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I spent the weekend testing the best guitar gear of the year at The Guitar Show in Birmingham – these are the 9 hottest products you can buy right now

I visited a sold-out UK Guitar Show to check out the latest and greatest from the wide world of guitar gear

Guitar World · Mar 4

“I said, ‘Just start again. It would be good for you.’ He persuaded me to stay. I never felt good about it”: Martin Barre tried to quit Jethro Tull in 1980, but Ian Anderson wouldn’t have it

Their musical partnership finally ended after 43 years – but the guitarist says he wanted to break it up decades earlier

Louder · Mar 4

“For the past 30 years it has been the quintessential backline amplifier on stages and in studios around the world”: Fender celebrates three decades of the Hot Rod Deluxe with a stunning anniversary edition

The much-loved 40-watt combo gets a fancy looking textured 'Western' vinyl covering, classy and vintage '50s-style grille clothe – and a 12" Celestion Creamback under the hood

MusicRadar · Mar 4

Paul McCartney recalls frustration over delayed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

Sir Paul McCartney has claimed he was promised induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame four years before he eventually was.

BANG Premier · Mar 4

Dave Mustaine says Metallica spent years trying to 'hold him back'

Dave Mustaine is once again speaking out on his intense past with Metallica.

BANG Premier · Mar 4

Harry Styles review round-up: ’No one can match his level of pizzazz’

The former One Direction star’s fourth album has received mixed reviews, with one reviewer describing it as ‘the funkiest existential crisis in pop’.

Evening Standard · Mar 4

Who are Huntr/X? The fictional KPop Demon Hunters band in line for an Oscar

Kpop Demon Hunters has become Netflix’s most-watched film of all time

The Independent UK · Mar 4

“Dolly said ‘Can you just make it, like, reds and greens and sparkles?’. I played as many notes as I could while the other hand was working the transposer. She was going, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s it. Whee!’”: Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter on his life as a session player

And how to make steel guitar not sound like steel guitar...

MusicRadar · Mar 4

Watch Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale sing Black Sabbath covers at Geezer Butler and Paul Rodgers tribute show this week

Taylor sang Paranoid and Hale took on lead vocals for a version of Neon Knights, with Butler playing bass for both performances

Metal Hammer · Mar 4

"I'm on a pyre, a monk sentences me to death, and I will burn. Burn, burn, burn." Why you should probably go and see Powerwolf this week

German metallers Powerwolf gear up for their biggest ever UK show at Wembley on Saturday, and promise some surprises

Metal Hammer · Mar 4