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“It’s heavy, thick and unique. It feels great, and the neck is incredible. And it’s heavy; but that’s okay because the weight of a guitar is very important to me. The thicker the better”: If you pick up Bill Kelliher’s new ESP guitar, you’ll know about it

The Mastodon guitarist – who aims to write simpler songs for the band's next album – had his favorite 9-string mapped and mutated into the LTD Silver Sunburst Royal Shiva

Guitar World

“I tried SGs and Flying Vs, and they might look cool, but it's like playing a piece of Styrofoam”: Bill Kelliher explains why he prefers his guitars to be as heavy as possible

Since around 2020, the Mastodon maestro has been wielding an extraordinarily thick ESP Custom Shop model, which was recently reissued as the LTD Royal Shiva – and both closely follow Kelliher’s ethos of “the thicker, the better”

Guitar World

Lamb Of God and Mastodon announce epic 'Ashes Of Leviathan' tour playing two classic albums in full, with Kerry King and Malevolence in support

Lamb Of God and Mastodon are teaming up for one of the metal tours of the year - and they're bringing some amazing artists with them

Metal Hammer

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Mastodon hit by security flaw — top Twitter alternative acts fast to patch critical security issue that could have let hackers hijack user accounts

Mastodon is giving users until February 15 to patch, after which it will release more details about the flaw.

TechRadar

"This is *exactly* what I’ve been hoping for since launching AltStore!" — Prolific developer celebrates Apple's massive EU App Store overhaul in exclusive interview

After Apple announced sweeping changes to third-party apps in the EU for the iPhone, AltStore’s developer may be happier about it than most.

iMore

New screenshots show Apple Vision Pro's preinstalled apps in all their Spatial Computing glory including Music, Photos, and more

Apple's preinstalled Vision Pro apps have been previewed in a series of screenshots online.

iMore

NAMM 2024: “It's heavy, thick, and unique. It feels great”: ESP brings Bill Kelliher’s long-awaited double-cut custom model to the masses with LTD Royal Shiva signature guitar

The Mastodon riff lord's latest signature model is based on his beastly Silver Sunburst six-string that was built in 2020, and receives an official release after much anticipation

Guitar World

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Mastodon users are crowd-running programs on a BBC Micro emulator in 2024 and the results look as spectacular as they did in '81

Listen up kids because I'm here to say, BBC BASIC is here to…stay?

PC Gamer

Black Keys, Black Crowes and the next in line for Mastodon’s mind-expanding metal crown: this week’s essential guitar tracks

The must-hear licks, riffs, solos and six-string moments from BIG|BRAVE, Bring Me The Horizon, Dead Poet Society, Bodega, Slift, Waxahatchee, and more

Guitar World

The 10 greatest heavy metal live performances on late-night TV

Watch Metallica, Evanescence, Slipknot, Sepultura and more rock the airwaves

Metal Hammer

The 20 greatest bass solos of all time – from the fastest ‘lead bass guitarist’ to the only bass solo James Jamerson ever recorded

We count down moments of bass guitar genius from Tal Wilkenfeld, Flea, Victor Wooten, John Myung and many more

Guitar World

20 metal bands with no bad albums

From Tool to Cave In and Mastodon, these metal masters all boast spotless back-catalogues

Metal Hammer

The Evolution of Social Media: Goodbye Twitter, Hello X and AI

2023 was a year of social media transformations and challenges. From the farewell to Twitter to the rise of X and Bluesky, and the growing concerns about m...

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The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal

We lost Twitter and got X

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X’s rivals prepare to make decentralized social media the new norm

Meta's Threads starts interoperability testing, and Bluesky isn't far behind.

Metal Hammer

The 10 greatest compilation albums in heavy metal history

From greatest hits to rarity-stacked soundtracks, these are the best compilations in the history of heaviness

Louder

"Opeth and Scissor Sisters are fans of mine": comedian Bill Bailey talks Mastodon, Ghost and why he'd love to have a nerdy conversation with Prince

Musical comedian Bill Bailey answers your questions on his favourite instrument, exotic animals and why he misses Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Metal Hammer

10 heavy metal supergroups that actually turned out super

Murderdolls, Audioslave and Roadrunner United have proven that the supergroup can sometimes yield amazing results

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Want to join Apple and Disney in dumping X? Here's how to do it

Quitting X/Twitter is the hot new social media trend. Here's how to do it

Louder

“Occasionally one of their legs would go up slightly. Were they playing or checking emails? I thought it would be fun to have them doing The Hokey Cokey”: Bill Bailey’s Kraftwerk sketch

Comedian and master prog musician discusses the gems in his record collection, including Yes, Roxy Music and Hawkwind – and outlines plans to play the Albert Hall like an instrument

The Conversation

Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media's crisis of legitimacy

In the 2018 documentary “The Cleaners,” a young man in Manila, Philippines, explains his work as a content moderator: “We see the pictures on the screen. You then go through the pictures and delete those that don’t meet the guidelines. The daily quota of pictures is 25,000.” As he speaks,…

Reason

Posting RSS Feed to BlueSky

I'd like our posts to be available on BlueSky as well as on Twitter and Mastodon. Is there a good service that will automatically post from an RSS feed (or a Twitter or Mastodon account) to BlueSky? Thanks!

Reason

Testing Automatic Feeding to Our Mastodon Account (@VolokhC@Liberdon.Com) via MastoFeed

I just learned, several months after it happened, that our automatic feeding to Mastodon stopped earlier this year, because the auto-feed service (moa.party) shut down. I'm now trying MastoFeed.org, and this is my test post. UPDATE: Looks like it's working.

Fortune

Leaving X can be a rewarding experience—but nobody’s matching Twitter’s ideological diversity

Bluesky and Mastodon offer a great experience now, but they’re still not quite as useful as Twitter once was.

The Hindu

Scientists leave X as platform changes character

A recently conducted survey by the journal Nature has shown that researchers are leaving the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter)

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