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“I don’t like outward complexity – I enjoy being stealthy about it, and Steely Dan are beacons for that”: Meet Sam Vallen, the shredder swiping yacht rock chords and turning them into one of 2024’s best prog-metal albums with Caligula’s Horse

The Australian virtuoso explains how writing a dissertation on Steely Dan’s harmonic vocabulary helped him build a record full of ambiguity and tension in Charcoal Grace

Guitar World

Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan tribute concert lineup announced

Cat Power and David Gray among artists scheduled to perform at celebration in New York in March

The Guardian - UK

“It’s been interesting doing the avatars so far... it’ll take some time to get the imagery where we want it to be”: Tommy Thayer looks to a virtual future with Kiss, and considers “options on the table” because he’s not ready to retire yet

Kiss’s longest-serving guitarist looks back on growing into his onstage role and eventually writing one of the band’s standards, and what lies ahead after the rock institution’s final shows

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"Tell Michael if he wants to see Bubbles again, he can come to the bar": The night Bon Jovi kidnapped Michael Jackson's pet chimp

At the close of their Slippery When Wet world tour, Bon Jovi found themselves in the same Tokyo hotel as Michael Jackson and his entourage. Events took a strange turn

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MXR’s new Randy Rhoads signature distortion pedal has been revealed and it looks very cool. The bad news? It’s been delayed until mid-spring

It's fair to say Rhoads fans will be excited about this custom finish Distortion+, which was developed and co-designed with the late Ozzy guitarist's sister, Kathy

MusicRadar

PVRIS announce world tour dates for Europe, the UK and North America

Following on from their dates with Fall Out Boy last year, PVRIS will launch a headlining world tour this spring

Metal Hammer

Sinead O’Connor and Shane MacGowan tribute concert announced

Artists were friends for years and collaborated on the single ‘Haunted’, which featured in 1986 film ‘Sid and Nancy’

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Taylor-made deals: how artists are following Swift’s rights example

The singer’s public fight over ownership of her work has lit the way for a new generation of musicians – especially young women – demanding more control over their output

The Guardian - UK

Let’s go stagey: Prince’s Purple Rain is being turned into a Broadway musical

If you can get hold of a ticket, will you take me with U?

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James Morrison's wife Gill Catchpole 'was looking forward to big changes in 2024' ahead of death

The mother-of-two was found dead at home in Gloucestershire on Friday. Police are not said to be treating her death as suspicious

Evening Standard

“I still love that idea of a solo singer-songwriter being able to communicate with just their guitar and vocal”: Christina Martin on making the leap from cheap Gretsches to fancy Duesenbergs, and why pedals stress her out

On her new album, Storm, the Canadian-born, Austin-based singer-songwriter is cultivating a more orchestral sound, but as she explains, you can strip it all back to her voice and guitar

Guitar World

“Wherever we travel, people say how important we were in terms of influencing them. When I was growing up, there was only Suzi Quatro to look up to”: Girlschool’s Kim McAuliffe and Jackie Chambers on 45 years of a great British rock institution

Girlschool is still in session after 45 years, and as McAuliffe and Chambers explain here, there will be no turning down anytime soon

Guitar World

5 Jimmy Page guitar tricks for you to try today

Jimmy has always been a tremendously inventive rhythm guitarist as well as a riff writer supreme and this is often sadly overlooked

MusicRadar

The 10 best Jimmy Page riffs

To mark Jimmy Page’s 80th birthday on January 9, here are the former Led Zeppelin guitarist’s 10 all-time greatest riffs

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Captivating Black and White Behind-the-Scenes Snapshots with James Arthur

Discover the captivating black and white snapshots of James Arthur behind the scenes, showcasing his creative process with a guitar in hand. Take a glimpse...

The Independent UK

David Foster’s daughter defends him after comment that he ‘abandoned’ his older children

Foster has five daughters from his previous relationships

The Independent UK

Lil Nas X denies making a ‘mockery of Jesus’ in new single’s cover art

Rapper and singer teased his new song ‘J Christ’ releasing on 12 January

Metal Hammer

Sleep Token's Take Me Back to Eden was the most streamed metal album released in 2023 on Spotify

Sleep Token remain one of the most popular new bands in metal and here's the receipts to prove it

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