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How to calibrate your turntable: Get the most from your vinyl with our step-by-step guide

A few simple steps is all that separates you from getting your turntable up to speed for optimal performance

Louder

Is Charli XCX teasing a Brat remix album featuring Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst?

Brat-style billboards featuring Durst’s name, plus Chappell Roan and The 1975’s, are igniting internet speculation, though some believe the reported sightings to be fake

Metal Hammer

“Is it at least made of wood?” Meet the ‘Palletcaster’ – an utterly absurd electric guitar that has been (quite literally) fashioned from a shipping pallet

There’s no contouring or care for playability here – but if you’ve ever wanted to see someone shred a pallet, it’s your lucky day

Guitar World

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"You guys definitely have to be the first band into the Sphere, because this is the future": U2's live sound engineer on how he persuaded Bono and The Edge to be the Las Vegas Sphere's first resident band

"I tried my level best and I couldn't break it" Joe O'Herlihy on the prep behind U2's astounding residency

MusicRadar

Californian hardcore trailblazers Touché Amoré embrace life’s chaos on dynamic sixth album, Spiral In A Straight Line

Touché Amoré unravel the anxieties of modern life on their most dynamic album to date

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Prog writers to celebrate 55th anniversary of King Crimson's debut album with listening party

Sid Smith, Jo Kendall and Mike Barnes host A King Crimson Listening party in London this October

Louder

Coal Chamber pull out of Aftershock festival, citing singer Dez Fafara’s health issues

After postponing a tour in August due to a medical scare, Coal Chamber have also cancelled their next festival appearance

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“One of the holy grails of historic Beatles guitars”: George Harrison’s Futurama – which starred in over 300 early Beatles shows, including the Fab Four’s historic Hamburg tour – is heading to auction

The oddball electric – which originally went up for auction back in 2019 – was also used on the Fab Four's first official Polydor recordings, having featured heavily during their early Cavern Club gigs

Guitar World

“They believed that if you learn the song or even hear it before you record it, it's going to sound rehearsed”: Kathy Sledge on why producers Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards didn’t play We Are Family to Sister Sledge right up until they recorded it

“They believed in spontaneity,” she says

MusicRadar

“He said, ‘Caleb, I like what you're doing. I've got all this work lined up for Jimmy Page, but he doesn't want to do it anymore’”: How Elton John and Hall & Oates guitarist Caleb Quaye inherited the Led Zeppelin legend’s studio work

Jimmy Page decided to quit his lucrative career as a session guitarist in favor of joining the Yardbirds, and Quaye was right on time to take his spot

Guitar World

Want to master funk guitar? You’d better familiarize yourself with ‘chanking’ and shell chords – two essentials of game-changing James Brown guitarist Jimmy Nolen

You can chank us later for this lesson in an approach that could revolutionise how you execute your rhythm guitar manoeuvres

Guitar World

“Saluting 60 years of rock rebellion.” The Who’s 60th anniversary to be celebrated by special Royal Mail stamps set

The Royal Mail is issuing 12 special stamps in honour of The Who’s formation in 1964

Louder

Beyonce advised to ‘come into our world’ by Country Music Awards host following snub

Luke Bryan called the lack of recognition for Beyonce at the awards ‘tricky’

The Independent UK

“This all-original distortion circuit is a home run for fans of ’90s guitar tones”: JHS Hard Drive review

Josh Scott’s tribute to ’90s guitar tones brings us gain and lots of it, in a versatile stompbox that has Mesa/Marshall vibes, grungy grit, and EQ’ing options for those who like it scooped

Guitar World

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“While creating our last album, we amassed a lot of our best material to date”: Sylosis surprise-release new EP The Path, featuring rising metalcore stars Heriot

Sylosis and Heriot have tag-teamed for a new song on a surprise EP, ahead of the pair touring Europe together in November and December

Guitar World

“It's scary when you haven't played for quite a while and can't remember the riff to Seek & Destroy”: James Hetfield reflects on the anxieties he experienced after stepping away from the guitar for too long

Speaking to GW in 1996, the always-candid Hetfield recounted how Metallica's post-Black Album break left him “vegging”, and out of practice

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Texan Who Destroyed $4k “Signed” Taylor Swift Guitar Breaks Silence, Explains Why He Did It

The smashing guitar act was just a “gag” and the crowd was “egging him on.” The post Texan Who Destroyed $4k “Signed” Taylor Swift Guitar Breaks Silence, Explains Why He Did It first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Pink Floyd ‘sell music rights’ for a colossal amount

Rock group are said to have handed over their name-and-likeness rights for reported deal

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“The creative tension helped here and there. At other times it did not help… it’s difficult to define”: Thijs van Leer reveals his only real regret as Focus roll on in their 55th year

He recalls breaking out of the Netherlands, his relationship with former guitarist Jan Akkerman, and the one album he’d like to remake

MusicRadar

Roland just unveiled its V-Drums Quiet Design VQD106 kits, delivering “the lowest playing-noise in the history of electronic drum kits”

The electronic drums giant claims the VQD106 is 75% quieter than a regular electronic kit

Louder

Terminally ill grandmother loses £140,000 to scammer pretending to be Ritchie Blackmore

The victim, who is suffering from cancer, went to school with the former Deep Purple guitarist

Louder

Watch Paul McCartney play 'new' Beatles song Now And Then for the first time during marathon hit-stuffed set in Uruguay

37 songs. Another 14 during the soundcheck. And he's 82 years old

The Independent UK

Oasis adds four new dates to North American leg of 2025 reunion tour

New dates in Mexico, the US and Canada have been announced

Louder

Oasis add four more stadium shows to their summer 2025 North American tour due to "phenomenal demand"

Your chances of seeing Oasis in an American stadium next year just increased

Guitar World

“I went to his house one day, and he said, ‘What’s in my attic? Climb up there and have a look.’ He gave me the 12-string I used on Nights in White Satin”: How Justin Hayward ended up with Lonnie Donegan’s 12-string – before Donegan took it back

Decades later, the guitar would once again end up in Hayward's hands, this time for good

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