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Would you buy “one of the greatest rock albums of all time” from this man for $2 million?: Meet the ex-Kiss guitarist asking one lucky fan to pay to manufacture and sell his album

It’s a “classic” called Guitarmaggedon

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“All roads go back to the music we did. I worked with Bruno because he loved what I did with Amy, and as big as other records were, that is ground zero": Mark Ronson explains what made Amy Winehouse such a great musical collaborator – "she had no filter"

He also looks back on the time he brought Winehouse and Adele together for a performance at the 2008 Brit Awards

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“Legend has it that, while recording, Clarence said, ‘Hey, I need another finger to play this chord!’” Charlie Starr on the origins of the B-Bender – and how you can play those licks without one

No B-Bender, no problem, as the Blackberry Smoke frontman shows us 9 licks for that faux pedal-steel sound

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Singer dies in London bus crash days before she was due to have 'life-changing' meeting with music giant

The R&B singer was rushed to hospital after the crash with a double-decker but tragically died from her injuries

Evening Standard

“I tried to write a love song that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded”: How Talking Heads crafted the delicate beauty of This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Both one of Talking Heads’ most out-of-character compositions and their most emotionally resonant, This Must Be the Place continues to cast its spell over listeners

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“I created the guitar parts. I was super jet-lagged and loopy, but I was able to focus, and we created the song. Natalie’s version is extremely similar”: How Paul McCartney’s guitarist Rusty Anderson helped to shape the sound of a classic ’90s hit

Plus: Rusty's early years with Van Halen, the Bangles and more

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“It’s not for the faint of heart. You need to know what you’re doing to play that guitar”: Derek Trucks reveals what it’s like to play Jerry Garcia’s record-breaking $11.56mn Tiger guitar

Trucks got the chance to put the ultimate Grateful Dead guitar through its paces during The Tedeschi Trucks Band's residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York City – and he says it's a “beast”

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“I literally cried tears of joy”: After years of searching, YouTuber finally uncovers the identity of Kurt Cobain’s mystery In Utero amp

Guitarist and YouTuber Aaron Rash has been documenting his tonal quest for four years – now he’s discovered the amp that’s been driving him crazy

Guitar World

"He meant so much to me." The verses on Peter Frampton's new single Buried Treasure are crafted entirely from Tom Petty song titles

Peter Frampton's first album of all-new rock material in 16 years stars Sheryl Crow, Bill Evans, H.E.R., Tom Morello, Graham Nash and Benmont Tench

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“Fans are consuming music from the artists they love in more ways than ever”: US vinyl sales hit the $1 billion mark for the first time in over 40 years

It’s the 19th consecutive year of growth

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"The numbers are going backward": New report finds that 2025 saw "no progress" for women in music

The percentage of women credited as songwriters in the Hot 100 decreased from 18.9% in 2024 to 14.5% in 2025 – a ratio of 5.8 male songwriters to every one woman

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BTS question if they can pull off return from military service in documentary

The band are due to release a new album, titled Arirang, on March 20.

Evening Standard

“Instead of creating a polyphonic tuner itself, it simply knocked off Empower's patented device instead”: Behringer sues Boss over “knock off” polyphonic tuner

Behringer’s parent company claims its patented polyphonic tuner, the TC Electronic PolyTune, has been wrongly copied by Boss for four of its flagship amp modeler pedals

Guitar World

“I had just finished a Christmas album; he had just finished a Metallica album”: It might have been “a bit of a whiplash” for some of his fans, but Josh Groban says he has no regrets about his “ballsy” decision to make an album with Rick Rubin

“I found myself bored, so I wanted to learn again, get the good fear again," he says of 2010's Illuminations

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“We do not ever want it to be like we’re going through the motions or we’re having to run on empty. We’re going to do 20 shows each year. No more, no less”: Radiohead suggest they’ll play short-term residencies in other continents

But not until 2027, says Ed O’Brien

Louder

Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien announces second solo album, Blue Morpho, will be released in May

Radiohead's Ed O'Brien shares a visualiser for the title track of his new album Blue Morpho as he puts his full name to a solo album for the first time

Metal Hammer

"The song is about escape." A seventh Linkin Park song has achieved over one billion streams on Spotify

The band have six other songs in Spotify's elite Billions Club

Guitar World

“I get up to the counter and the guy’s like, ‘Ah, you know what? I just don’t like that guitar. I’ll give it to you for a few hundred bucks’”: Cory Wong on not buying the Klon hype and vintage unicorns lost and found

The modern-day funk maestro discusses his career in gear, and that means Strats, creative gear solutions, and why he never got swayed by the “mystique” of Klons and tube amp grails

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"I won't go through treatment. I've lived the life of ten men and will die with dignity." Ginger Wildheart diagnosed with cancer, says he has "2-3" years left

Ginger has released a statement this morning following the sad news of his diagnosis yesterday

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“He wrote some of the best parts of Hotel California and Desperado. He wrote some pivotal lines that I wouldn’t have thought of in a million years”: Don Henley’s praise for his Eagles bandmate Glenn Frey

“We wrote the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives”

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Harry Styles scores biggest global debut of his career with new album

Pop star achieved a rare chart double with his single ‘American Girls’, while also landing the biggest first-week vinyl sales for any UK artist this century

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“I urge them to reconsider and step up to help the next generation of talent”: Minister’s message to Live Nation’s dawdling over £1 arena and stadium levy

Otherwise, the government will legislate, says Ian Murray

Louder

“Some fans preferred it to Genesis… I had record labels asking for my next album, and half a band forbidding me from doing it”: The unexpected consequences of Steve Hackett’s Voyage Of The Acolyte

Guitarist believes his solo debut proved Genesis had a future after Peter Gabriel’s departure – but it also led to two years of soul-searching

Evening Standard

Guy Garvey says Elbow are working on new album ahead of Teenage Cancer Trust gig

The band have started writing their 11th studio album, as they prepare to perform a concert in aid of the charity at the Royal Albert Hall next week.

Louder

"You can hide behind it, but all my favourites play guitar and I wanna be the whole package." James Bruner was drawn into rock by the greats: Now he's ready to become one

James Bruner grew up listening to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, then dropped out of university to throw everything into his craft

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