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Glastonbury 2025 - festival line-up officially revealed

Glastonbury starts tomorrow - here is the line-up and where you can catch your favourites...

Evening Standard · May 9, 2025

“I had a bit of a shock because I’d just come from working with Yes, who had done 1,000s of live shows and were all brilliant players. Frankie Goes To Hollywood had done 5 shows and they could barely play”: Trevor Horn on the making of Relax

“We thought that all the record labels would be after them. Nobody wanted them”

MusicRadar · May 9, 2025

“Bob is fearless. He’s always willing to take chances with music of any kind”: Bob Weir joins Joe Satriani and Sammy Hagar for Best of All Worlds guest spot – and plays Hagar’s Gibson Explorer

The Grateful Dead legend joined the band for a free-flowing take on a Montrose hit

Guitar World · May 9, 2025

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“Listening to Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert… all kinds of crazy-fast players. And you tried to keep up with them”: Andy La Rocque on why he is no longer a 120mph soloist – and what we can expect from the long-awaited King Diamond album

La Rocque has been the King's six-string courtier for 40 years now. Here he tells us how it all began, how his style has evolved, and yes, the new stuff is coming...

Guitar World · May 9, 2025

If you're after some catchy as hell nu metal brimming with angst, you need the new Tetrarch album in your life

Atlanta nu metal revivalists Tetrarch stick to the fundamentals

Metal Hammer · May 9, 2025

Liam and Noel Gallagher 'on stern doctor's orders' ahead of Oasis reunion tour

The brothers’ Live ‘25 tour kicks off in Cardiff in July, before going global with shows in Japan, Argentina, the US and Brazil

Evening Standard · May 9, 2025

Matt Willis reveals Busted turned down offer to compete for UK in Eurovision

McFly’s Tom Fletcher also revealed he had been asked to write a song for the competition.

Evening Standard · May 9, 2025

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“This was specifically wanting it to have the sort of grandiosity of a Comfortably Numb-type guitar solo but without really referencing that vocabulary”: Randy McStine reveals all behind his cosmically epic solo on Steven Wilson's The Overview

When Wilson asked McStine to redefine the guitar solo for the 21st-century, David Gilmour's greatest solo was the reference. The catch? No pentatonic minor blues. It was to be comfortably new

Guitar World · May 9, 2025

“I was hypnotised when I was a little boy - by my dentist who was experimenting with hypnotism”: Pete Townshend reveals why he always does his best on stage, as The Who announce final US tour

The Who have just announced another ‘farewell’ tour. And all the signs are there that this one really will be their last

MusicRadar · May 9, 2025

Steve Hackett announces The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall double live album

Steve Hackett celebrates the 50th anniversary of Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway with new live album in July

Louder · May 9, 2025

Andrew Gower on Gustaffson: 'Don't kill the mystery of music'

Andrew Gower is best known for his acting, but his band Gustaffson’s new album Black & White Movie is swiftly establishing him as a rock ‘n’ roll star too

Evening Standard · May 9, 2025

“We may jump up on stage and jam. It's very loose”: Gene Simmons tells Kiss fans to expect the unexpected at the band’s upcoming Las Vegas event

He adds: “We’re very open to guest stars jumping up"

MusicRadar · May 9, 2025

Suzanne Vega recalls Scotland Yard urging her to cancel Glastonbury headline slot

American folk-pop artist had to wear a bullet-proof vest during her performance

The Independent UK · May 9, 2025

‘Rethink it all!’ Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt-pop star?

Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory finds common ground between Ella Fitzgerald and Charli xcx – and its free-thinking alumni are thriving. We go on a tour to see what’s in the water there (aside from shipwrecks)

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2025

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Metal Hammer · May 9, 2025

“I don’t know how anyone can be in that band for more than a couple hours”: The story of Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s short but whirlwind stint in Megadeth

King played guitar for Megadeth’s first five shows in 1984 – but the partnership was never going to last

The Independent UK · May 9, 2025

Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s album Tall Tales is loaded with existential jitters

4/5 The alienation and emotional askewness of the music is a perfect fit for Yorke’s lyrical themes

MusicRadar · May 8, 2025

Can you fix your guitar's frets yourself? We try three innovative approaches from MusicNomad to investigate how they might conquer a major cause of fret buzz

Uneven frets are a common issue with our guitars, but MusicNomad has come up with different ways to empower players to deal with it themselves

The Guardian - US · May 8, 2025

Djo review – Joe Keery mixes genres in an endearing, if uneven, Brooklyn set

Stranger Things actor’s musical project has gone from bedroom to the big stage and, while not all of it works, there’s energy to spare

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Guitar World · May 8, 2025

“It would be a great gift to the fans, and I don’t know how strange this sounds, but I feel like it’s a gift to Chris too”: Soundgarden's Kim Thayil gives an update on whether unreleased band material featuring Chris Cornell will see the light of day

The recordings were previously the subject of a protracted legal battl between the remaining band members and Cornell's widow, Vicky Cornell

Guitar World · May 8, 2025

Eddie Vedder uses one of Jack White’s signature guitars to play a Pearl Jam deep cut – after receiving it as a gift from the White Stripes legend

The White Stripes icon has been on a guitar-gifting spree – and the latest recipient has put the electric/acoustic hybrid to good use

Metal Hammer · May 8, 2025

Judas Priest’s Rob Halford is “gutted” to not be playing Black Sabbath’s final show: “I had no idea it was happening!”

Judas Priest are one of the only veteran metal bands to not be playing Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell concert this summer. Rob Halford explains why.

MusicRadar · May 8, 2025

“It is an absolute phenom for us to be able to present to you now our teenage aspirations in this song”: Joe Satriani and Steve Vai are living out their teenage dreams in the video for their new single featuring the ‘Voice of Rock’ Glenn Hughes

I Wanna Play My Guitar is a love-letter to the instrument from two maestros on top of their game

Evening Standard · May 8, 2025

The Who’s Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend cast doubt on UK leg of farewell tour

Speaking at London’s Iconic Images Gallery on Tuesday, the rock legends announced their US farewell tour, The Song Is Over tour

The Independent UK · May 8, 2025

The Who will perform one last time in North America this summer

British rock band The Who are to say their final goodbye to North America this summer

Evening Standard · May 8, 2025

The Who have no plans for UK farewell tour despite announcing final US gigs

The rock band have announced a farewell tour of North America.

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