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For readers, music offers both discovery and connection: a chance to find new voices, revisit familiar favourites and understand how artists build their work and careers. Disputes over samples, reunions and the changing business of entertainment show how creativity, money and cultural influence intersect.

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Riot adds 30 minutes of League of Legends music to Netflix, but one band is missing

  • Riot is bringing League of Legends music videos to Netflix.
  • The collection arrives on 12 November.
  • Pentakill’s videos and concert are not included.

Riot Games is adding a collection of League of Legends music videos to Netflix in its first partnership of this kind. The move brings several virtual music groups to the streaming service ahead of K/DA and True Damage’s performance at the League of Legends World Championship opening ceremony.…

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The 1971 track with “the greatest opening line to any song ever written”, according to Paul Rodgers

  • Paul Rodgers chose “Morning Has Broken” as music’s greatest opening line.
  • The lyric originated in a 1931 Christian hymn.
  • Yusuf/Cat Stevens adapted it for his 1971 recording.

Paul Rodgers named the opening words of “Morning Has Broken” as the greatest first line in any song, saying they evoke the world’s first morning and a sense of wonder. The song is best known through Yusuf/Cat Stevens’s 1971 recording, whose appeal lies partly in how its arrangement…

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The John Hiatt Lyric That “Turned” the Page on the Past

  • Hiatt’s “Slow Turning” reflects on ageing and gradual change.
  • The song followed personal and professional setbacks.
  • Its narrator weighs family, love and the passage of time.

John Hiatt’s 1988 song “Slow Turning” reflects on ageing, change and the challenge of maintaining a stable life without becoming stuck. Written after a difficult period in his personal life and career, it captures the uncertainty that can remain even when circumstances improve. Hiatt had lost his record…

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Pro-war artist replaces ‘Living My Best Life’ inscription at Instagram-famous St. Petersburg bus stop with Putin quote and drone decals

  • A popular St Petersburg bus stop’s inscription has been replaced.
  • New decals depict Geran drones and a Putin quote.
  • Artist Alexey Chizhov said the timing marked a military forces’ founding day.

St Petersburg’s Instagram-famous “Naberezhnaya Miklukho-Maklaya” bus stop has had its “Living My Best Life” inscription replaced with pro-war decals showing Geran drones and a quote from Vladimir Putin. The change removes a phrase that helped make the stop a popular photo spot overlooking the Gulf of Finland, and…

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Aftershock Reveal Dates For 2027 Festival

  • Aftershock returns to Sacramento from 30 September to 3 October 2027.
  • The festival’s 15th edition follows a record year with over 180,000 attendees.
  • Tickets go on sale on 16 November at 12pm Pacific time.

Aftershock will return to Discovery Park in Sacramento from 30 September to 3 October 2027 for its 15th edition. The dates give festivalgoers a chance to plan ahead, with ticket sales set to begin in November. The 2026 festival drew more than 180,000 people, its largest attendance to…

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Born 96 Years Ago Today in South Carolina, the Guitar Virtuoso Who Backed Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash—and Sold a Million Records Before He Could Legally Drink

  • Hank Garland was a leading Nashville session guitarist.
  • “Sugarfoot Rag” sold more than a million copies.
  • A 1961 brain injury ended his guitar career.

Hank Garland, born in South Carolina on 11 November 1930, became a highly sought-after guitarist whose playing featured on recordings by Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline and many other major artists. His career bridged country and jazz, and his early success helped establish him as one of Nashville’s leading…

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Mouth Culture Announce Debut Album ‘The Wire’

  • Mouth Culture’s debut album arrives on 2 April 2027.
  • ‘The Wire’ will feature ten tracks, including two released singles.
  • The band will tour the UK with South Arcade in February.

Mouth Culture have announced their debut album, ‘The Wire’, due for release on 2 April 2027 through Killabop. The announcement follows the release of the singles ‘Growing Pains’ and ‘Fool’, and marks the arrival of a full-length record from the British rock band. The ten-track album includes ‘Outta…

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In 1985, Bono’s trip to Ethiopia resulted in a song Brian Eno hated so much he tried to delete it. Now it has 300,000,000 streams

  • Bono’s Ethiopia trip influenced the song’s lyrics.
  • Eno reportedly tried to delete the track.
  • The song has reached 300 million streams.

Bono drew on his 1985 visit to Ethiopia when writing the unfinished lyrics that became ‘Where the Streets Have No Name’, the opening track on U2’s *The Joshua Tree*. Brian Eno wanted the album to blend the band’s rock sound with freer, flowing musical ideas, but the song’s…

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Placebo frontman Brian Molko snaps at fans in epic stage meltdown: ‘I’m talking to you, motherf–ker’

  • Molko confronted fans filming at Placebo’s Milan show.
  • The band had asked audiences to put phones away.
  • Two later shows were postponed after Molko developed acute laryngitis.

Placebo frontman Brian Molko rebuked concertgoers who continued filming during the band’s Milan show, despite its 30th anniversary tour’s no-camera request. The incident drew attention after video circulated on social media, and highlighted the tension between the band’s push for audiences to experience concerts without phones and fans…

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Heart’s Ann Wilson on why sister Nancy doesn’t appear in her In My Voice film

  • Nancy Wilson chose to save her story for her own documentary.
  • Ann Wilson’s film arrives on streaming services on 25 November.
  • A new Heart album is finished.

Ann Wilson says her sister and Heart bandmate Nancy does not appear in her documentary because Nancy wanted to wait for a film of her own and did not want to be defined solely by their partnership. The documentary follows Ann’s path from childhood to stardom and is…

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