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Tindersticks Announce New Album ‘Dog Roses’

  • Tindersticks’ fifteenth album arrives on 12 March.
  • ‘Dog Roses’ has eight tracks, including ‘Loving, Leaving’.
  • The band will play London’s Palladium on 4 May.

Tindersticks will release their fifteenth studio album, ‘Dog Roses’, on 12 March, continuing the creative shift they began with 2024’s ‘Soft Tissue’. The band say the new record grew from working in a new underground studio, where familiar methods no longer worked and they had to find different…

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“My wife can send me to get milk and I’ll come back with a handbag! My brain is just too full”: Adam Wakeman on working with his dad Rick, playing Black Sabbath jazz style, War Of The Worlds, and loads of bands

  • Adam Wakeman moves between prog, jazz and metal.
  • He has worked with his father, Rick Wakeman, and Black Sabbath.
  • His career spans bands and *War of the Worlds*.

Musician Adam Wakeman describes how his wide-ranging interests in prog, jazz and metal shape a career spent moving between projects. He discusses working with his father, Rick Wakeman, and playing with Black Sabbath, whose songs he has also approached in a jazz style. Wakeman has worked across numerous…

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Remembering When a Paul Simon Song Featured Two Future Members of a Critically Beloved Group on Backing Vocals in 1973

  • Maggie and Terre Roche sang backing vocals on Simon’s 1973 track.
  • The recording helped the sisters gain a foothold in the music industry.
  • They later formed The Roches with their sister Suzzy.

Paul Simon’s “Was a Sunny Day”, a track on his 1973 album *There Goes Rhymin’ Simon*, featured backing vocals by sisters Maggie and Terre Roche, who later became members of the acclaimed cult group The Roches. Simon had mentored the sisters as they began pursuing music, and the…

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What’s the story behind “Hey you down there with the glasses” in ‘All the Young Dudes’?

  • Bowie wrote the song to help keep Mott the Hoople together.
  • Ian Hunter’s closing lines recalled a real audience encounter.
  • The single reached number three in the UK.

David Bowie wrote and produced Mott the Hoople’s “All the Young Dudes” after learning the band was close to breaking up, hoping the song would help keep them together. Its closing call-out, “Hey you down there with the glasses”, came from an incident Ian Hunter recalled while recording…

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100%WET Return With New Single ‘Indigo’

  • 100%WET have released new single ‘Indigo’.
  • Sanna Heinstedt has officially joined the group.
  • Munns says the song’s meaning changed over time.

Copenhagen group 100%WET have released ‘Indigo’, their first new single since their debut album came out last year. The track marks a further change in the band’s line-up and follows a difficult period in which founder Casper Munns’s rare, life-threatening illness cut short their touring. Close friend and…

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Kiss farewell tour documentary set to debut on 19 November 2026

  • Kiss’s farewell-tour documentary debuts on 19 November 2026.
  • It will first stream on the band’s website via Kiswe.
  • The film will explore plans for Kiss’s legacy beyond touring.

Kiss have announced that their farewell-tour documentary, *Kiss: End Of The Road*, will debut on 19 November 2026. Directed by DJ Viola, the film is intended to show the band’s final live chapter from behind the scenes, including the journey to their last performance at Madison Square Garden.…

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Check out Chvrches’ tender single ‘Overthinker’

  • Chvrches have shared new single ‘Overthinker’.
  • They debuted it at a 100-person Glasgow charity show.
  • Their fifth album is due on 22 January.

Chvrches have released ‘Overthinker’, the second single from their forthcoming album, and debuted it live at a small Glasgow charity show. The song turns inward, exploring complicated family dynamics and the tension of a relationship that can feel both supportive and difficult. The trio played to 100 fans…

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The Chats set March release for new album Half Cut

  • The Chats’ new album, ‘Half Cut’, arrives on 5 March.
  • New single ‘Off It’ is out now.
  • A UK tour next October ends with three Camden shows.

The Chats have confirmed that their new album, ‘Half Cut’, is finished and will be released on 5 March. The Australian band have also announced a UK tour for next October and released the single ‘Off It’, offering an early taste of the record. Recorded at Maple Sound…

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Brian Jones’s 1962 letter recruiting Charlie Watts heads to auction

  • Jones tried to recruit Watts in a handwritten 1962 letter.
  • Watts joined the Rolling Stones seven months later.
  • The letter is estimated at up to $80,000.

A handwritten letter from Brian Jones asking Charlie Watts to leave Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated and join his unnamed band is heading to auction. Preserved by Watts’s family for more than six decades, it will be shown publicly for the first time and offers a glimpse of the…

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Born 96 Years Ago Today in Arkansas, the Country Guitarist Who Grew Up Down the Road From Johnny Cash and Later Played With Hank Williams

  • Tommy Tomlinson was born 96 years ago in Arkansas.
  • He played on major Johnny Horton hits, including “The Battle of New Orleans”.
  • After losing a leg in a 1960 crash, he returned to touring.

Country guitarist Tommy Tomlinson was born in Arkansas on 28 October 1930, near the farm where Johnny Cash grew up. He later became a regular player with Johnny Horton, contributing to several of Horton’s best-known recordings, including the number-one hit “The Battle of New Orleans”. Tomlinson began playing…

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