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We’re nine songs into a dramatic, blistering set when, midway through Telekon’s touching Please Push No More, a clearly distressed Gary Numan suddenly steps back from the microphone, in tears. Turning

The tour hasn’t even happened yet, but if 2025 is remembered for one thing, it most likely will be Rush announcing they were going back out on the road, with German drummer Anika Nilles, for their R50 shows.

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INFINITY LAND (Beggars Banquet, 2004)

There feels like an excess of anniversaries at the moment – some legitimate, some more arbitrary – but Howard Jones has good reason to mark the 40th birthday of his second studio LP, Dream Into Action

With solo projects, other bands and a massive Creed reunion between them, there were whispers that Alter Bridge might be on the way out. Instead they regrouped, faced the dark side of our times, put their foot on the gas and recorded a brilliant new album.