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“I should have been dead that night!”: Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley recalls the moment he almost died on stage

And he nearly took out Gene Simmons with his rocket-firing guitar!

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Iconic Rock Guitars Of Jeff Beck On Display In London

Iconic guitars from Jeff Beck's collection, including a 1954 Gibson Les Paul, up for auction at Christie's in London.

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“He was such a perfectionist, attention to detail, every part”: Orianthi on what she learned from Michael Jackson and how the King of Pop was so exacting he even directed her guitar tone

The pop icon died before Orianthi got the chance to play live with him but the intensity of the rehearsals left a lasting impression on the Aussie guitar phenom

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“People might look and think I’m just this TikTok personality. They don’t know that I’ve been playing since 2010”: Kiki Wong recalls her early guitar career – and the “crazy” bootleg tours with three people sleeping in the back of a truck

Wong says she has failed more times than she succeeded throughout her career, so much so that there was a point in her life where she didn't touch her guitars for three years

Guitar World

"It's the hip-hop version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria": Madlib launches fundraiser after losing home, gear and extensive record collection in LA wildfires

The revered hip-hop producer is asking for donations to assist with "immediate personal needs" after fires claimed his Altadena home

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Guitars that bear ‘scars’ of Jeff Beck’s playing exhibited for auction

Auction house Christie’s is putting more than 130 guitars, which the guitarist played during his almost six-decades-long career, on sale this month.

Evening Standard

“A cleaner, meaner, better Rectifier. There’s no denying it”: Mesa/Boogie resurrects a ’90s icon with its reissued Dual Rectifier – and the holy grail amp head has been given some upgrades

Beloved by a crop of elite artists over the years, the legendary Dual Rectifier is finally back... with a few choice tweaks

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“I just want to roll into it with an energy like it’s all starting again”: Slipknot’s Clown teases new album (and Look Outside Your Window) coming soon

“We got a new album,” the percussionist and Slipknot co-founder declares

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“I thought it was just going to be a fun little party record, but my grief started leaching into the music”: Devin Townsend is slightly embarrassed by his new album, and that’s a good thing

PowerNerd, the first of three autobiographical albums, was transformed into something unexpected as he began feeling like a liar, and wound up facing his 15-year-old self

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“It’s been an incredibly intense year – even my closest friends didn’t know what we were doing. I can’t believe we were able to keep it a secret”: Brad Delson on Linkin Park’s miraculous comeback, why he quit touring, and how he trained his replacement

The co-founding guitarist has decided to focus on the studio side of the band, working with new vocalist Emily Armstrong’s energy, and balancing the PRS and Fender sounds that defined the nu-metal institution’s sound

Guitar World

Ronan Keating tearful in Boyzone documentary as he recalls Stephen Gately grief

Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch and Michael ‘Mikey’ Graham, and former manger Louis Walsh, appear in the Sky documentary.

Evening Standard

The Weeknd postpones new album ‘out of respect and concern’ for LA residents

The musician also cancelled a one-off Los Angeles show due to the fires, while Beyoncé has delayed an announcement – but the Grammys will go ahead

The Guardian - UK

Nine Inch Nails confirm they’ll announce first dates on long-anticipated world tour soon

The industrial rockers have delayed the news in the midst of the California wildfires, despite the details of several shows getting leaked

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If you ever needed proof that cassette players are back, this is it

We Are Rewind has made a cassette player so retro it should appear from nowhere in a DeLorean.

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"It might kill me to be on the road, but it will certainly kill me to not be on the road": Sweet guitarist Andy Scott reveals why he won't stop touring

57 years on from their first show, Sweet lynchpin Andy Scott is looking forward to a busy 2025 despite ongoing health battles

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Alabama Shakes leader Brittany Howard just played her first gig with her new hardcore band Kumite, and personally offended punk rock gatekeepers are already crying hot salty tears just thinking about it

"Delete the world. Seriously time for the asteroid to hit. Time for a reboot."

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Heidi Montag's Album 'Superficial' Hits No. 1 On Itunes

Heidi Montag's album Superficial unexpectedly tops iTunes charts after a home loss, reigniting interest in her and Spencer Pratt's dynamic personalities.

The Independent UK

The Weeknd delays album and cancels huge show in wake of LA fires

The release of The Weeknd’s sixth album ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ has been postponed

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The Independent UK

Heidi Montag tops iTunes chart after losing house in Los Angeles wildfires

Reality television star Heidi Montag’s 2010 album “Superficial” has hit No. 1 on the iTunes’ all-genre songs and albums charts 15 years after its release and just after Montag and husband Spencer Pratt lost their home in the Palisades Fire

Latin Times

Daddy Yankee Opens Up About Anxiety, His Childhood with an Alcoholic Father, and the Isolation of Success

The Big Boss of reggaetón recounted his struggles as a child and the loneliness he felt as an adult while millions adored him

Louder

"It was an unmitigated disaster." Beatles legend Ringo Starr reveals why he and Elton John's mother walked out of one of her son's most legendary stadium shows

Elton John remembers his appearance at 1975's Midsummer Music festival at London's Wembley Stadium being "terrifying": his mum and Ringo Starr were part of the problem

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Skunk Anansie release spiky new single An Artist Is An Artist, and if you hate saxophone Skin has news for you

An Artist Is An Artist arrives ahead of Skunk Anansie's European tour, which kicks off next month

The Independent UK

Plan to halt online ticket touting ‘spivs’ could bolster black market – MP

Saqib Bhatti said that as an Oasis fan ‘we know that we didn’t have the necessary information upfront’ when tickets went on sale for the ’25 Tour.

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A (fake) 16-song set list for LiAngelo Ball’s first tour show after his lucrative Def Jam

Tweaker Pt. 2 (We still Tweakin') is my personal fave

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“George is certainly not a rock player, and neither is Ringo. They’re both swing musicians”: Producer T Bone Burnett on the country roots of the Beatles

"Almost everything he did with the Beatles was country," Burnett says of Starr

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