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"One minute they were a band you'd never heard of, then the next you couldn't get into the gigs": In 1972 the then-unknown Focus appeared on UK TV. Within a year, their guitarist was voted best player on the planet

Powered by Jan Akkerman's guitar and Thijs van Leer's Hammond organ, Sylvia helped pave the way for the rapid rise to fame of Dutch proggers Focus

Louder

Emma Stone Shared How Many Times She's Seen Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, And It's Bestie Goals

La La Land Oscar winner Emma Stone shares her growing collection of experiences at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

Cinemablend

'Just So We're Clear': Britney Spears Calls Out Rumors About Her Music And Why She'll 'Never Return' To The Industry

Britney Spears cleared the air about recent rumors regarding her music.

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Iggy Azalea won’t finish her next album and hints she’s quitting music

Rapper says she feels ‘more passionately about design and creative direction than I do about song writing’

The Independent UK

Rage Against The Machine "will not be touring or playing live again", says drummer

Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk has said the band have no plans for future live shows

Metal Hammer

Watch Mike Portnoy join Umphrey's McGee onstage in Chicago for covers of Spinal Tap's Big Bottom and Rush's YYZ

Dream Theater man Mike Portnoy contributed the traditional "lead bass" part to Big Bottom before retreating to the kit to tackle Neil Peart's iconic drum part on YYZ

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"It's basic. It's not technical by any means": Watch Brian May solo while Tony Iommi plays the riff from Paranoid

Queen's Brian May "commits sacrilege" by playing a solo over the top of the riff of Black Sabbath's Paranoid

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"In our haste, the lump of hash got away and slipped down the sink drainpipe. Panic!": What happened when Jimi Hendrix created havoc and got banned by The BBC

The producers of BBC1's Happening For Lulu wanted Jimi Hendrix to play Hey Joe. Instead, viewers were treated to a tribute to Cream and controlled chaos

Louder

Stop What You’re Doing Right Now, Because the Buzz Is We’re Getting a New Britney Spears Album This Year

Some high-profile names are involved in the project, her first in eight years.

Marie Claire

Watch Limp Bizkit play a gig in a car park then destroy their own drum kit

In 1997, then-up-and-comers Limp Bizkit raised hell in a Kansas City car park

Metal Hammer

Women make the best pop stars – and it’s about time the industry recognised it

Too long demeaned and treated as playthings by executives, female artists are finally getting the attention they deserve, says culture writer Lauren O’Neill

The Guardian - UK

“A lot of kids think drop-tuning is this new thing that just came out and it’s like, ‘No way, Jimi Hendrix was doing that stuff a long time ago!’” Eric Gales on the lasting influence and innovations of the ultimate electric guitar icon

Gales says he wears his Hendrix influence with pride. Here, one of today’s greatest blues-rock guitarists shares his insight on the visionary and fearless experimentalist

Guitar World

"I went to Rough Trade: they told me it was the worst record they ever heard in their life. Everybody else that I could get a meeting with told me the same thing": The Undertones' Teenage Kicks wasn't always considered a punk rock masterpiece

Good Vibrations founder/Northern Irish punk legend Terri Hooley recalls how The Undertones were rejected by every British record label

Louder

“This is tightrope-walking without a net… it feels a bit like having him play a solo up close and personal, and who – other than certain former members of Yes, perhaps – wouldn’t want that?” Steve Howe’s Motif Volume 2

15 years after the first instalment, the guitarist bares the bones of his writing and proves those bones are strong

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Unseen Led Zeppelin footage appears from the band’s record-breaking 1977 set at the Pontiac Silverdome

The 23-minute, 8mm footage has been carefully restored by a four-strong team and shows the band rip through a 20-song set in front of over 76,000 fans

The Guardian - UK

Zig-a-zig-pah: Finland’s ‘Spice Girls’ find joy in misery – and a Kaurismäki collaboration

Far from their girl-power namesakes, deadpan duo Maustetytöt have topped the charts at home – and found a kindred spirit in the Fallen Leaves director

Metal Hammer

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Newcastle nu-metalcore bruisers Creak to Asinhell, the death metal project from Volbeat's frontman, Cavalera-endorsed death metallers Celestial Sanctuary and New England industrial doomsters Body Void, these are the bands you need to hear in January 2024

Guitar World

Master the way of the exploding guitar in this lesson on the technique and abundant creativity of cult shred icon Mr Fastfinger

Take your playing to a higher plane of existence with this study of Mika Tyyskä, the Finnish creator of the animated shredder

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Who Has The Most Grammys? List Of Top Artists With Most Award Wins

Explore the details of Grammy winners with the highest number of wins in history.

Metal Hammer

"Could we have found the best album of 2024 in the first few days of January?" Sprints' Letter To Self is a faultless debut that embraces the darkness like no other

Dublin's Sprints release long-awaited debut album Letter To Self, and it's a masterpiece

Metal Hammer

Sophie Lloyd: 10 records that changed my life

From Van Halen and Iron Maiden to Disturbed and Bring Me The Horizon, these are the bands that helped Sophie Lloyd become a shred goddess

Guitar World

Think metal guitars can’t handle jazz? Cecil Alexander just shredded a set of Wes Montgomery classics on a Jackson Soloist – and his tone has guitarists raving

The jazz guitarist is proving you can shred bebop with clean and distorted tones on his Jackson Soloist, mimicking a semi-hollow guitar in extraordinary fashion

Metal Hammer

Could we see Ozzfest return one day? According to Sharon Osbourne: "Of course"

Sharon Osbourne says that the legendary Ozzfest could come back, but there are some caveats to be taken into account

Guitar World

“These bones don’t have the cartilage any more, so they’re very painful. Rather than roll over, I’m like, ‘No, I still want to play’”: Steve Morse is plagued with pain when playing guitar – so he innovated a new string mute to help him adapt his technique

The virtuoso revealed the lengths he's gone to in order alleviate pain caused by arthritis and years of playing – which also includes a changing approach to picking

Louder

“Having suffered something of an identity crisis, minor blemishes don’t stop it being their best album in decades”: Pallas’ The Messenger

The return of singer Alan Reed – who rebuffed a previous invitation – is an indicator of its quality

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