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“Heavy metal and drop D is a match made in heaven”: Eddie Van Halen used it, Jimmy Page loved it, and all of your heavy metal heroes have tried it – drop D made drop-dead simple

Drop D tuning is one of the easiest alternate tunings to get to grips with. Here’s our step-by-step guide

Guitar World

Watch Metallica play Master Of Puppets to just 500 people at ultra-intimate show last month

The heavy metal giants held one of their smallest-ever shows in Long Island on August 28

Metal Hammer

“I saw the message and I was like, ‘Who the hell is this guy?’ He called me the next day and offered me a world tour”: How Yungblud bassist Silke Blansjaar got the gig of a lifetime – despite not playing bass

The Gibson Grabber-wielder was actually a drummer when she went from playing to a room of 100 to an arena of 6,000 overnight. She explains the golden rule of session work and why she likes to keep her rig old-fashioned

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Hitmaker Bert Berns is posthumously included in Songwriters Hall of Fame

Songwriter and producer Bert Berns has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Independent UK

“We’d done 11 songs. Nobody wanted to do another except me and Mutt. But I said, ‘Sorry, boys – you can’t turn this chorus down!’”: How Def Leppard created a mega-hit song in 10 days after spending three years on an album

"It was really based on rap stuff – not your standard rock song”

MusicRadar

Spock's Beard return with The Archaeoptimist, their first new studio album in seven years!

US prog rock quintet Spock's Beard will release their new stidio album, The Achaeoptimist, in November

Louder

“I grabbed his hand saying, ‘Thank you for everything.’ He goes, ‘You were the only guitar player who said no to me’”: Nuno Bettencourt remembers his final exchange with Ozzy Osbourne – a reminder of the gig he once turned down

As a 15-year-old, Bettencourt auditioned to become Randy Rhoads’ replacement. When the gig presented itself years later, he declined

Guitar World

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And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion

The Guardian - UK

Bad Bunny Shocks Fans: The Real Reason He Refuses to Tour the U.S. in 2025

Bad Bunny stunned fans by revealing why his 2025–2026 world tour skips the United States. The Puerto Rican superstar says fears of ICE raids outside his concerts convinced him to keep his shows abroad, leaving U.S. fans disappointed.

Latin Times

Hot Chip: 'They said we were a weird boy band version of the Spice Girls'

Hot Chip have a greatest hits album out which is a perfect time to talk to frontman Alexis Taylor about their unassuming rise to being national treasures

Evening Standard

“He wanted to show me his really nice old Les Paul, and I just said, ‘I don’t like Les Pauls,’ and walked off”: When Joe Bonamassa was introduced to Joanne Shaw Taylor – who “offended” him on their first meeting

The two blues guitar greats crossed paths at a festival in 2008 – but Taylor wasn’t interested in what Bonamassa had to show her

Guitar World

“All of this posturing is Jim Morrison meets the bloke from Stone Temple Pilots meets everybody else who’s ever owned a pair of leather trousers”: Justin Hawkins backs up his brother’s criticism of Yungblud’s VMAs Ozzy Osbourne tribute

“It’s not authentic”... says the frontman of The Darkness

MusicRadar

“I said, ‘That’s my music.’ His manager said, ‘You’re a girl. You don’t have the money to fight this’”: Rita Coolidge alleges she helped write Eric Clapton’s Layla – but never got credit for it

In a resurfaced interview, Coolidge recalls the time she sought a songwriting credit for composing the song’s piano coda – but was rebuffed

Guitar World

Belinda Carlisle review – gleeful veteran lassoes devoted audience with ageless hits

Rattling through her 80s hits the singer is clearly revelling in the nostalgia – in a showcase that makes her a strong candidate for the Glastonbury legends slot

The Guardian - UK

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Motörhead to be celebrated on punk rock tribute album featuring Pennywise, Anti-Nowhere League and others

Killed By Deaf: A Punk Tribute To Motörhead will be out on October 31

Evening Standard

Oasis fan who fell to death at gig suffered ‘multiple bodily injuries’ – inquest

Lee Claydon, 45, of Bournemouth, died following the incident at the London stadium on August 2.

MusicRadar

“As much as it sucked to start over, I saw Dave become a vastly better guitar player pretty quickly after Metallica”: Dave Ellefson has his say on whether Metallica did Dave Mustaine a favour by sacking him

It put a rocket under him, he reckons

MusicRadar

“I sat down at the piano and started this song about a woman that was involved with birds and magic”: The classic Fleetwood Mac hit that Stevie Nicks wrote in just 10 minutes!

Nicks’ performance of the song on stage every night “was like an exorcism”

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“Within an hour we knew we had a massive hit record”: The music theory behind a Depeche Mode classic

Dissecting one of Depeche Mode’s most cherished and universally beloved songs reveals some compelling inner-workings

Evening Standard

Inquest opened for Oasis fan who died in horror fall at Wembley Stadium concert

Oasis expressed ‘shock’ after Lee Claydon fell to his death after one of their Wembley concerts

Louder

Robert Plant's Saving Grace with Suzi Dian announces UK tour dates

Legendary Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant will bring his "song book of the lost and found" to ten UK venues in the buildup to Christmas

The Independent UK

A new Whitney Houston duet? How Calum Scott made 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody' with the late star

A new Whitney Houston song has arrived 13 years after her death

Louder

Flying Colors and Kansas guitarist Steve Morse to release first new Steve Morse Band album for sixteen years

The Steve Morse Band will release their brand new album, Triangulation, in November

The Guardian - UK

Dreaming of You: The Making of the Coral review – the charming rise of the melodic noughties band

Lo-fi animation mixed with archive footage and home movies tell the story of a group of talented young mates from the Wirral with an eccentric, unpretentious charm

Metal Hammer

Debate: who are the greatest thrash metal band of all time?

Whether it’s Metallica, Slayer or any other gaggle of speed freaks, we want to know your pick for the best of the thrash metal bunch

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