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“Derek, you could play slide with a ham sandwich and make it sound good”: Watch Derek Trucks use a drumstick as a slide and still make his guitar sing

Most players have a preference for brass, glass, or maybe something ceramic, but the Tedeschi Trucks Band slide guitar maestro proved that anything goes when you've got the chops

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"We knew that something about it was really special, but we could not figure it out. Was it the key? Was it the verses?”: Producer and songwriter Dan Nigro on finding the gold in Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe!

“It's a song we wrestled with for a while. We laid down a demo, and the two of us felt like it wasn't right,” he says

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“These amps just breathe like a well-rounded tube amp, no matter what you throw at them”: Can solid-state amps compete with tubes? Laney thinks its Lionheart Foundry combos are up to the challenge

Affordable, giggable and lightweight, the 60W analog combos also boast impulse responses for easy recording

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The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Tom Morello, Tribulation and Beast In Black are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

Girls Aloud have triumphant O2 Arena closing night after slashing ticket prices to only £21

The group was forced to offer 60% discounted tickets after struggling to fill seats

Evening Standard

“Now let’s check out the weird knob”: Shabat built Dweezil Zappa a new signature guitar and it is an HSS S-style “rock machine” like no other

Zappa's new guitar is a hotrodded Lynx with Lollar pickups, a Vega-Trem, and it has a weird but brilliant secret mode that sounds like an octaver. Watch him put it through its paces

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Shania Twain: 'Playing the Glastonbury Legend’s slot? It’s a real holy s**t moment!"

From taking on the festival circuit’s biggest booking, to revealing news of a biopic ain the works, everything’s coming up Shania this summer.

Evening Standard

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“There’s no questioning the rock-solid protection it affords your guitar, or the efforts Fender has gone to to create a nicely priced case that offers a premium feel”: Fender F1225 Electric Guitar Gig Bag review

Fender’s nicely priced, top-of-the-line gig bag combines the best features of hard and soft cases

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Motorpsycho announce Neigh!!, a collection of "songs that won’t fit on an album"

Norwegian psych/proggers Motorpsycho will release Neigh!!, a companion to last year's Yay! album, in August

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“After almost 50 years, Hans Lundin is to be applauded for continuing to produce such rewarding music”: Kaipa’s Sommargryningsljus

Sole remaining founding member provides “summer dawn light” featuring entrancing vocals and an awe-inspiring line-up

Louder

“We were sleeping on the floor, stealing food, stealing bikes”: Metallica turned to “thieving” to survive the early ’80s, says James Hetfield

While recording at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Metallica had to “borrow [things] forever” to make ends meet

Metal Hammer

Billy Ray Cyrus Shares the "Advice" He Takes From Daughter Noah Cyrus "When Times Are Tough"

The country singer is currently in the process of divorcing from wife Firerose.

Marie Claire

Away from the crowds, rare backstage footage shows Amy Winehouse covering a classic Beatles song at Glastonbury 2004

The then 20-year-old star performed a rearranged version of All My Loving in the year that she shared the bill with Paul McCartney

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"Foo Fighters aren't just putting on a show, they're putting on the biggest rock'n'roll celebration on the planet." With a three-hour, 27 song setlist plus a hometown Geezer Butler appearance, Foo Fighters end their UK tour on an almighty high

Dave Grohl and co. close out their Everything Or Nothing At All UK tour in the Home Of Metal - Birmingham

Louder

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“We used to boil all our strings so all the crap would come off them. We couldn’t afford to buy new strings”: Geezer Butler explains how Black Sabbath managed to make ends meet as emerging heavy metal pioneers

Before they made a name for themselves, Sabbath were forced to save cash any way they could – and Butler’s bass strings took the hit

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Lupita Nyong'o Wrote to Taylor Swift to Personally Ask Her to Use 'Shake It Off' in 'Little Monsters'

The song had previously helped her get out of a dark place.

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Six-year-old wins lucky draw to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour gig in Dublin

American singer kicks off long-awaited Dublin leg of Eras tour on 28 June

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #145: Performers on their must-watch Glastonbury sets, from Charli XCX to Yard Act

In this week’s newsletter: From exciting new acts to the big names, this year’s lineup is packed to the rafters. Here’s who Paul Heaton, Nia Archives and more recommend

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“I miss him every minute, of course. I talk to him every day”: Avicii’s father talks about his grief as footage of last ever gig gets wider release

New footage is uploaded on Youtube of Avicii's last Swedish gig

The Guardian - UK

‘He was greater than Bob Marley’: the shocking tale of Jamaican ska pioneer Don Drummond

Inspired by a boxing, DJing nun, the trombonist laid down the foundations of reggae – but he was also a schizophrenic who killed his girlfriend, Jamaica’s ‘rhumba queen’ Margarita. A new graphic novel retells their stories

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m literally a superstar!’: the irresistible confidence of Nigerian singer-songwriter Ayra Starr

Moving around a lot as a child taught the 22-year-old to listen and absorb myriad musical influences. Now she’s combined them into a Grammy-nominated cocktail of R&B and Afrobeats and is ready to conquer Glasto

Metal Hammer

Rage Against The Machine icon Tom Morello collaborates with son Roman on new solo song, Soldier In The Army Of Love

The track is the first taste of Morello’s “first-ever full-length solo rock album”

Louder

Stuckfish unveil new keyboard player on upcoming album IV

UK prog rockers Stuckfish will release their brand new album IV in September

Evening Standard

Crazy Town star Shifty Shellshock’s cause of death aged 49 revealed

Binzer, who was known by his stage name Shifty Shellshock, is best known for the song Butterfly

Metal Hammer

Babymetal have released full, pro-shot video of their set at Hellfest 2024 – watch here

The kawaii metal idols played a hit-stacked set in France last night, and you can watch the whole thing now

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