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If you’re serious about music, you will appreciate the massive influence The Doors have had since their formation in 1965. With seminal tracks like ‘Light My Fire’ (1967), ‘The End’ (1967) and ‘Riders on the Storm’ (1971), and their pioneering psychedelic stage shows, they helped to take music in a whole new direction. The band’s [...]

Last month, Sonic Youth’s co-founders Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore released a statement through the band’s record company announcing they were separating after 27 years of marriage. Immediately, speculation followed over what this meant for the future of every self-respecting hipster’s favourite post-punk noisenicks, and now guitarist Lee Ranaldo has told Rolling Stone that the [...]

Ok, this isn’t exactly hot off the press, but we simply have to report on this one. Just in case any of you 8Ballers missed the news yesterday, a press conference confirmed that The Stone Roses will reform next year to play two homecoming shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park before heading off on a world [...]

We love the Flaming Lips here at 8Ball. Their unique blend of psychedelic rock absolutely ticks all the right boxes for us. If you’ve ever seen them live, you’ll know only too well that they don’t beat around the bush when it comes to putting on a great show! Last year’s tour saw the band [...]

On Friday, we brought you Part 1 of our top 10 drummers of all time. As promised, here are our top 5. This really was a tough task, and we had to leave some amazing people out of the list. If you think we got it wrong, let us know why. 5. Mike Portnoy Mike [...]

The nation is gearing up for a festival-fuelled bank holiday weekend, and Muse fans heading to either the Leeds or Reading Festival are in for a very special show to mark the 10th anniversary of their landmark album, ‘Origin of Symmetry’. In celebration and as a gift to the fans, the band will play the [...]

Fashion changes have not stopped AC/DC from consistently rocking out over the past 38 years.