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“People think of them as a heavy metal band, but they swing. It‘s not just bash bash bash”: how Deep Purple changed Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith’s life

RHCP drummer Chad Smith is a card-carrying Deep Purple fan, and here he explains why

Louder

“Guys would come up and tell me, ‘I can play such-and-such a Tower of Power song note-for-note.’ But who cares?” The magic of Rocco Prestia’s bassline on Tower of Power’s Only So Much Oil in the Ground

How to play Rocco Prestia’s classic Tower of Power bassline

Guitar World

"Rap purists wouldn't dig us as we weren't straight-up rap. We weren't an indie group, or a rock group": Stereo MC Rob Birch on the making of classic '90s album Connected

Connected was the sound of the Stereo MCs' summer, but it became the soundtrack to dance music's year

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"The result is a track that perfectly encapsulates the 'anything goes' atmosphere of the early '90s, and makes a great Christmas record for the discerning raver": The top 10 most unlikely sample sources

Aled Jones meets rave and Macaulay Culkin goes jungle

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“Everybody hated punks in the 80s. It made it cool. It weeded people out”: how skate punk changed metal forever in the 1980s

Thanks to Suicidal Tendencies, JFA, Dr Know and more, skate punk was the fastest, most violent sound of the early 80s

Metal Hammer

How to play mono synth properly: the skills you need to master

How playing mono synths differs from standard keyboards

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"I miss playing those songs, I miss being that drummer": Dave Grohl on the time Nirvana reunited at Cal Jam 2018

Grohl was joined by Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear and two guest vocalists to run through six Nirvana classics at his own festival

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Sugababes say they're 'grateful and blessed to have the legacy we have' as they tease new music

EXCLUSIVE: The girl group also reveal what the ultimate night out with them would be like and it includes cocktails and karaoke

Evening Standard

“A plaintive joy throughout, informed by painful experiences… not an album that feels sorry for itself”: Kavus Torabi’s The Banishing

Psychedelic polymath draws a line under a recent difficult past with a personal form of ritual exorcism

Louder

Abba: Against the Odds on BBC One review: a slick retelling of how pop's pioneers rose to the top

Drawing on archival footage and interviews, it’s a fascinating look at a band the world once thought too cheesy

Evening Standard

Richie Sambora Reflects On Abrupt Bon Jovi Departure

Richie Sambora reflects on his departure from Bon Jovi in 2013 due to personal reasons and the impact on band dynamics.

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New tiradera? Anuel AA's track compares Bad Bunny & Jenner's relationship to Diddy-Cassie scandal

Anuel AA compares Bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner's relationship with Diddy's and the ex girlfriend who accused him of domestic violence in his new song "Toki."

Latin Times

Moonheads, Assemble: Here's Everything to Know About August Moon from 'The Idea of You'

The fictional boy band from the new rom-com was inspired by BTS, *NSYNC, and One Direction.

Marie Claire

“I thought he was gonna hook me”: Fran Healy remembers when Travis 'lifted' Noel Gallagher's chords to Wonderwall

"I thought, 'I’m never going to meet Noel Gallagher in a million years'" – then Travis ended up supporting Oasis

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“From 1993 to 2004 those amps were over half of our business”: How the Mesa-Boogie Dual Rectifier defined the high-gain guitar sound of the 1990s

Originally crafted for the hair metal crowd, but only finished after the grunge tidal wave, the Dual Rectifier was nonetheless an era-defining success

Guitar World

Build a whole new lickbag with our country-blues masterclass – featuring licks inspired by Dickey Betts, Albert Lee, and Brent Mason

Learn how you can mix major and minor pentatonics, and add extra notes to give your solos a wide open space to roam in, with this deep dive into country-blues guitar

Guitar World

“Eddie Van Halen’s main solo is a greatest hits of all his best guitar licks”: Dweezil Zappa issues update for What the Hell Was I Thinking? – his ambitious mega-track featuring Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian May and more

The track features solos from “at least 40” superstar guitarists, and its mastermind says finishing the 35-years-in-the-making mammoth is now a big focus

Guitar World

“There’s not a guitar teacher in the world that would ever teach anyone to play a guitar like that”: Buzz Osborne thinks Jimi Hendrix is one of the greatest guitarists ever – but says his technique was “wrong”

“Hendrix played weird!” says the Melvins maestro

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Triad chords could be your new secret guitar weapon: here are 3 reasons why

Get to grips with the three-note chords that could be game-changers for your playing – just like Hendrix, Mayer and Frusciante

Metal Hammer

Every Leprous album ranked from worst to best

Ranking a back-catalogue as incredible as the Norwegian prog masters’ is a near-impossible job, but someone had to do it

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"I was probably off my head... it wasn't meant to be a novelty record, it was meant to be an underground record": The story of The Prodigy’s cartoon-sampling rave hit Charly

How Liam Howlett concocted one of ‘90s rave’s most iconic tracks with two Roland W-30 keyboards and a turntable in his bedroom

Guitar World

“Ronnie gave me great advice about building a guitar solo... left to my own devices, it would have been a case of how many notes I could fit in!”: Vivian Campbell looks back on the 1984 Dio classic The Last In Line

How do you follow Holy Diver? That was the question facing Ronnie James Dio and his young band. The answer: is you double down on the metal anthems and record a stone cold classic

Android Central

Instagram's new Stories stickers let you turn your story into a music template

Instagram is rolling out new Story stickers to make hanging with your friends even more fun.

Guitar World

“I swear that guitar plays itself… Who’d have thought a 16-year-old girl like me could suddenly have this crazy connection with Jerry Garcia?” Meet Bella Rayne, the guitarist who jumped from Mom’s Strat to wielding Garcia’s ’Gator onstage

Bay Area grunge fan, who started playing during lockdown, is loaded with advice for other young guitarists – and she’s even starting to heed it herself

Evening Standard

How much are Billie Eilish tour tickets?Fans call prices 'ridiculous'

Tickets are available now to the public – but how much will they set you back?

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