“I’m tremendously proud of this album,” Rumer demurely claims about her impending new record, Boys Don’t Cry.

John Mayer continues mining the California singer-songwriter vein of 2009's Battle Studies.

Van Halen's fractious past and frequent bust-ups have won a reputation as one of rock's greatest feuds.

Tim Burton's stalwart star gives good fang, but this gothic comedy feels about as fresh as stale garlic

Is it a problem that the Alabama Shakes' 'raw' and 'natural' soul-rock is nothing of the sort? Only until they start playing ...

If you're going to quit your day job as drummer in the world's premier folk-rock band, you'd better have something special up your sleeve.

Tributes pour in for Bert Weedon, the British musician whose tutorials inspired a generation

In the mid-1960s, the emergence of the powerful Marshall amplifiers enabled musicians to turn up the volume – and effectively transformed pop music into rock.

The strictures of the Unplugged format don't impact too much upon Florence & the Machine, thanks to their semi-acoustic roots, so when she opens this MTV performance with "Only If for a Night", the piano, harp and drums are more like familiar old hands than brave new departure.

The rock world has promised to "crank it up to 11" to mark the death of Jim Marshall, the "Father of Loud", whose groundbreaking amplifiers gave the gift of extreme volume to generations of guitar heroes.

Having gained overdue reward in the Champion Hurdle last month, one of the most respected veterans on the circuit has now been given the chance to complete his fulfilment in the John Smith's Grand National itself. If Noel Fehily happens to win on State Of Play at Aintree on Saturday week, however, it would be no less a triumph of patience for the owners and trainer of his mount.

Cancellation of music festival leaves owner struggling to pay for essential repair work

Toby Leighton-Pope, 35, is vice president of music for Live Nation. He's been promoting Hard Rock Calling since it began seven years ago