Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News on Music

Kelly Clarkson Says She "Never Wanted to Get Married" in the First Place Amid Brandon Blackstock Divorce Fallout

Yikes.

Marie Claire

“The process with Robert was so intense – I feel like I helped create almost a new genre with King Crimson with each piece of music we made”: Trey Gunn on what he learned from Robert Fripp – and how to tame the Warr Guitar

The 10-string instrument isn’t actually a guitar, says the former King Crimson member – and he doesn’t plan to ever stop exploring it in improv groups like Tu-Ner

Guitar World

Britney Spears denies reports of a new album: ‘I will never return to the music industry’

Following rumours that Charli XCX and Julia Michaels had been approached to present songs for a new album, the pop star said that she only writes for fun or for other artists

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“Django Reinhardt was our god – I played a Selmer Maccaferri-style guitar, grew a mustache, wore a suit... the whole thing”: Big Thief’s Buck Meek names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

The understated indie guitar hero is well-versed in blues and jazz tradition, but also takes inspiration from Marc Ribot, Connie Converse... and The Shaggs’ Dorothy “Dot” Wiggin

Guitar World

Get your acoustic guitar sounding its best by solving these common saddle and bridge pin problems

Getting your saddle and bridge pins in working order will improve your acoustic’s tone and tuning stability

Guitar World

How to incorporate foot controllers into a live electronic set

Put your best foot forward with our guide to making use of sustain pedals, expression pedals and MIDI foot controllers in live electronic performance

MusicRadar

“Talkback microphones go to our in-ear monitors and our lighting guy… It messes with the audience’s minds. ‘If they improvised that, how did the lights know when to change?’” How Umphrey’s McGee keep their shows rolling

Lessons learned from Frank Zappa and always-on personal connections mean they avoid the pitfalls that can kill jam band performances

Louder

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

"One minute they were a band you'd never heard of, then the next you couldn't get into the gigs": In 1972 the then-unknown Focus appeared on UK TV. Within a year, their guitarist was voted best player on the planet

Powered by Jan Akkerman's guitar and Thijs van Leer's Hammond organ, Sylvia helped pave the way for the rapid rise to fame of Dutch proggers Focus

Louder

Emma Stone Shared How Many Times She's Seen Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, And It's Bestie Goals

La La Land Oscar winner Emma Stone shares her growing collection of experiences at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

Cinemablend

'Just So We're Clear': Britney Spears Calls Out Rumors About Her Music And Why She'll 'Never Return' To The Industry

Britney Spears cleared the air about recent rumors regarding her music.

Cinemablend

Iggy Azalea won’t finish her next album and hints she’s quitting music

Rapper says she feels ‘more passionately about design and creative direction than I do about song writing’

The Independent UK

Rage Against The Machine "will not be touring or playing live again", says drummer

Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk has said the band have no plans for future live shows

Metal Hammer

Watch Mike Portnoy join Umphrey's McGee onstage in Chicago for covers of Spinal Tap's Big Bottom and Rush's YYZ

Dream Theater man Mike Portnoy contributed the traditional "lead bass" part to Big Bottom before retreating to the kit to tackle Neil Peart's iconic drum part on YYZ

Louder

"It's basic. It's not technical by any means": Watch Brian May solo while Tony Iommi plays the riff from Paranoid

Queen's Brian May "commits sacrilege" by playing a solo over the top of the riff of Black Sabbath's Paranoid

Metal Hammer

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

"In our haste, the lump of hash got away and slipped down the sink drainpipe. Panic!": What happened when Jimi Hendrix created havoc and got banned by The BBC

The producers of BBC1's Happening For Lulu wanted Jimi Hendrix to play Hey Joe. Instead, viewers were treated to a tribute to Cream and controlled chaos

Marie Claire

Stop What You’re Doing Right Now, Because the Buzz Is We’re Getting a New Britney Spears Album This Year

Some high-profile names are involved in the project, her first in eight years.

Metal Hammer

Watch Limp Bizkit play a gig in a car park then destroy their own drum kit

In 1997, then-up-and-comers Limp Bizkit raised hell in a Kansas City car park

The Guardian - UK

Women make the best pop stars – and it’s about time the industry recognised it

Too long demeaned and treated as playthings by executives, female artists are finally getting the attention they deserve, says culture writer Lauren O’Neill

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World

“A lot of kids think drop-tuning is this new thing that just came out and it’s like, ‘No way, Jimi Hendrix was doing that stuff a long time ago!’” Eric Gales on the lasting influence and innovations of the ultimate electric guitar icon

Gales says he wears his Hendrix influence with pride. Here, one of today’s greatest blues-rock guitarists shares his insight on the visionary and fearless experimentalist

Louder

"I went to Rough Trade: they told me it was the worst record they ever heard in their life. Everybody else that I could get a meeting with told me the same thing": The Undertones' Teenage Kicks wasn't always considered a punk rock masterpiece

Good Vibrations founder/Northern Irish punk legend Terri Hooley recalls how The Undertones were rejected by every British record label

Louder

“This is tightrope-walking without a net… it feels a bit like having him play a solo up close and personal, and who – other than certain former members of Yes, perhaps – wouldn’t want that?” Steve Howe’s Motif Volume 2

15 years after the first instalment, the guitarist bares the bones of his writing and proves those bones are strong

Guitar World

Unseen Led Zeppelin footage appears from the band’s record-breaking 1977 set at the Pontiac Silverdome

The 23-minute, 8mm footage has been carefully restored by a four-strong team and shows the band rip through a 20-song set in front of over 76,000 fans

The Guardian - UK

Zig-a-zig-pah: Finland’s ‘Spice Girls’ find joy in misery – and a Kaurismäki collaboration

Far from their girl-power namesakes, deadpan duo Maustetytöt have topped the charts at home – and found a kindred spirit in the Fallen Leaves director

Metal Hammer

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Newcastle nu-metalcore bruisers Creak to Asinhell, the death metal project from Volbeat's frontman, Cavalera-endorsed death metallers Celestial Sanctuary and New England industrial doomsters Body Void, these are the bands you need to hear in January 2024

Guitar World

Master the way of the exploding guitar in this lesson on the technique and abundant creativity of cult shred icon Mr Fastfinger

Take your playing to a higher plane of existence with this study of Mika Tyyskä, the Finnish creator of the animated shredder

1 … 994 995 996 997

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.