“This Man Is In PAIN!”: Kanye West Confesses To Incestuous Relationship With Cousin When He Was 14 "Get him off the internet." Bored Panda · Apr 21, 2025
“I was playing in the living room, he walked past and shot me this look of ‘Do that again.’ So I bent the string up and he gave me this nod of approval”: Jack Moore on lessons learned from his father, Gary Having one of the world’s most revered blues guitarists for a dad meant Jack Moore couldn’t get away with bad technique. And he learned that the hard way Guitar World · Apr 21, 2025
“We were arguing a lot and we were miserable”: How Green Day exceeded expectations with their most ambitious song The sprawling 2004 epic reflected Billie Joe Armstrong’s own lived experiences - and was the cornerstone of American Idiot MusicRadar · Apr 21, 2025
“I heard the Money solo and thought, ‘This is amazing!’ So I sent David a telegram saying, ‘Remember me? I'm in a band now called Roxy Music’”: Phil Manzanera on his friendship with David Gilmour, and the key to the Pink Floyd man's unmistakable tone The two guitarists have worked on several records together, giving Manzanera the inside baseball of the tricks behind Gilmour's iconic guitar tone Guitar World · Apr 21, 2025
"There’s plenty for us guitarists to learn – and ‘less is more’ is the overriding lesson": how to play like George Harrison on The Beatles' Abbey Road Learn the guitar style of the most expressive and accomplishedplaying The Beatle would ever commit to tape MusicRadar · Apr 21, 2025
“They didn’t like his bikini underwear”: Prince’s support sets for the The Rolling Stones in 1981 are remembered as disastrous, but guitarist Dez Dickerson says that the the crowd reaction wasn’t as bad as people think “Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says MusicRadar · Apr 21, 2025
“It’s really quite genius, but also hard to learn – it sounds insane, but sometimes the easiest songs still get me nervous”: Kiki Wong reveals the Smashing Pumpkins song she had the most trouble with After beating 10,000 other candidates to the gig, the guitarist set about navigating Billy Corgan’s “distinct playing style,” with one song proving more challenging than the rest Guitar World · Apr 21, 2025
"Chris Cornell was the first rock star to consume the contents of my stomach." How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to drink vomit in the early '90s Things got freaky on Lollapalooza 1992 thanks to The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and their rock star friends Metal Hammer · Apr 21, 2025
That time Stevie Wonder jammed with Stevie Ray Vaughan... and played SRV's number one Strat The two musical giants traded licks before Wonder picked up Stevie's guitar Guitar World · Apr 21, 2025
Miley Cyrus' brother rips 'lame' Katy Perry's space trip and says her 'career is dying' Trace Cyrus, 36, ripped into Perry’s career and her team in a frenzied rant on Instagram Evening Standard · Apr 21, 2025
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now Featuring Buckcherry, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Band Feel and five other rowdy rockers, rollers, rebels and reprobates Louder · Apr 21, 2025
"Why should I be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Because I’m f**king incredible!" Billy Idol thinks he deserves your vote for induction into the Rock Hall Vote Idol! Louder · Apr 21, 2025
“We hadn’t really rehearsed. As we were walking to the stage, he said, ‘Hang on, boys!’ And he went in the corner and vomited”: Assembled on 24 hours' notice, this John Lennon-led, motley crew supergroup marked the beginning of the end of the Beatles Though the band's set at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was ragged, it confirmed in stone a hugely consequential decision Lennon had made just before the festival Guitar World · Apr 21, 2025
“Whether any illicit cigarettes were involved isn’t clear, but this is the sound of Maiden floating in space”: Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden Even Iron Maiden like to throw a few curveballs into their back catalogue Metal Hammer · Apr 21, 2025
MusicRadar · Apr 21, 2025 “I have an original 909 – every time I try to use it I feel like I’m ruining it”: House hero Riva Starr on his studio essentials and his love of analogue synths The prolific Italian house and techno producer shows us the gear behind Keep Me on the Dancefloor
Louder · Apr 21, 2025 “To keep a standard up so long is an achievement. This album crowns that. Now people can play something other than A Whiter Shade Of Pale!” Procol Harum didn’t expect 50th anniversary album Novum to be their last When Procol Harum released 50th anniversary album Novum in 2017, vocalist Gary Brooker and lyricist Pete Brown made it clear they weren’t expecting it to be their last
Louder · Apr 21, 2025 After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá
Louder · Apr 21, 2025 Watch Dave Grohl perform Foo Fighters classic Everlong with a choir and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra during surprise Coachella festival appearance Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl makes an unexpected guest appearance at Coachella with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Metal Hammer · Apr 21, 2025 "I couldn't care less about other people's opinions." M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold says they'll keeping pushing artistic boundaries Avenged Sevenfold divided audiences with their latest album – and they aren't likely to play it safe next time around either
Metal Hammer · Apr 20, 2025 "Metal's messiah has officially returned - and his name is Tobias Forge": Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones
Guitar World · Apr 20, 2025 “I always felt like that record could have been better if we had worked on it some more”: Looking for a blockbuster comeback album, Aerosmith turned to Van Halen producer Ted Templeman. For Joe Perry, it served as a learning experience Having been impressed by the producer’s touch on Van Halen's “monstrous” records, Templeman was tasked with reigniting the band’s spark
The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2025 ‘Performing is not some gigantic thing – it’s just me breathing’: Obongjayar on the journey from shyness to stardom Ahead of the release of his spectacular second album, the Nigerian singer speaks of his recent songwriting epiphany and how he learned to best express his political rage
Guitar World · Apr 20, 2025 “If you’ve ever wondered what unobtanium looks like in amp form, this is it”: Played and revered by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, and John Mayer, Dumble amps have an almost mythical reputation. But what's all the fuss really about? The late Alexander Dumble built only a handful of meticulously crafted, much-sought-after amplifiers every year – and they ended up in the backlines of many of the greatest guitarists of all time. So where exactly did the magic come from?
MusicRadar · Apr 20, 2025 “I feel like that song had everything we needed to come back with”: Bring Me The Horizon’s Lee Malia on Shadow Moses, its riff and the secrets behind its tone, and why it was the right anthem at the right time How Terry Date, a killer riff and a videogame helped bring BMTH's major label debut into focus with a track that officially opened a new chapter – and the pit – for the Sheffield metal frontiersmen
MusicRadar · Apr 20, 2025 “I said, ‘Are we sure we can write a song about death?’”: The story of Mike + The Mechanics' classic No.1 The Living Years "If we’d got it wrong, it would’ve been very schmaltzy"