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“The ultimate anthem for guitar”: Viral troubadour pens ode to buying guitars – and catches the ears of Joe Bonamassa and Billy Strings

Singer-songwriter Jesse Welles, who has gone viral for tackling controversial topics and taking on the role of a modern-day voice of resistance, is uniting guitar aficionados with his love letter to the instrument

Guitar World

Westlife at the Royal Albert Hall: raising the roof one bar stool-assisted key change at a time

4/5 Harmonies and hits mesh gloriously with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Evening Standard

“Yes, I know, I have no respect for an instrument. To me, it’s a piece of wood until you make it into a useful tool”: Steve Morse on the time he took power tools to his guitar so he could play a Deep Purple show with a broken wrist

Upper-fret access, the DIY way... Do not try this at home. But as the former Deep Purple guitarist explains, you can't stand on ceremony when you need your guitar to play how you want it to

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Sammy Hagar is touring the UK for the first time since 1996 – and bringing Joe Satriani and Van Halen’s Michael Anthony with him

Hagar will bring his Best of All Worlds tour – a celebration of his five-decade career and musical legacy – across the pond in 2026

Guitar World

“When we wrote the piece, it was a warning. I didn’t, honestly, in my heart, think it would ever happen”: Heaven 17 to release new updated version of (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

The song was recently covered by LCD Soundsystem and has become an anthem of resistance in the US

MusicRadar

Tool, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Halestorm, Megadeth, Alter Bridge and over 130 more bands will play next year's Sonic Temple festival in Ohio

The five-stage weekender will take place in Columbus, Ohio from May 14 to 17

Metal Hammer

All Saints’ Melanie Blatt says she and Nicole Appleton were told to have abortions at the height of their fame

The singer, 50, shares the shocking revelation in a new documentary, GirlBands Forever, which explores the pressures faced by female artists

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“Brent’s got an entire album that hasn’t seen the light of day”: Brent Hinds had a trove of solo material that was never released, according to his former bandmate

Duane Trucks of Fiend Without a Face has shed light on some unheard material that the Mastodon guitarist created before his tragic death

Guitar World

"Michael picked up the music stand and threw it at the wall. He picked up a chair and threw it, too, then angrily pushed over a baffle": New book claims that Michael Jackson "trashed the studio" as he was forced to re-record lines in a 1996 hit single

The original lyrics in They Don’t Care About Us had caused a media firestorm

MusicRadar

“The director said, ‘I’m looking for a young, hip rock ‘n’ roll band like Greta Van Fleet.’ And the producer’s like, ‘Well, I know someone…’” How Greta Van Fleet ended up in the new Bruce Springsteen biopic

You may spot two Kiszka brothers alongside Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Guitar World

‘I flew to Luxembourg to see the gig there instead!’: music fans on how they cope with high UK ticket prices

As increasing prices and fees make gig-going difficult, readers voice their frustration – and suggest alternatives

The Guardian - UK

Dolly Parton Health Update: Singer 'Refuses Rest' But She's 'Not Ready To Die Yet'

After delaying her Las Vegas residency for health reasons, Dolly Parton is worrying fans as she refuses to rest, insisting she's 'not ready to die yet'.

International Business Times UK

Nelly Furtado Quits Music Industry After 25 Years — Here Are the Songs That Defined an Era

After 25 years of shaping pop music, Nelly Furtado announces her retirement from live performances. Here's a look back at the songs that defined her remarkable career.

International Business Times UK

Lily Allen's Revenge Album Reportedly 'Targets' David Harbour as Divorce Fallout Turns 'Career-Crushing'

Lily Allen's powerful new album, 'West End Girl', has fans and netizens buzzing, with many convinced that her songs target her ex-husband David Harbour.

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Louder

"She was so ****ed off that she tried to get us chucked out of the hotel." The wild night Green Day trashed their hotel room, rang a Rolling Stone and did something unspeakable over an Oscar-winning actress' balcony

Green Day might be a polished stadium rock band now, but they didn't exactly enamour themselves to the Hollywood elite when they first blew up

Guitar World

“His reaction went from polite puzzlement, to resistance, to anger. He finished up with, ‘I think it's a dumb idea’”: When Anthony Jackson came up with the idea for a six-string bass, he struggled to find anyone to build it

Along with Leo Fender, the late Anthony Jackson became one of the most important figures in the history of the electric bass

Louder

Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 announce European and UK tour dates

Former Porcupine Tree alumni Colin Edwin and John Wesley will be performing the band's earlier material in the live arena

Guitar World

“The more I got to know him, the more I could tell he was interested in different sounds, from Indian classical to Middle Eastern”: Nicolas Meier was hand-picked by Jeff Beck. Now he’s honoring the late guitar icon with a sound that seeks new horizons

Meier on what he learned from Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía, and how in Jeff Beck he found a kindred spirit for guitar sounds with no limits

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The Guardian - UK

Teenage Daydream by Debsey Wykes review – coming of age in an all-girl guitar band

Dolly Mixture’s singer and bassist looks back on their time chasing mainstream success and facing down outrageous sexism

Guitar World

“Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook knows a thing or two about using inventive and interesting chord voicings”: How you can swap the notes in a chord to give it a different feel

A lesson in second inversions sounds like advanced physics but it's simply swapping the root note for the 5th, expanding your chord vocabulary with a minimum of fuss

Louder

“People deserve to hear that music. And I wouldn’t play it if we didn’t do it justice”: Sammy Hagar announces a UK arena tour – and he’s bringing the Van Halen songs

Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band will hit the UK for four arena dates in July 2026

Louder

Pink Floyd commemorated in new poem from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Pink Floyd will release Wish You Were Here 50 on various formats on December 12

The Guardian - UK

Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

Poet laureate pays tribute to ‘message in a bottle tied to a life buoy thrown from a ghost ship’ released when he was 12

Louder

"For months and months, I was the only one who ever heard the song. I kept it in my back pocket": The true story of the Aerosmith classic built from a riff its writer almost didn't share

The tale behind one of Aerosmith's most iconic songs

Louder

“As anniversary editions go, this one is exhaustively thorough”: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s One Size Fits All, five decades on

The original nine tracks expanded to 58 – and while there’s some repetition and flawed live production, the energy is vigorous

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