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“Ibanez strives daily to be the cutting-edge guitar brand. This approach will never change”: How Ibanez is flipping the script on everything you think you know about acoustic guitar design

A commitment to innovation and a forward-thinking philosophy have helped Ibanez lead the way in a new era of high-performance mainstream acoustics

Guitar World

Here's the REAL reason why Katy Perry’s new album is called 143

Perry’s latest is out now and there’s two big reasons for its title, and both are swipes squarely aimed at her naysayers

MusicRadar

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including The Darkness, Larkin Poe, Devin Townsend and five other upstanding members of the rock'n'roll royal family

Louder

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Slayer have just played their first set in five years - see their reunion setlist and watch fiery video footage here

Thrash titans Slayer have just returned to the stage after a 1759 day hiatus

Metal Hammer

Liam Gallagher hits back at "s***c***s" who criticised his vocals after he sang Oasis classics at Joshua v Dubois fight

Liam Gallagher performed Oasis hits at heavyweight title fight in London – and some observers were unimpressed

Louder

"No one more than me in this world feels so devastated about this": Arnel Pineda invites fans to vote him out of Journey after criticism of Rock In Rio show

Fellow musicians rally to support Journey frontman Arnel Pineda after apparent vocal wobble at Rock In Rio

Louder

Perry Farrell seeking medical treatment after Jane’s Addiction cancel tour

Future of the band is in doubt after an onstage brawl between Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro led to the cancellation of their tour

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REVIEW: Arab Strap impress at sold-out Barrowlands show

AS instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton slinks and frontman Aidan Moffat swaggers onto stage with supporting band in tow, the crowd and band are raring…

The National (Scotland)

Liam Gallagher issues furious rebuke to criticism of his singing at Wembley boxing fixture

‘We don’t want the likes of you at our concerts next year,’ wrote the Mancunian singer

The Independent UK

Los Campesinos! review – a hero’s welcome for cult indie stars

Despite having only spent £190.86 on marketing their new album its songs are greeted with sweaty glee by new fans and old alongside the band’s indie disco stalwarts

The Guardian - UK

Rock in Rio's sign language pumps up Brazil's deaf audience

Brazil's mega music festival Rock in Rio has sign language interpreters on its screens around main stages for the first time in its 40-year history

The Independent UK

“It’s sloppy and out of tune, but it seems to benefit the track”: How Ryan Martinie redefined metal bass playing for a new generation with Mudvayne

Ryan Martinie stepped out as a 21st-century bass hero on Mudvayne’s The End of All Things to Come

Guitar World

Oasis would ‘snub’ Glastonbury because it ‘can’t afford them’, claims Isle of Wight boss

Band have ruled out performing at any festival next year

The Independent UK

“We were torn between trying to make it big and making our music more crossover, but failing… that happened because we became conscious of what we were doing”: The Power And The Glory signalled the beginning of the end for Gentle Giant

They’d reasserted themselves after a line-up change and enjoyed the results – but the surprisingly polarised response to their sixth album led them to start second-guessing their own work.

Louder

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"I remember being sat in the car the day after I got arrested and Danny was coming up with lines in the car, going ‘Caught by the fuzz!'": Supergrass on the making of their classic debut single

Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey on how the Britpop scamps made their riotous debut single

Louder

“I had become Musical Director, which I always hate. But I took the money and took the title and did the job!”: The Cure’s Reeves Gabrels on the time he became David Bowie’s touring MD

Bowie needed someone to be his first lieutenant in the 90s, and his ex-Tin Machine bandmate was the person he turned to

Louder

“The aim was to be ‘the best group in the world’… this easily becomes confused with ‘the most successful group in the world,’ at which point the music may get lost”: Robert Fripp’s observation of King Crimson

Ever wondered what the band is all about? Here are several ways of approaching the question, suggested by the man who’s done the most thinking about it

Latin Times

From 'metal' to banda: Metallica thrills Mexico with their cover of "La Chona"

Metallica thrills Mexico with their cover of "La Chona", during their first show after seven years without a show there

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The Guardian - UK

Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music review – the racism that’s seen artists brutally ripped off for 100 years

Nile Rodgers, Ice T and Trevor Nelson join music historians to lay bare the horrific industry practices that have denied Black musicians millions. It’s just a shame it doesn’t offer more anti-capitalist analysis

Metal Hammer

“You would see them lift their masks, puke in a bucket and keep going!” Slipknot’s first manager remembers wild 90s Iowa shows

Sophia John reflects on the rabid gigs Slipknot played as they made themselves known in the mid-to-late 90s

Louder

“I contacted Steve Howe and got very little back. Eventually you say, ‘OK, I’ve got to move on’”: Jon Anderson is finally over the idea of rejoining Yes

Jon Anderson says he’s found the Yes he “always wanted” on his new solo album

The Guardian - UK

Chappell Roan review – a super graphic ultra modern showbiz star

The slow-burn breakout US star, in one of her last small-venue shows, delivers a show packed with witty queer energy, pulsating pop and even a torch song or two

Salon

How "American Idiot" speaks to Gen Z

We're still walking along that boulevard of broken dreams 20 years later

Metal Hammer

“Had we not made this record the way it sounded, I’m not certain there would have been another album”: How Opeth ditched the death growls and fully embraced prog on Heritage

In 2011, Opeth released Heritage – and cut the the last cord with their death metal past

Guitar World

“There were no fret markers on it, so all I could do was try to keep a straight face and guess!” Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting is unstoppable on bass. Here’s how he developed his style

Songwriter, actor, author, activist, rock star, jazz freak... Gordon 'Sting’ Sumner is quite the renaissance man. Oh, and he played bass in The Police…

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