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"I can tell you one thing: it’s been one of the most exciting times of my life, because these songs are that good": Jane’s Addiction's original line-up returns to the stage as North American tour announced

Jane's Addiction original line up return live. Plus they announce North American tour

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Amyl and The Sniffers reveal UK and European tour plans, share defiant new single calling out jealous and judgemental "40-year-old metalheads"

Amyl and The Sniffers lay bare plans to rampage through the UK and Europe in November

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“I used to pretend to be in their band in the mirror and sing along to the album when I was nine”: Ed Sheeran picks up an electric guitar for a high-octane appearance with The Offspring

Ed Sheeran brandished his Lowden GL-10 and an Offspring tee as he joined the band for a special rendition of Million Miles Away

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Munich’s Oktoberfest to ban Italian disco hit co-opted by far right

Managers say no place at beer festival for song adapted with Nazi slogan ‘Germany for the Germans, foreigners out’

The Guardian - UK

“I picked him up and we drove by a music shop. I said, 'Do you want to pick a guitar up?' and we did – one of his Eddie Van Halen ones”: Tony Iommi on that time Eddie Van Halen helped co-write a Black Sabbath song – but didn’t get a credit

Van Halen joined the band for a rehearsal in Birmingham, England, and ended up contributing a solo to a track

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“The paramedics told me I should have been dead. I had enough heroin and cocaine in me to kill a horse.” In the '90s, Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan embarked upon a drug-fuelled “death trip”, and very nearly arrived at his intended destination

On May 28, 1996, Depeche Mode vocalist Dave Gahan 'died' for two minutes in a Los Angeles hospital. He woke up handcuffed to a policeman

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Bristol art-rock trio Beak> surprise release fourth album >>>>

Bristolian krautrock-inspired trio Beak> will tour the UK and Europe from October to December

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Spunk Records goes out on a high: ‘Like a mixtape from your coolest friend’

After 25 years and almost 700 albums, the tastemaker who brought Belle and Sebastian and Arcade Fire to Australia are shutting up shop

The Guardian - AU

"If you want to write a classic pop song, use these chords: Ab, Bb, G minor 7th, C minor. You can’t go wrong with that": How to make a track that sounds like The Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys have just released a new album, Nonetheless, so it’s a great time to show you how to create some of their signature sounds for free

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Duster review – indie rockers impress amid unlikely TikTok renaissance

Now streaming in huge numbers long after their mid-90s years, the Californians’ nuanced yet forceful delivery punches in all the right places

The Guardian - UK

Jane's Addiction's original line-up announce co-headlining tour of North America with Love And Rockets

Following their first shows together in 14 years, Jane's Addiction's original line-up unveil dates in the US and Canada

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“We were playing so loudly, you could see that we were tiring people out”: Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham on the development that changed the amp game forever

Scott Gorham reveals that, before this amp upgrade, he and fellow Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson played so loud that amp mics couldn't take it

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Lady Gaga performed on stage with Covid. Did we learn nothing from the pandemic?

The revelation that the popstar was ill during five shows has led to many celebrating her work ethic. It’s yet more evidence that our dangerous, damaging hustle culture is here to stay, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Jane’s Addiction review – original lineup, same thrilling riff-driven thrashers

A feral Perry Farrell, a prowling Eric Avery and Dave Navarro making his guitar sound like a chainsaw – the alt-rock band flex their rediscovered mojo

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“I realized there’s no way to play the Van Halen stuff on my rig – it’s a different animal”: Joe Satriani has seemingly switched out his Ibanez guitars to play Van Halen material on the Best of All Worlds Tour

Satch is having an amp custom-made for the tour – and now it looks like he's got a new guitar and pedalboard, too

The Independent UK

ABBA stars reveal ‘proudest’ career achievement

Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson reflected on the two-year anniversary of Abba Voyage

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“An enchanting brew of grunge and shoegaze with the DIY attitude of riot grrrl punk.” Twin sisters Softcult continue to evolve in thrilling new ways on Heaven

Canadian sisters Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn expand their riotgaze sound on new EP, Heaven

Louder

“Every record has its hilarity and dark nights of the soul.” Every St. Vincent album in her own words

St. Vincent has one of the most bold, original and acclaimed catalogues in modern rock. Annie Clark talks us through every album

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“Brian walked up to me and said, ‘I dig that.’ I was finger-tapping with my right hand. He says, ‘I'm going to nick that from you!’” The mystery virtuoso who inspired Brian May to two-hand tap recalls the exact moment it happened

The Queen guitarist credited an unnamed Texan guitarist as the player who inspired him to hone his two-hand tapping chops. Now, after much speculation, his identity has been confirmed

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“When I saw it, I just was blown away. It just… took me there”: Eddie Vedder invites his “great, great pal” Bradley Cooper to join Pearl Jam for Neil Young and A Star is Born covers

Bradley Cooper dueted with Eddie Vedder on the A Star is Born track Maybe It's Time, featuring Vedder on guitar

The Independent UK

One-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album set to be played in public for first time

Only a single copy of the album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which the band intended as an artwork, exists

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Now, you can hear the world's rarest album: "Every once in a while, an object on this planet possesses mystical properties that transcend its material circumstances"

Only copy of Wu Tang Clan's Once Upon A Time In Shaolin to be displayed in Australia

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“At some point, Slash was going to come play. Chris Robinson just said, ‘Let bud play. He could do this in a heartbeat’”: Why the Black Crowes’ Hard to Handle guitar solo was played by producer Brendan O’Brien instead of Slash

Legendary producer and multi-instrumentalist Brendan O’Brien sets the record straight on whether he played all the instruments on The Black Crowes’ debut album

Louder

“I used to pretend to be in their band in the mirror.” Watch Ed Sheeran live out “a childhood dream” by joining pop-punk legends The Offspring onstage in California

Dreams can come true, if you're Ed Sheeran at least

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“When I was very young I didn’t have access to Western music. In 2016, I was first introduced to Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix”: Mdou Moctar is one of Africa’s premier guitar heroes – and he’s using his Stratocaster to spark a revolution

As the Niger guitarist releases a bristling new collection of protest songs, he explains how injustice puts the fire in his fingers, what keeps him loyal to the Strat, and why everybody in his hometown wants to play guitar

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