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“One night, I decided to be the DJ in Rage Against the Machine - but I was going to do it all on the guitar”: How Tom Morello used his guitar to drill into the off-limits domain of the turntablist

The Rage Against the Machine axe-man’s most memorable moment saw him emulate a DJ scratch breakdown using a trick that few have fully mastered

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“I don’t know too many people that could have handled that pressure coming at you at such speed. It can be a deadly thing”: How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics

It was written on a $25 guitar and became one of the biggest hits of 1994

Metal Hammer

“Often times, I’m motivated to write by some amount of melancholy”: revisiting Chris Cornell’s final album as it turns 10

The late Soundgarden frontman's final work was one of his most stripped-down and intimate records.

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“My mind’s the most cosmic place I could ever visit. All I have to do is zone out and play the guitar, and before you know it, I’ve visited places unheard of”: Remembering Brent Hinds, the maverick who trampled metal guitar underfoot with Mastodon

Unorthodox, virtuosic, wild in all the right ways, wholly unique, Brent Hinds was the guitar hero the 21st-century metal needed

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“It was my own personal hell”: the story of Pearl Jam’s most difficult record as it turns 25

The Seattle rockers’ trickiest album was fraught with writer’s block and drug addiction and it’s not one guitarist Stone Gossard is in a hurry to listen to again.

Louder

AC/DC - ranked! All 17 studio albums, from worst to best

As the old song goes: "Let there be rock!"

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“She was looking at her pill bottles. I knew she was going to die so I was like, ‘Put it down. Live right now’”: Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher wrote songs for Emperor Of Sand at his mum’s deathbed

A cancer tragedy and other real-life dramas inspired Mastodon’s seventh album Emperor Of Sand, which they believe was 17 years in the making

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“We ended up hating Rick Rubin. He didn’t get what made this band happen”: The rollercoaster story of Wolfsbane, the British metal band who should have been superstars

Long before Blaze Bayley joined Iron Maiden, he was a member of British metal lunatics Wolfsbane

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"He said, 'The last thing I want is you guys going on David Letterman and the freakin’ drummer’s singing." How Mastodon left sludge metal behind for cosmic prog metal on Oblivion

A drunken fist-fight, childhood tragedy and an all-star producer all helped Mastodon channel their melodic tendencies on Oblivion

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“This band works like a ouija board. No one’s fully in charge of how it operates, but you keep looking at the letters and seeing what they spell”: How Pearl Jam made Lightning Bolt and embraced their inner Pink Floyd

Thirty years after being blindsided by fame, Pearl Jam were still doing things on their own terms

Louder

“Killswitch has always been strong and positive. We wanted something a little darker, a bit more personal, spiritual almost”: how Killswitch Engage reinvented themselves with their divisive self-titled fifth album

The story of Killswitch Engage’s controversial self-titled album – released 15 years ago today

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"Eddie Vedder was hard on me, he was not easy to get next to." Super-producer Brendan O'Brien reveals the lengths he went to in order to work with Pearl Jam

Louder

“At some point, Slash was going to come play. Chris Robinson just said, ‘Let bud play. He could do this in a heartbeat’”: Why the Black Crowes’ Hard to Handle guitar solo was played by producer Brendan O’Brien instead of Slash

Legendary producer and multi-instrumentalist Brendan O’Brien sets the record straight on whether he played all the instruments on The Black Crowes’ debut album

Guitar World

"It never occurred to me that was what you're supposed to be doing": Springsteen, Pearl Jam and AC/DC super producer Brendan O'Brien reveals how he learned the second most fundamental part of recording songs after tempo

"I did not even know that right away"

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"He seems kind of all over the place but this thing is spot on": Brendan O'Brien on his first encounter with John Frusciante and how they recorded the Under The Bridge intro

O'Brien engineered and mixed 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik and saw the secret to a great guitar tone first-hand

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"It was like being strapped to a rocket ship. Things took off in a beautiful, surprising way": The ultimate guide to every Billy Talent album in the band's own words

Ben Kowalewicz takes us on a tour through the albums that propelled Billy Talent from guitarist Ian D'Sa's parents' basement to the stages of the world's biggest festivals

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"I'll say goodbye to the boys and they can get someone else in to do the job. And I really mean it": Revisiting Black Ice, the album that saved AC/DC's career

For eight long years they’d been silent. Then, seemingly out of the blue, AC/DC rediscovered their mojo with Black Ice and became bigger than ever

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How Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple album captured a band at their peak, before everything started to go wrong

Stone Temple Pilot’s triumphant second album, Purple, is a grunge-era classic and the sound of a band silencing their critics

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Irish Mirror

Dublin landlord in discrimination claim after asking pregnant woman and husband to move out

Mr O’Brien’s solicitor, Colm Hickey, rejected the claims and stressed his client was concerned that there was a “health and safety issue” about a spiral staircase leading to the apartment which was “wholly unsuitable” for a pregnant woman and children.

The Week

How likely is a united Ireland and when could it happen?

Sinn Fein’s leader in Ireland, Mary Lou McDonald, has claimed a border poll on unification will take place “this decade”, after the party cemented its status as the leading political force in Northern Ireland following huge gains in local elections.

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The tragic story behind Mastodon's Emperor Of Sand

Mastodon's 2017 album, Emperor Of Sand, continued the prog theme of Crack The Skye. But behind the heaviness, lay a family tragedy

Dublin Live

Dublin City Council considering hiking parking fees for 'gas guzzling' cars with higher emissions

A DCC review is investigating the feasibility of implementing "differential parking charges" for different vehicle types

Irish Mirror

Capel Street officially pedestrianised by Dublin's Lord Mayor

The move has been planned for some time

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