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"If I hear a white-boy blues band now where it's a squeaky clean mix, I just want to vomit." All Them Witches' new album House Of Mirrors is steeped in the blues – but it rages

Having almost called it quits a couple of years ago, All Them Witches cast an excellent spell with their new album House Of Mirrors – and there’s more magic brewing for the future

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Watch "Weird Al" Yankovic's guitarist singing Rush's Cygnus X-1 Book II in a bathroom in Missouri

Meet Payton Rose Velligan: She sings Rush in the bathroom

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Rival Sons announce Domestic Bliss US tour

Rival Sons have also confirmed that they're working on a new album

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Jimmy Page on Presence: "You don't make music like that falling about in the street drunk"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page reflects on the making of the band's 1976 album Presence, recorded in difficult circumstances in just three weeks

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“I’m not going to tell you which ones they are”: John Mayer has been using his plugin in the studio, and he doesn’t think you’ll notice

The tube amp purist joined the digital age with a Neural DSP plugin last year, and now it's found its way onto his records

Guitar World

Tinie Tempah cites support of grassroots venues as ‘motivation’ for new music

The rapper hopes to ‘raise awareness and advocate for the next generation of artists’ that need these spaces.

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I Wasn't Fully Sold On Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Getting Married At Madison Square Garden, But New Evidence Convinced Me

I think I see the vision now.

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Kings of Convenience coming to Bangkok

Music fans in Bangkok can look forward to an intimate year-end performance as the pop duo Kings of Convenience return to Thailand for Maho Rasop Series: Kings of Convenience by HAVE YOU HEARD?, on Dec 1 at SiamPic Hall.

Bangkok Post

Sam Smith releases new single and announces fifth studio album

The 34-year old released the lead single, My Guy, on Wednesday and announced that their upcoming album, Hazel Eyes will be out later this summer.

Evening Standard

“We kept experimenting for our whole career as INXS, which is probably insane from a commercial point of view”: Multi-million selling songwriter Andrew Farriss on his band’s genre-hopping early days – and why he’s now making country music

“I like co-writing with people, but I also enjoy just trusting myself to write the song”

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George Michael asked Chinese to ‘have a quick dance’ during historic tour

Wham! appear in a newly released trailer for the upcoming documentary 10 Days In China about their 1985 visit.

Evening Standard

“He was like, ‘If you want to be a real guitar player, you got to play righty. They don’t make great left-handed guitars’”: The advice Jared James Nichols took –and the bad advice he ignored –to develop his electric fingerstyle

In a journey that took him from rural Wisconsin to world stages, Nichols reflects on the fingerstyle players who inspired him

Guitar World

Olivia Rodrigo fans slam indie musician for ‘weird’ comment about singer’s all-female festival

Jacob Tomsky said that Rodrigo’s newly announced festival ‘feels like some forced promo for a festival’

The Independent UK

“I got really disillusioned with my playing... There were these other guitarists coming up around the block, and they could really play”: How the ’80s guitar scene left Jeff Beck feeling like an “observer”

He helped change the instrumental guitar scene forever. Then it nearly killed his career

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“We’re giving people candy with razor blades in it!” When caring about the world is the most radical thing we can do, dark proggers Crippled Black Phoenix lead the way

Rejecting efforts to silence and define them, their new album Sceaduhelm is more thoughtful than ever – but also more accessible

Guitar World

“I got the engineer sitting here, Gene’s standing up, Paul’s on the other side, looking at me. He goes, ‘We need an eight-bar solo’”: The short-lived Kiss guitarist who was supposed to succeed Ace Frehley

After Ace Frehley decided to leave the Kiss circus in 1982, Paul Stanley and co. were left without a lead guitarist for Creatures of the Night. One session player got the opportunity of a lifetime...

The Independent UK

Gary Numan says way he attracted his wife ‘might be illegal now’

Pop singer first met his wife when she was still in school

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Taylor Swift’s Sweet Surprise for George Kittle at Tight End University Proves They’re BFFs Forever

The pop star dedicated a very special song to Kittle.

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“It just got ranked – what? – 75th or 76th best guitar solo of all time”: How Jim Adkins nailed his solo on the Jimmy Eat World smash-hit that Taylor Swift and Prince covered

The Middle needed a big solo to go with its over-sized hooks, and on the spot, with a Telecaster in hand, Adkins found one

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“The spark that made heavy music interesting wasn’t there for me anymore”: How British metal didn’t quite rule the 90s

Bands from Cradle Of Filth to Paradise Lost seemed ready to thrust British metal back to the forefront. But then nu metal kicked off and swung the pendulum back to the States. This is the story of the takeover that didn’t happen.

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"As soon as you got into the lift there were naked women painted green." Inside the wild 1986 party where Queen teamed up with Samantha Fox and Gary Glitter to entertain 500 celebrity friends

In July '86, billed as Dicky Hart and The Pacemakers, Queen played one of the most star-studded gigs of their career in a London club

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The best plugins for re-creating the grit and punch of classic analog drum machines

If you love the sound of an analog drum machine, but don’t want to splash-out on vintage hardware, here’s our pick of the best vintage machines, in hardware and software form

Evening Standard

Harry Styles shares strict warning with Wembley fans as he performs in 37C heatwave

Wembley Stadium has relaxed its rules for Styles’ concert on Friday amid the 37C heatwave

Guitar World

A mad idea made real: Meet the ADDAC Four String, a modular synth and lap steel hybrid that looks totally bonkers

The ADDAC System Four String Series marries its Eurorack modular synth with pluckable strings and a host of quirky pickup and performance modules

Guitar World

“Once again, Chris wanted to save Soundgarden. We all knew there was unhappiness”: Sleep’s new guitarist was once nearly drafted into Soundgarden

In his new memoir, Kim Thayil reveals that Chris Cornell wanted Bubba Dupree to join Soundgarden before they split up in the late ’90s

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