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"The guys need a drummer for their album, which will be recorded in September with Rick Rubin producing": Zak Starkey reveals that he once turned down the chance to join Black Sabbath

The drummer has shared a letter that was sent to him by Sharon Osbourne in 2013

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“Unparalleled amplification for digital guitar rigs”: Laney expands its Devin Townsend and Guthrie Govan-approved FRFR active speaker range with a compact 1x10 250-watter

The LFR-110 promises “studio-quality” sound and portability – and it will make your amp modelling rig easier to carry around

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“We were doing that riff and cracking up laughing the whole time”: Zakk Wylde on how a “joke” riff won Ozzy Osbourne his first ever Grammy

The No More Tears sessions found the Ozzy camp in high spirits and ready to lay down a record that would take the Prince of Darkness' solo career to new heights

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Is it our imagination, or has a second live Oasis track from the reunion tour just been released?

You were looking for some action, but what you got was Cigarettes & Alcohol

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"I think he really just held out to do that show”: Tony Iommi speaks of his shock at Ozzy Osbourne’s sudden passing

Guitarist says he’s “really glad” band did Back To The Beginning show

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“We’d only be in front of 50 people, but he’d be like, ‘We’re gonna write a song on stage, everybody!’”: How rock giants Creed wrote their breakthrough hit – or at least a good chunk of it – while playing a gig

Higher cemented their stature as stadium-conquering heavyweights

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“It was a shambles from start to finish... you could have seen this at the local theatre": The 'immersive' Elvis Evolution show isn’t the comeback special that some fans were hoping for

"We ultimately took the creative decision not to mimic Elvis's performances," say the creators

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“It stands up in a way you hope it would, by these two kids who were pretty young to be doing that work”: Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’ 1973 album is getting a long-overdue re-release

Does this mean that a Fleetwood Mac reunion is on the cards? Possibly not...

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“Yngwie had no stage etiquette. He’d walk in front of me going widdle-widdle-widdle over a verse of a song. It was very rude!”: How legendary rock singer Graham Bonnet was upstaged – and almost strangled – by guitar hero Yngwie Malmsteen

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“Even without its connection to the studio, it's simply a killer fuzz pedal”: EarthQuaker Devices Dirt Transmitter – Rancho de la Luna Limited Edition review

An EarthQuaker Devices fan-favourite makes a return, with the backing of a famed studio

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“You can play everything from Cannibal Corpse to Steely Dan on this if you want to”: Brendon Small of Dethklok is selling some crazy gear on Reverb – including a fretless Iceman and some Epiphone prototypes we’ve never seen before

Some of the strangest metal guitars you'll see– who ever thought to mod an Iceman by taking out the frets? The co-creator of Metalocalypse's brother did

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“That will be the inscription on my tombstone - 'Here lies the body of David Byrne. Why the big suit?'” How the Talking Heads' frontman's oversized tailoring defined his most iconic performance

The gigantic suit look became one of Byrne's visual trademarks, but what lay behind his choice to wear it?

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"Ozzy, we love you, wherever you're going”: Chris Martin just treated a Coldplay crowd to a Black Sabbath cover

The band took to the stage in Nashville shortly after news of Osbourne's death broke

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“The title came up as a joke at first, but it fitted the song so perfectly – we just had to use it”: How Massive Attack created the groundbreaking ’90s hit that propelled Bristol’s unique music scene into the global spotlight

“We were trying to create dance music for the head rather than the feet"

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“Still the synth and keyboard collection to beat”: Arturia V Collection 11 Pro review

If you thought this classic synth collection had peaked, think again – it’s time to welcome the 1990s!

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"The MIDI keyboard that goes beyond MIDI": Nektar introduces Mk3 versions of its Impact LX range of MIDI controller keyboards

Nektar brings redesigned hardware, enhanced DAW integration and Native Instruments NKS support to its Mk3 line of keyboard controllers

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New Taylor Swift documentary hopes to show sides of the star "that they might not know or expect”

“With her fame came controversy, which she so skillfully wrestled to the floor. We’re excited to tell her story," say the makers of the upcoming two-parter

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“I hear it as a collection of half-assed songs that they didn’t finish writing because either they were too stoned or they didn’t care any more”: Billy Joel doesn’t think much of The Beatles' White Album

He also says that there was "a lot of filler" on The Who's Tommy

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“I can clearly tell you that this song is not Blaze... it’s kind of an AI schlock bot”: AI-generated songs have been appearing on dead artists’ Spotify pages

Three examples have been spotted with similar copyright marks

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“This guitar is my new gold standard for tone and playability”: Mark Holcomb’s US-made signature PRS is back for good – and it has a figured mango top and ships in a chug-friendly Drop C tuning

Equipped with the Periphery guitarist's signature Seymour Duncan humbuckers, this is a PRS tooled up for low-end progressive metal riff work

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"I can’t really find the words, there won’t ever be another like him. Geezer, Bill and myself have lost our brother": The remaining members of Black Sabbath lead the tributes to Ozzy Osbourne, as Elton John and Tom Morello also offer their condolences

The stars come out in force for Osbourne, who’s passing comes just three weeks after his final triumphant Back to the Beginning mega-gig

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“Spend a day in my head and you’d realise how crazy I really am”: A close encounter with Ozzy Osbourne at his LA home, when he revealed the most ambitious project of his life – a rock opera about Rasputin

The legendary singer's prized possessions included John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to Imagine

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Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne dies, aged 76

Family releases short statement confirming the news

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“Time to blast riffs and throw a TV out a hotel window”: IDLES, Wet Leg and Sam Fender all graduated from the Fender Next programme – meet its Class of 2025, ft. Horsegirl, Lambrini Girls, Man/Woman/Chainsaw and more

The Fender Next class of 2025 has been announced and you've got hopecore, punk-rock and the future sound of Chicago indie-rock right here

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From Nazi rockets to drone motors, the secret military history behind the studio gear we use today

How military conflict has fuelled the development of technology that’s now essential in modern music production

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