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"He had this ability to pull this beautiful sadness out of the bass": Watch Fred Durst pay tribute to late Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers

Fred Durst releases video tribute to the "gifted, unbelievably sweet and wonderful" Sam Rivers

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Taylor Swift Brought Back Chainmail Trend, And The Story Behind The Look Is Way More Complicated Than I Expected

A designer will make anything happen for Taylor Swift.

Cinemablend

Brandy reveals reason for abruptly leaving concert with Monica mid-performance

Two singers announced their reunion tour earlier this year

The Independent UK

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Limp Bizkit's Sam Rivers Revealed He Had Liver Disease From Years of Drinking — Did This Lead to His Death?

Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers is dead at 48. His past battle with alcohol-induced liver disease raises questions about his unconfirmed cause of death.

International Business Times UK

“It’s something I say in one of the songs – ‘The separation starts here’”: How ‘the Radiohead of metal’ broke free from nu metal to blaze their own unique trail

The story of one of the 90s most pivotal albums

Metal Hammer

This iconic jazz progression was played by countless guitar legends – and it can help you learn the chord secrets of Joe Pass, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery

Want to add sophistication to your chords? Master this essential chord progression as played by 5 guitar legends

Guitar World

Huey Morgan looks back: ‘My father left when I was seven. Music was a way to derail those feelings of not being good enough’

The musician on dealing with PTSD, his angry TV outburst, and why one radio station refused to play anything by Fun Lovin’ Criminals

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“It’s almost cooler that we never did release it. It’s become this mythical thing now”: The lost Nine Inch Nails supergroup that could have united two of rock’s most iconic singers

This early 2000s project could have been asbolutely huge

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“I was just talking to Paul Reed Smith – and I don’t know if I should be telling you this – but he’s made a new guitar that’s a revolution”: John McLaughlin teases unreleased PRS that he calls the mysterious ‘Yellow Guitar’

The jazz legend has been testing one of two prototypes, and both big names have been blown away...

Guitar World

"Sam Rivers wasn’t just our bass player – he was pure magic…" Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers has died, aged 48

Nu metal bassist Sam Rivers has died, Limp Bizkit confirm

Guitar World

“People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us”: These are the two early Queen songs that Brian May says paved the way for Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody didn’t appear out of nowhere

Louder

“It’s nasty and greasy and oozing funk. It’s a masterclass in funk bass”: Robert Wilson had his step-out performance on this Gap Band classic, which features two bass parts, both cut on a flatwound-strung P-Bass

The main riff is likely familiar to many via Victor Wooten’s song Bass Tribute

Guitar World

Pink Floyd star David Gilmour says ‘no possible way’ for Roger Waters reunion

Former bandmates are embroiled in one of music’s most acrimonious feuds

The Independent UK

Sam Rivers death: Limp Bizkit bassist dies, aged 48

Nu metal group say Rivers was ‘pulse beneath every song’

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‘I don’t really have sex to music, it’s a bit Tom Cruise’: Miles Kane’s honest playlist

The singer and Last Shadow Puppets frontman has come a long way from buying No Limit at Woolworths, but what song can make him cry?

MusicRadar

“You will lose out on generations of esoteric, risk-taking, creative, adventurous weirdos, rebels, agitators, and provocateurs. You’re gonna get white bread”: Shirley Manson takes aim at the music industry, Spotify and Ticketmaster

She expands on reasons behind Garbage’s decision to “curtail” touring

Louder

Intellectual, cynical, logical: The hit song about divorce and disillusionment that was Paul McCartney's favourite single of 1979

A Beatle approved it. The record company hated it. How an existential pop-rock masterpiece turned its creators into unlikely transatlantic superstars

International Business Times UK

Sam Rivers Dead at 48: Inside the Limp Bizkit Bassist's Life, Legacy, and the Mystery Surrounding His Death

Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers dies at 48. Fans mourn the nu-metal icon as details emerge about his health struggles and unconfirmed cause of death.

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Limp Bizkit bass player Sam Rivers dead at 48

Limp Bizkit mourn the loss of their "heartbeat" as bassist Sam Rivers dies at the age of 48

The Guardian - AU

Fridayz Live Sydney review – Mariah Carey is impeccable but Pitbull steals the show

Dual headliners capped a R&B festival with fever-dream energy, including self-help sermons and Pitbull cosplayers everywhere you looked

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"They were ripping the whole place down. The bar was used as a battering ram to storm the stage." How a long wait for a metal singer's dealer to deliver the goods almost caused disaster at an iconic UK music venue

There's a reason drugs are bad, kids, and this chaotic night in Nottingham was one of them

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"He was doing something that was light years away from all of my other heroes": The five albums that changed Ace Frehley's life

In 2018 late Kiss legend Ace Frehley picked the five records that guided his path towards the stars

The Independent UK

Kylie Jenner says she’s not ‘Adele or anything’ as she launches music career

The 28-year-old’s debut single was recently branded ‘embarrassing’ by critics

Metal Hammer

“I’m gonna play it with you and I’m gonna stay out of your way as much as I can”: The A-list comedy superstar who teamed up with two nu metal bands for the weirdest collaboration of the early 2000s

The nu metal era was a weird time

MusicRadar

"She was in that cavewoman outfit, doing her dance with a big wig and the two dancers going at it. I’m like: ‘This is really not me.’”: Heaven 17 on their unlikely role in Tina Turner’s comeback

The soul legend recorded Let’s Stay Together in one take

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