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NAMM 2024: “The first time in the history of guitar amplification”: Laney breaks new ground as its new BCC Ironheart tube amps are released alongside a matching plugin

The UK amp firm is erasing the lines between its physical and digital products with the Aurora DSP Ironheart digital plugin

Guitar World

Happy The Man return with brand new single Only Love

US prog legends Happy The Man have reunited and are working on a brand new album

Louder

“Having a narrative stretches you… you’re having to come up with a ‘film for the ear’ to bring the lyric to life”: 49 years on, Steve Hackett returns to the concept album genre

Semi-biographical time-travel story The Circus And The Nightwhale echoes the intentions (but not the music) of Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper

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“We’d love to be plugging PRS guitars into Mesa/Boogie amps, but for now it’s an old, worn-out Gibson Les Paul Studio”: Return to Dust’s brand of grunge metal has millions of views on TikTok. Now they face the challenges of entering the real world

For guitarist Matt Joseph, 2024 is about acquiring skills now they’ve secured festival billing alongside Slipknot, Judas Priest and Pantera. For 17-year-old bandmate Sebastian Gonzales, it’s about handling being away from his family

Guitar World

"We want to challenge ourselves": Code Orange are evolving beyond hardcore to grasp at something much bigger

After up-ending hardcore with 2017's Forever and embracing alt-metal on 2020's Underneath, Code Orange set their sights on conquering the rock world with The Above

Metal Hammer

“Ozzy knew that I was Randy’s favorite guitar player. The only way I could think of getting out of the gig was by making outrageous demands”: Why Michael Schenker turned down the opportunity of a lifetime with Ozzy Osbourne after Randy Rhoads died

The German virtuoso once received a call in the middle of the night from Osbourne asking him to join the band – but Schenker wasn't sold on the opportunity

Guitar World

"A friend said this sounds like the Emperor album that was never recorded": Ihsahn is returning to his symphonic black metal roots on his new self-titled album

30 years since he helped revolutionise black metal with Emperor, Ihsahn is still pushing boundaries with his eighth solo album

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“Our love letter to rock ’n’ roll”: Southern rock icons The Black Crowes return with their first album in 15 years

The album arrives March 15 and the band has dropped hip-shaking lead single Wanting and Waiting to mark the occasion

Guitar World

“Barely two days into the new year, I get a call from Steve Lukather”: Greg Phillinganes is back in Toto ahead of their North American tour

Drummer Shannon Forrest is also back in the fold

MusicRadar

“Happiness Bastards is our love letter to rock ’n’ roll”: The Black Crowes announce first album in 15 years with the groovy strut and walking riff of Wanting And Waiting

The tempestuous rock ’n’ roll stalwarts celebrate 40 years in the game with a brand new – and long-awaited – studio album, and you can buy and stream it from 15 March

MusicRadar

"I feel like I'm hallucinating and all of a sudden I've listened to this song 15 times in a row. I called Chris Cornell and said, You're a genius": producer Michael Beinhorn on the tensions and triumph of Soundgarden's Superunknown

How forcing Chris Cornell to be more selfish sparked the creation of Soundgarden's finest work

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Liam Gallagher reflects on aftermath of brother Noel leaving Oasis: ‘My life caved in’

The Gallagher brothers went their separate ways after a backstage brawl in 2009

The Independent UK

Waxahatchee on success and sobriety: ‘You don’t have to be tortured to make interesting art’

Since finding acclaim with her country-tinged songs about quitting drinking, the artist has set out on a more experimental path. She talks self-discovery, finding inspiration in everyday life and conjuring an ‘epic’ album

The Guardian - UK

Ariana Grande returns to pop roots in first solo single in three years 'Yes, And?'

It follows after her chart-topping sixth studio album Positions, which was released in 2020.

Evening Standard

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Muireann Bradley: I Kept These Old Blues review – a playful take on American classics

The teenage Irish singer turned to her guitar during Covid, and this album of traditional blues tracks showcases her dexterity and elegance

Louder

“We wrote a postscript which gives the listener the chance to choose their own end to the story… continue the cycle or give the character up to the sea”: iamthemorning’s path to Lighthouse

Chamber music duo’s Marjana Semkina on the poetry and suicide spots that inspired their third album

Louder

"I was a little punk kid. I skateboarded. I had purple hair and dressed like a boy": How addiction, heavy metal and a Greek family in Atlanta helped build Starbenders, one of rock'n'roll's most compelling new bands

Starbenders aren't just a great glam rock band: they're much weirder than that

Louder

"Those three and a half minutes tell you everything you need to know about Slade": The story of the anthemic classic Mama Weer All Crazee Now

Recorded by Hendrix producer Chas Chandler and covered by Quiet Riot and The Runaways, frontman Noddy Holder says Mama Weer All Crazee Now is one of Slade's defining moments

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"If this is to be the last Magnum album, they're exiting proudly, with a worthy addition to a much-loved catalogue": Magnum's Here Comes The Rain

Released just days after the death of guitarist, songwriter and founder Tony Clarkin, Here Comes The Rain finds Magnum in reassuringly familiar territory

The Independent UK

Ozzy Osbourne praises T-Pain for ‘the best cover of War Pigs ever’

Black Sabbath frontman asked: ‘Why didn’t you guys call me?’

Latin Times

Kali Uchis Announces Pregnancy, Drops New Album: 'Orquídeas'

Latina singer and songwriter Kali Uchis announced she is expecting her first baby as she released a new album in Spanish, "Orquídeas."

Louder

"Creating music is always where we find harmony together": The Black Crowes announce Happiness Bastards album, release first new song in 15 years

Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson return with a new single, Wanting And Waiting, ahead of their first album since 2010

MusicRadar

"People are having big songs, but big artists are not coming through" – former Columbia Records UK boss on the outlook for breaking into the mainstream

Ferdy Unger-Hamilton was Columbia Music UK president and has worked with some of the industry's biggest success stories since the '90s

Marie Claire

Another Green Dress? We Know Exactly What Taylor Swift Is Trying to Tell Us

"There will be no further explanation. There will just be reputation."

Guitar World

“Lars said, ‘You’re not really used to this kind of music, are you?’” Les Claypool on his failed Metallica audition

According to James Hetfield, Les Claypool was “too good” for the thrash metal giants

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