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Dave Keuning’s uncanny ability to craft huge songs like Mr. Brightside from simple melodies is at the heart of the Killers’ blockbuster sound – here’s how you can use his rhythm approach and hook-filled lead style

There are many lessons to be taken from Dave Keuning’s work with the Killers, not least that an appreciation of melody, a diverse musical vocabulary, and an ear for hooks makes for a crowd-pleasing set

Guitar World

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie hits out at Blur’s Alex James for ‘hanging out with David Cameron’

‘That’s obviously social climbing going on there, right?’ he said, adding, ‘I don’t mean it like that’

The Independent UK

O.R.k. share video for acronymically titled new single PUTFP

O.R.k. will tour the UK in May, supported by UK proggers The Paradox Twin on all dates

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“The idea of lead guitar is that there’s focus put on it, and during this period I just didn’t want any focus to be on me”: How Devin Townsend relied on his production process to deliver his new album from the depths of depression and grief

The first of a four-album cycle on death and rebirth involved a serious stack of gear and staggering new speakers – and the Canadian prog-metal maverick says the process was cathartic in its own way

Guitar World

Dua Lipa ‘heartbroken’ as gig cancelled over safety concerns

‘Radical Optimism’ singer had been set to perform in Jakarta this weekend

The Independent UK

Watch footage from David Bowie’s last ever live performance

The rock'n'roll icon drew a line under his live career with a charity gig performance in New York in 2006

Louder

“Am I Evil? was me trying to beat Black Sabbath’s Symptom Of The Universe. I was determined to come up with something heavier”: The story of Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations, the cult album that invented Metallica

Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations should have turned them into NWOBHM-era superstars, but instead it inspired Lars Ulrich to start his own band

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“He wanted his version of the song to be a stark, heavy solo-piano thing, but they convinced him to turn it into a grand, crashing, theatrical monster-ballad, complete with orchestra”: The story of Nilsson's Without You

How the singer transformed an album track into one of the most abiding love songs of all time

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“I remember knowing deeply it was a very special song”: Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean DeLeo on the making of their classic hit Interstate Love Song

Written in a parking lot, titled on a tour bus, Scott Weiland & co.’s biggest hit truly was one for the road

Louder

“She’s a furious texter. It’s a text storm!”: Billy Corgan on where his love-hate relationship with Courtney Love is currently at

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman also looked back to working with the Hole singer on some of her band's biggest hits

Louder

19 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them

THE LIST: We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry and Roisin O’Connor take a look at artists who’ve come to loathe their own creations

The Independent UK

UB40: ‘We should be as big as Oasis – we’ve sold twice as many records’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Last week the 1980s reggae icons, known for blending political dissent with easy-going pop grooves, played a sold-out show at Wembley Arena. But they haven’t always had the recognition they think they deserve. They talk to Annabel Nugent about cultural appropriation and selling out, being bugged by…

The Independent UK

"A sonic maelstrom of whooshes, burbles and monumental, monochord riffing": Hawkwind's DoReMi FasOl LaTiDo, now more earthshattering than ever before

Hawkwind's space rock classic remixed and expanded, leaves no star unturned

Louder

“I wanted a portable amp that I could use backstage before a show to warm up with. I like to plug my PRS right into it – there are no pedals required”: Orianthi and Orange team up to create the 20RT, a portable, versatile amp with high gain tones aplenty

The 15.9 lb Orange Crush 20RT comes fully equipped with an 8-inch, custom-designed ‘Voice Of The World’ speaker, a 3-band EQ, chromatic tuner, and “spring-inspired” reverb

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“Wolfgang knows more Intervals songs at any given moment than I do – on guitar and drums”: Intervals' Aaron Marshall on making the impossible possible, and jamming with Wolfgang Van Halen

Memory Palace is another dizzying work of instrumental genius from Aaron Marshall and co, but creating all this on record presents a challenge when it comes to the live show. Marshall's approach? Play it by any means necessary...

Guitar World

Players like Larry Carlton use chords as a launching pad for improvisation, and you can, too. Learn how polychords and slash chords hold the key to musical exploration, just as scales do

Knowing the difference between slash chords and polychords can give you a much greater understanding of harmony

Guitar World

“An unapologetic approach to thrash rhythmic precision”: Weaponize your picking hand with this lesson in the bruising thrash-stomp riffing style of Anthrax rhythm kingpin Scott Ian

If you've got the time, this lesson'll whip your metal rhythm chops into shape. You might even call it a mosh pit-starter

The Independent UK

The Beatles, 'BRAT' summer, country and more: All of the 2025 Grammy nomination snubs and surprises

It looks like the 2025 Grammy Awards may be a different kind of award show

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Beyonce Leads Grammy Nods After Trailblazing Country Album

Beyonce's groundbreaking "Cowboy Carter" album nabbed her a leading 11 nods for this season's Grammy Awards, the music industry's most coveted prizes, where she will face off against Taylor Swift and a new class of pop hitmakers.

Evening Standard

Tributes honouring Liam Payne in hometown 'respectfully relocated' by council

They were moved from the city centre ahead of Sunday’s Remembrance services

The Independent UK

Tributes honouring Liam Payne in hometown ‘respectfully relocated’ by council

They were moved from the city centre ahead of Sunday’s Remembrance services.

MusicRadar

“I made him an offer of about half of what it was really worth”: The million-dollar guitar that George Benson bought for peanuts!

The jazz legend is one smooth operator

Latin Times

Grammys 2025: Latin Music Artists Left Out of The Main Categories With One Exception

Gustavo Dudamel and Sheila E. were the most nominated artists, while Édgar Barrera made history.

The Guardian - UK

The best Taylor Swift gifts for super fans

From a book that reveals the stories behind the record-breaking singer’s songs to her favourite kind of red lipstick, these pressies picked by our music editor will delight the Swiftie in your life

The Guardian - UK

The Cure score first UK No 1 album in 32 years with Songs of a Lost World

Robert Smith says getting first chart-topper since 1992’s Wish is ‘enormously uplifting’ and ‘genuinely heartwarming’

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