Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam are still going strong after 34 years. He says that Neil Young showed him how it’s done | ✍️ Will Hodgkinson

Click below for the full interview 👇

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Great article in The Times and The Sunday Times today - thank you Will Hodgkinson, and Tom Jackson for the pix.
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‘The UK is a disaster area. 14 years of the Tories and their failed idea that all you have to do is make a few people incredibly rich and everything trickles down… as an economic theory it’s nonsense, isn’t it?’
⁦Dave Rowntree⁩ from Blur for Labour!
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Shocked to discover Steve Kille of the heavy psych band Dead Meadow has passed away. Hugely underrated, always great.

Interesting response to a Taylor Swift album review

I did a track by track review of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, complete with star rating and fbb (former boyfriend bashing) rating for each song.

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.This Is The Kit will also be doing a Q&A with Will Hodgkinson at the 'Live at The Minack Theatre' film screening!

Still tickets available for this Saturday:
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Jon Bon Jovi’s battle to save his voice: ‘If I can’t be the guy I was, I’m done’

The 1980s rocker is back in style but reveals his fear of never singing live again | ✍️ Will Hodgkinson

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Jesus Christ!

Ha ha well what can I say except… read all about it

In 1983, The Beatles day-to-day manager Peter Brown and biographer Steven Gaines published The Love You Make, having interviewed absolutely everyone involved. It caused such an upset that Brown locked the tapes away, never to be seen again… until now.
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The plethora of weirdos celebrated in the hilarious Freaks Out! by ⁦⁦Luke Haines Rock N Roll⁩ had me from beginning to end.
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Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter review — a slick and starry western epic

★★★★☆

'It has guest appearances from Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, but the queen of R&B’s ambitious country album ranges way beyond Nashville conventions' | ✍️ Will Hodgkinson

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Air review — the Moon Safari stage debut was beautiful and otherworldly

★★★★★

Like a 1970s son et lumiere show but with the added possibilities brought by new technology, Air presented Moon Safari as a complete experience | ✍️ Will Hodgkinson thetimes.co.uk/article/air-re…

Air performed Moon Safari in full and it was like being trapped inside an episode of Space: 1999. A 70s kid’s dream come true, in other words.

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Met the Black Pumas in Austin, TX
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‘I looked like a geography teacher,’ the late, great Steve Harley told me in 2022. He didn’t, but it was a sign of his humour and humility to think he did. He will be much missed.

The most powerful thing I saw at sxsw was three VR films about holocaust survivors, with two of the survivors there to talk about it. Written up here alongside the US Army controversy, Skepta’s black James Bond movie, and psychedelics going mainstream.
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Spoke to Air, two very clever French blokes, on their defining masterpiece Moon Safari, which still sounds like the future 25 years later.
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