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“What blew me away was that everyone wanted the curly maple top. People were calling, saying, ‘I’ve got to have the bird inlays’”: Paul Reed Smith on raising the Standard 24, finally cracking the noise-free guitar and why John Sykes is a tone hero

We take Paul Reed Smith back to the start of his 40-year-old company to discuss the new Standard 24 and quite a bit more

Guitar World

Charli XCX wants Turnstile to be one of the artists of the summer

The star behind “Brat summer” passed the torch during her Coachella show this weekend

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Sean Lennon shares rare message with fans about his relationship with half-brother Julian

Son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who is also a musician, does not often address his relationship with Julian Lennon in public

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Hear Halestorm return with rousing single Darkness Always Wins

The Pennsylvania hard rockers promise their new song isn’t as pessimistic as its title makes it sound

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"We were just hanging out on the beach and sipping cool libations; Keith Richards was totally living the rock’n’roll lifestyle": Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters and Ministry

Meet the only man to have played with Hendrix, the Stones and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback

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Watch the video for the first new music from the original Alice Cooper Band in half a century

Black Mamba comes from the Bob Ezrin-produced Revenge of Alice Cooper, out in July

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The Cure launch mammoth Mixes Of A Lost World album, donate royalties to charity

Listen to remixes by Four Tet and Paul Oakenfold now

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“This Man Is In PAIN!”: Kanye West Confesses To Incestuous Relationship With Cousin When He Was 14

"Get him off the internet."

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“I was playing in the living room, he walked past and shot me this look of ‘Do that again.’ So I bent the string up and he gave me this nod of approval”: Jack Moore on lessons learned from his father, Gary

Having one of the world’s most revered blues guitarists for a dad meant Jack Moore couldn’t get away with bad technique. And he learned that the hard way

Guitar World

“We were arguing a lot and we were miserable”: How Green Day exceeded expectations with their most ambitious song

The sprawling 2004 epic reflected Billie Joe Armstrong’s own lived experiences - and was the cornerstone of American Idiot

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“I heard the Money solo and thought, ‘This is amazing!’ So I sent David a telegram saying, ‘Remember me? I'm in a band now called Roxy Music’”: Phil Manzanera on his friendship with David Gilmour, and the key to the Pink Floyd man's unmistakable tone

The two guitarists have worked on several records together, giving Manzanera the inside baseball of the tricks behind Gilmour's iconic guitar tone

Guitar World

"There’s plenty for us guitarists to learn – and ‘less is more’ is the overriding lesson": how to play like George Harrison on The Beatles' Abbey Road

Learn the guitar style of the most expressive and accomplishedplaying The Beatle would ever commit to tape

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“They didn’t like his bikini underwear”: Prince’s support sets for the The Rolling Stones in 1981 are remembered as disastrous, but guitarist Dez Dickerson says that the the crowd reaction wasn’t as bad as people think

“Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says

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“It’s really quite genius, but also hard to learn – it sounds insane, but sometimes the easiest songs still get me nervous”: Kiki Wong reveals the Smashing Pumpkins song she had the most trouble with

After beating 10,000 other candidates to the gig, the guitarist set about navigating Billy Corgan’s “distinct playing style,” with one song proving more challenging than the rest

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"Chris Cornell was the first rock star to consume the contents of my stomach." How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to drink vomit in the early '90s

Things got freaky on Lollapalooza 1992 thanks to The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and their rock star friends

Guitar World

That time Stevie Wonder jammed with Stevie Ray Vaughan... and played SRV's number one Strat

The two musical giants traded licks before Wonder picked up Stevie's guitar

Evening Standard

Miley Cyrus' brother rips 'lame' Katy Perry's space trip and says her 'career is dying'

Trace Cyrus, 36, ripped into Perry’s career and her team in a frenzied rant on Instagram

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Featuring Buckcherry, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Band Feel and five other rowdy rockers, rollers, rebels and reprobates

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"Why should I be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Because I’m f**king incredible!" Billy Idol thinks he deserves your vote for induction into the Rock Hall

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“We hadn’t really rehearsed. As we were walking to the stage, he said, ‘Hang on, boys!’ And he went in the corner and vomited”: Assembled on 24 hours' notice, this John Lennon-led, motley crew supergroup marked the beginning of the end of the Beatles

Though the band's set at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was ragged, it confirmed in stone a hugely consequential decision Lennon had made just before the festival

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“Whether any illicit cigarettes were involved isn’t clear, but this is the sound of Maiden floating in space”: Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden

Even Iron Maiden like to throw a few curveballs into their back catalogue

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“I have an original 909 – every time I try to use it I feel like I’m ruining it”: House hero Riva Starr on his studio essentials and his love of analogue synths

The prolific Italian house and techno producer shows us the gear behind Keep Me on the Dancefloor

Louder

“To keep a standard up so long is an achievement. This album crowns that. Now people can play something other than A Whiter Shade Of Pale!” Procol Harum didn’t expect 50th anniversary album Novum to be their last

When Procol Harum released 50th anniversary album Novum in 2017, vocalist Gary Brooker and lyricist Pete Brown made it clear they weren’t expecting it to be their last

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After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever

Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá

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Watch Dave Grohl perform Foo Fighters classic Everlong with a choir and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra during surprise Coachella festival appearance

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl makes an unexpected guest appearance at Coachella with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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