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Los Angeles mainsions Britney Spears updated her fans after the Los Angeles fire crisis left her unable to share messages for two days. The 43-year-old music icon could not recharge her phone for two days due to power outages caused by the raging fires. On Friday, she revealed that she had been forced to evacuate her home to find safe shelter as the fires continued to spread around the city. Taking to Instagram to share a video clip of intricately...

Slash released an album of blues and soul standards that no one was expecting, then took the show on the road to support community causes Slash has fashioned some of the most memorable guitar riffs and solos in modern rock. But few people would have had him down as a born-again bluesman. For his latest project, the Guns N’ Roses star dived deep into a world of music that had its first flowering 60, 70 and even 80 years ago. “I’m a...

Joe Bonamassa has expressed his fears for his Nerdville home and the vast collection of vintage gear it contains as wildfires rage in Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. Since they started on Tuesday 7th January, wildfires have been devastating vast areas of southern California, fuelled by tinder dry conditions and high winds. At the time of writing, five people have lost their lives, and the wildfires have destroyed over 2,000 structures with more than 137,000 people evacuating their homes....

Kim Wilde returns with her new studio album Closer, which the UK pop talent describes as a follow-up to her seminal 1988 album Close. Whilst the new album is available by this week, Kim first release the first single Trail of Destruction and today Midnight Train Talking of Trail of Destruction, Kim explains: “I wanted a connection to ‘Stone’ from my Close album in 1988 as well as referencing Jack Black’s 60’s referencing “Sticking it to the man’ speech from...

Simply Red announced the release of their thirteenth studio album, Time, on 26 May 2023. The first unveiled track from the album is “Earth in a Lonely Space”, which was already released as a single on 18 May 2021. The lead single, “Better with You”, was released on 2 March 2023, accompanying the album’s official announcement. Although the band’s long-time keyboardist Dave Clayton has recorded some parts for Time and played on “Better with You” with Simply Red during the...

Songs of a Lost World is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 1 November 2024. It is the band’s first release of new material in 16 years since the release of Dream in 2008. All the songs on the album were composed solely by singer/guitarist Robert Smith, for the first time since the 1985 album The Head on the Door. It is also their first studio album to feature Reeves Gabrels although he was...

Dark Matter review – the faithful will rejoice with superproducer Andrew Watt working his magic, the Seattle grunge veterans sound on point and full of energy in their 35th anniversary year. Discussions about Pearl Jam’s 12th record should dwell on the extraordinary longevity of this grunge-era band, who arrive in their 35th year largely intact and on the right side of history – pro-environment, pro-voting. For their latest album they have turned to 33-year-old rock fan turned superproducer Andrew Watt...