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“When I go, ‘Let’s try a Marshall,’ and we put it in, I go, ‘I don’t like that!’ Marshalls hurt my ears these days”: Ricky Byrd on tracking with Joan Jett, his Franken-Tele that sounds nothing like a Tele, and how sobriety has improved his playing

Byrd has seen the world of rock ’n’ roll go through changes, but one thing he’s stuck with is his “tricky” approach to playing – and he’s full of optimism for the future

Guitar World

“This is a tip of a hat to Metallica for everything that they’ve done, and everything that we’ve done”: Dave Mustaine explains why Megadeth reimagined Ride The Lightning for their final album

Megadeth’s leader calls his sped-up rendition of the Metalli-classic a mark of “respect” towards his ex-bandmates

Metal Hammer

“A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of history”: Jim Irsay’s billion-dollar guitar collection is going to auction, with legendary instruments from Kurt Cobain, Eric Clapton and David Gilmour up for grabs

With a wealth of record-breaking guitars among the collection, it promises to be the biggest guitar auction event of all time

Guitar World

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‘It’s dark in the US right now. But I turn on a light, you know?’: Mavis Staples on Prince, Martin Luther King and her 75-year singing career

As she releases a new album, the soul and gospel legend answers your questions on Stax Records, duetting with David Byrne, and the fight for civil rights

The Guardian - UK

Youth Group on Forever Young at 20 and gen X middle age: ‘Angst doesn’t go away just because you get older’

As the band return with their sixth album, Big Whoop, frontman Toby Martin reflects on fatherhood, mortality and their love-hate relationship with their biggest hit

The Guardian - AU

“I bumped into one of Queen’s techs. He said, ‘Steve, come down to the studio – the lads would love to see you’”: How Steve Howe ended up playing on a Queen track

The prog legend was asked to channel a flamenco icon for the spontaneous guest spot

Guitar World

"We thought, 'Maybe we've taken death metal as far as it can go.'" Bungled million-dollar deals, getting wasted with Zakk Wylde and a housewrecking music video: how former extreme metal musicians made one of nu metal's biggest anthems

Unimpressed with black metal's headline-grabbing theatrics, Soil embraced their roots to make an all-time classic

Metal Hammer

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“Not sure when we will be headed back out”: David Draiman says Disturbed need a “nice, long break” as controversial European tour comes to a close

Some of the metal band’s recent shows were rocked by cancellation and protests, in response to their singer signing an Israeli Defence Force artillery shell last year

Metal Hammer

“One of the songs is a cover song but I actually wrote it, so it’s kind of like a cover, kind of like my song”: Are Megadeth set to include a version of Metallica's Ride The Lightning on their final album?

Dave Mustaine hinted at it earlier this year, and a new tracklisting has added fuel to the fire

MusicRadar

“When I hear myself sing that line, it sounds like I’m saying ‘hate'. So, that’s not good. I’m sorry, Lindsey. I’m calling him later”: Stevie Nicks seemingly confirms that she and Lindsey Buckingham are back on speaking terms

The pair appeared on the Song Exploder podcast to discuss their song Frozen Love

MusicRadar

Anna von Hausswolff: Iconoclasts review – exhilarating, euphoric goth songcraft

The Swedish experimental musician pivots from drones to spectacular pop melodies, with guest spots from Iggy Pop and Ethel Cain

The Guardian - UK

“It’s fun to have shreddiness, but even my dad would say the best solos are the ones you can sing”: Wolfgang Van Halen reveals the Mammoth guitar solo that was inspired by Smells Like Teen Spirit

The Nirvana classic embodies some soloing advice that Wolfgang once got from his dad, the late, great Eddie Van Halen

Guitar World

“I said, ‘Oh, man, we’re gonna kick some ass on a Pink Floyd record!’ I’m not really a Pink Floyd guy. I never understood why they got so big. I think they were boring most of the time”: The hard-hitting drummer who substituted for Nick Mason in the ’80s

Carmine Appice says that Mason's drumming sounds like hitting a pillow

MusicRadar

“This guitar is simply too cool to not be released”: Noel Gallagher’s internet-breaking Oasis reunion Les Paul has been brought to the masses with a Standard launch

Months after the Custom Shop Murphy Lab reissue sold out, Gibson has brought back one of 2025's most talked about guitars

Guitar World

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Evening Standard

Lily Allen tour announcement: Singer to perform entire West End Girl album at London Palladium shows

The tour kicks off at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on March 2 and concludes with two nights at The London Palladium on March 20 and 21

The Independent UK

Lily Allen adds extra West End Girl tour date for 2026: How to get tickets

British pop star chose theatre venues specifically to showcase the songs from her new album

Guitar World

“I discovered that you need to be anxious – it keeps you motivated. I try to feed off the anxiety and play guitar”: The life and times of Brent Hinds, the visionary guitarist with a maverick style who made Mastodon a big beast of metal

Guitar World pays tribute to the late Brent Hinds, one of metal's wildest and most inventive players, who died on 20 August

Evening Standard

Lily Allen to tour UK with new album West End Girl

The singer will perform the album in its entirety in the order the songs appear on the record.

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The Independent UK

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham appear to have reconciled

Fleetwood Mac duo say they shared a phone call to discuss their past

Louder

"We'd been going down well until that happened": How The Nice offended Leonard Bernstein and the US Embassy

The story of the song that crystallised the burgeoning prog-rock movement and turned The Nice into one of the most controversial bands of the day

Louder

“Queen’s tech said, ‘The lads would love to see you.’ It was a set-up – when I got there they’d set up the studio for me”: Steve Howe’s favourite moments as a guitar for hire, and the one that got away

Yes icon on guesting with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda, his 1960s session career, and never listening to what he recorded for Lou Reed

Metal Hammer

"I don’t think so. No." Roddy Bottum on whether he'd play with Faith No More again

Keyboard player Roddy Bottum appears to put the final nail in Faith No More's coffin

Louder

"Our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult but at the same time fantastic": Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are definitely speaking again

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham appear on podcast to discuss their debut album and the influence of Led Zeppelin

MusicRadar

“The thing I’m most excited about is it comes fully armed with my signature Seymour Duncan Damocles Blackout pickups”: Jackson and Corey Beaulieu ante up with the Trivium guitarist's new über-metal next-gen King V

Available with six or seven-strings, designed for crushing high-gain playing, and with that super-cool serrated V body shape, the Jackson x Beaulieu Pro Series collab is a total metal guitar

Evening Standard

Katherine Jenkins stuns at Westlife London show as band pay emotional tribute to absent Mark Feehily

The Welsh soprano joined the Irish pop icons on stage for a moving rendition of You Raise Me Up, while Niall Horan and a host of celebrities sang along from the audience

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