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“All Strats aren't equal… Then it’s how you smack it, or zing it or strum it… A lot of it is that too”: Session guitar legend Michael Thompson reveals how he created the famous clean tone that’s on countless '80s and '90s hits

In a new video Thompson tells the backstory of his playing for NSYNC, All-4-One, Monica, Gloria Estefan and more.

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"This is a monster of a line up!" Killswitch Engage announce 25-date tour of the UK and Europe, with Hatebreed, Fit For An Autopsy, and Employed To Serve among supporting cast

Killswitch Engage's first UK/European headline tour in six years includes massive Wembley Arena date

Metal Hammer

Former Eurovision contestants call for Israel and broadcaster KAN to be banned from contest

Exclusive: Over 70 former contestants have signed an open letter demanding the country and its broadcaster be excluded

The Independent UK

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“It’s jokingly the worst rap album in history because there are no lyrics on it at all”: It turns out there’s a reason why André 3000 turned up at the Met Gala with a grand piano on his back

After the flutey New Blue Sun we now have 7 piano sketches

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Aurora at Wembley Arena review: a witchy, eardrum-rattling celebration of love

The Norwegian singer balanced stripped back, quieter moments with incredibly hard bass drops

Evening Standard

The Faces have completed 11 tracks for an album, says Kenney Jones and “most of them are good”

But it won’t be released until 2026 at the earliest

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Oasis setlist ‘update’ as speculation grows ahead of reunion tour

Speculation over setlist and show length continues as reunion tour draws ever closer

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"I could have done a poor imitation of Brian May, but I just figured it would be better to get the real thing": Bumblefoot on wrangling famous guitarists, his new album, and the celebrity hot sauce community

One-time GN’R guitarist Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal has a finger in more than one pie – and sauce to put on it

Louder

Jimmy Page is being sued again by the man who wrote Dazed and Confused – a track made famous by The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin

Jake Holmes' Dazed and Confused was covered by the Yardbirds before Led Zeppelin reworked it and made it a stone cold classic

Louder

David Lee Roth announces first tour since announcing retirement from touring

Diamond Dave returned to the stage at the weekend and now he's booked a dozen more shows

Louder

Bad Bunny Fans Applaud Singer as Star's World Tour Notably Avoids US: 'He Knew to Skip That Mess'

Bad Bunny's upcoming DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour will not make any stops in the U.S., which delighted dozens of his fans.

Latin Times

“There's something really magical about it”: Bon Jovi's Phil X on why he prefers single-pickup guitars – and his one-of-a-kind neck pickup 'mods'

Some guitarists just don’t think a neck pickup is needed, but Phil X reckons he has science on his side for his single-pickup preference

Guitar World

“I was frightened, but I was like, ‘ok, big boy pants time. Step up to the plate, here comes the pitch and you can either knock it out or you can strike’”: Dylan's live sound engineer Jason Frankhouser on mixing front-of-house for The Never Ending Tour

The veteran engineer gives us a rare behind-the-scenes insight into mixing sound for one the most well-established live shows on the planet

MusicRadar

The song voted the UK’s favourite – for the seventh year running

It was crowned the winner of Smooth Radio’s All Time Top 500 poll

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Evening Standard

George Michael’s Careless Whisper voted nation’s favourite for seventh year

The track was voted top of Smooth Radio’s All Time Top 500, an annual list of the UK’s best-loved songs, for the seventh year in a row.

Guitar World

“Smashing Pumpkins taught me that music doesn’t have to fit neatly into a box… it’s not as easy as pie. It’s pie with a side of metal!” Billy Corgan asked Jenna Fournier to go back to bass, and she says the timing is perfect

The guitarist-vocalist’s band Niights, solo project Kid Tigrrr, and visual arts projects are one thing, but hitting the stage as part of Corgan’s Machines of God band as a four-stringer is another

Metal Hammer

Soundgarden's Kim Thayil names the rock and metal bands he believes should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the legendary prog band he can't believe hasn't been inducted already

"I don’t think realistically I would see myself in the same club as the Beatles or the Stones or Zeppelin!"

Guitar World

“I will miss laughing with her about sports and crying with her about politics”: Tom Morello leads tributes to groundbreaking singer-songwriter Jill Sobule

The artist, whose 1995 song I Kissed a Girl was the first openly gay-themed song to break the Billboard Top 20, has passed away at 66

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“There are very few artists whose best work was the very last thing they ever did in their lives”: Ronnie James Dio is the exception that proves the rule, says ex-Skid Row star Sebastian Bach

Bach performs at the Rock for Ronnie event this month

Evening Standard

Britney Spears 'about to lose her mind' as she hasn't left the house in four months

Singer, 43, sparks fresh concern among fans with social media post

Guitar World

“A true musician’s musician whose guitar spoke volumes”: Blues guitar great Joe Louis Walker dies at 75

He played with Muddy Waters and B.B. King, opened for Jimi Hendrix, and was called “The Bluesman” by Aretha Franklin

The Guardian - AU

Paul Kelly’s Post at 40: the album in which a future star found his voice

It was the launchpad for everything that followed, but the singer-songwriter’s 1985 record – made on the smell of an oily rag, when he was down and out – almost didn’t happen

The Guardian - UK

Kula Shaker on making Govinda: ‘Crowds would sing the lyrics as, “Go cash your giro giro”’

‘It was great to get a song that’s entirely in Sanskrit on Radio 1. It has a power that’s beyond us. We’re just the vessels’

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a northern sound, it gives you hope that it can happen to you’: how bassline bounced back

Once maligned as a scene marred by violence, bassline is booming once again thanks to pioneers such as Big Ang, Jamie Duggan and a T2 track that changed everything

Guitar World

“I always used it with Whitesnake, which was perfect because it sounded like John Sykes' Les Paul”: Doug Aldrich on how Randy Rhoads’ inspiration helped him find a “killer” Les Paul – that was owned by the man who co-wrote Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven

Gear regrets? Aldrich has had a few – the ’73 Goldtop, the Tele – but he's also had some victories, like when he chanced upon a ’78 Les Paul Custom previously owned by Clapton collaborator Will Jennings

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