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“The most musical, unique and dynamic distortion effects I’ve ever used”: Linkin Park reveal the secret weapon behind their From Zero guitar tone – and it was designed by former Poison guitarist Blues Saraceno’s dad

Do you even have a nü-metal 2.0 pedalboard if it doesn’t have a Ball Buster?

MusicRadar · Apr 24, 2025

Kehlani performance at Cornell University canceled over singer’s explicit anti-Israel comments

The R&B singer has previously blasted fellow celebrities for their ‘silence’ over the war in Gaza

The Independent UK · Apr 24, 2025

“I knew the spirit of the Alice Cooper group was back – what we were making was very much an album that could’ve been in the '70s”: Original Alice Cooper lineup reunites after more than 50 years – and announces brand-new album

The Revenge of Alice Cooper – the lineup's first record since 1973's Muscle of Love – promises to deliver all the shock rock goods of the band's heyday

Guitar World · Apr 24, 2025

“An amazing piece of history from the British blues scene”: Robert Plant is selling a trove of gear for charity – including a John Birch-modded ‘62 Stratocaster with two switches that once belonged to Stan Webb of Chicken Shack

The 1990 Les Paul that Les Paul gave the former Led Zeppelin frontman has been sold but that Strat is one super-cool refin – so too the mandolin and resonator

MusicRadar · Apr 24, 2025

R&B singer Kehlani barred from Cornell performance over pro-Palestine comments

University president says popular US singer was felt to have made ‘antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments’, after she made statements including ‘long live the intifada’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2025

“I was like ‘Wow, Coldplay were definitely listening to Radiohead and trying to make their version of it’": Porter Robinson says that he only recently discovered that Coldplay used to sound a bit like Radiohead

“I found tons of forum debates from 2004 from people saying, you know Radiohead fans being like, ‘Coldplay's trash’”

MusicRadar · Apr 24, 2025

Mick Lynch joins Scottish rock band and comedian at Edinburgh show

Scottish rock band The Tenementals will be joined by former top union leader Mick Lynch and comedian Zara Gladman at their Portobello show next…

The National (Scotland) · Apr 24, 2025

I've never seen a catwalk open up in the middle of a moshpit before - but then I've never seen a band quite like Alt Blk Era

Alt Blk Era had a packed-out Camden Underworld moshing and raving its ass off last night - and you can't help but feel this is just the start

Metal Hammer · Apr 24, 2025

“The best guitar player I ever heard”: Nashville guitar extraordinaire Mac Gayden – who worked with Bob Dylan, Elvis, Linda Ronstadt and Simon & Garfunkel – dies at 83

The guitarist, who formed part of an elite group of Nashville session players known as the Nashville cats, is also responsible for co-writing the evergreen pop hit Everlasting Love

Guitar World · Apr 24, 2025

Alternative pop star Lorde has returned for her crown on new single ‘What Was That’

4/5 Following an electro-pop rebirth by way of a Charli XCX collaboration, the singer returns to what she does best: crafting melancholic, minimal yet monumental tracks for heartbroken souls

The Independent UK · Apr 24, 2025