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“When you start with a crappy guitar it gives you a level of appreciation because you started with humble beginnings”: Kenny Wayne Shepherd on why starting out with a budget guitar is the best way to go

Shepherd now plays some of the most desirable boutique gear money can buy, but his own personal guitar journey started with a cheap Yamaha

Guitar World

“I tried to make the concert feel like my own spin on a rock show. My dream was for people to jump and scream and be all sweaty by the end”: Olivia Rodrigo reflects on her hugely successful Guts World Tour

As the tour draws to a close, The Breeders' Kim Deal says of Rodrigo: “I think she likes loud guitars - in this day and age! She finds loud guitars exciting and wants to be around them”

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“I’d been playing it at the 7th fret, but then I saw a video of Bernard Edwards, and I was determined to play it right – Nile picked up on that instantly”: Jerry Barnes gives an insider’s view of Chic’s seven-minute bass anthem

Performing alongside guitarist Nile Rodgers, Jerry Barnes has bestowed his deep-pocketed basslines upon Chic since the untimely death of Bernard Edwards in 1996

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2000trees festival line-up announcement including Alexisonfire and Million Dead

The festival, which was founded in 2007, has just made ‘its biggest announcement yet’

Evening Standard

“I tried to talk him down, and he turned on me. He goes, ‘There's nothing but feedback coming from your amp.’ I was not having it”: Martyn LeNoble on how his ill-fated stint with Jane’s Addiction came to a close after a clash with Perry Farrell

The Porno for Pyros co-founder was brought onboard to record bass for Jane's Addiction's third studio album, but was replaced at the last minute

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Steven Van Zandt shares exciting update about future of Bruce Springsteen live shows

Exclusive: ‘I’ve been trying to talk him into this for 30 years,’ E Street Band guitarist said

The Independent UK

“Bob Dylan asked me almost every day: ‘Hey, when are you going to sell me that ’64 Jazzmaster?’” Jason & the Scorchers’ Warner E. Hodges toured with Dylan, borrowed the Ramones’ gear – and played a Tele that survived a tractor

The cowpunk pioneer on the many guitar casualties of his slinging and spinning on stage, why switching from Fender to Gibson was “like learning another language”, touring with the Ramones and R.E.M. and making a Dylan song their own

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Cardi B cancels music festival performance after being hospitalized for ‘medical emergency’

‘Bodak Yellow’ rapper says she’s ‘in the hospital recovering from a medical emergency’ and will have to pull out of Atlanta’s ONE MusicFest

The Independent UK

When can you change the lyrics in song covers? Ask Kelly Clarkson

I’m usually opposed to replacing words when an artist covers a song – but there is room in my heart for satisfying revenge

The Guardian - AU

Just like heaven: the Cure’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ahead of the release of Songs of a Lost World – their first album in 16 years – we rate the best of a band who combine light and dark like no other

The Guardian - UK

“I was so into that moment, it was like being stoned… not separated from the guitar and what I was playing. It was joyful”: From unexpected ES-335 solos to jams in a barn, here is your guitar guide to David Gilmour’s breathtaking Luck and Strange

Gilmour says it’s his best since 1973. It’s a solo work but was borne of collaboration. But it might just be the guitar album of the year, and we go track-by-track to parse its brilliance

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“He offered me Jimi’s guitar and then disappeared!”: How Lenny Kravitz almost got his hands on Hendrix’s Woodstock Strat

Hendrix’s drummer called Lenny “the best thing since Jimi”

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“I got really obsessed with fuzz when I got into stoner rock. I’d never heard a sound like it before”: He’s jammed with Tony Iommi, recorded at Abbey Road, now he’s cooking up hairy stoner riffs with Torus – and Alfie Glass is just getting started

Torus’ self-titled debut album is a feast of mammoth riffs, gnarly energy and grooves that will stick in your brain, and one for all you fuzz freaks seeking “a bold, no B.S. rock sound”

Guitar World

“We’ve all played them, but how many of us can say we know how 7th chords actually work?” Get more out of one of guitar’s most important shapes with 5 chords that demystify the dominant 7th

They are so commonplace that we take the theory behind them for granted. Here are five 7th chords, the theory underpinning them, and some ideas for modifying them

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“There’s not one lyric that’s light-hearted… We’ll see what the tear-shedding level for this album is!” Epica’s Simone Simons waited 20 years to make Vermillion

Singer explains how Arjen Lucassen helped realise her long-held dream, what she’s saying with her songs, and why she chose a colour as her solo record’s title

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“A great statement guitar. It looks fantastic, plays well and sounds superb”: Epiphone Jimi Hendrix Love Drops Flying V review

Prepare to kiss the sky with Epiphone’s latest ‘Inspired By…’ model, as the Gibson Custom Shop collaboration bears fruit with a Hendrix classic with a serious spec

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“It’s his message, to let the world know how he feels about all the things that’s going on in the world”: Kool and the Gang drummer spent 20 years on a solo album but didn’t live to see its release

George Brown, Kool and the Gang drummer, spent 20 years on a solo album, but didn't see its release

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2000 Trees announces five headliners for 2025: Kneecap, Pvris, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed And Cambria and Alexisonfire

The Cheltenham weekender will also host Million Dead, Kid Kapichi, La Dispute, Bambie Thug and dozens more in July

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Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness review – Aussie punks still spit, but add a bit more polish

With their swearing and flashing, Amy Taylor and co’s return might seem like business as usual – but new melodic depths and lyrical concerns reveal themselves

MusicRadar

Korg’s Multi/Poly is a versatile new synth that takes influence from an ‘80s cult classic

It looks like a Mono/Poly in modern clothing, but is Korg’s latest more than that?

Evening Standard

Minister shakes off calls for inquiry into Taylor Swift freebie row

Pat McFadden said he was pleased the ‘show went on’ in London given the terror threat against the Eras Tour in Austria.

The Guardian - UK

‘The most important DJ in the UK’? Live streamer takes music to streets

DJ AG has built a huge audience by inviting performers such as Skepta to join him in London and elsewhere

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“He asked me to go into the studio and add some sounds and jam with the band a bit, to bring more electronic experimentation into their sound”: Jon Hopkins reflects on being introduced to Coldplay by Brian Eno

Hopkins recently hit number 1 in the US and UK simultaneously thanks to his appearances on Coldplay’s Moon Music and Charli XCX’s Brat reworks album

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"She's kind of known for her pop songs, but they actually go a lot deeper than that. I think she can even be compared to some of the great poets”: Academics debate Taylor Swift at Birmingham University event

Academics debate Taylor Swift at University of Birmingham

Evening Standard

Disqualified Eurovision entrant declines to participate in contest next year

He faced accusations of threatening behaviour towards a female member of the production crew.

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