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Taylor Swift's former teacher just made some very interesting comments about her

Marie Claire

John Mayer and Kenny Wayne Shepherd are two of the biggest names in modern blues – and boy, do they know how to introduce a guitar solo

Learn how to phrase spellbending blues intro licks in the style of Kenny Wayne Shepherd and John Mayer

Guitar World

“Ace Frehley is very good at creating a song within a song when it comes to solos, and I've always thought along those lines”: Rock City Machine Co. went from KISS Army to KISS collaborators. Now they're going it alone.

Ryan Cook and Jeremy Asbrock have worked with Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons, but say it’s time for them to stand on their own, er, four feet...

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“Metal guitars have more bite, but they lose some of the meat on the attack. Les Pauls are very meaty – there’s a big chunk of tonal range there”: Why a baritone Les Paul is proving the perfect prog metal weapon for Wheel’s James Lascelles

Upcoming third album, Charismatic Leaders, kickstarts a new era for the Finnish prog-metallers with a sound that’s stubbornly traditional but powerfully progressive

Guitar World

“Plenty of great functionality to make your life easier and assuage any fears of signal or battery loss”: Boss WL-50 review

We put Boss’ pedalboard-friendly wireless guitar system to the test, seeing how it holds up to some stiff competition

Guitar World

“I never learned any barre chords... all I’ve ever learned was ‘oompah oompah’. It drove me to either give up guitar or start writing music”: Josh Homme reveals how learning polka as a kid developed his off-kilter guitar playing style

Josh Homme reveals how learning polka in childhood gave way to his off-kilter guitar playing style

Guitar World

“I use pedals for timbral changes on guitar – it’s like a horn where your breath affects the tone”: Meet Ava Mendoza the punk-reared jazz guitar maverick turning breath work to fretwork

Echolocation is the sound of a player reared on punk taking what you might call jazz into a new place

Guitar World

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“If you think your addiction to synths and studio gear is out of control, imagine being in Depeche Mode”: We'd forgotten quite how much of the band's gear Alan Wilder shifted in his legendary auction, and just how many bargains were up for grabs

An Oberheim and Minimoog went for a song, but it was a Martin Gore guitar and E-mu sampler that stole the show

MusicRadar

‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour

As Taylor Swift tops $1bn in tour revenue, musicians playing smaller venues are facing pitiful fees and frequent losses. Should the state step in to save our live music scene?

The Guardian - UK

“Dad would never touch the gunk that had built up on the fingerboard. He told me, ‘The dirt keeps the funk’”: Inside the sound and style of Motown master James Jamerson

Five top low-enders with links to the bass great dissect the James Jamerson style

Guitar World

Moody Blues founding member Mike Pinder dead at 82

Keyboard player Mike Pinder had been the last surviving founding member of the band

Louder

“I instinctively dislike ‘try hard’ musicians. I pretty much learned my bass rudiments from Led Zeppelin II”: Why Squarepusher is an artist in a vast left-field league of his own

You may or may not know Squarepusher (aka Tom Jenkinson), but chances are he doesn’t care to know you

Guitar World

Music theory you can use: How to create a chord progression from any melody

12 easy steps to harmonising in your DAW

MusicRadar

"OU frequently sound like they’ve beamed in from the 25th century." Devin Townsend-approved Chinese metallers OU take prog metal into strange new worlds on II: Frailty

Hailing from Beijing and sounding like they come from outer space, China's OU are pushing boundaries with new album II: Frailty

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"At 78-years old, he's lost none of his chops and remains in fine voice." David Gilmour's The Piper Calls - the first review

David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

Louder

Watch Kelly Clarkson sing Heart's Crazy On You with Nancy Wilson on guitar while Ann Wilson looks on

Ann and Nancy Wilson appeared on the Kelly Clarkson show and told the sordid story behind Barracuda

Louder

Cyril Davies was a grumpy, balding panel beater who "drank bourbon like a fish": He also inspired a generation of rock musicians – and has been all but airbrushed out of history

What do The Kinks, Stones and The Who all have in common? For one thing, a harmonica-playing bluesman nicknamed 'Squirrel'

Evening Standard

Daniel Bedingfield reveals ordeal with call centre stalker who is still at large

EXCLUSIVE The Gotta Get Thru This hitmaker recently returned to the spotlight after 20 years, but admits he still has some trepidation over it

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“He said things like, ’Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there?’… He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine”: David Gilmour’s first solo album in 9 years features a new producer tearing up the rulebook

The first single from Luck and Strange drops tomorrow

Guitar World

“He was a big driver of the band… I would consider him very underrated, too”: Jason Isbell and Luther Dickinson pay tribute to Dickey Betts with an extended take on In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Isbell, Dickinson and Sadler Vaden paid homage to Betts with a three-guitar salute on the Allman Brothers classic

International Business Times

A Swiftie Half? Fans Flock To London Pub Namechecked By US Star

"The Black Dog" was a quiet London pub until it became a pilgrimage site for Taylor Swift fans who identified it from a song on the US megastar's latest album.

Marie Claire

Taylor Swift’s Elementary School Teachers Say She “Was Always Writing Poetry”

Turns out, the “Bad Blood” singer was a tortured poet at a very young age.

Guitar World

“When we were trying out drummers none of them worked out because their drumming just didn’t click in with Johnny’s guitar style”: Tommy Ramone on why Johnny Ramone's playing forced him to switch from managing to drumming

Johnny Ramone’s strumming technique contributed to the lightning-in-a-bottle sound of the band’s debut album

Metal Hammer

“My role in the black metal scene is probably exaggerated, because I was a visible frontman… In many ways I was just the nerd making music”: Ihsahn has never stopped progressing, and can’t understand why others did

The avant-garde maestro explains why his new, self-titled album is his most definitive, complex and atmospheric release yet

MusicRadar

"The piece of gear that I use the most? The Behringer Poly D. For such a low price, the sound and capabilities still surprise me": Producer/DJ Kartell on his career and gear - plus 3 top tips

New album Everything Is Here expands Kartell's already diverse sound in new directions, taking cues from ‘70s soft rock and alt hip-hop. We hear more about how the project was made

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