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“It's good to see him back writing songs, and f**king good ones too”: Britpop’s greatest guitarist and vocalist join forces as John Squire evokes classic Stone Roses on Liam Gallagher’s latest single

Just Another Rainbow marks the Stone Roses guitarist’s first new recorded music in seven years, with more music together promised throughout 2024

Guitar World

Shane MacGowan's widow claims singer has contacted her from beyond the grave

Victoria Mary Clark has said The Pogues frontman has encouraged her to pick up a guitar following his passing

Evening Standard

“In trying to make this huge sound, she ended up with this ‘one-person band’ approach that was completely different to the guitarists that’d gone before”: Jon Gomm on how Joni Mitchell changed progressive acoustic guitar forever

One acoustic hero pays tribute to another, with Gomm pinpointing the pioneering approaches championed by Mitchell that make her one of the most influential acoustic players of all time

Guitar World

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Listen to pulsating new Bring Me The Horizon single Kool-Aid

The latest preview of upcoming new album Post Human: Nex Gen has arrived

Metal Hammer

“I was playing at three times the speed that I normally play at”: Pete Townshend resisted buying “heavy metal” guitars for decades – but he just got his first Jackson at the age of 78… and loves it

The Stratocaster loyalist decided it was time to branch into more metal territory with his latest six-string purchase – and he was pleasantly surprised with what he discovered

Guitar World

Jimi Hendrix smashed the barriers between lead and rhythm guitar with his revolutionary chord work. Learn how the most influential guitarist of them all worked his voodoo style with this essential chord lesson

Learn about the often overlooked rhythmic foundations of the guitar icon’s world-changing playing

Guitar World

Having library syncing problems in Apple Music? You're not alone — and some are losing hundreds of hours of curated music

Apple Music listeners are finding issues — and they've been going on since last November.

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“I didn’t have anything against guitars – I just had this idea in my head of two keyboard players using an array of instruments. Everyone said, ‘It’ll never work.’ Well, they were wrong”: The short life and lasting times of Greenslade

They were forced into an untimely demise after just three years. But the unique bond of two synth geniuses left a catalogue that justifies their reputation as a “thinking man’s band”

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Pete Townshend talks Clapton and more: "I remember Leslie West saying to me, ‘I prefer your licks to Eric’s. He seems to be playing things that he’s learned, that he’s picked up from other blues players’"

Who legend goes on record in extensive magazine interview

MusicRadar

‘This wouldn’t have happened 20 years ago’: how women began dominating British dance music

Once reduced to nameless vocals or excluded altogether, women are now topping the charts with self-produced tracks. Kenya Grace, Piri, Venbee and Anz explain how they broke open the boys’ club

The Guardian - UK

"I fell to my left and felt a heavy thump as the bullet hit me": What happened when The Kinks' Ray Davies was shot in New Orleans

How a pleasant night out at a Japanese restaurant ended with Kinks mainman Ray Davies diving for cover as a gunman took aim

Louder

Tony Moore played keyboards for Iron Maiden at one show in 1977: Now he's back on the road with Steve Harris

British Lion are currently on tour with support from prog rock one man band Tony Moore: "If Tony could play guitar back then the way he does now he'd probably still be in the band", says Steve Harris

Metal Hammer

Backstage at the final Kiss show: Only in the pyrotechnic new issue of Classic Rock

Also available: the special, limited edition Kiss bundle edition. Inside: Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Nirvana, The Doors, Saxon, Peter Gabriel and more

Louder

"The only people who weren’t into it were the other three girls in the band": Susanna Hoffs says her bandmates in The Bangles believed Eternal Flame wasn't good enough to be an album track, never mind a single

The Bangles vocalist/guitarist Susanna Hoffs viewed Eternal Flame as the best song she'd ever written. Her bandmates did not share her enthusiasm at all

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"It's a lot heavier than you'd expect": Mike McCready on Pearl Jam's next album, working with Andrew Watt, and the state of the US

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready talks smashed Stratocasters, screaming solos, and why his band need their "asses kicked"

Louder

Listen to Just Another Rainbow, the first single from the new supergroup fronted by ex-Oasis vocalist Liam Gallagher and ex-Stone Roses guitarist John Squire

Madchester lives! Former Oasis and Stone Roses men share first single from new project

The Independent UK

The Last Dinner Party named BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2024

London-based rock band beat several up-and-coming acts for the honour

Metal Hammer

"I thought it was a spam email when Mike reached out asking me to be part of this": Watch Mike Shinoda play Linkin Park's Castle Of Glass with six musicians who've never met one another before

Mike Shinoda shares the London episode of his Already Over Sessions series, featuring Linkin Park's Castle Of Glass

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Session pro Tim Pierce's tips for becoming a better guitarist could make great new year's resolutions – and they don't require any virtuoso aspirations

"Get in a situation where you can develop a pocket"

Chicago Sun-Times

Travis Scott brings his electrifying Circus Maximus to Chicago

Rapper sends sold-out crowd into a frenzy during his Wednesday night concert at the United Center.

The Independent UK

Britney Spears says she will ‘never’ return to music as she shuts down Charli XCX rumours

Reports had suggested Spears was teaming up with the ‘Speed Driver’ singer, as well as songwriter Julia Michaels, for an unannounced new album

Guitar World

“When someone wants to rehearse before the session, that’s the kiss of death”: Watch Lee Sklar’s YouTube playthrough of Steve Lukather’s Stab in the Back

Bass legend Lee Sklar used his “Frankenstein 4-string” on Lukather’s 2008 nod to Donald Fagen

Louder

"The whole thing sounds like it was carved out of caramel and boiled in a pot with gunpowder, sunshine and jazz – mad and lovely and addictive": Was The 3 Clubmen EP the best record you missed in 2023?

XTC's Andy Partridge and friends released an overlooked EP of luminous alt.pop in 2023. But it's not too late to join the club...

The Independent UK

Rage Against The Machine is breaking up... again

Drummer Brad Wilk made the announcement on social media

Evening Standard

Swiftogeddon: When is the Taylor Swift event back in London and how to get tickets?

Calling all Swifties, here's what you need to know about Swiftogeddon

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