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“I didn’t even realise it had synthesizer on it for decades”: This deep dive into a classic Beatles song reveals 4 synth parts that we’d never even noticed before

Anthony Marinelli’s video might change the way you listen to George Harrison’s ode to sunny positivity

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Liam Gallagher carries Gary 'Mani' Mounfield's coffin at Stone Roses bassist's funeral

Gallagher carried the coffin alongside fellow Stone Roses members Alan “Reni” Wren and John Squire

Evening Standard

"Be it Eddie Van Halen, Mick Mars or anyone like that, I have such respect for the person that I'm stepping in for." Motley Crue guitarist John 5 reveals the secret to stepping into the shoes of some of the world's most respected guitarists

John 5 has picked up the axe for the likes of Mötley Crüe and Rob Zombie, and he's learned a few lessons along the way

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“I was just playing along, and then, when the music stopped, I found myself still playing that riff”: How Tori Amos created her otherworldly hit song Cornflake Girl

Its memorable infectious hooks belie a dark lyrical core

MusicRadar

Stars and hundreds of fans gather for Stone Roses bassist Mani’s funeral

Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield died last month at the age of 63.

Evening Standard

“We were joking that we have to make this record absolutely shred and that we needed to put a lot of solos in it. I think we accomplished that”: Megadeth shares new single ahead of farewell record – and it’s a shred guitar celebration

Let There Be Shred finds Teemu Mäntysaari playing like a man possessed – and Dave Mustaine doing karate in the music video

Guitar World

Ghost's Mary On A Cross has officially just gone platinum in the UK

Ghost's biggest song has just achieved a major milestone

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“We were kind of forced to come up with asolution for playing a show in Antarctica where we couldn’t have speakers”: Why did the world’s biggest metal band switch to amp modelers?

Metallica officially said goodbye to quote/unquote real amps after an epiphany at the South Pole. James Hetfield’s tech, Chad Zaemisch, explains how it was Fractal all the way after their day on the ice

Guitar World

New premium phono stage ditches the mains in favour of 20 batteries

This battery-powered phono promises five-figure performance for a four-figure price.

“When we were mixing, he used to get so excited that I used to have to hold him down with one hand and try and carry on the manual mix on the desk with the other": The making of the Clash’s mature masterpiece, London Calling

How football, thrown ladders and destroyed pianos combined to create the "album of the 80s"

MusicRadar

The 10 best experimental albums of 2025

Raisa K’s solo album is primitive and intimate, Saeko Killy adds a euphoric touch to her dimly lit sound and Bitchin Bajas get blissed out

The Guardian - UK

“He didn’t want to put his masterpiece on an album where the vibes were so bad. It’s probably the best thing he’s ever done”: Rick Davies’ greatest Supertramp songs – including Roger Hodgson’s favourite

Late co-founder always felt that collaborating was like “two people painting a picture on the same canvas.” But that didn’t stop him succeeding

Louder

Brian May to play unreleased Queen song that ‘no one has ever heard’

The 78-year-old songwriter will play ‘Not For Sale (Polar Bear)’ for the first time on Monday

The Independent UK

“I said, ‘If nothing has changed, I might quit.’ But it was my baby from the start. I didn’t want to quit it”: How a sick and disillusioned guitarist turned his bitter resignation letter into one of metal’s greatest anthems

Power metal godfathers Helloween were on the way to huge success in the 80s –but one member wanted out

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The Independent UK

‘White Christmas’ isn’t really about Christmas at all — the sad story behind America’s favorite festive song

The beloved song was highly requested by troops during WWII

The Independent UK

10 hard-rocking Christmas songs, from AC/DC to Christopher Lee

IN FOCUS: If you’re sick of hearing the same old festive cheese at this time of year, allow Kevin E G Perry to suggest an alternative playlist of full-throttle seasonal songs guaranteed to blow away the Christmas cobwebs

Guitar World

“I didn’t want to copy Keith Richards or Rich Robinson from the Black Crowes. I wanted to try to find my own guitar voice”: Charlie Starr on how to make open G tuning work for you

In his inaugural Guitar World column, the Blackberry Smoke guitarist declares his love for a tuning that he learned, aged 12, when checking out Honky Tonk Women

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“It was like a demonic, otherworldly séance going on in there with one person”: A Perfect Circle have made four albums. These are the stories behind them all

A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel breaks down his band’s four studio albums

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Louder

“We made a concerted effort to move away from the long thematic songs into something shorter”: Rush were one of the proggiest bands of the 70s. Then they discovered The Police and reggae and wrote the hit that reinvented them

Goodbye sci-fi epics, hello surprise hit singles

The Guardian - UK

‘My dog hates my singing’: Beverley Knight’s honest playlist

She is an unabashed karaoke show-off and thinks a certain Spice Girls hit absolutely rocks, but which diminutive pop sexpot does the soul diva want played at her funeral?

Louder

“When we did Top Of The Pops we were introduced as being avant-garde. It would have been closer to call us ‘aven’t-a-clue!” Fired from his own band Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull co-founder Mick Abrahams could only regret the wasted potential

Unable to perform towards the end of his life, the singer and guitarist maintained a philosophical viewpoint, and was proud of making “good, honest music without prejudice”

Louder

Original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams dead at 82

Mick Abrahams played on Jethro Tull’s first album, This Was, before launching Blodwyn Pig

Guitar World

“I had letters threatening me with death for getting Bert Jansch to play through an amp”: The life and wild times of Danny Thompson, the legend of upright bass who “brought greatness to everything he played”

The fabled upright acoustic bassist leaves us with a thousand tales of misadventure and an extraordinary body of music that weaves through the rock ’n’ roll era

Guitar World

“He will go down as one of the greatest rock drummers of all time. I can bring him a bass riff in seven-and-a-half and he’ll be right on it”: Justin Chancellor explains how bass fits into Tool’s challenging brand of prog

With their uncompromising blend of formidable time signatures and distorted guitar riffs, Tool are a band quite unlike any other

Guitar World

“A utopia of modeled guitar tones that will suit pretty much any guitarist out there”: Universal Audio Paradise Guitar Studio review

Universal Audio's debut multi-amp plugin offers effortless, world-class sound with some of the most iconic amps of all time

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