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Courtney Love Says Taylor Swift Is "Not Important" and "Not Interesting as an Artist"

Wow, saying that is... a choice.

Marie Claire

"I learned to play the bass, the guitar, and as much of the drums as I could by listening to Pearl Jam": See producer and superfan Andrew Watt performing Alive back when he was a little-known solo artist

Watt produced the band's new album Dark Matter

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“Edge smacked me. It was a full-on rumble.” The night that U2 guitarist The Edge punched Bono in the face onstage

U2's first US tour, in December 1980, was intense, not least when they stopped one show to brawl

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ABBA, The Notorious B.I.G. and Green Day named to the National Recording Registry

Every year, the Library of Congress names 25 "audio treasures" to be preserved permanently. This year's selections range from ABBA and Green Day to World War I-era jazz pioneer James Reese Europe.

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"Few bands can compete for sheer atmosphere and elegiac beauty": Doom metal legends My Dying Bride stay the course on gorgeous - if a little predictable - new album A Mortal Binding

Doom metal legends My Dying Bride are still as gloriously miserable as ever on their fourteenth studio album, A Mortal Binding

Metal Hammer

‘Gender and sexuality on a spectrum – I started to unravel all of that’: musician Claire Rousay on dating, depression and Jeff Tweedy

Following acclaim for her affecting sound collages, the Texan’s new album flips her old ‘emo ambient’ to ‘ambient emo’, inspired by Young Thug and Sparklehorse – and an unexpected show of charity from the Wilco frontman

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Duff McKagan announces solo UK and European tour

The Guns N' Roses bassist will play 15 shows in 11 countries in support of last year's Lighthouse album

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Get adventurous with your acoustic guitar and try our taster menu of lessons with 7 different playing styles

Including delta blues, gypsy jazz, country, medieval, folk and bluegrass

MusicRadar

Bob Marley's 'Legend' Compilation Continues To Dominate Billboard Charts.

Bob Marley's 'Legend' album climbs Billboard charts, showcasing enduring popularity and dominance in reggae music.

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CBS Cuts Off Billy Joel Concert Telecast (Updated)

CBS to re-air concert this Friday after angering viewers Sunday by breaking away from taped concert telecast to air local news

Broadcasting & Cable

R. Kelly Net Worth 2024: The King Of R&B's Rise And Fall

R. Kelly's rise to stardom was subsequently smeared by his downfall. Nonetheless, during his good days, his net worth was among those considered enviable.

International Business Times

“I feel like such an idiot”: Flea regrets his bass-smashing antics in Red Hot Chili Peppers’ earlier years

The energetic bassist took to social media to voice his regret of destroying his instruments in the ‘90s and ‘00s

Guitar World

“You know how much I had to beg for the last 30 years to get any of the other guitar players to learn somebody else’s solo?!” Dave Mustaine says new Megadeth member Teemu Mäntysaari is the guitarist he’s “been looking for for a very long time”

Mustaine has heaped praise on Mäntysaari's “intelligent” right hand, and his ability to learn Megadeth material and smash out solos like he’s “eating Rice Krispies”

Guitar World

‘It’s really saying you’re not gorgeous at all’: how Babybird made You’re Gorgeous

‘In the 70s and 80s, you’d regularly see images of women in bikinis draped over car bonnets. I wanted to flip that – and see how a male photographer would feel if he had to lie over a car in a thong’

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Sophie Lloyd's pyrotechnic style will banish six-string imposter syndrome and teach you to shredify any song, any time

Get warmed up and dialed in for a lesson that's going to whip your legato, tapping and sweep picking into shape

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"He was mad, when he set it up… it shocked him how bad it sounded": Steve Albini has just given his most insightful interview on the recording gear behind Nirvana's In Utero and why Kurt Cobain's touring amp setup failed to impress in the studio

Amps, mics and the pedal on Heart-Shaped Box that nearly caused a rift between Cobain and Krist Novoselic – "He really thought Kurt was trying to sabotage the song"

Guitar World

“The chord changes in K-pop are a lot more interesting than what's been happening over the last few years”: Nile Rodgers makes surprise appearance at Coachella with K-pop group Le Sserafim

Nile Rodgers lent his signature playing style to the group’s track Unforgiven

Evening Standard

Why there's really no shame in quitting the London Marathon

According to Joanna Taylor, who ran it once but has called time on her 2024 training

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A Stratocaster master and stompbox pioneer with an astonishing vibrato, Robin Trower's blues guitar style is up there with the best

Learn the licks of the British blues guitar great who took Hendrix's six-string revolution and ran with it

Guitar World

“British rock ’n’ roll history”: Eric Clapton’s original Live Aid Marshall JCM800 amp has been put up for sale

The 1984 amp head and matching 4x12 cab that Clapton used for his iconic Live Aid performance with Phil Collins is being sold by London’s Denmark Street Guitars

Guitar World

“Clyde McCoy was duly paid $500 to endorse a pedal he probably never used”: The wah pedal changed the sound of electric guitar – but was originally intended for the trumpet

Among the earliest guitar effects, made famous by Hendrix, Clapton and co, wah has remained a pedalboard staple for decades. This is its story

What Hi-Fi?

We asked three big record stores what young people are buying – surprisingly it’s not just Taylor Swift

We had a chat with three big-name record store owners about vinyl sales, and it turns out the kids are alright.

Guitar World

“Achieve incandescent levels of distortion”: Mahogany Rush guitar legend Frank Marino has now launched his own pedal company – and is building each unit by hand

The guitarist has personally recreated the custom-made pedals he’s used in his own music across the past 40 years

MusicRadar

"The first one's not necessary": Why Peter Green dismissed his greatest blues-rock Fleetwood Mac song as a mere intro to a greater piece – one that would later intimidate even David Gilmour

The late guitar great believed his superior work was Oh Well Pt. 2 – an instrumental Fleetwood Mac never played live but the Pink Floyd legend honored decades later

Marie Claire

A sweet detail from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's Coachella appearance is going viral

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