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Taylor Hanson says he and his brothers, Zac and Isaac, have never let themselves believe they couldn't do whatever they wanted, so long as they put their minds to it.

But enough about that, since we have a brand new column this week with a whole new list just ready to be read, examined and debated.

AS a music fan in Retford in the late '70s or early '80s who wanted to see the likes of The Jam, The Clash, The Specials or Dexy's, you had two choices: You either bunked the train to Leicester or Sheffield and kipped on a bench in the station because you missed the last one back or you stayed at home, listened to John Peel and wished you lived ...

For Pearl Jam's last album, the first single was the cataclysmically-intense "World Wide Suicide" which jarred listeners.

Any band that's fortunate enough to last until its members are well seated in middle age is due a midlife crisis of its own, a time when the band pulls back from its everyday artistic cycle and attempts to figure out what made it so great when it was young.

It's a pleasant shock that the Arctic Monkeys are still playing clubs like First Avenue.

The same guy who made An Inconvenient Truth now brings you a love letter to the electric guitar: It Might Get Loud.

Fall is traditionally the season of would-be blockbuster albums. The music industry inevitably rolls out its biggest hitters in hopes of generating sales for the holidays.

Pick up this week's NME to read about Graham Coxon's favourite records in more detail .

Bands are as apt to build buzz these days with how their music is released as with how it sounds, and Pearl Jam's ninth studio album has its share of noteworthy logistics.

LOOSELY adapted from Alan Clarke's seminal 1989 TV drama, The Firm is a brutal and unflinching portrait of hooliganism and male bonding, set to a funky soundtrack of The Gap Band, The Jam, Kool & The Gang, Donna Summer and Tears For Fears.

A long time ago in a land far away, my mother and I were arguing about whether someone my age should be allowed to attend the Jam's last ever concert.

IT'S almost 30 years since I went to my first proper gig to see The Jam on the Setting Sons tour at Lancaster University way back in 1979.

THERE are comedy treats, stage musicals, pop, rock and classical concerts lined up in the Derby Live autumn season.

Second time around. Even better results. Sure, the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival still has a way to go before it can be ranked among the country's best large-scale music gatherings, a group that would include the Monterey Jazz Festival, Southern California's Coachella and Texas' South by Southwest.

Peter Frampton, left, performs with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, and Neil Young during the Vote for Change tour in 2004.

Wednesday, 1.45pm: SKEGNESS' own rock band Djune will headline their own gig at the Embassy Theatre, Skegness, by popular demand on Thursday, September 3. The band is made up of brothers Ash and Phil Wilson, Greg Smith, Rob Patchett and Sam Ellis-Peech. They have already been making significant waves in the music industry, with support from the ...

They also talked about fusing the sounds of power-pop, rock and New Wave of the late 70's and early 80's, which they all loved, with the more modern rock and pop sounds of their own groups.

They also talked about fusing the sounds of power-pop, rock and New Wave of the late 70's and early 80's, which they all loved, with the more modern rock and pop sounds of their own groups.

Exactly a year after Coldplay played the first of two sold-out shows at the Air Canada Centre, the Brit pop-rock outfit returned to Toronto for a show at Rogers Centre on Thursday night in front of over 45,000 fans, writes Jam! Showbiz.