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Ex-Slipknot drummer, Jay Weinberg makes first live appearance since split, sitting-in with The Bouncing Souls

Watch Weinberg play drums on The Bouncing Souls' True Believers

MusicRadar · Dec 11, 2023

Fans react to Tony Romo calling Taylor Swift Travis Kelce’s ‘wife’

‘I laughed right out loud. Kinda liked the sound of that, actually,’ an excited fan writes

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2023

“Billy drops the line, ‘I'm sending you some sheepskins. I want you to put them on some guitars’”: Dusty Hill’s iconic fur-covered spinning bass from ZZ Top’s Legs video just sold at auction – and absolutely smashed its estimated sale price

The Dean Zelinsky-made model went under the hammer alongside Hill's custom Hot Rod car bass – but both were outsold by the late ZZ Top bassist's vintage 1953 Fender Precision model

Guitar World · Dec 11, 2023

Derek Trucks is one of the finest slide players to ever pick up an electric guitar – learn how to add his lyrical soloing style to your repertoire

Intonation is the watchword in this tab and audio lesson in the style of the Tedeschi Trucks Band's genius lead guitarist

Guitar World · Dec 11, 2023

"The big corporations took everything over, and they're interested in making money." Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson reveals his theory on why rock music is struggling to produce new festival headliners

Iron Maiden's frontman feels that rock and metal are severely lacking in new headliners - and he has some theories as to why

Metal Hammer · Dec 11, 2023

How Lee "Scratch" Perry's studio magic shaped popular music: “The studio must be like a living thing. The machine must be live and intelligent, then I put my mind into the machine and the machine perform reality”

We illuminate the genius of a visionary producer and artist that pioneered reggae, gave birth to dub, and paved the way for countless new sounds

MusicRadar · Dec 11, 2023

10 rock and metal covers of Christmas classics that sound made up but actually happened

From The Misfits getting Grinchy to a legendary actor doing a heavy metal Jingle Bells, some of these Christmas covers really are stranger than fiction

Metal Hammer · Dec 11, 2023

“Ran into an old friend”: Wolfgang Van Halen and Michael Anthony meet up for the first time in 20 years

The two Van Halen bassists reunited at Mammoth WVH’s recent show in Las Vegas

Guitar World · Dec 11, 2023

Every The Jesus and Mary Chain album ranked from worst to best

Every The Jesus and Mary Chain album ranked from worst to best

Louder · Dec 11, 2023

‘We’re on TikTok? What’s TikTok?’ The forgotten bands going supersonic thanks to gen Z

Ageing acts that can’t even get radio time are going viral – and finding themselves playing arenas or even soundtracking Ukrainian resistance. But how do you follow up a hit no one can explain?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2023