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10 years after promising a “symphony of c*cks and v*ginas and death”, Devin Townsend has finally announced his life’s work The Moth and released its unhinged lead single

Devin Townsend has reached peak Devin Townsend, unveiling a 24-track behemoth with choirs, orchestras and a song called We Don’t Deserve Dogs. Listen to maximalist preview Enter The City.

Metal Hammer

“This guy comes over, leaning on me. He said, ‘I’m sorry my guitar is such a pain in the butt’”: That time Eddie Van Halen visited the EVH workshop while they were building the Wolfgang

Fender Master Builder Andy Hicks hadn’t been in the job long before he received a visit from the guitar great, who came to oversee the making of his signature

Guitar World

“I was cacking it, I really didn’t know if it was going to work or not. We did Creep by Radiohead and I noticed I was crying halfway through": Alex James on Britpop Classical, Blur and the prospect of returning to Coachella

Bassist plays the Albert Hall tonight

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George Michael’s long lost concert film set for release this year

Previously unseen footage from the 1988 Faith Tour will be released alongside a live album

The Independent UK

“In the 70s the support band had to blow the main act offstage. I thought it was distasteful. There’s room for everybody”: Jethro Tull ex Martin Barre insists he’s not underrated, and explains why he has no time for egos

Guitarist reveals what he learned from one of his band’s opening acts, names a guitarist who’s a “real yardstick” of brilliance – and touches on what he misses about being in Ian Anderson’s band

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“I shuffled into this big open room, and Tina was there and she was very upset. She said to me, ‘If we get rid of David, would you join the band?’”: Adrian Belew insists he was asked to replace David Byrne in Talking Heads

He didn’t regard it as a serious offer though

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“The first thing I start off with is figuring out the chords like this. As you can see, I put them in manually”: PinkPantheress reveals that she composes and records her chord progressions using her MacBook’s QWERTY keyboard

Who needs a MIDI controller when you’ve got Logic Pro’s Musical Typing feature?

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"She would tune her guitar to whatever mood she was in and write the song from that tuning." The legendary singer-songwriter who changed Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's life

Tool / A Perfect Circle vocalist salutes a folk-rock icon

Metal Hammer

“I was naked in a shower, they held me upside-down by my legs and they poured bourbon into my mouth”: How this thrash singer became the new frontman of 21st-century metal stars Children Of Bodom

Samy Elbanna of Finnish speedsters Lost Society talks about fronting his country’s biggest extreme metal band for two glorious nights last month

Metal Hammer

“Such A Creep”: Paul McCartney Makes Bombshell Revelation About Bandmate John Lennon In Resurfaced Interview

“Paul McCartney is such a creep. Only a nasty, evil man would sell out his past band-mate who is not around to defend himself.”

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Long-lost peak George Michael tour film and live album unearthed and set for release

Footage comes from Faith tour of 1988

MusicRadar

"Sangria can make you do a lot of things…" How a drunken night, and the support of Samuel L. Jackson, changed the life of Kashus Culpepper

Meet the singer-songwriter who’s shot from small cog in the navy to a big wheel in Nashville

Louder

Country music sensation Zach Top: ‘You can’t take yourself too seriously’

Grammy-winning country artist reflects on his first Grammy Awards and writing with some of his heroes

The Independent UK

Yes to release expanded and remastered edition of From A Page in April

Oliver Wakeman's era as keyboard player in Yes is reassessed with a new in-depth edition of the band's 2019 release From A Page

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"One of the most colourful, fascinating, exciting and unusual rock'n'roll albums we've ever heard." The story of the pioneering rockers whose career was scuttled by the Six-Day War

In 1966, a group of Arab, Israeli and American musicians made an album together in New York City – but they were doomed from the start

International Business Times UK

Britney Spears Vows To Win Back Sons' 'Trust and Respect' After DUI Shame: Report

Britney Spears is reportedly determined to regain her sons' trust after her DUI arrest, with sources saying she may pursue treatment and cut ties with negative influences. Those close to her say she is embarrassed but committed to change.

Louder

"Rich Robinson is an honours graduate from Keef university but he's funkier than the master has been in decades." The Black Crowes' blessed resurrection keeps rolling on A Pound Of Feathers

More songs about rockin’ an’ rollin’

Guitar World

“I'm probably gonna get 150 guitarists telling me how I'm doing this wrong, but this is just what works for me”: Samantha Fish reveals the “cheat” she uses to emulate a pedal steel guitar

Despite calling it a “hot mess,” Samantha Fish says a volume pedal is her tried-and-tested approach to creating volume swells

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After Taylor Swift Jab Sparked Major Backlash, White Stripes Vocalist Jack White Breaks Silence

“It’s funny how every bitter old guy talks about Taylor Swift like she’s the only person in the entire music industry.”

The Guardian - UK

Country Joe McDonald obituary

US singer and songwriter best known for his 1969 Woodstock performance of his anti-war I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag

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“There are a lot of amazing guitars in this world, but none are as versatile as the Telecaster”: Country star John Osborne’s signature Tele comes factory modded with a distressed nitro finish, custom pickups – and it’s even got a B-bender too

Based of his beloved 1968 Tele, this Road Worn doozie has it all going on, and while the B-bender is a headline spec item, what about that oil-finished fingerboard with the maple cap fretboard?

Guitar World

“I had no idea who they were. My manager said, ‘You should talk to this guy named Trent Reznor’”: How Adrian Belew ended up working with Nine Inch Nails

The King Crimson legend worked on The Downward Spiral with Reznor, but a planned tour never took place

Guitar World

“I freaked out. I couldn’t believe it. Nobody else was doing that at the time”: The Beatles made the Leslie speaker an iconic guitar tone. But a pioneering “all-female” rock band were one of the first to take it out on the road

June Millington, one of the co-founders of the 1970s LA-based band Fanny, heard the Let It Be demo and was set on incorporating a Leslie speaker into her rig

The Independent UK

America’s Got Talent star opens up about mental health struggles as she cancels tour appearances

The singer acknowledged she was ‘choosing myself’ by stepping back from the tour

Louder

"I remember thinking, Who in their right mind would want this to go out?" AC/DC's Angus Young on the song he wishes the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band had never released

Angus Young on AC/DC's most "regrettable" song

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