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“They took big swings, but knew when a lighter touch fitted. It’s like Pink Floyd played by 10cc”: Supertramp’s Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? 50th anniversary editions

Third and fourth studio albums remastered at half speed for vinyl reissues

Louder

“Joe said, ‘I love this truck. Is it for sale?’ I was like, ‘If you buy it, it's going to cost you a vintage Les Paul’”: The Imaginaries’ Shane Henry on his eye for vintage gear, recruiting Vince Gill – and trading trucks with Joe Bonamassa

From once-in-a-lifetime collaborations to buying a slew of vintage guitars and starting his own pedal company, Shane Henry is living most guitarists’ wildest dreams

Guitar World

Viv Prince death: Celebrated Pretty Things drummer dies, aged 84

Jack White was among those to pay tribute to the colourful music veteran, who also performed with The Who

The Independent UK

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“In the actual song you hear today, the guitars, the riff, the bass, the drums and all the vocals are from those initial takes I did in my bedroom”: Sombr on the making of viral hit Undressed, and his formula for creating "a legendary indie rock song"

“I remember playing the guitar riff and thinking, ‘OK, that is great.’ From there, the song just made sense, it flowed"

MusicRadar

“Genuinely shocking, and uninterested in the post-rock status quo”: Jo Quail’s Notan proves yet again that there’s no one quite like her

The cello champion defies comparison as her compositional skills continue to develop and impress

Louder

You haven’t felt the power of heavy metal until you’ve seen a room of grown men cry

Here in metal-mad Finland, I see the 50-year-old genre is still in rude health – and helping people see the light in dark times, says Mike Watson, media and art theorist based in Finland

The Guardian - UK

The 10 best B-side albums

Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Oasis, The Smiths, Deftones, the Manics and more all had classics going spare, as these superlative compilations prove

Louder

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"We're probably the truest form of rock and roll there is." P.O.D.'s Marcos Curiel says the band are done trying to prove themselves

P.O.D. guitarist says the band have stayed relevant by not following musical trends

Metal Hammer

The Who add one 'final' date to their North American farewell tour

The Who will say goodbye to North America with a show in Greater Palm Springs, California, on Wednesday, October 1

Louder

"I had to learn to walk again." Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil reveals he had a stroke in December

Issue that led to Motley Crue postponing Las Vegas residency had doctors doubting Vince Neil would ever perform again

Metal Hammer

Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil says he had a stroke and had to ‘learn to walk again’

The 64-year-old rock star revealed ‘my whole left side went out’

The Independent UK

Rick Davies obituary

Singer and songwriter with Supertramp whose gritty voice and lyrics helped propel the band to huge success in the 1970s and 80s

The Guardian - UK

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Sabaton, Mudvayne and Limp Bizkit are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

Twenty One Pilots Breach review: it's the end of the band as we know them, but it points to an exciting future all the same

Twenty One Pilots wrap up their decade-long dystopian narrative in style

Louder

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“I set myself the challenge of making a full-length album, using almost entirely the five-stringed guitar, in just four days”: Polymath virtuoso Jacob Collier’s new album is a love letter to the guitar – and alternate tunings

When tuned to DAEAD, the songs just fall out of the guitar for the musical super-genius – and his new album The Light For Days is a vehicle for showing what the instrument can do

Guitar World

“He shaped the tone of his voice like a guitarist would finesse riffs and phrases”: Joe Satriani pays tribute to Chris Cornell with instrumental cover of Audioslave’s Be Yourself

The virtuoso features on the latest track from King Ultramega, a tribute project for the late Soundgarden frontman

Metal Hammer

Sabaton x Nothing More is one of the most surprising heavy metal collaborations we’ve heard all year – and it doesn’t sound half bad

The two bands have teamed up for Crossing The Rubicon, the fifth single from Sabaton’s upcoming album Legends

MusicRadar

"Not being a musician you feel a little bit of an imposter, but I've got a passion for it and I think a lot of great musicians respect me for that": Dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood on embracing AI and playing the studio like an instrument

How AI tech worked alongside vintage studio gear to create The Collapse of Everything

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“Her technique is particularly difficult to replicate because she played ‘upside down’ on a guitar strung for arighty”: Sue Foley salutes Elizabeth Cotten and her favorite female guitar pioneers in this fingerpicking blues masterclass

Foley's latest lesson unpacks the Piedmont fingerpicking style perfected by the likes of Elizabeth Cotten – and there's some Memphis Minnie, too

MusicRadar

“They still maintain these ridiculous hours. After lunch until, like, two in the morning”: Marlon Richards says that the Stones have been putting together a new album in London

They’ll be a new album and tour in 2026, he suggests

Guitar World

“Together, our chemistry is magical”: Steve Morse has announced his first new album since leaving Deep Purple – and it’s set to feature Eric Johnson and John Petrucci

Triangulation also features Morse's son on a tribute to the guitarist’s late wife

The Independent UK

Netherlands threatens Eurovision boycott if Israel also participates

The Netherlands has joined several countries urging the Eurovision Song Contest to exclude Israel due to its actions in Gaza

MusicRadar

“One of the things I’ve wanted to really focus on, and zone into, is the limitation of a single instrument”: Using his signature ‘DAEAD’ tuning, Jacob Collier recorded a 5-string acoustic guitar album in just four days

"I had to work so fast that I couldn’t second-guess anything - I just had to roll with and trust the process," he says

Metal Hammer

“This is either going to be a nice coda to Van Halen or it’s going to ruin my life”: Wolfgang Van Halen explains the extreme risk that comes with playing his dad’s songs onstage

Wolfgang has performed Van Halen songs in public on only two occasions since his father Eddie passed away in 2020

Louder

Pink Floyd announce 50th anniversary reissue of Wish You Were Here

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

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