Best headphones for music 2025: Our definitive guide | Louder
Sep 11, 2024 · Take your private listening to the next level with my pick of the best headphones for music - from sleek wireless earbuds to chunky noise-cancelling headphones
Best record players 2025: turntables tested for every budget
Dec 10, 2024 · The original Planar 3 is now more than 40 years old. Yet, amazingly, if I was to put it and this current version side-by-side, I think most people would be hard-pressed to spot any differences beyond the smarter plinth and updated tonearm.
Bruce Springsteen: "I Saw Rock’N’Roll Future!” | Louder
Jul 2, 2024 · Everything changed on May 9, 1974, when Springsteen supported Bonnie Raitt at the Harvard Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Watched by Rolling Stone writer Jon Landau, the singer pulled off the most important gig of his career – and one of the most legendary shows in the annals of rock history. It wasn’t just the night Bruce Springsteen saved his career …
Opeth: The Last Will And Testament album review | Louder
Nov 21, 2024 · In truth, this return to extremity – deployed sparingly and strategically, rather than across the whole album – is the least of The Last Will’s inventiveness. Åkerfeldt has enlisted the unlikely dream team of Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson and Europe singer Joey Tempest to help bring this conceptual tale centred on the tribulations of an early 20th-century family in the wake of …
Best music streaming services 2025: We test them side by side
Feb 8, 2024 · If you're after a some of the best audio options when it comes to streaming music, then Tidal is hard to ignore. Its top tier subscription boats 360° Reality Audio which is simply immense through a good set of headphones or hi-fi system, but be warned that it does come with a fairly hefty price tag.
Everything you need to know about Sleep Token | Louder
Oct 23, 2023 · Melding R&B, pop and downtuned djent guitars, Sleep Token aren’t your “typical” heavy band. Where ballads like Bloodsport or Drag Me Under employ soft piano, others like Gods or Vore lean far more into extremity, with screamed vocals and heaving breakdowns.The Summoning, one of the first singles released from this year’s Take Me Back To Eden album, …
Radiohead - Creep: The meaning behind the song | Louder
Mar 29, 2023 · Artists having a fractious relationship with their most popular song is not an unusual phenomenon. Nirvana famously grew to loathe Smells Like Teen Spirit.Robert Plant once remarked that he’d “break out in hives” if he had to perform Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven every night. In the case of Radiohead and Creep, however, it almost ended the band entirely.
Johnny Cash's Hurt: the story and meaning behind the classic song …
Apr 11, 2022 · Fast forward to 2002, when Rubin and Cash, recording in the producer’s living room, had settled on a bare-bones arrangement for their Hurt cover – an arpeggiated acoustic guitar, flecked with tasteful touches of organ and piano by the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench.. Tench, who played on four of the five Cash/Rubin albums, told JamBands, “It was just …
The chaotic story of Kevin DuBrow and Quiet Riot
Jan 12, 2024 · Formed in the mid-70s, Quiet Riot had grafted long and hard to get to this point. Their chief claim to fame was that the band had once featured Randy Rhoads, the guitarist who had gone on to stardom with Ozzy Osbourne before being killed in a plane crash in 1982. But now, at last, Quiet Riot were signed to a major label for their third album, Metal Health.
Every Judas Priest album ranked from worst to best | Louder
Apr 16, 2024 · 19. Demolition (2001) A noble but flawed attempt to be all things to all metalheads, Demolition is no one’s favourite Judas Priest album. A halfway house between the band’s classic sound and the hybrid futurism of the ‘90s, it lacks any truly great songs and, despite Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens’ stunning vocal performance, served largely as confirmation that a reunion with Rob …