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‘People falling asleep wasn’t that unusual’: experimental pioneers the Necks on four decades of improvising

They never rehearse. Their music is borderline indescribable. And their live shows have become the stuff of legend. Now on their 29th album, Bleed, the trio look back on creating a career from thin air

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“If you play around while you are Henry VIII’s wife, you know that you’re going to be separated from your body, head-wise.” Prog legend Rick Wakeman has finally revealed which of King Henry VIII's six wives is his personal favourite

In 1973, Rick Wakeman released The Six Wives of Henry VIII as his second studio album. Now, 51 years on, he's revealed which wife is his favourite

Louder

James Blunt vows to legally change his name to Blunty McBluntface if he reaches Number 1

The new name was chosen by the public after the musician put it to the vote

Evening Standard

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“I’ve always said that I don’t play the guitar, I play the strings”: Ernie Ball and John Mayer team up for signature Silver Slinky guitar strings in a unique gauge that could be the Goldilocks option between heavy and light

Whether or not you agree with the assertion that Mayer plays the strings or the guitar – or both – his signature set runs from 10.5-47 and will be a crowd-pleaser for players in-between gauges

MusicRadar

See Tool and BEAT drummer Danny Carey warming up behind his enormous kit

Tool drummer Danny Carey has his own interesting Youtube channel

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“This thing’s f***ing sick! This one’s good!”: Watch Jared James Nichols unleash Blues Power magic on Lester Williams’ “Texas Troubador” 1954 Stratocaster, one of the most vibe-y Strats you will see

Nichols might be a Les Paul guy but as a long-time SRV fan he still knows how to light up a Stratocaster... And besides, he also took the opportunity to put a '57 LP Custom through its paces

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'Tay Tay tax' could raise $12m a year for live music

A levy on big concerts could raise an estimated $12 million a year to support Australian live music, an inquiry has been told.

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Halsey shares 80s-inspired, emotional new single I Never Loved You

Alt pop-star Halsey drops I Never Loved You, the latest track to arrive from her upcoming new album The Great Impersonator

Louder

The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week

From such stars as Dream Theater and Myles Kennedy to an array of up-and-coming talent, hear the best new music of the week – and vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

“I took the neck off my Strat, put it on a Tele, and ended up with my ‘FrankenTele’”: Steve Morse modded the heck out of his first serious guitar, and it became the blueprint for his signature Ernie Ball Music Man model

Unsatisfied with the limitations of his first proper guitar, Morse took matters into his own hands, a lá Eddie Van Halen

Guitar World

"I spent twenty thousand pounds on a s****y album that nobody ever got to listen to." How rising nu gen star RØRY overcame growing pains, industry chaos and a devastating death to finally start making the music she needed

It's been a long road, but RØRY is finally reaping the rewards of her hard work

Louder

“What a ride…” Guitar Techniques magazine is closing after 30 years of in-depth tuition from some of the world’s greatest guitarists

The last issue of Guitar Techniques goes on sale this week, after 30 years of publishing. Read Editor Jason Sidwell's final editorial letter

Guitar World

“That sarcasm became the song”: Pharrell Williams says his mega-hit Happy isn’t as sincere and joyful as you think, and that he’ll never stop loving former Neptunes partner Chad Hugo

“There's nothing that he or anyone else could do to ever make me feel differently about what we did together and what I wish for him. Nothing”

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“Okay, if I were to meet David Bowie, would I feel okay about showing David Bowie this album?”: Modular synthesist Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on making meditative electronic masterpiece, Ears

The Californian artist on the live Buchla jams that created her breakthrough album

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Guitar World

“I doubt there’s going to be another Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page or Eddie Van Halen”: Joe Perry on why the age of the guitar hero might be over – even though the instrument still has a bright future

Perry is confident there's more to explore on the fretboard and players will continue to push the boundaries of guitar music – but the individual feats of guitarists might not be viewed in quite the same way

Evening Standard

Atomic Kitten officially becomes a one-woman band as Natasha Hamilton quits

The singer said her time with the group had not ‘always been smooth’ but that she ‘wouldn’t change a thing’

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“The record industry is, pretty much, dead”: Al Di Meola speaks out about the lack of opportunities for young musicians

Al Di Meola bemoans the death of the record industry

Guitar World

“Billy had already played half a solo. The producer said, ‘Can you play the other half?’ I said, ‘Can’t you give him a whole solo and me a whole solo?’” Brian May explains why he was reluctant to share a solo with Billy Gibbons – and what changed his mind

May and Gibbons were recruited by session icon Steve Cropper to add their guitar star power to his latest release, Friendlytown

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Why the Cimarons are one of the greatest British bands of all time – as documentary Harder Than the Rock shows

Harder Than the Rock is a rollercoaster of a film that charts the highs and lows of the music business, as well as its precarious nature. But it also highlights the passion, commitment and humility that drives the creative architects of reggae, The Cimarons, to deliver such heartful joy to…

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"I was freaking out and bawling in the studio." Korn's classic debut album at 30: the weirdness, the trauma and the birth of nu metal

On October 11 1994, five misfits from Bakersfield, California would release an album that would change metal forever

Guitar World

“I couldn’t do all the licks and Jimmy Page stuff. By not being able to play properly and discovering echo units, I came upon some monstrous sounds, purely by accident”: Robin Guthrie on how he conjured the haunting tones of Cocteau Twins

With The Moon and the Melodies remastered and reissued, the architect of the lushest sounds committed to tape reflects on the effects experimentation and accidental magic of the quintessential 4AD band

Louder

Awesome new proggy sounds from Alex Henry Foster, Teramaze, Laibach and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you have to hear from Ross Valory, We Are Bodies, Yenisei, The Progressive Souls Collective and more

Guitar World

“The idea behind this pedal is to make clean guitar as fun as overdriven guitar”: Chase Bliss is on a mission to make you rethink clean guitar tones with the “very fun” Clean compressor

The pedal “swells, sags, smooths, pans, and filters”, promising to bring your clean tone to life like never before

MusicRadar

Jonny Greenwood: Radiohead have "no plans" for 2025

“We’ve lots of individual projects going on at the moment”

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“I’m kind of fascinated with that tipping point where the artist can say ‘I don't need you anymore. Why would I need you?’”: Are record labels at risk of irrelevance? this industry expert thinks so

Does the future belong to social media-savvy musicians

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