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Post your questions for LL Cool J

As he prepares to release The Force, his first album in over a decade, the rapper and actor will take on your questions

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2024

If you can’t play syncopated rhythms, you can’t be a funk guitar player – and improving your groove will help your playing in all styles

Taking small chord shapes, single notes and 16th-note strums, we unpack the essentials for funk guitar and target those offbeats for rhythmic intrigue in your playing

Guitar World · Jul 29, 2024

"Lars felt so sorry that he got us a slot on the main stage.” Apocalyptica's Eicca Toppinen on stoned soundguys, collaborating with Metallica and how they helped revolutionise both metal and classical music

"Lars felt so sorry that he got us a slot on the main stage.” Apocalyptica's Eicca Toppinen on stoned soundguys, collaborating with Metallica and how they helped revolutionise both metal and classical music

Metal Hammer · Jul 29, 2024

Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple review – seeing Springsteen’s sidekick take on apartheid is an air-punch moment

He’s raised a ruckus with the Boss, smashed segregation in South Africa and sparkled in The Sopranos – this entertaining documentary showcases a wild life

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2024

“A bar for live rock music that is surely impossible to match.” Bruce Springsteen bosses it at England's national stadium

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: the world's greatest rock 'n' roll revue

Louder · Jul 28, 2024

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Dorothy, Jane's Addiction, Trucker Diablo and five other guardians of the rock'n'roll galaxy

Louder · Jul 28, 2024

KCON LA 2024 to air performances from some of K-pop's biggest names tonight

KCON LA 2024 is the first time a K-pop performance show will be broadcast on national TV in primetime

WhatToWatch · Jul 28, 2024

Martin Phillipps, founder of New Zealand rock band the Chills, dies at 61

Band set up by guitarist and lead singer in 1980 garnered cult following in Europe and US and had a number of hits

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2024

‘People of all ages get very emotional at our gigs’: how ‘trad punk’ folk band the Mary Wallopers became a live sensation

Their punked-up versions of traditional Irish songs have wowed audiences. Ahead of recording a third album, the Dundalk band talk about their journey from playing for beer and whisky to this year’s Glastonbury

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2024

From solo albums to The Smile and Peaky Blinders to Flea: the 10 best non-Radiohead Thom Yorke songs

The Radiohead frontman has built up a huge body of work away from the group and here’s some of his best

Louder · Jul 28, 2024