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“It’s getting a little bit more difficult. I just don’t have the pressure that I had, but I work around it”: Peter Frampton explains how he’s adapting his technique in order to keep playing guitar

The rock legend plans to play guitar for the rest of his life, but it will require an evolving approach in the face of a degenerative disease

Guitar World

"All American and Canadian heads…..We are back!" Irish hip-hop sensations Kneecap announce 15-date North American tour

The world's premier Irish language hip-hop trio announce fall tour plans

Louder

Ateez, Stray Kids and Aespa: why 2025 will be another huge year for K-pop in London

BTS and Blackpink may be about to stage a comeback, while Ateez, Stray Kids and Aespa are all playing London this year

Evening Standard

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“He sometimes gets overshadowed by his own brilliant lead playing”: What was underrated about Eddie Van Halen, according to Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick

Eddie Van Halen was the master of shredding, but he was capable of so much more as well, says Testament’s longtime guitarist

Metal Hammer

“I'd lost a close friend and a hero of mine took the time to console me”: Guitar mainstay Pete Thorn tells how Steve Vai comforted him following Chris Cornell’s death

And there’s a happy ending. Thorn and Vai are now band members in SatchVai Band, alongside Joe Satriani

MusicRadar

“This record is like The Wall. It’s about the alienation of a band, and then claiming one’s destiny”: How My Chemical Romance channelled the spirit of Pink Floyd to create a classic concept album

“The record takes you on this journey,” said singer Gerard Way

MusicRadar

Save the Music Foundation looks to expand its school education support by going independent

The VH1 Save the Music Foundation never had any problem getting attention in the late ’90s when it launched with a party featuring Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion and Mariah Carey

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10 brilliant but overlooked rock and metal albums you need to hear from 2000

The year 2000 gave us massive releases from Deftones, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, but these 10 albums flew under the radar

Metal Hammer

“Far from dominating, their position in the awards overall is in fact peripheral”: Women’s recent supremacy at the Grammys is massively overstated, says new report, as men still claim the majority of nominations and wins

The success of the likes of Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish has obscured what’s really going on, research suggests

MusicRadar

"This song is a reminder of how we started but it’s also the first part of a new story we want to tell." Ten years after they began work on it, Sleigh Bells release new single Wanna Start a Band?, and share North American tour dates

"Come out, cut a rug, sweat with us"

Louder

“Grover Jackson used to bring down these guitars, but some of them weren't even finished – he’d change the pickups backstage”: Adrian Smith reveals what convinced him to ditch Les Pauls for Jacksons

The Iron Maiden guitarist is one of the luthier’s longest-serving artists – he explains how its founder’s diligence inspired him to make the jump

Guitar World

Chappell, chaps, Brat or rap spats: what will – and should – win at the 2025 Grammys?

It’s tough to call the quality-stacked top categories, featuring Academy darlings such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift alongside pop’s new tyros

The Guardian - UK

“If you're listening to amazing gear through terrible monitors, you've wasted your cash”: Why monitors are the most important part of your studio

Don't know where to begin with buying and using studio monitor speakers? Listen up

MusicRadar

“A lot of people came with their backs up... it was kind of scary.” Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones reflects on his band's infamous, “chaotic” first US tour, and promises that the punk legends will be back this year

America, the Sex Pistols are coming for you, again

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“For me, it’s not enough to play an idea once and then move on. I’d rather develop my initial phrase and then morph it into 10 different, thematically connected ones”: Jared James Nichols shows you how to use call-and-response blues phrasing

This Blues Power-up for your playing will help your solos speak to the audience

Guitar World

“Phoebe Bridgers got this intimate performance – I’d have put in a million layers of fuzz guitar before singing!” Jasmine.4.t on being produced by all three members of boygenius, borrowing their baritone – and why you should try writing in DADGAD

The first British artist signed to Bridgers’ label explains how she used her Dano ‘63 Baritone to escape her previous life and turn horror into triumph on You Are the Morning

Louder

"If he hadn’t been around, we’d have had to get some fat old geezer who’d be telling us about how he played with Clapton in ’76." Noel Gallagher on how Johnny Depp ended up playing on an Oasis album

How Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp wound up featuring on Oasis' first blues song

Guitar World

“I was intimidated by teaching it to him. I was intimidated from playing it myself. He wasn’t intimidated. He just did it”: Timothée Chalamet’s guitar tutor was surprised when the Complete Unknown star tackled one of Bob Dylan’s trickiest songs with ease

Tutor to the stars and session pro Larry Saltzman shares what it was like to teach Chalamet the nuances of Dylan's playing, which the actor recently showcased on Saturday Night Live

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“It was two days after Chris Cornell passed. Steve said, ‘I know you lost your friend – it's too soon now, but the time will come where you think of him, and it'll be happy memories’”: Once just a hero and mentor, Steve Vai is now Pete Thorn's bandmate

“Here, I'd lost a close friend and collaborator; and a hero of mine, from the time I was 11 years old or so, took the time to console me,” the newly appointed SatchVai Band guitarist tells GW

Evening Standard

Women received one in five Grammy nominations and wins over eight years – report

No women have won in some categories, including Producer of the Year (non-classical) and Songwriter of the Year (non-classical).

Evening Standard

What really went on between Boyzone and Louis Walsh? Their relationship explained

There’s been plenty of bad blood over the years

Louder

“Lionisation is too late when you’re dead… I’ve often thought of faking my own death and watching the record companies drum up all the stuff they can”: A fight, a show then a drink with John Martyn

All the evidence you need to be convinced the hard-living singer-songwriter was as progressive as they come

Louder

"I made an incredible deal with Spotify when it was two weeks old": Toto songs are now played three million times a day on Spotify and Steve Lukather seems pretty happy with that

Steve Lukather on the band's younger audience, the continued success of Africa, and that weird art installation in the Namibian desert

International Business Times

Beyonce And The Grammys: A Tense Relationship Again At A Head

Beyonce is the most decorated artist in Grammys history, and her album releases have both triggered cultural earthquakes and reshaped music industry norms.

Latin Times

Zayn Malik Announces His First Solo Concert in Mexico 10 Years After His Departure from One Direction

The British singer will perform in the Mexican capital as Latin American fans beg for more dates in the region.

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