Game-changers, trends, innovations, revivals and show-stoppers: the key guitars, amps and pedals of NAMM 2025 Our top picks from the likes of Fender, LR Baggs, MXR, DigiTech, Jackson and more MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025
"This song was love at first harpsichord!" Black Country, New Road return with video for brand new single Besties Black Country, New Road will release their new album Forever Howlong in April Louder · Jan 30, 2025
“I’m trying to coin the phrase ‘spy-chedelic rock’ – but everyone thinks it’s just a typo!” Why Rosalie Cunningham broke the fourth wall with her cinematic sort-of concept album To Shoot Another Day Inspired by a passion for Bond movies, she investigates movie glamour, fake mediums, teenage drinking and her smutty partner in her third solo album – the first one she’s made at home Louder · Jan 30, 2025
"It’s absolutely incredible made my day I’m of [sic] out on my skateboard": Bring Me The Horizon just covered Oasis’ Wonderwall and Liam Gallagher’s response is next-level weird But the reason why the UK metal band chose to cover the song at all is even weirder… MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025
Myles Smith interview: the Brits Rising Star award winner on his new superstardom Myles Smith had the biggest song of last year with Stargazing, and with a new album and tour, and a Brits Rising Star award, we caught up with him to ask how sudden success feels Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2025
“It was the first song I wrote just to see if I could. I discovered - oh yes, I can!”: How David Byrne created Talking Heads' most popular track right out of the gate The song was intended as a deliberately dark response to the more playful macabre antics of Alice Cooper. But it would end up shaping Talking Heads’ future MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025
Fleetwood Mac fans! Can we finally all admit that Tango In The Night is better than Rumours? Here's why I think Tango In The Night is Fleetwood Mac's greatest record Louder · Jan 30, 2025
Roger Waters will release The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux box set in March Roger Waters' The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux Super Deluxe box set features the original album on gold vinyl, a live version and more Louder · Jan 30, 2025
“Who’s Jimmy Page? Never heard of him!”: The joke that backfired on a band that sounded a whole lot like Led Zeppelin “Of course it was meant ironically…” MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025
"With these loops, I wanted to inject my identity”: Mainline some Tosin Abasi magic into your DAW with his new Apple-exclusive producer pack Fantasise no further. If you’ve ever wanted Tosin Abasi to play on your track then your dream just came true MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025
Soul, sermonising and wrestling Satan: James Brown’s 20 best albums – ranked! As Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag turns 60, we rate the prolific funk/soul powerhouse’s finest studio, live and soundtrack albums The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025
“Try playing Three Of A Perfect Pair without feeling your fingertips!”: Adrian Belew has carpal tunnel surgery following tour with prog supergroup BEAT The former King Crimson guitarist was operated on by the surgeon responsible for the first successful human hand transplant in America MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025
Here are all all the big names who've piled on to play at the 2025 Grammy Awards to "rebuild, uplift and support those in need" The drip feed of genuine superstars continues and it looks like Sunday night's ceremony is going to be huge MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025
Liam Gallagher calls unique Wonderwall cover ‘absolutely incredible’ ‘I’m off out on my skateboard’ said Gallagher after hearing the song The Independent UK · Jan 30, 2025
Louder · Jan 30, 2025 “I'm not having that!” The night Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher stormed out of a Spinal Tap gig in New York after discovering that the English hard rock legends weren't actually a real band, or indeed English No-one tell Liam Gallagher that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy aren't real, the poor lamb is still getting over the shock of learning that Spinal Tap aren't who he thought they were
Guitar World · Jan 30, 2025 “It was a different feel, but it was so expressive. I had never seen that clip of Jeff Beck before”: Jerry Cantrell on how Jeff Beck inspired him to dig out a rare pedal for I Want Blood The Alice In Chains riffer drew inspiration from the late great, and his penchant for left-field gear, for his latest solo album
The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025 Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory album review – going goth to confront our grim world Fronting a brand new band, the singer-songwriter dives into the dark side, with confusion and foreboding creeping through 80s moods, big choruses and fine melodies
Guitar World · Jan 30, 2025 “Throughout the Beat tour, my left hand kept going numb and burning like fire”: Adrian Belew recovering after undergoing carpal tunnel surgery The “world-renowned” surgeon who took charge of the surgery is a King Crimson fan
The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025 Lady Blackbird review – flamboyance and nuance from late-blossoming jazz-soul star Behind the impressive Grace Jones-esque stage outfits, the US singer is blessed with both lung power and sensitivity
Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2025 Grammys 2025: Which British stars won? Kendrick Lamar and Bianca Censori were grabbing headlines, but it was still a great night for British stars
MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025 “This is a hideous name drop, but…”: Jon Hopkins reveals what he learned from Brian Eno about music production “As much as possible, don't get bogged down in the tiny minutiae,” he says
Guitar World · Jan 30, 2025 “We might find 50 guitars to choose from. All of a sudden, something that was on an electric might now be on a rubber-bridge acoustic”: Meet flipturn, the indie-rockers flipping the script on three-guitar bands – with a chorus pedal as a sixth member The Floridians share their love of open tunings, the one pedal they couldn’t live without, and the nightmare feeling when a ’board fails during a show
Louder · Jan 30, 2025 “It’s an extremely playful, extremely dark, complex song, unbelievably deep.” Nick Cave names the hip-hop song that he wants played at his funeral Nick Cave nominates the "amazing work of art" that he'd like played to soundtrack his passing into the afterlife
Guitar World · Jan 30, 2025 “Paul Reed Smith and I grew up on the same street. He knew I was finishing guitars and one day asked for help. Eventually we needed somebody to head up the factory. He said, 'You’re it’”: How Joe Knaggs became one of America’s most respected guitar makers Having cut his teeth working at the PRS factory, rising from finishing assistant to production manager and head of Private Stock, Knaggs built his brand from the ground up. Here’s his story…
MusicRadar · Jan 30, 2025 “It’s a favourite with jazz and funk players, but it's just at home in hits by artists such as Jessie Ware”: Expand your chordal colours with 9ths Building an extension to a chord doesn’t require planning permission, but it might require a degree of design. We add 9ths to our extension palette