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"I think the blues can be very beneficial on a medicinal level": Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks pick the blues albums that are good for your health

Everybody’s favourite husband-and-wife team flip through their record collection and dig out the platters that truly matter

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"It's almost like a template of how a hard rock band playing a rock'n'roll tune should be": Ian Paice's eight favourite Deep Purple songs

Eight personal favourites from Deep Purple's only ever-present member, drummer Ian Paice

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Drake And Kendrick Lamar's Intense Hip-Hop Feud Timeline

Explore the escalating feud between hip-hop artists Drake and Kendrick Lamar, with diss tracks and verbal jabs drawing attention from fans and the media.

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Guitar formerly owned by Prince could fetch $600,000 at auction

Cloud 3 used at height of his stardom may beat estimate and become most expensive of late musician’s guitars

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“I have never experienced anything like that. It was like piano strings, and it was so far off the neck”: Lee Ritenour on the time BB King invited him to play Lucille and the guitar made him work for every note

Ritenour says nobody on the planet could play like BB King did, and the King of the Blues' trademark vibrato was all the more remarkable on such an uncompromising guitar setup

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"I can't stand them": Slash reveals he isn't a fan of using in-ear monitors live, but he does like using guitar plugins in the studio

"I've been tweaking them like crazy" Slash says of his ongoing battles with the "necessary evil" of using in-ears

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Bambie Thug reveals 'pressure' to break Ireland's Eurovision curse as they tease 'magic' performance

The Cork-born singer hopes to lead Ireland to the final for the first time in six years with their track Doomsday Blue

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Epica singer Simone Simons announces debut solo album Vermillion, lead single Aeterna now streaming

Epica’s lead vocalist is going it alone, with help from Ayreon mainstay Arjen Lucassen

Metal Hammer

“I was obsessed with Kittie.” Alt. pop star Caroline Polachek reveals the musical awakenings which led up to her new “straight-up grunge” single Starburned and Unkissed

Caroline Polachek reveals her early grunge-adjacent inspirations

Metal Hammer

“As far as the 80s are concerned, we’re in for some very good heavy metal years”: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford predicted the future of metal in 1979

45 years ago, Judas Priest’s Metal God explained why people love heavy metal. What he said is still accurate in 2024.

Metal Hammer

How to watch ‘Eurovision 2024’ online: live stream semi-finals and final from anywhere

Get ready for Eurovision fever as 37 acts compete to win the world’s largest singing competition. Here we explain how to watch “Eurovision 2024” online from anywhere in the world.

Tom’s Guide

"My band is not a solo project. My band is the band I intend to play with until the end of time.” Kerry King admits that yes, he will be playing Slayer songs this summer, but only select cuts

Curious about the setlist Kerry King's new band will be playing this summer? The thrash metal legend sheds some light

Metal Hammer

“Open the doors to versatility, creativity, and otherworldly sounds”: Red Witch aims to harness Frank Zappa and Carlos Santana tones with its new sample hold filter pedal – but it’s limited to just 59 units

The Euphemia offers the ability to alter the effect’s speed, aggression, velocity, and wet/dry mix while also unlocking the ‘notched’ EQ sounds of Brian May and Carlos Santana

Guitar World

“Derek looks so proud during Duane’s solo – like a brother would”: Duane Betts and Derek Trucks trade solos for the first time since Dickey Betts’ passing with emotional cover of the Allman Brothers Band’s Dreams

The pair made guest appearances during each of their sets at Miami’s Sun, Sand and Soul festival, paying tribute to Dickey Betts, who died last month

Guitar World

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“The producer was able to see through me to be like, ‘You don’t sound like you believe any of this.’ I love that psychology”: District 97’s Leslie Hunt took singing lessons before she tracked Stay For The Ending

Chicago outfit’s prog and pop balancing act benefitted from listening to their fans – and Bill Bruford

Evening Standard

Eurovision Song Contest 2024: tonight's semi-final 1 running order revealed

The first semi-final kicks off tonight

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“I didn’t realise how much Him meant to people”: Ville Valo on the legacy of Him, finishing up with VV and the music that comes next

The goth metal beloved talks about his impending Royal Albert Hall show, drawing VV to a close and why he won’t play a Him album live in full

Guitar World

“Technically, he was such a gifted and bluesy player. I’m not a really good soloist – but I know how to sit down, learn, and get work done”: Jakob Nowell, son of Sublime’s Bradley, is picking up his late dad’s guitar to reunite the band and the family

Jakob Nowell doesn’t sing or play like his father, and spent years trying to avoid riding his coattails – but he’s determined to get the reactivation of the ’90s punk-rock icons right, and in his own way

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Robert Trujillo reflects on first Metallica shows: “What I remember most was not knowing what the setlist was gonna be each night”

Between learning songs on the spot and playing to prison convicts, Metallica’s bassist had a hectic first few gigs with the band

Guitar World

“I thought, ‘OK, I’ll prove myself. I’m not a guy, so if I prove myself a little bit harder, then I might be noticed and taken seriously as a player’”: Nancy Wilson on the making of her acoustic masterpiece turned Instagram guitar staple

Nancy Wilson reveals Yes were a big songwriting inspiration behind 1980 acoustic classic Silver Wheels

Guitar World

“If it makes it more accessible and achievable for girls to chase their dreams, then it’s a win in my book”: Gibson’s Miranda Lambert Bluebird was its best-selling signature acoustic of the past year. Now there’s a much more affordable Epiphone model

Costing nearly $4,000 less than the Gibson version while retaining very similar features, Lambert's second signature model updates the Hummingbird for the next generation of acoustic artists

Guitar World

“The light weight, raw resonance and superb playability more than tick the working guitar box”: Manson Guitar Works Verona Junior review

The latest release from Matt Bellamy’s guitar brand is a single-pickup workhorse that comes in two body shapes with uncompromised playability and sound at an aggressive price. Prepare to be impressed

Guitar World

“There’s an early No Doubt song which might as well be full-on heavy metal, if you want to hear Gwen singing for Black Sabbath. And there’s an absolutely shredding solo!” No Doubt’s Tom Dumont names 10 guitarists (and one genre) that shaped his sound

The No Doubt and Dreamcar guitarist attempted two Rush songs at a seventh-grade talent show, chunked up on Black Sabbath and later named his son after Ace Frehley – but reggae got deepest into his heart

Salon

A timeline of Drake and Kendrick's beef

From allegations of pedophilia and domestic violence, here is the background of the rappers' icy relations

Guitar World

“This recognition holds immense significance for me”: Gary Clark Jr. joins Carlos Santana and Van Halen on Guitar Center Hollywood’s iconic RockWalk

The RockWalk ceremony made its return to Los Angeles for the first time in six years

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