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“There’ve been times where I’ve come back from a tour and my kids don’t know who I am”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park, another Steven Wilson team-up, hating the road and why he might stop growling again

We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus

Metal Hammer

“That was a Juno-DS keyboard – it was literally plugged into Logitech computer speakers, not running into a board or an interface even”: Jim-E Stack reveals the lo-fi production techniques behind Bon Iver's Walk Home

Stack opened up the Pro Tools session for SABLE, fABLE highlight Walk Home for Mix with the Masters

MusicRadar

“It’s about building intensity… think of Jeff Beck shifting to Billy Gibbons!” How to solo over one-chord blues

Soloing over changes is cool, but sometimes the blues is all about exploring melody over a single chord

Guitar World

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“The perfect marriage of brilliance and brute force”: With high-output humbuckers, an onboard Lumen Filter, compound radius fingerboards and a contoured body, Gretsch unveils the reinvention of the Jet

Meet the Jet with the Luminlay markers, the contoured body, the Twin Six humbuckers and a filter for percussive high-gain sounds. It's a Jet, Jim, but not as we know it

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How to watch "raucous, moving, and surprisingly tender" film The Rise Of The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel

The Ben Feldman-directed documentary on the band and late guitarist Hillel Slovak will hit Netflix this week. Here's everything you need to know

Louder

Self Esteem and Mcfly among first stars announced for London’s newest live music venue

The British Airways ARC venue, which is located above the existing west exhibition hall in Olympia, West London, is set to open this June

Evening Standard

“The drums were triggering random sounds on the Juno and DX7, making what you now hear as the intro: a squelching, pulsing bass sound”: How a happy accident helped George Michael have a huge hit with the banned song he thought sounded too much like Prince

After releasing three different versions, Michael would later say that he didn't like the one that reached the Top 5 in the US and the UK

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“One of the best gigs I've ever been involved in”: Brian May returns to the stage for a fiery three-song cameo with Benson Boone – then hands him the Red Special

The Queen guitarist received a hero’s welcome at the singer’s recent Birmingham show

Guitar World

"I never thought someone would actually run with that song title. I suppose it's all my fault." The story of the extremely silly but surprisingly poignant Limp Bizkit anthem that made them the biggest (and most hated) metal band of their generation

What seemed like a throwaway lyric tacked onto a catchy Bizkit banger actually had some profound meaning for Fred Durst

Metal Hammer

"I was afraid of silence, afraid of having to feel." Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl reflects on the aftermath of the death of his best friend and bandmate Taylor Hawkins

"Losing Taylor was never meant to be"

Louder

Indie band The Wonder Stuff ‘grateful’ as they announce 40th anniversary tour

The tour will include a performance at O2 Academy Brixton in London and Glasgow’s Barrowlands.

Evening Standard

Rock and roll couple charged after major drug bust

A secret cache of drugs has been discovered tucked behind a hidden door in a music studio, leading to the arrest of a musician, his partner and seven others.

AAP

‘I woke up and couldn’t move’: Scottish rockers the Twilight Sad on birth, death and breakdown

In the seven years since their last album, the Scots have faced down dementia and cancer. Now they’re returning with a visceral new sound – and eager to get back to globetrotting with the Cure

The Guardian - UK

"A mix of surreal, supercilious satire and puerile lewdness." Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and The Mothers' Bongo Fury, revisited and expanded

A six-disc, 57-track edition of the legendary 1975 collaboration, featuring live recordings and outtakes

Louder

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"Raw, hungry, and already road-honed by years of gigging." The Legendary Edition of Aerosmith's debut album expands the original with live and session tracks

American rock giants’ debut album, with added Harmonica Jam Bass Jelly

The Guardian - AU

Seoul raises terror alert as it prepares to host BTS comeback concert

Thousands of police prepare to deploy to South Korea’s capital ahead of K-pop’s most anticipated comeback

Louder

"One of America's great bands just got alittle bit greater."Tedeschi Trucks Band continue the search for transcendence on the sublime Future Soul

The best album yet from peak Derek and ‘punk’ Susan

Guitar World

“I dream of him a lot – only the positive stuff. But the negative stuff hits me in reality. The night he joined, he said, ‘I haven’t learnt the songs’”: Francis Rossi on the Status Quo groove, Kempers, and his relationship with the late Rick Parfitt

The Quo’s motormouthed frontman had no intention of releasing a new solo album. But with The Accidental, Francis Rossi tells us he’s stumbled across his best work yet

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Locking tuners, oiled ‘Speed’ neck, compound radius ‘board with rolled edges: Charvel’s hotrodded shred performance just got more affordable with the launch of the $569 Standard SD Series

The Standard Series T-styles are cut from the same cloth as their more expensive siblings and present aspiring shredders with a pair of high-output humbuckers and a no-fuss hardtail bridge

Evening Standard

Revenue from vinyl sales grows by 14% – report

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s Global Music Report 2026 singled out the rise of British singer Olivia Dean.

Guitar World

“It’s not the kind of music I want to make anymore”: Grace Bowers explains why she doesn’t want to be known as a blues guitarist

The wunderkind reveals she's currently crafting more rock- and punk-oriented music

Guitar World

“I won’t go through treatment. I’ve lived the life of 10 men and will die with dignity”: The Wildhearts frontman Ginger Wildheart reveals cancer diagnosis

The 61-year-old vows to continue touring and writing new music during the time he has left

Latin Times

Dion Baez Reflects on His Path to Becoming SoundCloud VP of Community: 'I Was in the Right Place at the Right Time' - INTERVIEW

Before serving as SoundCloud's global platform architect and its vice president of community, Baez wore many hats at major tech companies.

MusicRadar

“Is NOT going to happen... Nil response. I speak with many close to her, including fam, but have not had a single syllable back in over two decades”: William Orbit has written a sequel to Ray Of Light but he says Madonna hasn’t responded

But “zero hard feelings” says the producer

Louder

“My life was going down the toilet. I was trying to stay out of everybody’s way, just to finish what I’d started." The story behind the troubled birth of Foo Fighters' second album, The Colour And The Shape

Despite countless setbacks and obstacles, Dave Grohl emerged from Kurt Cobain's shadow with a clutch of songs that primed Foo Fighters for stadiums

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