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“The tone of the note has so many moving parts to it. There are so many parameters”: Steve Vai on how players can instantly change their guitar tone – without buying new gear

The virtuoso has offered some sage advice that can help players achieve instant results without having to spend any money

Guitar World · Mar 10, 2025

‘It sounds terrible but I listen to it 30 times a day’: how the Lumineers made Ho Hey

‘We were moving away from bar band covers to doing our own songs. So shouting “Ho hey!” from the stage got people’s attention. We were doing it to be heard. Then suddenly everyone started listening’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2025

“Can you learn 17 Mastodon songs immediately? Please give some love, stage right, say hello to Mr Ben Eller”: YouTuber makes Mastodon live debut following Brent Hinds’ shock exit – but what’s next for the prog-metal behemoths?

Hinds is out. Eller is in for now. Brann Dailor has a black eye. Palace intrigue notwithstanding, “all 2025 touring plans will remain intact,” says the band

MusicRadar · Mar 10, 2025

“The first full length album I ever listened to was The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill”: Doechii describes joining Lauryn Hill on stage in Miami as “the greatest honor hip-hop could give me”

“I would sing your songs as if I wrote them, imagining myself on stage”

MusicRadar · Mar 10, 2025

Doechii named 2025 Woman of the Year by Billboard

The rising rapper Doechii has earned the title of Billboard’s 2025 Woman of the Year

The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2025

“Can you learn 17 Mastodon songs immediately?” Mastodon recruit YouTuber for first show following Brent Hinds’ shock departure

The band mutually parted ways with their founding guitarist just days before they were due to play at the Tool in the Sand festival – and it seems the YouTuber wasn’t given much time to learn the material

Guitar World · Mar 10, 2025

“I heard it in a hip-hop song and thought, ‘No way did Nas write that!’” How Wendy James fell in love with an Iron Butterfly track she’d never be drunk enough to write

Won over by the psych-prog outfit, ex Transvision Vamp singer used a clip from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in one of her own songs

Louder · Mar 10, 2025

What is on the King's playlist as Charles shares songs with Apple for Commonwealth Day

Monarch honours Bob Marley, Beyoncé, Kylie and more

Evening Standard · Mar 10, 2025

“It was a beautiful, hot, sunny day and I just got this phrase in my head: 'Everybody loves the sunshine'”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Roy Ayers' most iconic song

Our resident music professor puts Ayers' oft-sampled 1976 classic under the musical microscope

MusicRadar · Mar 10, 2025

“It was under my dad’s bed when I was a kid. When it slid out from underneath the bed… it was like the heavens were opening up”: How Zakk Wylde’s sparring partner Dario Lorina started a new chapter – with the help of a holy grail Les Paul

Dario Lorina – who has split Black Label Society’s guitar duties with Zakk Wylde since 2014 – delivers some serious fuel-injected moto-metal fury on Dark Chapel’s Spirit in the Glass

Guitar World · Mar 10, 2025