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“The culmination of years of experimentation by the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna bassist to find an instrument with superior electric tone”: Epiphone honours long-serving signature artist Jack Casady with fretless bass

From its semi-hollow build to its JCB-1 humbucker and impedance switch, here's a bass with mojo for an artist who is all mojo, and it's available for the first time as a fretless model

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“A lot of the magic happens right around there”: Paul Gilbert had one of his guitars modded to just 20 frets so that he could play more pinch harmonics

Gilbert has been sharing his strategies for emulating the human voice on guitar but don't start pulling the frets out of your fingerboard just yet

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“There was half a bass note that got chopped. That was my fault. Nobody noticed, though. I think I got away with it!”: Alan Parsons on engineering the side 2 medley on The Beatles’ Abbey Road

“Every day I walked up those famous Abbey Road steps and opened the door felt like I was stepping into a magic kingdom," he tells us. "There really is something very special about that building”

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'Winning Eurovision didn't change our lives,' claim Lordi

EXCLUSIVE Lead singer Mr Lordi also reveals he is a massive hoarder who has a second house to store his most prized possessions and personally knows the real Santa Claus

Evening Standard

“Some of the most important and iconic instruments of the last 70 years”: Jim Irsay's world-famous collection is set to go on public display – showcasing iconic guitars played by Kurt Cobain, Jerry Garcia and David Gilmour

The best bits of Irsay's revered guitar collection will be around for one day only, at the grand opening of a year-long exhibit that will explore “how guitars have impacted popular music genres including jazz, country, folk, and especially rock and roll”

Guitar World

Ivan Cornejo: Rising Star In Regional Mexican Music Scene

Discover Ivan Cornejo's musical journey in regional Mexican music, blending traditional sounds with modern influences in his latest album 'Mirada.'

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Watch the Metal Queen Doro join Scorpions to perform Big City Nights live at Wacken

Doro Pesch helped Klaus Meine and company blitz through one of their greatest hits over the weekend

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Ed Sheeran fans in hysterics after singer shares Pokemon Stadium clip: ‘Harry Styles said the same thing’

Singer-songwriter made a self-deprecating gag as he enjoyed some downtime

The Independent UK

Beats Solo Buds review: The best "AirPods" for most people

In this financial climate, getting great tech at wallet-friendly prices is more important than ever. Enter: Beats Solo Buds. Small price. Smaller package. Big sound and battery life.

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“You bring in the full band and it just sort of erupts”: Watch Julian Lage unleash the mother of all electric guitar jazz grooves in the live video of Northern Shuffle

Recorded on an Epiphone Coronet, tuned to C standard, Northern Shuffle is one of the standout tracks from Lage's 2024 studio album, Speak To Me

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“I learned Irish history through Stiff Little Fingers and my worldview education through punk rock.” Guns N' Roses star Duff McKagan on the history lessons you don't learn in a school class room

Duff McKagan on the education he received from punk rock

Louder

”Every time you go into the mainstream, I get really uncomfortable”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt declined to join an Abba tribute band at Eurovision this year

Opeth’s leader was approached to help celebrate 50 years of Abba’s 1974 Eurovision win, but turned the chance down

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Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 2 review – some of Ye’s most jaded, degraded moments

The lyrics veer from nihilistic provocation to drunken messages to his ex-wife, and the music is equally erratic and confused

The Guardian - UK

“No-one will ever have an amp on stage at the Sphere. They might have dummies, but they’re not on”: Trey Anastasio reveals why it’s impossible to play with onstage amps at the most advanced music venue in the world

In order to play the Sphere, The Edge ditched tube amps for amp sim pedals, and John Mayer has hidden his own amps away in wooden shipping creates. The Phish maestro explains why such workarounds are necessary for the state-of-the-art stage

Guitar World

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Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose reach divorce settlement

They Achy Breaky Heart hit-maker said he could now ‘breathe a sigh of relief’

Metal Hammer

This Viking folk version of Slipknot’s Wait And Bleed is the weirdest thing you’ll hear today

Nordic folk duo Nytt Land have released a shamanic take on Slipknot’s nu metal classic

Guitar World

Pat Metheny called him “one of the brightest new talents on the instrument today” – and Dan Wilson’s remarkable phrasing will elevate your jazz guitar vocabulary no end

Wilson is a mind-blowing talent, and here he opens his box of tricks to share some licks that will improve your understanding of melodic minor modes

Guitar World

“You’ve got a lot of great guitars but this one might take the cake”: Has Mark Morton just given us a glimpse of his upcoming signature Gibson Les Paul?

Two years after he signed with Gibson, the Lamb of God metal machine has seemingly teased his long-awaited signature model

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“The last thing I wanted to make was a beautiful but soulless DADGAD album… I wanted bits of spit and sawdust, scuff notes here and there”: Jamie Dickson on the tragedy and joy of his acoustic folk debut – and a Martin deal that felt too good to be true

Withershins is required listening for anyone yearning for the fingerstyle folk heyday of Jansch et al, and for an anecdote to boilerplate DADGAD

Guitar World

“All the main food groups of electric guitar tone… The sounds are stellar”: Line 6 Catalyst CX 60 review

Get serious tonal DNA and features from this Helix-powered combo

The Independent UK

Journey were ‘terrified’ about use of ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ in hit TV show

Song has been used in a number of memorable scenes in TV and film

International Business Times

Trotting Ahead Of K-pop? South Korean Crooner Rivals BTS

Lim Young-woong may not have as many fans as BTS, but the trot singer is rivalling the global superstars, showing there's more to South Korean music than K-pop with his billions of streams and a sold-out stadium tour.

Louder

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers might have based their entire career on it": Steven Wilson's 20 favourite British rock albums

Porcupine Tree mainman, solo star and prog remix king Steven Wilson on 20 British albums that blew his mind

Louder

"If we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great": Pete Townshend addresses the future of The Who

It turns out there's a catch

The Independent UK

Fred Again announces North America tour: How to get tickets

Fred Again will embark on tour days after the release of his new album, ‘ten days’

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