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It's 808 day! Celebrate with a free Roland online studio, tips, techniques, movies, music, emulations and more

The greatest drum machine of all time takes center stage on August 8 ever year - geddit?

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Beyoncé paid $100k to keep Washington trains running for fans attending her concert

Start of pop star’s Washington DC concert was delayed by inclement weather

The Independent UK

Travis Scott brings out Kanye West for his show at Rome’s Circus Maximus

It marks West’s first public performance since his string of antisemitic online posts caused widespread backlash

Evening Standard

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People to gather at Sinead O’Connor’s former home for ‘last goodbye’

Her family have asked people who want to pay their respects to line the seafront in Bray, Co Wicklow ahead of her burial.

The Independent UK

NCIS: Hawaii’s Vanessa Lachey Would Normally Be Filming The CBS Drama Right Now. Thanks To The Strikes, She Got To See Taylor Swift With Her Daughter Instead

While NCIS: Hawai'i is on an indefinite hiatus due to the strikes, Vanessa Lachey and her daughter enjoyed Taylor Swift's Eras Tour stop in LA.

Cinemablend

Taylor Swift and Foo Fighters help boost card spending by 4% in July

Live entertainment, holiday bookings and summer socialising boosted hospitality and leisure sector spending in July, according to Barclays.

The Independent UK

‘Taylor-nomics’ comes to the UK as Eras Tour presale boosts July spending

Concert ticket sales, boosted by “surges” on the pre-release dates Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, were a bright spot in what was otherwise a cruel summer for retailers

Evening Standard

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Music festival threatens legal action against The 1975

Kuala Lumpur-based festival was cancelled following frontman Matty Healy’s actions

The Independent UK

Floral tributes left for Sinead O’Connor, a woman ‘for the women of Ireland’

Sinead O’Connor has been described as a woman ‘for the women of Ireland’ by those leaving flowers outside her former home.

The Independent UK

Taylor’s 417e is a “modern-classic” acoustic with a “robust and powerful voice”

Round-shouldered dreadnought boasts solid Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood body, V-Class bracing, Tobacco Sunburst finish and more

Guitar World

Flowers left outside Sinead O’Connor’s former Irish home ahead of funeral

A funeral service is set to take place for O’Connor on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Marty Friedman revisits his thrash heyday once again for ferocious four-song guest spot with Megadeth

The Wacken Open Air festival played host to the legendary shredder's second 2023 reunion with the metal icons

Guitar World

“I think it's fairly impossible to be a guitarist without loving Steve Vai”: Nili Brosh names 10 guitarists who shaped her sound

The Ibanez-toting instrumental virtuoso shares her thoughts on “one of the best improvisers in the history of the instrument”, why Eddie Van Halen's rhythm playing is underrated and the shredder who “brought a new sound to the Shrapnel era”

Guitar World

Music Review: Neil Young caught in his 1970s prime with yet another 'lost' album, 'Chrome Dreams'

Neil Young is captured in his mid-1970s prime with “Chrome Dreams,” yet another “lost” album officially seeing the light of day as Young originally envisioned nearly half a century ago

The Independent UK

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EarthQuaker Devices presents room, hall and plate reverbs in a innovative, compact format with the Ledges Tri-Dimensional Reverberation Machine

Three is the magic number when it comes to ambience, and a presets-loaded stompbox that can add subtle space or something more transcendent to your guitar tone

Louder

"I’d be thinking, Behind this cocaine, either someone is dead, or someone is going to be killed": That time a Los Angeles drug dealer asked former Deep Purple vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes to look after five kilos of coke

"You’d trip over cocaine in my house there was so much of it”: for Glenn Hughes, the late '80s were a dark time

Guitar World

Epiphone Dave Mustaine Flying V Custom review – a metal-tailored V that virtually plays itself

MegaDave's signature 24-fret V reveals itself as a serious metal guitar at any price

MusicRadar

Watch Marty Friedman nail the greatest solo in thrash metal history as he plays Tornado Of Souls with Megadeth at Wacken

Fan-shot footage offers a pit's eye view of a historic moment as Friedman rejoins Megadeth for a live cameo and blazes through his ripping lead from the Rust In Peace classic

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The Independent UK

Beyoncé paid $100k to keep trains running an extra hour so fans could still get home

Start of pop star’s Washington DC concert was delayed by inclement weather

Guitar World

“I'm gonna do this intro all over for you”: Kirk Hammett fluffs the intro to Nothing Else Matters at first show of Metallica's US tour

It's not the first time the Gibson and ESP signature artist has stumbled over the track's open-string heavy intro riff

Guitar World

Everyone from Charlie Christian to Yngwie Malmsteen has used arpeggios in their guitar solos – here's how you can do it, too

If the fingering and coordination can be tricky at first, the rewards from mastering arpeggios are great, allowing you to freestyle across a chord's notes while staying harmonically honest

MusicRadar

John Lennon: "Somebody let off a firecracker onstage and every one of us looked at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.” – Why The Beatles retired from the stage

How death threats, disillusionment and the very real threat of onstage electrocution all fuelled The Fab Four’s decision to stop playing live…

The Guardian - UK

Malaysian music festival to take legal action against the 1975

Promoters of the event claim that Matty Healy’s onstage kiss with bandmate ‘tarnished’ the festival’s reputation and are calling on the musicians to acknowledge liability and provide compensation

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Plaques are great — but if only London had even more of them

Four years ago, the long and winding road finally ended up in Savile Row. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the final Beatles concert on the roof of No 3, my good friend David Rosen, of Pilcher Hershman (“space agent, not estate agent,” he’ll say, just in case you didn’t know),…

Louder

Crazy On You: Watch Heart's explosive television debut on The Midnight Special in 1977

Witness Ann and Nancy Willson in electrifying form as Heart take to The Midnight Special stage in March 1977

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