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Cool new prog you must hear from Matt Berry, Swallow The Sun, Alex Henry Foster and more in our all-new Tracks Of The Week

Ace new proggy sounds from AVAWAVES, Transcendence, TÖRZS, Constellations Of Atlas and more...

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“He was interested but said, ‘I gave the guitar away. I feel stupid buying it’”: Norman Harris almost sold John Fogerty back his iconic ACME Rickenbacker – years before he was eventually reunited with it

Fogerty played the Rickenbacker 325 at Woodstock and on nearly every Creedence Clearwater Revival classic, but didn't want to pay for it

Guitar World

"The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever - the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band

Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music”

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“Ozzy sang a bunch of songs and had a great time. It’s like, ‘I guess we’re gonna do another tour…’” Zakk Wylde is hoping for more Ozzy Osbourne shows – but he’s got his hands full with new Pantera music and upcoming Wylde Audio gear

The Black Label Society leader is shaping up for the Prince of Darkness’ final show, and his Wylde Audio amps and plugins are finally taking shape

Guitar World

“Every time I put one of these guitars on it’s just a reminder of the relationship with my friends”: Ernie Ball Music Man shakes up Steve Lukather’s L4 signature series with new pickup options, finishes and a BFR HSS dream machine

But if these high-end electrics are a bit out of your price range, Sterling By Music Man has you covered with its $649 Lukather signature model in all-new finishes

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“I was too precious about what I was trying to do live. I have to remind myself onstage to just shut up and play”: Vicki Peterson on the invaluable lessons she learned with The Bangles – and how she stopped worrying about her guitar playing

The Bangles' guitarist and co-founder shares nuggets of wisdom on how to avoid overthinking your guitar playing in a live setting

Guitar World

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have revealed the sad reason they almost broke up

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Rose Gray at Colour Factory: pleasure-first dance-pop at its best

4/5 The 28-year-old club native turns up the heat even further on London’s hottest day of the year (so far) with a brilliantly energetic live showing of her debut album Louder, Please

Evening Standard

“If you’re a young guitar player, that’s money well spent”: John Mayer names the pedal he thinks every young guitar player should consider buying

Despite saying his tone “can only come from the ignition inside of a tube”, the Dead & Company guitarist thinks this amp modeler is worthwhile

Guitar World

Twiddly Iron Maiden harmonies, thrash riffs, horror, rapping (kind of) and sexy goth allure: The Screaming Of The Valkyries is peak Cradle Of Filth

Fourteen albums in, Cradle Of Filth reconnect with their roots to produce an expansive, era-encompassing epic

Metal Hammer

"It’s a moody, beautiful song." Watch Fontaines D.C. blend Nirvana and Bring Me The Horizon classics into one beautifully atmospheric, synth-led cover

Fontaines D.C. create musical mash-up magic for Australian radio station triple j's popular Like A Version series

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“Fans can fulminate over the tracklisting – ‘Where the hell is The Fountain Of Lamenth?!’ – but it hits all the right beats”: Rush’s R50 is a luxurious celebration with an emotional punch at the end

Multi-format box set cherrypicks at least one track from every studio and live album of the Canadian giants’ career

Louder

John Cale review – 83 years old and still forging deeper underground

There’s no slowing down for the avant art-rock octogenarian as he forgoes predictability to showcase the staggering breadth and depth of his songcraft

The Guardian - UK

“He's made of different stuff from the rest of us”: Snow Patrol guitarist performs live with two broken hands

Frontman Gary Lightbody says guitarist Johnny McDaid couldn’t move his fingers at soundcheck, but still made the gig

Guitar World

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“Paul Jackson Jr. had me transcribe Chic and Michael Jackson guitar layers and listen to session players like Steve Lukather”: Former Chappell Roan guitarist Eliza Petrosyan on how to survive as a guitarist for hire

The session guitarist reveals what it was like to work with a rapidly-rising star, the approach she takes to developing her skills, and the stripped-down setup she’d use with her beloved Harmony Comet if she had to

Guitar World

“When you put your name on something, you’ve got to make sure it’s right”: Mark Tremonti is road-testing his highly anticipated pedal line on tour with Creed – and he knows which stompboxes he’ll be launching first

Tremonti has shared an update on his pedal range, and touted five potential future releases

Guitar World

“My mate found the guitar in a skip down the bay in the early '70s. It had been in a fire”: Andy Fairweather Low’s favorite guitar was a dumpster find

The Eric Clapton and Roger Waters collaborator paid just £47 to buy the discarded Gibson from Tom Jones’ guitarist

The Guardian - UK

Raisa K: Affectionately review – Mica Levi bandmate’s parallel-universe pop

Of a piece with the off-kilter pop of Astrid Sonne and Tirzah, Raisa K builds a striking debut out of hazy melodies, unaffected vocals and observations of everyday love

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"I don't know how we did it. Well, I do actually. We snorted a lot of cocaine": Elkie Brooks looks back on wild times with Vinegar Joe and six decades of rock'n'roll

Catch British singer Elkie Brooks on her farewell tour after more than half a century at the microphone

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“Throughout my career I’ve made a psychological point of veering away from anything too pentatonic. I’m not a blues player in the conventional sense - but this song called for a bluesy touch”: Steve Vai’s greatest song was released 30 years ago today

Tender Surrender is Vai at his most poetic

The Independent UK

Japanese Breakfast’s soothing album For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) lacks the piquant flavours of her prose

3/5 Her soothing voice, though very lovely, doesn’t always sell the cleverness of her lyrics

International Business Times

Forbidden K-pop To Centre Stage: North Koreans Set For Music Debut

Growing up in North Korea, Hyuk's childhood was about survival. "To me, the world was just North Korea -- nothing beyond that," he told AFP. His bandmate, Seok, also grew up in the North -- but in contrast to Hyuk's hardscrabble upbringing, he was raised in a relatively affluent family,…

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Fifty reasons why three Canadian oddballs became a treasured part of rock history

Rush's career-spanning box set R50 is a chronological 50-track anthology that documents the trio's five-decade arc

Louder

“I think it could happen... I could have the beginnings of a Queen song right there in front of me now": Brian May speaks about the possibility of new Queen music

Just get on with it, lads

The Independent UK

A judge says Mariah Carey didn't steal 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' from other writers

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial holiday hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You” from other songwriters

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