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Instruments used on classic Beatles album Sgt Pepper’s go on display

Two of the four French horns played on the album are on show at Liverpool Beatles Museum.

The Independent UK

NAMM 2025: "The Alan Parsons Plugin Project" - PSP Audioware helps the legendary engineer to recreate the famous Wobbler effect that he used on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon

“It’s a much more controllable and deeper effect than any phaser I’ve ever heard,” says Parsons

MusicRadar

“Everybody thought, ‘Now World War III is gonna come!’” Mille Petrozza reveals which classic Kreator track was inspired by 9/11

Influenced by the confusion and hostility that followed 9/11, Kreator wrote an anarchic thrasher that continued their 2000s comeback

Metal Hammer

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“Modified connects us with a long-standing tradition of modifying Marshall amps that dates back to the 1970s”: Marshall unveils factory modded takes on the 1959 Plexi and JCM800 –tipping its cap to the amp wizards of rock’s golden era

The firm has unveiled two new UK builds that are heaving with popular after-market mods

Guitar World

Rough Trade to expand New York store as music fans seek ‘experiences’, owner says

British record store chain to triple size of Rockefeller Center location with 300-capacity room featuring built-in stage

The Guardian - US

NAMM 2025: “A more versatile and professional instrument for those looking for the unique rubber bridge sound”: Orangewood unveils Seymour Duncan-equipped Juniper II acoustic and baritone rubber bridge acoustics

For all your indie-folk needs, the new and improved Juniper II: now with a splittable Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickup and a baritone option for low-end plunk

MusicRadar

How long lost Tina Turner track recorded at her lowest sheds light on her triumphant return to fame

Song was left off the queen of rock and roll’s 1984 comeback album

The Independent UK

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Tina Turner: Hot for You Baby review – she’s in fine voice, but this lost 1984 song is no classic

Dug out of the vault for a 40th anniversary version of Private Dancer, this glossy rock track gains much-needed rawness from Turner

The Guardian - UK

An unreleased Tina Turner song has surfaced and it has a connection to AC/DC

Listen to the previously unheard Hot For You Baby, which comes from the 40th anniversary edition of Tina Turner's classic Private Dancer album

Louder

10 crazy metal collaborations that took us totally by surprise last year

From ska-punk/metalcore crossovers to industrial threesomes, these team-ups showed metal is more collaborative than ever

Metal Hammer

UB40 wouldn’t reunite with Ali Campbell for ‘all the money in the world’

Frontman Ali Campbell quit the band in 2008 and has remained on frosty terms with his older brother, Robin, and former bandmates

The Independent UK

“When I'm 90, I'll still be the Material Girl!”: Madonna’s signature song was released 40 years ago today

“God forbid irony should be understood,” she said

MusicRadar

The guitar on the cover of Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow album has just sold for over a million pounds

Beck's touring Stratocaster also sold for over £1 million - and some of the money will help baby animals

Louder

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has enormous resonance – but doesn’t break with gender stereotypes

In 1961, aged 19, Bob Dylan left home in Minnesota for New York City and never looked back. Unknown when he arrived, he would later be widely described as the voice of a generation.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band announce mammoth live schedule with Gov't Mule and Whiskey Myers

The tour will feature guest appearances from Steve Winwood, Buddy Guy, Little Feat, Duane Betts and more

The Independent UK

Billy Ray Cyrus says ‘you just had to be there’ in defense of ‘epic disaster’ performance

The country singer’s performance had been described as an ‘epic disaster’ on social media

Guitar World

"The tone these amps produce is classic Orange": Orange Baby 100 Series review

Orange's Tour Baby, Gain Baby and Dual Baby squeeze its tonal flavour into a portable, lightweight 100-watt head

Louder

“It was a very strange experience. It was like there was two people inside of him.” U2's Bono on the night he met Joy Division's “beautiful soul” Ian Curtis

“This band had at its very core a contradiction…”

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“His thumbprint is an indelible part of the Whitesnake record he did. The fatness of that record and the rock integrity it had was all him”: Steve Vai followed John Sykes in Whitesnake – and he quickly decided what not to do when playing his parts

Of course, it wasn't a chops issue so much as it was the late guitarist's unique six-string footprint

Latin Times

Shakira's Warm Welcome in Mexico: "You're One Of Us Now!"

The Colombian superstar has made the Mexican capital her new home ahead of her highly-anticipated "Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran" tour.

Guitar World

“I’m not playing the Eagles, so this is probably not the guitar for that. But it’s perfect forme”: Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe went against conventions to create her Jackson signature model, and it all comes back to being a guitarist with a presence

A single-cut with a 25.5-inch scale length, EMG pickups rather than popular-in-metal Fishmans, and a brand-new headstock shape, Rowe's signature Jackson is as striking as her all-powerful playing

Metal Hammer

One of the most savage screamers in modern metal is unexpectedly showing off his singing voice in the brilliant new, Office-homaging video by UK metalcore heroes, Employed To Serve

Will Ramos of Lorna Shore can be seen screaming his guts up and, in a real rarity, singing his heart out in the video for Employed To Serve's excellent new single, Atonement

The Independent UK

Green Day swap lyrics of hit song to mock Elon Musk in his home country

Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong once again distanced his band from the ‘Elon agenda’

Metal Hammer

Metallica released their first music video 35 years ago. This is how it ruined my life.

A Metal Hammer writer looks back on the scarring effects of the video for Metallica’s One, which debuted on January 22, 1989

Louder

The Very Best Of Talk Talk to be reissued on double vinyl and CD in March

New version of post-rock legends Talk Talk's Best Of has been re-ordered to run chronologically

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