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“Okay, this one guitar, this is going to get me through everything I need to do”: Ernie Ball Music Man and James Valentine launch 2024 signature collection – two boost-equipped electric guitars designed for a wide range of playing styles and sounds

Refreshed in old-school colours for 2024, the new James Valentine models comprise dual-humbucker and classic single-coil/humbucker versions

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“That’s the problem with really good speakers in a studio”: Dua Lipa on how high-end monitors can fool you into thinking that your songs are better than they are, and why her “favourite place to listen to music” is in the car

“It’s crazy how you can really kid yourself in the moment,” she says. “The best thing to do is to listen to it on not so good headphones”

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“Each one has its own unique art work and its own unique iteration of the circuit”: Red Witch Pedals has made 99 different versions of the Pax Harmonia and might just have created the ultimate Uni-Vibe in the process

Each of the Pax Harmonia Unique Incandescent Univibe pedals are one-of-one designs, featuring dual modes and an expression pedal input, and you can create a blend of its chorus and vibrato sounds

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“He's probably, for my money, one of the finest guitarists in the world”: Radiohead's Colin Greenwood on who he considers the best rhythm guitarist he's ever played with

The Radiohead bassist also reflects on what makes Thom Yorke's guitar playing different from Jonny Greenwood's

Guitar World

Dubreq's Stylosette mini-synth could be the perfect stocking-filler for the musician in your life

From the makers of the Stylophone, Stylosette is a cassette-shaped synthesizer with a touch-capacitive keyboard and a surprising amount of connectivity

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“My stock answer was, ‘No.’ Most people who approach me to do something like that are looking to relive the glory days of ’80s rock”: Why Steve Vai dropped his anti-supergroup stance to help revive some of King Crimson’s most celebrated work

BEAT has been celebrating King Crimson’s 1980s albums, with Adrian Belew and Steve Vai’s new guitar partnership at its core

Guitar World

“I don’t classify myself as a rock ’n’ roll or rockabilly player… I was trying tobe as all-around as I could be”: Billy Bremner on his greatest sessions with Pretenders, Nick Lowe and countless others – and the story behind Rockpile

Rockpile was a band that came and went too soon, but its guitarist, session great Billy Bremner, played on hundreds of recordings, including the Pretenders’ Learning to Crawl and Nick Lowe’s Cruel to be Kind. This is his story

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“I can’t say what it will feel like…I’m wise enough to know I’ve got to hear this before judging”: How King Crimson offshoot BEAT moved from an all-star dream to reality

When Adrian Belew failed to persuade the 80s line-up to reunite, he had to come up with another way of bringing that decade’s three albums back to life – and he did it

Louder

How to craft extreme hyperpop textures to make SOPHIE-style tunes

If you're interested in building your own hyperpop-infused tracks, then harnessing a bit of edge can take your mix to another level

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“This is the guitar you turn to when it is time to become death, the destroyer of worlds, for adventures on the frontier of extreme guitar tone”: Jackson Pro Series DR24MG EVTN6 Diamond Rowe Signature review

The Tetrarch riffer-in-chief drops a gem on ‘em with a heavyweight single-cut for super-heavy sounds

MusicRadar

“Suddenly the sun shone and it was, ‘Wow!’”: How ELO’s Jeff Lynne created his masterpiece Mr. Blue Sky - and how a little joke at the end of the song was misheard by millions

Inside the making of a miniature pop symphony

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‘I take karaoke seriously. I’ve got a good falsetto’: Asim Chaudhry’s honest playlist

The actor and writer used to be obsessed with Michael Jackson and loves Teddy Pendergrass, but which rap banger does truly inhabit when passed the mic?

The Guardian - UK

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Black Spiders, Nate Bergman, Ally Venable and five other bearers of festive rock'n'roll gifts

Louder

The official film of King Crimson's legendary 1982 Munich show is now free to watch online

Watch Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, Adrian Belew and Tony Levin unleash the King Crimson beast

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"The songs will live on with this band and with me under the name Kevin Cronin": REO Speedwagon have played their final ever show but the band formerly known as REO Speedwagon will continue

Watch Kevin Cronin pay tribute as REO Speedwagon officially step away from the stage

WhatToWatch

Kennedy Center Honors 2024 airs tonight with tributes to the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt

The annual celebration of the arts will also honor legendary Godfather filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and more

Salon

Messiness & the allure of Fleetwood Mac

A new book about Fleetwood Mac covers the dramatic soap opera — and the songs that made the band legends

Metal Hammer

“We wanted to look like something never before seen in heavy metal. What would be wilder than denim and leather? Animal fur!” How Manowar helped invent power metal with Hail To England

Bow down before Manowar’s false metal-slaying third album, 1984’s Hail To England

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United Creative director Collin Hills on 10 things that changed his life

NAN Spowart spoke with United Creative director Collin Hills on the 10 things that changed his life...

Guitar World

“The door burst open. It was James, who was late and had come into the wrong room. He started listening and said, ’No, no, that's not the way you do it,’ and grabbed my EB-3”: Jack Bruce on his chance meeting with Motown hit-maker James Jamerson

Speaking in 2001, the late Cream bassist recalled his encounter with Jamerson at the Record Plant in L.A.

Guitar World

“I have a hair tie around the nut of my bass, and I pull it up to the 17th fret”: Just when we thought he’d settled into his routine as a bass superhero, Victor Wooten pulls out another surprise: a 25-cent hair tie?

Victor Wooten reveals the “secret” technique that makes his bass solos “pop with screaming harmonics”

Metal Hammer

“We were rebels: ‘Hate us, we don’t care.’ But the more critics hated us, the more kids started showing up at shows”: The tangled tale of X Japan, Japan’s biggest rock band

Fame, death and resurrection – X Japan’s Yoshiki looks back on his band’s unique journey

The Guardian - UK

Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2024

Americana’s classiest duo weather the storm, Kendrick Lamar has the last word, UK jazz soars – and Charli xcx unleashes the power of Brat

Louder

“Crowds would get agitated as soon as they heard Slash’s intro riff”: Duff McKagan on the making of a Guns N’ Roses classic

How a song about the “hardscrabble lives” of the fledgling rockers became a timeless rock anthem

The Independent UK

Gareth Southgate reveals Stormzy makes him proud to be British

Former England manager chose an Ed Sheeran hit featuring the rapper as one of his ‘Desert Island Discs’

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