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“An album misinterpreted by lesser talents”: What do Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers, Peter Hammill and Robert Fripp have to do with Britpop? See Blur’s Modern Life Is Rubbish for details

Okay, it’s not all-out prog – but the band’s second record contains the spirit of the genre, with its English eccentricities, non-linear approach to playing and rule-breaking flair

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“Dime’s original riffs and ideas… that would be cool”: Zakk Wylde says the current Pantera line-up may record new music from Dimebag’s old demos

Wylde reveals that Dimebag left behind “tons of cassettes”

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“I’m glad I found these performances. I hadn’t seen them in decades”: Footage of Dweezil Zappa and Jack Black’s cover of Crazy Train, featuring Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Rasta’ guitar, was never released – but now it’s been unearthed

Filmed on the set of On The Spot, it brings together two pieces of gear with interesting stories to tell

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“He was not a great guitarist, he was not a great singer. He kind of stumbled all over the stage”: Early Bob Dylan promoter and confidante Terri Thal talks Dylan’s classic Gaslight Café demo as it comes up for auction

With Dylan interest at a new high, Thal shares her story of discovering the star and making his first ever recording

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Marcin’s percussive fingerstyle is dropping jaws with its stunning mix of speed, complexity and explosive dynamics. The warm-ups that fuel his virtuosity are guaranteed to boost your own playing

Acoustic phenom Marcin Patrzałek shows you his favorite warm-up exercises

Guitar World

'Tell me who your source pots are': Liam on the warpath as Oasis tour line-up leaked

After months of speculation, the names of those who will join the Gallagher brothers on their reunion tour later this year have finally been revealed

Evening Standard

“I’ve used Teles and Strats, but I always find myself going back to that Jag – something about the Cobain Jag just sounded extra-beefy”: Courtney Barnett is one of indie-rock’s most celebrated southpaws – and the Nirvana Fender connection runs deep

The Australian singer-songwriter’s new live session demonstrates her continuing curiosity about dynamics, ambience and composing, as she admits she might be too comfortable with her Kurt Cobain Jag

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“It’s insane. He had two broken fingers on Friday’s show - and he played the gig”: Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody praises “unbelievable” guitarist and keyboard player Johnny McDaid after he “wrecked” both his hands but never missed a show

“He’s made of different stuff from the rest of us,” he says

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“I can play barre chords and my dad couldn’t. He had a strum that was identifiably his, but I learned from the Carter women. Mine is more of a Carter scratch”: How Rosanne Cash found her sound – and captured Johnny’s design flair in her signature Gibson

Her surname precedes her (whether she likes it or not). But as Gibson releases a limited-edition recreation of her fabled father’s SJ-200 – alongside her new J-185 – Rosanne Cash tells us she’s comfortable in her skin and proud of her own legacy

Guitar World

“Tell me who your source pots are that keep giving you info about Oasis”: The 'confirmed' 2025 reunion line-up is out there and Liam Gallagher wants to know how it got leaked

So, which familiar Gallagher-appeasing faces have made the cut? And – wait a sec – who’s that surprise new addition on drums?

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“All of a sudden, it’s like, ‘We want to announce now, what do we say?’”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains why Papa V Perpetua was unveiled on the Black Sabbath farewell show poster

The world got its first look at Ghost’s ‘new’ frontman last week, but Papa V Perpetua was first named on February posters for Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning event

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BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2025: Flo and Jade Thirlwall latest acts to join line-up

The annual music festival will take place in Sefton Park in Liverpool from May 23-25 and welcome around 100 acts across four stages

Evening Standard

“Adopting the rule urged would turn the entire music industry on its ear”: A judge just decided that Miley Cyrus's Flowers will have to face a Bruno Mars song copyright claim

Is Cyrus’s Flowers too similar to Bruno Mars' When I Was Your Man? Looks like we’re all about to find out

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“It’s a really good album, but I’m not sure it’s better than the ones that came before. You ask, ‘Why didn’t this happen sooner?’” Many consider Blackwater Park to be Opeth’s masterpiece. Opeth don’t

The classic line-up had assembled, Steven Wilson was contributing and Mikael Åkerfeldt was mining songwriting gold – but you can’t convince him the 2001 release was their magnum opus

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“It was love at first sight. I broke up with Judy and chased Sharona for a year”: How The Knack wrote My Sharona, the one hit wonder to end all one hit wonders

New Wave megahit My Sharona was The Knack’s sole claim to fame – but what a claim to fame

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“A truly modern take on the high-powered super amp, full of clever design decisions and boasting features which open it up to all sorts of uses”: Blackstar St James 100 212

A 100-watt, 2x12, four-channel 'super amp' that weighs the same as a Deluxe Reverb?

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"The bass drum is a total bad-ass, while the potential for Aphex-style bleeps and mayhem is available": Cherry Audio KR-55C Software Drum Machine

Steppin’ Out with Cherry Audio’s post-punk beatbox that provides more than a few surprises

The Independent UK

Billy Joel postpones tour dates due to ‘medical condition’

The ‘Piano Man’ singer underwent a recent surgery, from which he is ‘expected to make a full recovery’

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The Independent UK

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons is asking fans to be his personal assistant - but it’ll cost them $12k

The costly experience will be available to fans during his upcoming spring tour

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“It made me feel bad that I didn’t put it on the album”: From Pavement to Donna Summer, here are six more B-sides that became huge hits against the odds

Adding to the collection of songs that started out on the flip side of a single, but went on to become playlist staples

The Guardian - UK

‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh

The wild child ‘gabber pop’ rapper was booted off last year’s song contest. But his song Europapa eclipsed the winner’s – and he’s about to tour the world in his gigantic shoulder pads

The Independent UK

Reggae star, Cocoa Tea, dies aged 65

Jamaican singer-songwriter had been struggling with pneumonia in his final months, his wife said

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SampleRadar: 273 free funk keys samples

If you're no Herbie Hancock on the keyboard, don't despair - use these free samples instead

Guitar World

“Being mostly a humbucker guy, it’s a really cool tonal change”: Warren Haynes’ transition from humbucker loyalist to P-90 fan is complete – with the launch of his signature Gibson Les Paul

The Gov't Mule guitar hero's newest signature has been a long time coming, and arrives after Haynes pivoted towards P-90 tones

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Arturia releases 88-key version of the KeyLab mk3 MIDI controller keyboard with new fully-weighted hammer-action keybed

The French manufacturer's flagship MIDI keyboard gets an 88-key model with an "authentic piano feel" thanks to its Fatar TP/110 keybed

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