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Oasis add four more stadium shows to their summer 2025 North American tour due to "phenomenal demand"

Your chances of seeing Oasis in an American stadium next year just increased

Louder

“I went to his house one day, and he said, ‘What’s in my attic? Climb up there and have a look.’ He gave me the 12-string I used on Nights in White Satin”: How Justin Hayward ended up with Lonnie Donegan’s 12-string – before Donegan took it back

Decades later, the guitar would once again end up in Hayward's hands, this time for good

Guitar World

“A historic collaboration”: Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe becomes Jackson’s first female signature artist with the launch of her groundbreaking new signature guitar

The metal trailblazer was announced as a Jackson artist earlier this year, and now she's been honored with a history-making signature model

Guitar World

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“A source of comfort and strength for anyone who feels hurt, lost or alone”: Alt Blk Era release rocking new single Come On Outside

The sibling twosome will release new album Rave Immortal on January 24

Metal Hammer

“I don't think about technique at all now. I want people to hear my guitar tone and be confused about how I got it”: Yvette Young explains why she's rebooting her a solo career – and redefining her guitar playing along the way

Young is temporarily putting aside Covet to lean into different facets of her guitar playing, focusing less on virtuosity and more on melody-driven composition

Guitar World

“John Mayall’s ability to nurture blues guitar prodigies is comparable to Yoda’s knack for training hot Jedi prospects”: From Eric Clapton to Peter Green, Mick Taylor and more – a guide to blues legend John Mayall’s ’60s guitarists

The Bluesbreakers remained a unique force in British blues throughout the decade, thanks to its late leader’s unfailing ability to pick breathtaking bandmates

Guitar World

Coldplay, Moon Music review: Chris Martin mangles his metaphors on a suffocatingly banal album about love

The British pop-rock band’s latest effort torpedoes its intentions with some truly groan-inducing lyrics

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“Mike shows us an acoustic demo on cassette and plays it in the car. It’s what ends up being Drive. It was a great guitar line – I just needed to get the hell out of the way of it”: OG Incubus bassist Dirk Lance on how Drive taught him to stop overplaying

Alex Katunich’s busy slap and pop basslines fueled much of the band’s early output, but in a rare new interview, he explains how their biggest hit forced him to take a step back

Guitar World

“It’s not often we perform such intimate shows, so we’re really looking forward to this.” The Cure are recording an exclusive gig in London this month, and you could be there to see it

Find out how to get tickets to see The Cure live at special Radio 2 In Concert show

Louder

“A tribute to the era that helped shape the modern steel-string acoustic”: Martin has introduced an all-new body shape that delivers dreadnought tones from a smaller build

In honor of the Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and 1930s that influenced the “Golden Era” acoustic boom, Martin has unveiled the O'ahu HG-28

Guitar World

Coldplay - Moon Music album review: sonically all over the place

From soulless stadium bangers to off-beat takes on club music, Coldplay’s 10th album shape-shifts about as much as the planet it’s named after

Evening Standard

“Gibby and Siouxsie Sioux were at my feet, wrestling around with a shotgun pointed at my head.” Butthole Surfers' guitarist Paul Leary looks back on the excitement of the first Lollapalooza tour

There's never a dull moment when Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes is around

Louder

“We might put an extra Slayer song into the set and learn a cover song or two”: Kerry King announces North American tour, releases Where I Reign music video

Slayer’s guitarist will bring his solo band across the US and Canada in the New Year

Metal Hammer

“We embarked on a mission to craft the ultimate pedalboards that meet Greg's every need”: Jam Pedals teams up with Greg Koch for Koch Ness Monster signature multi-effects units

Celebrating 15 years of partnership, the stompbox specialist digs into its greatest hits for two deluxe effects units – with the Supreme a $2,190 featuring an onboard Wahcko wah

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“I can just make music I like and it’ll **** off people I don’t like”: Zeal & Ardor on why metal gatekeeping is “funny” – plus Björk, Anthony Fantano, Mayhem and more

We tried to interview Zeal & Ardor mastermind Manuel Gagneux about gatekeeping. We ended up discussing Mayhem, Björk, Anthony Fantano and Mike Patton instead.

Metal Hammer

“My issues weren’t even with Limp Bizkit. They were with Fred.” Slipknot's Corey Taylor reflects on his 2000s feud with Fred Durst

Taylor looks back on one of his most famous beefs during an appearance on viral Youtube show Hot Ones

Guitar World

From “vicious” lines inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan to ice-cold leads in the style of Albert Collins, Philip Sayce channels the blues licks of the greats – and his masterclass will supercharge your pentatonic solos

The Canadian maestro is your instructor today, and for this lesson you're going to be digging deep for some Texas sizzle and red-hot pentatonic turnarounds

Evening Standard

Peter Andre dances with ex-cabinet minister during performance at Conservative Party conference

The singer joked the Tories had tried to “book Robbie Williams but he wouldn’t come” before launching into his set

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“My Reverend feels sturdy. I don’t like when it feels like the guitar I’m playing is gonna break. Vintage guitars scare me!” Meet Hello Mary’s Helena Straight, the ’90s-inspired, time signature-twisting player whose guitar caught the Cure’s attention

We get the story on how the Big Apple alt-rock trio are evolving in real time, aided and abetted by a well-stocked pedalboard and Reeves Gabrels’ signature Reverend

Guitar World

“I sold 120 of them because I don’t have room for them anymore”: Mike Campbell says he's quit buying guitars, despite his continuing “obsession”

“At this point,” the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitar-slinger tells GW, “buying them is kind of pathetic”

The National (Scotland)

Oasis ticket site accessed nearly 10,000 times on public sector server

SCOTTISH Government devices were among those used on a public sector server to access the Ticketmaster website almost 10,000 times on the day Oasis…

The Guardian - UK

Harder Than the Rock review – reggae’s unsung heroes finally get their moment

Cimarons, the UK’s first reggae band, played with Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley but barely made a penny; this heartwarming film follows their first gig in 30 years

The Guardian - UK

Coldplay: Moon Music review – ‘live, laugh, love’ in album form

Their 10th album has epic songs that make you feel like you’ve climbed Everest – but they’re undermined by corny lyrics and ambient-orchestral waffle

The National (Scotland)

Album buried underground in Orkney for more than a year takes charts number one spot

AN ALBUM by the “Banksy of classical music” that lay buried in Orkney for more than a year before being unearthed by fans has topped the UK…

Louder

"We were afraid that the Manson family that were still hanging out would come for us": This year Redd Kross will finally tell their story

Eight albums in shape-shifting rock’n’roll brothers Redd Kross are gearing up to take the next step up the ladder

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