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Best of 2024: “I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”

And with the money it made, the band bought an oil well!

Four good reasons to give the gift of great sound with the Sennheiser MD 421 Kompakt

We've rounded up a selection of festive freebies to save you some much-needed Christmas cash - and keep you busy while the rest of the family argues over who burned the turkey

Jazz legend John Coltrane penned his famous circle in 1967 and musicians have been pondering it ever since

Waleed's 2021 debut was championed by the likes of Four Tet and Ben UFO. After wrestling with the pressure of a follow-up, he's rediscovered the joy of music-making and released an EP that's one of this year's best

Sometimes rock history is settled by the fickle finger of fate. When Pierce was asked to help a young Jon Bon Jovi track his 1981 demoes, he ended up playing guitar on a Bon Jovi classic – a song that set its frontman on his way to the top

The full, amazing story of Band On The Run

Give Christmas Top of the Pops and The Two Ronnies the swerve this year with our pick of essential festive music viewing

Our resident music professor takes on McCarney's divisive festive classic, a Christmas song curiously "built around the most advanced synthesizers available in 1979”