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10 bands who peaked with the first song on their first album

Some bands just get it right first time

Louder · Aug 22, 2023

Pharrell Williams says he’s been working on new NERD music: “I wanted great chords. I want to use chords I never used before”

“I’ll just come out of nowhere with the three-bar, crazy-nuts chords that go three-bar to four-bar to eight-bar”

MusicRadar · Aug 22, 2023

Totally Wired by Paul Gorman is a deft potted history of the music press – but it doesn't tell the whole story

Musicians have long had their careers captured for posterity by the music press. Yet, the spotlight has rarely been turned around to the journalists who write these stories. Totally Wired is a vivid oral history of music journalists in the UK and US.

The Conversation · Aug 22, 2023

Roland TD-02KV review

This compact and affordable kit proves that ‘budget’ doesn’t exclude you from the big-name brands

MusicRadar · Aug 22, 2023

This year’s most unexpected guitar solo? Lil Wayne wields an Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein for a crossover collaboration you probably never expected to see

Jon Batiste's new single Uneasy, which hosts Weezy's solo, seems to tip its cap to Van Halen and Michael Jackson's watershed song, Beat It

Guitar World · Aug 22, 2023

Calvin Harris reveals his early love of Jamiroquai and the Spin Doctors: “I became obsessed with basslines… they had an amazing bass player”

The producer also says he tried to learn the “intricate and cool” bassline from Nirvana’s Lithium

MusicRadar · Aug 22, 2023

Watch Van Halen’s incendiary 1984 Monsters Of Rock set – and Eddie’s 10-minute guitar solo – at Castle Donington as pro-shot footage emerges online

A band and their trailblazing guitarist at the height of their powers blaze through an hour-long set of Van Halen classics

MusicRadar · Aug 22, 2023

Use the CAGED system to play guitar chords across the fretboard quickly and easily

Unleash the beast and unlock your guitar neck with this well-established system

MusicRadar · Aug 22, 2023

“Ladies and gentlemen: Edward... Van... Halen!” EVH’s full nine-minute guitar solo at Van Halen’s legendary 1984 Monsters Of Rock show surfaces online for the first time ever

Pro-shot footage of the band’s iconic Monsters of Rock performance – one of their last with David Lee Roth – has appeared on YouTube

Guitar World · Aug 22, 2023

10 hard rock and heavy metal music videos that got banned for the dumbest reasons

Classic songs by Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Slipknot have all been taken off the airwaves with the most frivolous excuses

Metal Hammer · Aug 22, 2023