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"We went there to have a whale of a time – a sex holiday, really. But it got out of hand": Billy Idol on the Thailand vacation that ended with a visit from the army

In 1989, Billy Idol desperately need a break from his troubles in Los Angeles, but things went from bad, to worse, and then to much, much worse

Louder

“Marty Friedman taught me to pick phrases that help tell the story. Resist the temptation to use your songs to show off your fastest licks”: Nita Strauss on how she stepped up her game for The Call of the Void

Nita Strauss can shred with the best of them, but her new solo album features ‘radio songs’ with guest-star vocalists – plus a showdown with mentor Marty Friedman

Guitar World

John Wetton's An Extraordinary Life eight disc box set out in November

John Wetton's An Extraordinary Life box set features all six of Wetton's solo albums and two discs of unreleased material

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9 times Nuno Bettencourt proved to be guitar's M.V.P.

The string-skipping, warp speed-shredding and hard-riffing virtuoso has been blowing minds since '89. Here are 9 highlights from his spectacular catalog with Extreme and beyond

Guitar World

Sinead O’Connor sent texts ‘laden with despair’ to Bob Geldof weeks before death

The Boomtown Rats frontman dedicated the band’s performance at Ireland’s Cavan Calling festival to the late singer.

The Independent UK

“Instead of the toy store, I wanted to go to the guitar store and play all the expensive guitars”: Steve Lukather shares his biggest gear hits and misses

The top sessioneer and Toto stringsman recounts his early six-string experiences, an epic deal on a rare Vox 12-string and why he hasn’t bought a guitar in 30 years…

Guitar World

Mac DeMarco review – an atypical celebration of an atypical album

Moving on from his sad-clown antics with a beguiling set of instrumentals and fan faves, strung together by Tom Waitsy banter, DeMarco is a magnetic performer

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"I just carried all this anger and horror." From his grandmother's experiences in Nazi Germany scarring his childhood to Godflesh being labelled the 'new Nirvana', Justin Broadrick is an extreme music icon like no other

Justin Broadrick's work has influenced everyone from Faith No More to Metallica, yet a recent diagnosis has finally helped him find himself.

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Jared James Nichols is the wild man of modern blues-rock – let your solos loose with 6 of his most ferocious licks

In this exclusive lesson, the Epiphone signature artist teaches you 6 licks that will take your blues-rock solos into uncharted territory

Guitar World

Paul Reed Smith: "They're gonna try to write guitar maker on my gravestone – I would want it to be 'a good family member'"

A heartwarming moment in a new interview captures more of the man behind the iconic guitar brand

MusicRadar

TV score composer and Betjeman collaborator Jim Parker dies aged 88

Bafta-winner wrote theme music for shows including Ground Force and made albums with poet laureate

The Guardian - UK

Knowing about blood clots saves lives

Blood clots kill more Americans than breast cancer or car accidents. Here's what experts say are the warning signs

Salon

Bob Geldof recalls last texts with Sinead O’Connor: ‘She was a very good friend of mine’

Singer and activist remembered fellow Irish artist during his performance Cavan Calling festival over the weekend

The Independent UK

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: South Facing at Crystal Palace Bowl review - Britpop is fully back

The gig was peppered with the acerbic, deadpan good humour we’ve come to love from Oasis’s elder Gallagher brother

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‘Total Eclipse of the Heart is a work of naff genius’: Sister Bliss’s honest playlist

The Faithless synth queen is blown away by Kate Bush and would only do karaoke at gunpoint, but which power ballad does she grudgingly respect?

The Guardian - UK

A new start after 60: At 74, I go to a gig every night – and once went to 725 in a row

Roger Mairlot was working as a car mechanic and struggling to sleep at night when a chance encounter led him to start attending gigs. He plans to keep going ‘until I drop’

Louder

“It was an apex moment in the history of live rock’n’roll”: Tom Morello on the night that he teamed up with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder to perform an AC/DC cover

The trio got together to perform Highway To Hell in Melbourne in 2014, and the Rage Against The Machine was the man who made it happen

The Independent UK

Sinead O’Connor fans gather to sing Nothing Compares 2 U in Dublin tribute

The 56-year-old Irish singer died in London last week.

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9 pro songwriting tips for piano players: maximise your creativity at the keys

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, these tried and tested songwriting blueprints should help you create better music, and more of it

Guitar World

So close you can see his scallops: behold Yngwie Malmsteen’s chops in greater detail than ever before with this astonishing multi-cam footage of Far Beyond the Sun

The exclusive performance heralds the launch of MaestroClass, a new 10-song lesson series with TrueFire

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the brilliance of Sinéad O’Connor’s greatest song

The ageless emotional power of Nothing Compares 2 U is rooted in a childhood pain particular to the singer

Louder

“Right Here, Right Now captured the optimism of the Berlin wall coming down. We’re at the other end of the spectrum now”: How Prince’s Sign O’ The Times inspired Jesus Jones’ biggest hit

Inspired by Prince and the fall of the Berlin wall, Jesus Jones’ optimistic hit Right Here Right Now was born out of depression and powered by dodgy samples

The Independent UK

Sinead O’Connor: ITV, BBC, and Channel 5 are not planning to air tributes to late singer

‘The simple explanation is that she was not taken seriously,’ said a former Channel 4 commissioner

The Guardian - UK

Peter Hook: ‘I never get sick of hearing World in Motion’

The Joy Division bassist, 67, looks back on breakdowns and addictions, losing Ian Curtis, his precious friends and the early rave scene

The Guardian - UK

Julie Byrne review – elegiac ache and nuanced feelings

Two years on from the death of her friend and musical collaborator Eric Littmann, Byrne tours the album they were working on together, in a performance of mesmerising beauty

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