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“I send this mix to Rick Rubin and he says, ‘Anthony sounds old. Make him sound younger.’ And I'm like, ‘Oh, I wish there was a knob for that’”: Red Hot Chili Peppers mix engineer Ryan Hewitt recalls Rick Rubin's unusual request on 2006's Stadium Arcadium

“No one's ever said like, you know, ‘turn down the age knob’, you know what I mean? And so you get this challenge to try to come up with a solution to something"

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“You have all these modern players like Tim Henson playing crazy stuff that sounds incredible, though they very rarely choose to bend anything”: Wolfgang Van Halen on what sets his favorite contemporary metal guitar hero apart from his peers

Wolfgang has praised this player's ability to bridge the generational and genre divide

Guitar World

“We built 19 different models. He more or less changed what we were doing”: EMG founder on why this Metallica guitarist’s pickup set was the most challenging he’s ever made

The band first started working with the pickup builder before they scored their first record deal

Guitar World

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"This pedal excels at delivering a completely clean volume boost - and there's plenty of volume on tap": Fender Hammertone Boost review

Hammer your solo tone into shape with Fender's hard-hitting but affordable boost pedal

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“People talk a lot of poo about my tone. But it’s what I love and have loved since I was a kid”: Kiki Wong’s go-to amp at home is a budget combo everyone loves to hate

The cheap modelling amp is mocked by many, but it indirectly helped Wong get the biggest gig of her career

Guitar World

“One of the greatest electronic music songs of all time”: Disclosure give an official release to their updated edit of a ‘90s club classic

It was first heard during the band’s 2024 Glastonbury set

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Vybz Kartel on his legal victory, vulgar lyrics and the lasting scars of prison: ‘If I hear a key shake, it traumatise me’

With his murder conviction overturned, the Jamaican star is back performing. He talks about his illness, regrets,and how he felt about dancehall going global while he was behind bars

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“I’ll just grab ahold of the G string, pinch it and then bend it way up. You’re doing it to get a laugh out of the guys”: Big Wreck’s Ian Thornley on channeling Eric Johnson and Steve Morse – and why he’s called a guitar the “Jungle Gym”

Cutting lose on his Suhr electrics, Ian Thornley is officially enjoying himself on the Canadian rockers latest LP, The Rest of the Story. He discusses his intro to metal, pinch harmonics, and wrestling with producers

Guitar World

The ear-rattling psychedelia of Brighton’s Oral Habit and the week’s best new tracks

Overpowering, explosive and intense, the trio’s contemporary form of psychedelia is rebooted for the troubled, disturbing climate of 2025

The Guardian - UK

Five reflect on mental health and reunion as they sell out three nights at the O2

As the Five reunion tour arrived in the captial, member Scott Robinson speaks candidly about the pressures of fame and the road back to the band

Evening Standard

“I think Prince wanted a romance, but I didn’t because then we wouldn’t have had a musical relationship.” Stevie Nicks on why she turned down Prince's biggest song, and how their flirty friendship influenced three hit singles

Stevie Nicks reveals how she and Prince became flirty friends and collaborators...

Louder

These New Puritans at Village Underground: 'Gripping and unnerving'

4/5 The Southend avant-gardists return with cerebral intensity and a haunting absence of pop polish

Evening Standard

“I said, ‘Before we start, you know that if I audition I’ll get the gig. But be warned – I’m gonna be a pain in the arse!’”: Bruce Dickinson recalls his audition for Iron Maiden – and his crazy times with his previous band

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"Someone was dressed up in a big dinosaur suit, we saw him right in the middle of a wall of death!" Inside the wild and wonderful world of Hanabie - Japan's next metal superstars

Fashion, fuzzy plushies, and hanging out with Fred Durst - Hanabie are bringing a splash of colour to metal

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What Hi-Fi?

The ever-reliable, superb sounding Cyrus CDi enters the What Hi-Fi? Hall of Fame 2025

A long-running CD player with 12 consecutive Award wins

The Independent UK

Whitesnake’s David Coverdale announces his retirement: ‘It’s time for me to call it a day’

British rocker says it’s time to hang up his platform shoes and skintight jeans

The Independent UK

Bad Bunny wins Album of the Year as rapper dominates 2025 Latin Grammys

Rapper joked ‘I never practice my speeches’ as he bags five awards

The Guardian - UK

أحمد [Ahmed]: Sama’a (Audition) review – a wild, world-spanning act of musical devotion

The British free-jazz pianist Pat Thomas leads his quartet through a powerful fusion of Sufi inspiration, rhythmic intensity and improvisational fire

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“I was smashing a guitar at every show. I had to use this special glue called Cascamite – it’s a powdered glue and I managed to string them back together. I got very good at putting guitars together”: Pete Townshend remembers The Who’s first US tour

"I was just making sure I left my mark"

International Business Times UK

Halsey Groped Onstage at Washington DC Concert, Fans Outraged by the Violation: Who Is The Suspect?

Halsey was seen being groped by a fan during a Washington, DC performance, sparking outrage among fans who called the incident a clear violation of her boundaries.

The Guardian - UK

‘I can’t be silent. I’ve been through too much’: Dee Dee Bridgewater on singing with the greats – and confronting Maga with jazz

Fuelled by a loathing of Trump, the war in Gaza and anger at ‘the same old chauvinistic crap’, the 75-year-old – who cut her teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and more – has no plans to stop protesting

Louder

“It was an awful mistake to overlook his album. But you could be excused for not sticking with it”: Fired by King Crimson, this prog poet assembled a group of A-list colleagues and took them on a trip into the unknown. They got lost – or so it seemed

His only solo release merged Genesis, Greenslade and Soft Machine vibes with an additional experimental edge. But the real beauty is that it couldn’t have been made any other time than the early 70s

Louder

"An all-you-can-eat barbecue that looks delicious at the start but turns into an indistinguishable mush by the end": Blackberry Smoke overcook the recipe on Rattle, Ramble & Roll - The Best Of Volume One

Southern rock flagbearers Blackberry Smoke serve up an overstuffed career-spanning compilation

Louder

“He’s full of warmth for those they befriended on their rise, and full of ire for those who crossed them”: Derek Shulman takes aim at Syd Barrett, the Beach Boys, the Eagles and others in his not-very-gentle memoir Giant Steps

Former Gentle Giant vocalist who became an A&R bigwig provides an refreshingly undiplomatic account of his career on stage and off it

Latin Times

After Years on Top, Reggaeton Vanishes From the Latin Grammys, the Winners and What Really Happened at the Gala

After nearly a decade of dominance in the Latin music industry, reggaeton disappeared from the Latin Grammys stage, where neither Bad Bunny, nor Rauw Alejandro, nor Karol G performed music of the genre.

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