Excide want to sound distinct from Turnstile, Knocked Loose.
• New album Bastard Hymns mixes hardcore with odd time signatures, alt-rock melody.
• Frontman Tyler Washington cites Snapcase as a key influence.

Excide, an American hardcore band, are pushing back against comparisons to genre leaders like Turnstile and Knocked Loose, aiming instead to carve out their own sound within the current wave of hardcore's mainstream resurgence. Frontman Tyler Washington argues that "post-hardcore" was always about established hardcore musicians experimenting with…

ZZ Top Cancel Hollywood Bowl Concert Due to ‘Insurmountable Obstacles’

• ZZ Top cancelled their Hollywood Bowl show over unspecified "insurmountable obstacles"
• Ticket holders will get automatic refunds, including parking passes
• Cheap Trick held a sold-out replacement show at the Troubadour instead

ZZ Top cancelled their scheduled Hollywood Bowl performance in Los Angeles on Wednesday 5 August, citing "insurmountable obstacles" in a statement from frontman Billy Gibbons. No further details on the reason for the cancellation were given, and the band asked fans to "bear with us for this brief…

BMG Buys Andrew Stockdale’s Wolfmother Rights

• BMG buys Andrew Stockdale's Wolfmother publishing and royalty rights
• Deal extends BMG's decade-long partnership with the Grammy-winning frontman
• Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed

BMG has acquired a set of rights from Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale relating to his interests in the Grammy-winning Australian rock band, deepening a relationship that began when BMG became his global publisher in 2016. The deal sees BMG take control of Stockdale's publishing, recorded music royalties and…

The guitarist David Byrne knew he could never be: “We had a few rules”

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Members of Butthole Surfers, Melvins and more form wacky supergroup, Gatta Morta

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Guitar virtuoso Eric Johnson picks the songs that soundtrack his life: “That record was over my head. I wasn’t even sure if I liked it. But the more I listened, the more I realised how great it was”

• Guitarist Eric Johnson discusses the songs that shaped his life
• Earliest memory is Elvis's "Teddy Bear" aged around four
• First song learned on guitar was Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart"

Texas guitarist Eric Johnson, best known for his 1990 Grammy-winning instrumental "Cliffs Of Dover" and his role in the original G3 tour alongside Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, has shared the songs and records that have shaped his life and music in an interview feature. The piece highlights…