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A worthy new chapter for the Stones

Their new album finds the legends in inspired late-career form

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“If we’re lucky he made it to part of a soundcheck. If we weren’t, he’d just show up at the beginning of the gig, and call his tunes in whatever keys he felt like”: Marc Ribot reveals just how hard Chuck Berry was on other guitarists

Berry was a real live wire but when backing him up, session great Ribot and his band were ready for anything

Guitar World

“We were in his dressing room, I was having a peek at his guitar… and he went, ‘Nobody touches it!’” Keith Richards on the time Chuck Berry punched him

The Stones legend says he’d have done exactly the same

Guitar World

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“We were in his dressing room, I was having a peek at his guitar and I was just about to stroke it, and he went: ‘Nobody touches it!’ And bam!”: Keith Richards recalls the time Chuck Berry punched him for touching his guitar

Plus, his thoughts on tech and why he and Mick have put down their swords

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"I was having a peek at his guitar and I was just about to stroke it, and he went: 'Nobody touches it!' And bam!" The night that Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards got punched in the face by his hero Chuck Berry

Perhaps there's some truth in the old saying that you should never meet your heroes

Louder

“There’s a lot of gear I had to get rid of because rent was due. I was always paid as a sideman – there were only a few moments where I was paid decent money”: Marc Ford’s life in guitars

The former Black Crowes and current Lucinda Williams blues-rocker talks shred-guitar mistakes and his love for custom Asher axes

Guitar World

‘I’d listen to my body before it screamed for help’: Keith Richards on life as an 82-year-old great-grandad – and jousting with Mick Jagger

He did every substance imaginable – and got punched by Chuck Berry – but Keef’s still going strong. As the Stones knock out another new album, he explains why he’s rejecting AI in favour of ‘the old ways’

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"He moved mountains. He changed the language." A tribute to Brian Wilson: June 20, 1942 - June 11, 2025

As the visionary heart and soul of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson created a mythic California soundtrack of sun-drenched, youthful innocence and some timeless classics, all while battling personal demons, addiction and mental illness

Louder

“If 100 people think your song sucks, they will create 200 people who think your song is awesome”: Questionable music marketing didn't begin with the recent Geese scandal - it's been going on for decades

We shine a light on the music industry’s dubious marketing history and the shady activities artists, managers, labels and more have indulged in to find an audience…

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From Chuck Berry to Queen Latifah: Why These Black Music Month Documentaries Are Worth Streaming

Black Music Month is often celebrated through playlists and tribute concerts, but some of the most compelling stories behind American music can be found in documentaries that revisit the artists who transformed the industry.

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“The songs are different every night because he never sings them the same way. I don’t know anyone who knows as many songs as Bob Dylan”: 38 bassists appeared on Bob Dylan albums before Tony Garnier came onboard. In the 37 years since, no others have

With a career backing artists like Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Chuck Berry, and Tom Waits, Tony Garnier is a walking textbook of bass history

Guitar World

Letters and photos from Beatles’ early days to go on show in Hamburg

The collection, including donations from Paul McCartney’s brother, Mike, shows the band’s development from 1960-62

The Guardian - UK

“Look at AC/DC. Whatever was popular, it didn’t matter. It’s like McDonald’s. ‘We make the Big Mac and we make fries and we don’t care about doing sushi’”: Zakk Wylde on musical identity, jailhouse rocking with Ozzy and the return of Black Label Society

The maestro of the pinched harmonic and pentatonic blitzkrieg sits in to talk Engines Of Demolition, Randy Rhoads' greatness, and the origin of his style

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The photographer who shot 500 album covers for the likes of Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand died at 41, then his legendary work vanished for decades. Don Bronstein's astonishing lost images make me ponder: what happens to our work when we're gone?

He shot 500 album covers and won a Grammy, but after he died, his work quietly disappeared

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"It was like something from Mad Max, with all the fires and steaming bodies." Meet the rock'n'roll Forrest Gump, who turned down Jimi Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, and was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend

As Ten Years After release an expanded version of their Ssssh album, founding bassist Leo Lyons recalls a live packed with rock'n'roll flashpoints

Guitar World

“He shoved me down to the floor of the car. He was kicking the windows. The whole time he's yelling at the top of his lungs, ‘Yoko! I want Yoko!’” The wild story of John Lennon's rock ’n’ roll covers album

Recorded under threat of a lawsuit, while in the midst of his infamous “Lost Weekend”, Rock 'n' Roll was the craziest ride of the Beatle's career – featuring top players and a gun-wielding Phil Spector

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“The sound of his guitar is everything rolled into one. It’s blues, it’s rock ’n’ roll, and it’s got that hard edge to it. It’s not clean – it’s nasty!”: Angus Young on the legendary guitarists that lit a fire in him

Plus: the story of AC/DC's greatest blues song

The Guardian - UK

Brian Smith obituary

Other lives: Blues fan and photographer who captured images of many US artists on tour in the UK

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10 hard-rocking Christmas songs, from AC/DC to Christopher Lee

IN FOCUS: If you’re sick of hearing the same old festive cheese at this time of year, allow Kevin E G Perry to suggest an alternative playlist of full-throttle seasonal songs guaranteed to blow away the Christmas cobwebs

The Guardian - US

Paul Anka on his incredible, star-studded career: ‘Revenge is a motivator like you wouldn’t believe’

The musician, who wrote My Way and Puppy Love among others, talks longevity, shrewd business and which star bullied him in his youth

The Guardian - AU

Skyhooks guitarist Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie dies aged 73

Starkie has died of leukaemia surrounded by friends and family and ‘listening to Chuck Berry’, his daughter says

Guitar World

“The guitar he used to teach a young Keith Richards”: Brian Jones' Harmony Stratotone from the Rolling Stones' early years is heading to auction

The guitar was featured in the band's earliest demos, gigs, and even their first-ever single, a cover of Chuck Berry’s Come On – and is now expected to fetch $400,000

Cinemablend

Michael J. Fox Addresses The Back To The Future Inconsistency That Can't Be Blamed On Time Travel Shenanigans

Chuck Berry and Gibson guitars!

The Guardian - UK

‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?

It is now seven decades since Little Richard sang Tutti Frutti – and a rip-roaring new type of music burst out into the world. But is rock’n’roll about to die out? Our writer goes searching for signs of life

Louder

"I've got blisters on my fingers!" 12 songs that prove The Beatles really rocked

When The Beatles cranked up the guitars, they really cranked up the guitars

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