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“I got fired because I couldn’t get it”: Eric Johnson has written some of the greatest lead lines of all time – but once got sacked from a session because he couldn’t come up with anything

The Cliffs of Dover icon spent the early years of his career cutting his teeth on the session circuit – but says he had a few studio disasters along the way

Guitar World

Edinburgh Council remarks about Oasis fans ‘snobby’, Scottish Secretary says

Ian Murray also described the ban on drinking alcohol at stadiums as ‘classist’.

Evening Standard

"I didn't plan on making music anymore." How Paradise Slaves gave Brock Lindow a new lease of life after 36 Crazyfists

After a final show in December 2019, 36 Crazyfists' Brock Lindow thought he was done. But a message from Killswitch Engage's Joel Stroetzel brought him back to music

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“Literally the first chord I hit on it after I put it together just gave me goosebumps”: Nirvana tone guru Aaron Rash solves Kurt Cobain’s Heart-Shaped Box guitar mystery – and opens Pandora’s box for the tonewood debate

Rash's latest break in the In Utero case arrived via a late-night epiphany and the help of ChatGPT, and it might just reignite the conversation about the impact of body wood on tone

MusicRadar

Any reasonable gig-goer knows that dancing is part of the show. So why are some people such anti-boogie bummers?

If you can’t be in public without trying to control other people’s every movement, maybe you should just stay at home

The Guardian - AU

Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You review – a dark, Lynchian coming-of-age story

4/5 The American singer-songwriter follows up her 2022 debut ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ with a concept album that’s often mesmerising

The Independent UK

Terry Reid obituary

Rock singer and guitarist whose 70s albums River and Seed of Memory were acclaimed by new audiences in the 2000s

The Guardian - UK

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“My grandma asked me why I was spending so much time pretending to play the guitar when I could just get a real guitar and try to learn how to actually play”: Inhaler’s Josh Jenkinson reveals that Guitar Hero was his launchpad to picking up the guitar

Jenkinson also credits his grandma for booking some guitar lessons for him – which would eventually lead him to joining Inhaler

Guitar World

“It’s not signed, sealed and delivered... but speaking to me and asking my opinion I would love to do it”: After being "blown away" by U2 at the Sphere, Lars Ulrich suggests that Metallica would be keen to play there in 2026

And they’d love to play next year’s Super Bowl, too

MusicRadar

Kelly Clarkson’s ex-husband Brandon Blackstock dies aged 48 years old after a three-year battle with cancer

The announcement comes amid speculation after the singer took unexplained time off from her hit daytime talk show

Evening Standard

Selena Gomez Shares the Sweet (and Relatable) Story Behind Her Friendship With Taylor Swift

Marie Claire

“We played a local gig and Jeff said, ‘Why don’t we go on tour with Brian Wilson?’” Nicolas Meier was playing in a London jazz club, when he looked up and spotted Jeff Beck standing a few feet away – it proved to be a life-changing moment

This former Jeff Beck collaborator re-recorded the songs he wrote for an unreleased Beck project. The results will likely have you freeway jammin’ in no time

Guitar World

“If I were to strum a full barre-chord voicing for each chord, it would feel too ‘chunky.’ Instead, I do what Nile advised me to do”: Cory Wong on the most important technique you can learn from Nile Rodgers

The kingpin of funky strumming defers to the O.G. – as Wong explains what he learned from the Chic master

Guitar World

‘Working with Kanye? That’s definitely in the past’: rap legends Clipse on beef, Bono and Mr Bean

Amid their triumphant reunion, the brothers Pusha T and Malice answer your questions on the wisdom of the apostles, the catharsis of writing about their late parents and the greatness of Billy Joel

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Evening Standard

BBC to air hour-long documentary titled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home

The programme will screen on August 18.

Louder

The nine best artists to see at London's All Points East festival this month, from Doechii and Confidence Man, to Warmduscher and Chloe Qisha

All Points East festival returns to east London's Victoria Park this month, and, as usual, there's lots to get excited about across the coming weekends

Guitar World

“I always wanted to reconcile, tell him there weren’t any hard feelings and end things on a friendly note. I got to do that”: Jake E. Lee had a hero’s welcome at Back to the Beginning – but mending his rift with Ozzy Osbourne was what meant the most

Lee reflects on Ozzy’s final show, explains why he never bore a grudge over being fired, and recalls how the late Prince of Darkness made him a better guitarist with a single comment

The Guardian - UK

Amaarae: Black Star review – glamour, glitz and lust from a pop star who should be a supernova

With a sleek dancefloor-facing sound, the Ghanaian American singer is deliriously in thrall to wealth and celebrity – but most of all love

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"I didn't have a clear idea of what I was doing...I just felt lost." Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson on the existential crisis that helped shape one of his most beloved songs

This classic power ballad was seen by many as a goodbye to Iron Maiden, but the real meaning runs a little deeper

Guitar World

“It produces the most amazing distortion, but I can’t sell it”: Robert Keeley has invented a drive pedal that is also a weed vape – but he’s not allowed to release it

Keeley has been prevented from selling his Vapor Drive by the strong arm of the law

The Independent UK

Tim Minchin reveals the work he’s most proud of: ‘I love it’

Exclusive: Composer and lyricist was thrust into the spotlight after writing the music for the hit show ‘Matilda’, but cited another project as one of his best works

Metal Hammer

“Nobody walked away going, ‘That’s the last time we’ll see Ozzy’”: Metallica’s Lars Ulrich looks back on Black Sabbath’s retirement show, Back To The Beginning

Metallica’s drummer says Sabbath were “great, if not better than ever” at their final show, which took place just 17 days before singer Ozzy Osbourne’s death

Evening Standard

Mariah Carey: The people were ‘amazing’ at Brighton Pride show

Her set included timeless classics like Hero and Fantasy.

Louder

“Inventive, unconventional approach sets them apart from lazy assumptions of what prog was doing in the early 70s”: Jethro Tull’s Still Living In The Past

Reissue series revives the 1972 high-class hodgepodge in a generous, never perfunctory style

The Guardian - UK

Explosive and experimental, Eddie Palmieri was a revolutionary figure in postwar American music

The Puerto Rican New Yorker pianist, who has died aged 88, radiated pure joy as he played – never resting on his laurels as he went from jazz to salsa to house and beyond

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