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The 13 new metal songs you need to hear this week

From Nightwish’s mega-symphonic single to Lordi’s metal mobile phone tie-in, hear the best heavy tracks of the week. Plus, vote for your favourite.

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The Guide #151: Meet Solar Heavy, the inescapable EDM artist flooding my timeline

In this week’s newsletter: While Taylor Swift may reign in the charts, it’s a mysterious, AI-driven electronic musician and their relentless ad campaign that’s impossible to ignore

The Guardian - UK

What time is Justin Timberlake on stage at London's 02?

Tickets are currently sold out for both London shows

Evening Standard

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Robby Krieger, Skunk Baxter and Leland Sklar among rock veterans leading the February edition of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp

The Masters of Rock: 2025 edition also features The Police's Stewart Copeland and wraps up with shows at LA's legendary Sunset Strip venues

Guitar World

“The object is to take your hands to a point where they are never confused by anything you present them”: Watch shred icon Rusty Cooley share his strategy for building up speed – and explain why he likes to avoid obvious note choices

The “world’s fastest player” Cooley endorses the discipline of non-stop repetition until you find your fastest clean speed but argues variety is key to building technical excellence

MusicRadar

“Audacious, rebellious, and stressed out by the state of the country.” Green Day share plans for epic 20th anniversary American Idiot reissue, featuring a new documentary, demos, live cuts and more

Green Day reveal details of expanded 20th anniversary editions of their 23-million-selling American Idiot album

Metal Hammer

“I saw it on the wall in a store in Chicago and thought it looked interesting, as it was so distressed to look like his old guitar”: Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell on why he opted for a guitar legend’s signature model as his “workhorse” instrument

Alongside two Fender Mustangs, the relic’d model is one of the main guitars that features on the band’s upcoming album, Romance

Guitar World

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Korn review – a mosh-pit erupting set drenched in dark energy

The nu-metal pioneers commit entirely with hulking riffs, frenzied scatting and guttural rage as they stomp through their songs with little ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Pete Townshend reveals he was ‘very sexually attracted’ to Mick Jagger

The Who guitarist has detailed multiple ‘homosexual affairs’ throughout his career

The Independent UK

“When we started the band, it was more like a guitar solo was a mark of the old guard. I was a virtuoso player, so it was very frustrating for me”: Andy Summers wishes he’d let loose on more solos in The Police – and blames punk for holding them back

Summers says his guitar chops were stifled by the hardcore punk scene, and that players like him “weren’t supposed to be able to play”

Guitar World

Noel Gallagher claims he’ll be 'lucky' to reach 60

The rocker made the comments as he discussed his drinking habits

Evening Standard

“You can really fine-tune a ton of sounds”: Mythos Pedals cooks up a delicious exclusive twofer drive for Carter Vintage Guitars with the Extra Hot full of classic Nashville flavour

The Dine In side has an OBR-style overdrive while the Take Out side is a modded drive circuit from Mythos Air Lane Drive/210 Double Drive. Together? Well, they're Extra Hot

MusicRadar

Third teenager arrested over foiled Taylor Swift concert attack in Vienna

Iraqi man, 18, said to be an associate of main 19-year-old suspect in terror plot that has led to cancellation of shows

The Guardian - UK

It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom

The US singer’s debut album hit UK No 1 nearly a year after it was released, as fans fawn over her maximalist pop, queer themes and magnificent displays of camp

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The Conversation

The real ‘Big Bang’ of country music: How Vernon Dalhart’s 1924 breakthrough recordings launched a genre

Country music’s origin story has been heavily influenced by a romanticized notion of authenticity. Today, celebrations of the genre’s origins tend to focus on one event: recording sessions in late July and early August 1927 in the small Appalachian city of Bristol, located on the Tennessee-Virginia border.

The Independent UK

Q&A: John Legend on his ambitious children's album, 'My Favorite Dream,' and new single, 'L-O-V-E'

Twenty years on from the release of his career-making debut album, John Legend is entering uncharted territory

Al Jazeera

Third suspect detained over plan to attack Taylor Swift shows in Vienna

An 18-year-old has been taken into custody in connection with an alleged plot to kill concertgoers.

Guitar World

“I told the guys, ‘Aah, it's just another bassline – I don't really like it.’ But they said, ‘No, no, it's really good – we gotta do it!’” Flea wanted to ditch Give It Away before his Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmates stepped in

Rick Rubin persuaded Flea to tone down his original bassline on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 1991 hit single

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“Witnessing how these three contributed to his stellar vision and bringing them together is a testament to Hendrix's enduring legacy”: Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock bandmates reunite for the first time in nearly 40 years to perform Band of Gypsys-era classics

Bassist Billy Cox and percussionists Gerardo Velez and Juma Sultan paid homage to the legendary guitarist's repertoire

MusicRadar

"It’s so great to look back on that period and see the little live show we did. We made a pretty good noise actually!”: Lost Paul McCartney and Wings documentary is set for September release

Lost Paul McCartney and Wings doc set for September release

MusicRadar

“Say goodbye to awkward placement and bulky tripods, it’s time to reclaim your performance space”: Singer-songwriters, players with large 'boards, D’Addario’s adjustable pedalboard mic stand could be the stage space-saver you are looking for

It clips onto most rail-style pedalboard, is telescopic, lightweight and it has the same footprint as a single standard-sized stompbox.

Guitar World

“There were only two or three of those guitars created. Edge brought back what he had been working on and they smushed it all together”: How The Edge's guitar parts – and an ultra-rare modded Fender – helped save one of U2’s biggest hits

The Edge crafted his now-iconic lead lines on a uniquely modded Fender, and helped resurrect a song that was destined for the scrap heap

Evening Standard

UK economy may have been boosted by the 'Taylor Swift effect' in June, say City forecasters

Series of sell-out concerts and the Euros gave a welcome boost to Britain’s otherwise lacklustre output

Louder

"There was a bit of a clash of cultures." The night that Hollywood star Mickey Rourke and a gang of bikers gatecrashed Bob Dylan's recording session with members of The Clash and Sex Pistols

In March 1987, Bob Dylan booked LA's Sunset Sound studios for a recording session with two English punk 'faces'. Then Mickey Rourke showed up uninvited, with 30 bikers in tow

The Independent UK

Third arrest made over foiled terror plot on Taylor Swift concert in Vienna

A third teenager was arrested last night

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