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Pokémon announces London Science Museum pop-up

Get your hands on limited-edition European Space Agency x Pokémon merchandise and collectables

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“John Lennon told me it was a great song”: Alice Cooper’s satirical ’70s hit

“We were used to being the underdogs – and now we were being treated like The Beatles”

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Investigating the 'worst' Stock Aitken Waterman record

Get ready for the tall tail of the time that the prodigious producers smelt a rat and made a Living Legend

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Arturia MiniFreak synthesizer updated to version 5.0, enabling custom sound uploads

Upload wavetables and samples to customise Arturia's hybrid poly and its plugin counterpart

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Epiphone to unveil replica of Eric Clapton's 1964 ES-335TDC guitar

Gibson will be at Crossroads 2026 with a booth where you can try guitars and win this Clapton 335. Will it have the “Hare Krishna” stamp? We'll find out when it drops in summer 2027

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UK's biggest fake vinyl factory operator sentenced to three and a half years

Rehan Ahmed made over £3.6 million selling to shops and on Ebay and Discogs

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Kyle MacLachlan memoir details Laura Dern relationship breakdown while dating 'Twin Peaks' co-star Lara Flynn Boyle

The actor describes the incident as "not my best moment"

Industry NME

Modern English on The Strokes' Resemblance to 'I Melt With You'

Writers of Billy Idol's 1981 hit 'Dancing With Myself' were previously credited on 'Bad Decisions'

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Apple to Launch New Music Venue at London's Battersea Power Station

Zane Lowe said "great music and memories will be made" at the venue

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Tom Cruise on AI and the Future of Cinema

The megastar was in London speaking at a career retrospective

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Ozzfest Announces 2027 Return to North America

The event will come to North America for the first time in nearly a decade after previously announcing a show in Birmingham, U.K.

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Ed Sheeran Clarifies Gaza Stance Amidst Controversy

The singer began his Philadelphia show apologizing for “making mistakes” then later apologized for his apology

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Vinyl counterfeiter who made $3.6M from fake Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar records jailed for 3.5 years in the UK

Rehan Ahmed generated £2.7M (USD $3.6M) from counterfeit vinyl pressed at a west London plant, in a case referred to police by the BPI. Source

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Tom Cruise says AI is inevitable but it won’t mean the end of cinema: “People want to see real things”

The megastar was in London speaking at a career retrospective

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Ozzfest Confirms It Will Return to U.S. in 2027

The event will come to North America for the first time in nearly a decade after previously announcing a show in Birmingham, U.K.

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Judge explains StubHub arbitration ruling: ticket buyer agreed to terms barring class actions when he clicked ‘Buy Now’

Judge Jed S. Rakoff explained the one-page order issued over a week ago, which sent the case to private arbitration. Source

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Apple to open new “state-of-the-art” music venue at London’s Battersea Power Station

Zane Lowe said "great music and memories will be made" at the venue

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Modern English acknowledge that The Strokes “completely ripped off” ‘I Melt With You’ for ‘Bad Decisions’

Writers of Billy Idol's 1981 hit 'Dancing With Myself' were previously credited on 'Bad Decisions'

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UK-based avatar concert producer Unit1 Studio raises $20M led by Balderton Capital

The fundraise lands alongside what Unit1 calls a world first: the transfer of an avatar concert production from one venue to another. Source

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Kyle MacLachlan memoir details Laura Dern relationship breakdown while dating ‘Twin Peaks’ co-star Lara Flynn Boyle

The actor describes the incident as "not my best moment"