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Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’”

Rowe’s nu metal revivalists have also been endorsed by members of Fear Factory and Hatebreed

Metal Hammer · Jun 5, 2025

“It’s a preamp, but it’s got the biggest distortion I’ve ever heard”: Fontaines D.C.'s Carlos O'Connell reveals the secret weapon on his pedalboard – a plain box with one knob and oodles of gain

Owning one doesn’t come cheap, but the left-field pedal has been at the center of the band’s monumental rise to fame

Guitar World · Jun 5, 2025

Rod Stewart cancels second Las Vegas gig in a week due to illness

The Maggie May singer is due to perform the Legends slot at Glastonbury later this month

Evening Standard · Jun 5, 2025

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"Five middle-aged, slightly hungover geezers miming along to something." Opeth share new band performance video of §1

Swedish prog metallers Opeth share a performance video for The Last Will And Testament's opening track §1

Metal Hammer · Jun 5, 2025

AI-BBA – Björn Ulvaeus is using AI to write a new musical: “It usually comes out with garbage, but sometimes there is something in it that gives you another idea”

The new project comes via Pophouse Entertainment, the company that put together ABBA: Voyage

MusicRadar · Jun 5, 2025

Ahead of Glastonbury, Rod Stewart cancels two concerts because of flu

Eighty-year-old singer has another health setback, following cancelled concerts earlier this year

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

Tony Hadley reflects on ‘bloody difficult’ Spandau Ballet reunion after Gary Kemp feud

‘That was a very hard meeting between the two of us,’ band's ex-frontman said

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025

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"An album as full of joy as it is of craft": The Doobie Brothers bring back Michael McDonald on Walk This Road

Whoa-oh-whoa, they’ve brought the big gun back into the band for album number 16

Louder · Jun 5, 2025

“They’ve always ignored the rule book in favour of new, often over-the-top ideas”: These are Muse’s proggiest moments

From 10-minute apocalypse operas to three-part symphonies and getting their Pink Floyd on, here are 16 examples of the trio letting their progressive influences lead the way

Louder · Jun 5, 2025

"They could certainly all have been in Fleetwood Mac": Stevie Nicks likes Haim so much she's working on a new song with them

Louder · Jun 5, 2025

Huey Lewis says he ‘can’t hear music’ after severe hearing loss

The Grammy-winner says he’s ‘not going to give up’ hope that he might enjoy music again

The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2025

“It felt like a boot camp... It tested what we were made of”: Fresh off of Jared Dines' ‘instant band’ documentary, Musician Mansion, Chena is ready to introduce her intricate, highly melodic playing to the world

The Jackson and Strandberg fan, who takes inspiration from Marty Friedman, Eric Johnson, and others, keeps the work rate high as a solo artist and member of two bands

Guitar World · Jun 4, 2025

“I love my Strat; I’m a Strat guy through and through, but I just needed a guitar with humbuckers”: Cory Wong on the making of his signature StingRay and how Vulfpeck just, y’know, made an album during a show

The funkmeister guitarist is back with a whirlwind of new recording projects in his wake, and a fresh new signature guitar by his side

Guitar World · Jun 4, 2025

“The people I’ve met, the stories I’ve heard and the places I’ve wound up in has been an absolute odyssey”: Exhibition featuring life-sized photos of 100 legendary artists' guitars to open in London

Scale will feature 1:1 front-and-back portraits of guitars belonging to Paul McCartney, Tom Morello, Dave Grohl, Kerry King, Brian May, Joan Jett and more – and it'll tell the stories behind them

MusicRadar · Jun 4, 2025

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The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2025

Rock band Heart offer reward for ‘irreplaceable instruments’ stolen from venue

Guitarist Nancy Wilson said the band are ‘heartbroken’

Guitar World · Jun 4, 2025

“It's something a guitar player wouldn't write, it stretches you as a player”: Dave Murray says Iron Maiden stuck out from the pack because because they have a bassist as the lead songwriter

The guitarist has opened up on Harris’ songwriting lead and why he’s happy taking a back seat in one of the biggest metal bands in the world

Guitar World · Jun 4, 2025

“I literally made the change that Eddie Van Halen was known for and was thinking about”: Larry DiMarzio says his revolutionary bridge tweak pre-empted Van Halen’s own mods

The guitar hero’s mods showed an intimate understanding of what makes a guitar sing, and they echoed thoughts DiMarzio was also having

Guitar World · Jun 4, 2025

“It’s truly one of the most unique purpose-built instruments I’ve ever seen”: How David Lynch created a five-necked guitar that would make the most of his outlandish playing style – and Kurt Cobain’s luthier brought it to life

Alongside his famed 1997 Parker Fly, another instrument in Lynch's collection is the curiously spec’d, off-kilter five-necked guitar that the filmmaker himself designed and commissioned

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MusicRadar · Jun 4, 2025

“They were just asking for it”: When Kurt Cobain deliberately sabotaged Nirvana’s Top of the Pops appearance

Cobain later said his mock-baritone vocal was an attempt at imitating Morrissey

MusicRadar · Jun 4, 2025

“After I’d finished with the food mixer, I threw it over the balcony and it hit some kid on the head - he found me afterwards and said ‘can you sign this’”: How Aphex Twin almost knocked out a fan at his weirdest gig ever

Microphones in blenders, sandpaper on the decks and a potential lawsuit - it's just your average Aphex Twin show

Guitar World · Jun 4, 2025

“The only gear I brought was a red Hamer prototype. That guitar is magical. I used it on Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, David Lee Roth’s California Girls and with Mick Jagger”: Eddie Martinez explains how he helped Run-D.M.C. bring rock to hip hop

Armed with his legendary red Hamer, Martinez stepped into one of the most iconoclastic collaborations of the '80s as Run-D.M.C. became the first hip-hop act to bring the crunch of electric guitar into the rap game

Metal Hammer · Jun 4, 2025

“It’s just not as fun, unfortunately”: Wolfgang Van Halen reveals he doesn’t listen to Van Halen anymore

Though Wolfgang was a member of Van Halen with his father Eddie and uncle Alex, he struggles to listen to the hard rock revolutionaries’ music nowadays

Guitar World · Jun 4, 2025

“I’m waiting for the right calibre of player. I can’t just pick somebody off the line”: Scott Gorham doesn’t rule out a future for Thin Lizzy – but he’s biding his time to find the perfect guitar foil

Lizzy’s most faithful guitarist, Scott Gorham, has left the door open for a potential return of the iconic band – but only under the right circumstances

The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2025

Cynthia Erivo mines the depths of her soul for 'I Forgive You,' her 'honest, human' album

“Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo will release her sophomore solo album on Friday

MusicRadar · Jun 4, 2025

“This is the new rock ’n’ roll Metallica. The riffs are greasier, bluesier, dirtier”: How the heavy metal heroes shook things up with Load

"Nobody knew where this record was going to end up when we started it"

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