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“He only really ever played Free Bird on that guitar. I broke rank”: Charlie Starr on the spiritual moment he played Gary Rossington’s famed ‘Free Bird’ 1961 Gibson SG

Starr had the chance to use Rossington’s iconic Gibson to perform a Lynyrd Skynyrd medley last year, after it was announced the Les Paul/SG would be loaned out to a host of players for live use

Guitar World

“I’ve been sober for a few years now, so it’s kind of about that”: Jinjer singer Tatiana Shmayluk names her favourite song on upcoming album Duél

“I honestly think it is the best song Jinjer have ever written,” adds bassist Eugene Abdukhanov

Metal Hammer

Hear ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo team with wife Paula and current Slayer guitarist Gary Holt to cover Scorpions’ Animal Magnetism

The mini-Slayer reunion is taken from To Cross Or To Burn, the second album by the Lombardos’ project Venamoris

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Steven Wilson announces screening and shares trailer for new The Overview movie

Steven Wilson will release The Overview, a concept album featuring two long-form pieces of music, on March 14

Louder

“Your picking hand is where you control your tone. It’s surprising to me that so few people really talk about it”: Sue Foley explains why your picking hand is the key to great guitar tone

Decent equipment helps – but, according to Foley, the picking hand is the crux of achieving a great guitar tone

Guitar World

“There’s an unpredictability that I really appreciate with him. He doesn’t think like other guitar players”: Myles Kennedy reveals what he learned as a guitar player from working with Slash and Mark Tremonti

Any pro will tell you, the best way to improve as a musician is playing with great players. Kennedy, a collaborator of both Slash and Tremonti, would surely agree

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“Using these wider voicings creates an interesting and warm-sounding rhythm pattern that’s also fun to solo over”: How inverted boogie riffing can shake up your blues

Jim Oblon shows us the tricks behind inverted boogie riffing – and the best part is you don’t have to stand on your head to play it

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The blow that ended it all: How the return of Jane's Addiction was floored not by musical differences, but by a punch thrown by their singer

It was all going right until it went very, very wrong

Louder

"Slash is the reason I picked up a guitar, when I was nine": Meet Grace Bowers, the teenage guitar sensation who's getting the attention of the A-list

Praised by Brian May, feted by Eric Clapton and Dolly Parton, Grace Bowers is on the road to stardom – and she's still only 18

Louder

Nothing compares to it: Revisiting the wild story of Sinéad O’Connor’s hit 35 years on

PLAYBACK: Everyone remembers the Irish singer’s mesmerising video for ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. Few know that Prince was the musician who wrote and released the original – or the level of chaos that ensued when he and O’Connor met. On the song’s 35th anniversary, Mark Beaumont delves into its emotive…

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"We've been to hell and back, and we came out the other side": Bullet For My Valentine almost broke up, but a billion streams says they're ready to celebrate

Touring with Trivium, Bullet For My Valentine will be "throwing the kitchen sink at making the show look fantastic"

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Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks announce further US tour dates for April and May

Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks extend their Yes Epics, Classics and More tour throughout Spring

Louder

"It's journalistic complacency and claptrap." Robert Plant never liked the idea of Led Zeppelin being labelled a heavy metal band

"That period had a lot of people cavorting around using their manhood as the main weapon to sell records"

Louder

“You've been an inspiration for so many, and will continue to be for centuries to come”: Peter Yarrow, guitarist, singer for Peter, Paul & Mary, and co-writer of Puff the Magic Dragon, dies at 86

A folk icon and dedicated political activist, Yarrow helped bring the songs of Bob Dylan to the wider public, but his career was later tainted by his conviction on child sex abuse charges

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"I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity." Bob Mould announces new album Here We Go Crazy, shares video for its title track, reveals US tour itinerary

Watch the video for Here We Go Crazy, the title track of Bob Mould's first new album for four years

Guitar World

“An original icon built by the same artisans who built them 30 years ago”: Mesa/Boogie is reviving the Dual Rectifier – the hallowed amp head that defined the sound of 1990s high gain music

The original Dual Rectifier arrived in 1992, and was championed by a huge array of guitar greats, from Foo Fighters to Tool and Korn

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Ice Spice: Age, Background, And The Journey To Fame

Discover everything you need to know about Ice Spice, the rising star in rap. Explore her age, background, family life, and hit songs like "Munch" and "Princess Diana." The post Ice Spice: Age, Background, And The Journey To Fame first appeared on Bored Panda.

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift leads record year for UK music sales

Consumer spending on recorded music reached £2.4bn in 2024, overtaking the previous record in 2001

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The Guardian - UK

Peter Yarrow obituary

Singer and songwriter with the American folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary who found fame in the 1960s

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“The sound of a thousand hits”: The Rockman amp shaped the sound of 1980s rock – now MXR is bringing it back in a new pedal form

The original Rockman revolutionized guitar recording and is widely considered to be the forerunner to today's multi-effects pedals

Evening Standard

Noel Gallagher drops suprise new single with Shaun Ryder's supergroup... and it's deranged

3/5 Gallagher described the collaboration as ‘Dylan, Dali and Ginsberg on a rocketship to the moon to have it with the Clangers’

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“How do people do that? No click, he played through it and ‘bam’”: Prince’s ability to keep time when he was recording drums was remarkable, says his engineer, but it also made things difficult during the editing process

“He would say ‘OK, that’s so close, cut it one more time,’ and I wouldn’t do it because I physically couldn’t cut a 16th of an inch without chowdering the tape”

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“I got to go backstage at the Whisky, and Joe Bonamassa knew who I was! I immediately took a picture and texted it to my dad”: Sophie Lloyd on the time she met Joe Bonamassa – her childhood guitar hero

Lloyd looks back on the time her dad would play Joe Bonamassa records while driving her to school

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“Quality sound, volume on tap, and plenty of flexibility”: Positive Grid Spark Edge review

We put PG’s latest pint-sized powerhouse to the test

Louder

“We started by playing an old song and it was a case of the hairs standing up on your arm. I felt straight away that we were back”: The power of music compelled Beardfish to return

Unable to decide on who should leave, the band of friends broke up in 2016. To their own surprise and delight, they’re back with new album Songs For Beating Hearts – and loving their work more than ever

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