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Attention, audiophiles: McIntosh wants you to achieve "audio nirvana" with its "masterpiece" preamps

The new C55 solid state and C2800 vacuum tube preamplifiers are part of the next generation for McIntosh, and boy do they talk a big game.

What Hi-Fi? · Mar 14, 2024

“We lived on a train for 15 days and played 65 shows. The boxcar was a stage, and we would pull into towns that don’t get live music very often”: How Tenille Townes is taking her country sound to the people

The Canadian country star's latest EP is a journey in every sense, written on the road as she toured the country, playing boxcar gigs and raising money for a good cause

Guitar World · Mar 14, 2024

“Before I wrote The Cartographer, I would’ve avoided using anything except strings – because I didn’t understand and had no cause to”: Jo Quail learned to write for trombone just in time to add energy to her EP set Invocation/Supplication

Experimental cellist explains how she took two very different musical approaches and blended them with the very different voices of Maria Franz and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari

Louder · Mar 14, 2024

Glastonbury Festival 2022: Female Headliners And Exciting Lineup

Discover the star-studded lineup of the highly anticipated Glastonbury Festival featuring female headliners, Coldplay, and Shania Twain.

Top News · Mar 14, 2024

Sex, drugs and … God? Nine Inch Nails’ greatest songs – ranked!

Thirty years on from their masterpiece album The Downward Spiral, we assess the studies of faith, authority and self-loathing from Trent Reznor’s band

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2024

“Bloodstock has always been a special place for Motörhead and for Lemmy.” Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes to be displayed annually at Bloodstock festival

Some of the Motörhead leader’s ashes will be on show at the Catton Park metal festival from the 2024 edition onwards

Metal Hammer · Mar 14, 2024

“Slash says, ‘You got the gig. Learn the whole catalog.’ I was like, ‘Don’t you have a set of songs?’ Slash goes, ‘There’s no setlist. Axl just calls ’em out’”: How Gilby Clarke got the Guns N’ Roses gig – and learned the band’s back catalog in a week

Clarke was formally announced as Izzy Stradlin's replacement in the early ’90s – but not before undergoing an audition process that saw him learn his test tracks in the car last minute

Guitar World · Mar 14, 2024

“One small stomp for man… one giant leap for chorus, delays and reverbs”: Zoom updates one of the best-value multi-FX on the market with the MS-70CDR+ MultiStomp

The original MS-70CDR was a cult classic and a shoegazer’s best friend – and for $149, the new and improved pedal adds a host of long-requested features

Guitar World · Mar 14, 2024

Metallica’s Robert Trujillo didn’t know what ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg looked like until they were in Infectious Grooves together

Robert Trujillo had no idea how his Infectious Grooves side-project’s new drummer, Jay Weinberg, looked maskless – until they started rehearsing together

Metal Hammer · Mar 14, 2024

Liam Gallagher John Squire review – fans left short-changed by duo devoid of chemistry

The connection that sparked an enjoyable No 1 album by the ex-Oasis and Stone Roses men disappears in an underwhelming 50-minute live set

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2024