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11 of the best closing tracks for testing your headphones or hi-fi system

Sometimes you have to wait until the end of an album to find the best tracks.

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Everybody dance: Nile Rodgers’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked!

As the 72-year-old prepares for Glastonbury with Chic, we rate the best of his guitar licks and songwriting magic for Madonna, Diana Ross, Sister Sledge and more

The Guardian - UK

“I used to visit my local GC frequently. That all stopped when they started locking everything up”: How can Guitar Center improve its stores and reclaim its former glory? Guitar World readers have their say

A recent interview with Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto sparked an outpouring of comments from Guitar World readers, all of whom have offered their two cents on how the retailer can get back on its feet

Guitar World

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Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to produce Oasis reunion tour film

Film will be directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the pair behind NYC music doc Meet Me in the Bathroom and LCD Soundsystem concert film

The Guardian - UK

Live Forever: The writer, producer and director of Peaky Blinders is masterminding a movie of the Oasis reunion tour

Didn’t get a ticket? Don’t look back in anger, now you can watch these rock ‘n’ roll stars all around the world…

MusicRadar

Stedman Pearson death: Five Star singer dies, aged 60

Pearson was the eldest of five siblings who were turned into a Jackson 5-inspired musical group

The Independent UK

Selena Gomez Just Sold a $3,000 Benny Blanco Ring to a Fan for $12

Someone now owns Selena's diamonds, NBD.

Marie Claire

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“I fell in love with an independent creative genius. I started waking up”: The trailer for One To One: John & Yoko documentary has been released

Film covers couple’s early years in New York

MusicRadar

Rihanna 'cancels comeback concerts in London just before their announcement'

Reports say RiRi got ‘cold feet’ about London Stadium shows

Evening Standard

“I knew that to do something so blatantly pop… there was a resistance”: Guitarist in huge ‘80s power-pop band says she had reservations about their biggest hit, which was released shortly before they broke up

“I was a freakin’ rebel. I was determined to make The Bangles the rock band that we started out as," says Vicki Peterson

MusicRadar

“I never would have approached anything associated with suicide for a song, but after I heard about Chris Cornell’s passing I wrote that lyric”: Bon Jovi guitarist Phil X digs deep on his new album

“It took me ten years to make this record," he says

MusicRadar

“What is this garbage?”: 25 years on, Nick Cave has made his peace with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and reveals what happened when Flea came face to face with a bear…

Get ready for the hair-raising outcome that nobody saw coming, courtesy of Cave’s latest… newsletter?

MusicRadar

Sleep Token announce new album Even In Arcadia – listen to saxophone-powered lead single Emergence now

Metal’s newest arena-fillers have kicked off their next era with a song, album news and a big tour announcement

Metal Hammer

Annie and the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review – a gospel masterpiece to drag you out of despair

Forty years into their career, this family band deliver their debut – and it’s a life-affirming album full of spontaneity and seemingly telepathic harmonising

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“There is no one who can do this process with me as well as he can”: Alex Van Halen says he is working with Steve Lukather to complete a new Van Halen album

Reports in Dutch newspaper say a new Van Halen album is happening with the Toto guitarist filling in for the late Eddie Van Halen

MusicRadar

“Playing the parts of one of my favorite guitarists ever is no easy task, but it was a joy”: YouTuber Ben Eller thanks fans and his Mastodon bandmates after stepping in to replace the departed Brent Hinds at the last minute

Will it turn into a full-time gig, though?

The Guardian - UK

The Brand New Heavies review – acid jazzers are as slick and funky as ever

While their hits from their 90s hip heyday are now more likely to be heard on Magic FM’s drive-time slot the band’s punchy melodies can still get the party started

Guitar World

“Dime recorded tons of unfinished riffs, and there were things he had lying around... hidden gems”: Zakk Wylde says there have been talks about recording new Pantera material based on unreleased Dimebag Darrell demos

Wylde has teased the possibility of using old Dimebag riffs, which currently live on an old tape recorder, for future Pantera releases

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“There was no malice intended; it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then.” Nick Cave once famously dismissed Red Hot Chili Peppers' music as “garbage”, now he's working with Flea on a song with “arguably the greatest lyric ever”

“I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre”

Guitar World

“When I met Billy, I didn’t really have an amazing guitar. He said, ‘Oh, you gotta have a Les Paul, mate’”: Steve Stevens on why the ’80s were Hamer time for the Billy Idol guitarist – and it was all thanks to Paul Stanley

Steve Stevens turns the clock back to May 1986 to tell us all about the Hamer SS1 he is holding on the cover of GW, and what became of all those other Hamers

Guitar World

“Jimmy was still playing the Telecasters that he played in the Yardbirds. I laid it on him and said, ‘Try this out.’ I gave him a good deal, about 1,200 bucks”: How one of rock's most storied Les Pauls changed hands from one guitar hero to another

Page had known Joe Walsh, then a budding guitar hero with the James Gang, since his pre-Zeppelin days with the Yardbirds. And Walsh had a proposition for him

MusicRadar

“It didn't take more than a few minutes before we started getting emails from all kinds of drummers”: Rush’s Alex Lifeson reveals the rush to replace Neil Peart

There’s been no shortage of offers and he and Geddy Lee are still playing together, so is a Rush reunion on the cards?

The Independent UK

Nick Cave addresses ‘obnoxious’ comment he made 25 years ago

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea responded to the remark in 2006, admitting that it had hurt his feelings

MusicRadar

“He noticed that the studio had a marimba sitting in the corner, and the rest is history”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind ABBA's Mamma Mia

On Mamma Mia's 50th birthday, our resident music prof puts ABBA's infectiously catchy karaoke staple under the musical microscope

MusicRadar

“We haven’t forgotten the situation of folks affected by Helene. You are the comfortable rocking chair of America’s musical front porch”: US radio host organises free instrument giveaway to communities hit by Hurricane Helene

“It is simply the right thing to do,” says Michael Johnathon

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