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“You heard a lot of musicians, but nobody played guitar like him”: In 1965, Jimi Hendrix appeared on TV backing an obscure soul duo – and you can already feel his brilliance

This vintage clip from the TV show Night Train is a rare video of the guitar legend's days as a sideman

Guitar World

"People were always asking me, but I never used to tell them": Trevor Horn finally dishes out his sampling and drum machine tips in a new studio interview

The legendary producer lowers his guard when quizzed about the "golden era" of hi-tech music making

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Coldplay to launch immersive film experience in London

The artwork has contributions from more than 150 global artists and ties in with the band’s Moon Music album

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Watch Dream Theater's prog metal legend Mike Portnoy attempt to play along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with absolutely no idea what he's listening to

"Taylor, I'm really sorry, I totally ruined your song!"

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“We get past our second show and I get an email from Robert. At the end, he said, ‘Can I make a suggestion?’” How Robert Fripp helped Steve Vai tailor his King Crimson playing on the BEAT tour with one piece of advice

After watching clips of one of the early BEAT shows, the King Crimson guitarist had some words of wisdom for his stand-in regarding an especially tricky track

Guitar World

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From the post-hardcore squall of Hidden Mothers to Lutharo's invigorating mix of power metal and melodeath, to one-woman black metaller Hulder and Saudi Arabian tech-prog-metallers Ana.n7n, these are the bands you need to hear in January 2025

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‘I’m literally Joan Baez right now’: gen Z women relate to Bob Dylan’s toxic situationship

The film A Complete Unknown has sparked interest in the folk singers’ doomed romance, and with it the realization that a similar dynamic is ‘happening to girls everywhere’

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Linda Nolan, singer and television personality, dies aged 65

Agents says the ‘celebrated Irish pop legend’ died ‘with her loving siblings by her bedside’

The Guardian - UK

“It’s just the same word over and over. Even a baby can sing, ‘Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene’”: How Dolly Parton created a country classic later covered by The White Stripes, Beyoncé and more

“I was playing guitar pretty seriously back then,” Dolly said

MusicRadar

Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way

New version of Close To The Edge features Steven Wilson mixes and entire London Rainbow show from December 1972

Louder

“I’m sorry I ruined your song!”: Mike Portnoy hears Taylor Swift's Shake It Off for the first time and plays along... with surprising results

The Dream Theater drummer gets put on the spot but emerges as brilliant as he is baffled

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BTS member J-Hope announces solo tour in North America and Asia

South Korean rapper’s tour starts in February

The Independent UK

"My friend’s mom had connections with the Grateful Dead and could score good acid." Kyuss legend Brant Bjork was destined for a life in rock'n'roll

Brant Bjork sharies his stories of desert rock, generator parties and why he never wanted Kyuss to be Metallica

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“I thought that it was a crime that these songs were sitting there on the shelf”: In the 1970s, Hayley Williams’ grandfather made an album that nobody heard. Now it’s finally being released through her Paramore bandmate’s label

Rusty Williams’ debut album, Grand Man, is seeing the light of day after it was recently unearthed by his old production partner

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"We can't quit, we don’t know how, we've come too far": Those Damn Crows release thumping new single No Surrender

No Surrender comes from Those Damn Crows' upcoming fourth album God Shaped Hole

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Post your questions for 10cc’s Graham Gouldman

As he tours his latest album, I Have Notes, the soft rock star and writer of numerous 60s hits for others will take on your questions

MusicRadar

“Nile's riff on Get Lucky is a classic example of a funk riff, where the second of each 16th-note duplet is slightly delayed”: Locking down the theory of groove

If you’ve ever wondered why your tracks don’t have that extra exuberance, it could just all be a matter of groove.

Louder

"We were even rebelling against the people who embraced us": A brief history of cult Paisley Underground psychonauts The Dream Syndicate

How The Dream Syndicate built a career on self-sabotage

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“Something we did do was throw out the rulebook”: Arch Enemy discuss “chaotic” new album Blood Dynasty

Band founder Michael Amott spills the secrets of Arch Enemy’s highly anticipated new album

Louder

“He was wearing a red satin suit and he’d closed his eyes to do existential-style doodles. Then he got ink on his suit and was pissed off”: Why Captain Beefheart is The Primevals frontman Michael Rooney’s prog hero

Scottish singer met Don Van Vliet a number of times, and the eccentric American’s influence extended through his own career

Louder

"I did have a multitrack tape of that, but it got mislaid": The secret history of Led Zeppelin’s lost masterpiece

Jimmy Page dug up several unheard gems for his deluxe Led Zeppelin reissues. But there's one song that still remains unreleased

Metal Hammer

"I sometimes struggled to convey what we were just talking about, and not everyone understood it": A story of Ghost's concert movie, logistical complexity and Hollywood finance

Ghost’s concert-film-and-much-more Rite Here Rite Now fully immerses fans in what has helped turn them into today's greatest theatrical rockers

Louder

"Right now nobody gives a flying **** when your record drops or the next concert is!" Motley Crue's Tommy Lee isn't impressed by tone-deaf musicians self-promoting while Los Angeles is burning, but there's a plot twist

"Maybe just stop and see who needs help”

Louder

"When you're young you've got all this violence in you, and that music released it for me." U2's Bono on the "genius" musician he considers an "exorcist"

U2 may have emerged in the post-punk era, but the Dubliners looked deeper into the past for inspiration

Louder

Osibisa founding member and singer Teddy Osei dead at 88

Founding member, singer and saxophonist of Afro-beat prog rockers Osibisa Tedy Osei has died, aged 88

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