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Bob Dylan announces UK tour including three nights at the Royal Albert Hall

The Mr Tambourine Man hit-maker’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour will be a strictly phone-free affair

Evening Standard

“It has become impossible to continue business”: Fernandes Guitars – the company behind iconic electrics played by Billie Joe Armstrong, Kirk Hammett and Robert Fripp – has filed for bankruptcy

The Japanese firm, which was also behind the Sustainer pickup and Burny guitars, was founded in 1969

Guitar World

“John Mayer, you’ve been sleeping on a good jam”: Tash Sultana publicly invites John Mayer to a guitar duel

In the same social media video, Sultana teased potential new material with a blues-inspired jam

Guitar World

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“We have finally broken this thing”: Taylor Swift’s famous Eras Tour piano stops working yet again, but it lives to play another show

“I think my piano overheated - we’re just gonna restart,” said Swift, as the instrument let her down during Getaway Car

MusicRadar

“He played the guitar at the shop right after Bille Joe Armstrong”: How Yungblud came to play Steve Jones’ iconic Sex Pistols Les Paul onstage in Paris

The 1974 Gibson was bought at auction for $390,000 – now the owner is writing a new chapter in its history by loaning it to big name players

Guitar World

Is Pro Tools a worthy investment for home producers?

It’s an industry standard, but is Pro Tools still worth it in 2024? We weigh up the pros and cons

MusicRadar

Stevie Nicks' BST Hyde Park performance is "pure magic" and a "monumental outpouring of love" for one of rock's most influential icons

Stevie Nicks casts her magic spell over Hyde Park with huge solo hits, Fleetwood Mac anthems, a galore of capes and talk show-worthy gab

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“I played the slide part of Layla with Eric Clapton… 15 minutes later I was back in the office making copies”: Brian Wilson guitarist Probyn Gregory on living an incredible double life, between desk job and rock star

His cautious career approach has given him the chance to play Jeff Beck’s rig, avoid taking a doomed TV gig, bring Pet Sounds back to the stage – and help Wilson revive the Smile project he’d run away from in 1967

Guitar World

“You don't get many opportunities to own your guitar hero's amp, let alone the one and only...” Joe Bonamassa puts Lowell George’s Dumble amp through its paces – 45 years after it was last played publicly

The blues guitarist recently completed his 15-year quest to acquire the Little Feat slide maestro’s amp, now he’s demoed it a '50s maple neck Fender Stratocaster

Guitar World

“I look up and he’s sitting right next to me. He was super-fascinated with the EBow”: Pop session great Michael Thompson on the time he recorded guitar for Michael Jackson – and the King of Pop walked in mid-session

Thompson reveals what it was like to work on two of Michael Jackson's biggest tracks

Guitar World

“Some of the phrases here are played at breakneck speed”: Grammy-winning virtuoso Ardeshir Farah is a nylon-string acoustic wizard who fuses Iranian and Western music – and his techniques will expand your solos’ horizons

Farah is a player who will comfortably blow your mind – this lesson is for moderate/advanced players looking to up their alternate-picking game, scalar knowledge, and rhythmic subdivisions

Guitar World

“It’s no wonder Eddie had so much fun playing this!” Joe Satriani tackles a wealth of Van Halen classics in the first footage from the Best of All Worlds tour

Satch took on no less than 15 EVH songs in a set that was laden with Van Halen

Guitar World

Sleep Token add more dates to 2024 European tour

Vessel and the gang will be performing even more 'rituals' in Europe this winter!

Louder

“I wish I didn’t get paid. I wish I took a quarter point or something, ‘cause now I would be a rich man”: Slayer’s Kerry King on what he regrets about his solo on the Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Till Brooklyn

King reveals how he ended up playing on the Beastie Boys and Sum 41's records

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“If you want to go to the studio and spend $2,000 a day, take that and buy a laptop and a sample library or tell AI what song you want to make”: As the Record Plant looks set to close, an engineer says “there is no money in the recording music business”

“There are less and less rock bands and you could record Taylor Swift in a vocal booth the size of a closet"

The Guardian - US

Song of the summer 2024: writers pick their tracks of the season

From Sabrina Carpenter to Kendrick Lamar, Guardian writers pick out the songs that will be soundtracking their barbecues for the summer

Evening Standard

Stray Kids at BST Hyde Park: feel-good hits galore from K-pop's bright young things

Who needs footie anyway when you’ve got one of K-pop’s most exciting bands?

Louder

“A lot of the music I’ve made has had the goal of achieving something similar to Yes”: Steve Howe was the middle ground between Moby and his punk-hating guitar teacher

Electronica, ambient and rock artist still listens to Close To The Edge once a month

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The Independent UK

‘I feel sorry for London bands’: Why England’s North West is guitar hero utopia

While their London counterparts are struggling, bands like Courteeners and Blossoms are thriving. Michael Hann speaks to the musicians, politicians, and industry figures about what makes this corner of the country so hospitable for burgeoning guitar groups looking to make a splash

Louder

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Larkin Poe, Blues Pills, Joanne Shaw Taylor and five other future rock superstars

MusicRadar

"When it comes down to chords, we don’t often spend much time talking about Brian May – until now": learn 4 from his Queen classics

A crazy little thing called Dsus4

Louder

"Playing live to 100 million people. It gets to you at times": The chaotic story of the day Pink Floyd hired an oil rig to play Venice and the mayor lost his job

It was supposed to be just another Pink Floyd extravaganza. Nobody expected blackmail and a scandal that forced a city's mayor to resign

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Taylor Swift Swallows Bug During Milan Concert On Eras Tour

Taylor Swift's bug mishap, unique mashup, and Travis Kelce's influence during her Eras Tour concert in Milan.

The Guardian - AU

Critic’s pick: Agung Mango, the genre-smashing rapper leaping through time and space

The Melbourne artist belongs to new wave of psychedelic Australian hip-hop – and his new album excavates his cultural lineage in profound, explosive ways

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