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“Ted Newman Jones builds beautiful guitars. He made some five-strings for Keith. He’s great”: Played by Keith Richards and Billy Gibbons, Newman guitars are some of rock’s greatest secret weapons – and a new model seeks to preserve their legacy

Used by everyone from The Rolling Stones to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell, Newman guitars have a unique place in rock history. And thanks to a new enterprise, they’re making a comeback

Guitar World

“My Blackstar Artist 15 brings such a retro vibe to my single-coil tones… Sometimes it all sounds so good, I forget to start singing!” Meet Morganway, the PRS-loving country-rockers playing John Mayer’s Silver Sky – and an offset called ‘The Badger’

The British Americana country rockers are influenced by everyone from Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty to Haim and The 1975 – and they’re ready to take on the US

Guitar World

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Mike Campbell, Orange Goblin, Battlesnake and more

Eight songs to rock you baby like a wagon wheel

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"We walked into the control room to listen to the first track, and everybody was grinning, like: 'Okay, this will work'": Charlie Starr on music, life, and two decades of Blackberry Smoke

Album number eight Be Right Here is a rebirth for the southern country rock family of Blackberry Smoke as they reflect on almost a quarter of a century of keeping their dream alive

Louder

Fight Tracks: The walkout songs of UFC on ESPN 54 with Vintage Tom Petty, AC/DC, Ol’ Blue Eyes

Check out all the fighter walkout songs from Saturday's UFC on ESPN 54 event in Atlantic City.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Four chords from classic Tom Petty songs to go into the Great Wide Open with – including a capo trick to sound like a 12-string guitar

The late musician was a master songwriter with a catalogue full of inspiring ideas

MusicRadar

"It was a gift. It came from that mysterious place that lyrics sometimes come from": The Tom Petty reject that gave Don Henley the ultimate song of lost innocence

From an unwanted demo came Don Henley's Boys Of Summer, a song that aches with nostalgia and innocence

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Jeff Lynne's ELO Announces Final Tour, 'The Over And Out Tour'

Experience the iconic sound of Jeff Lynne's ELO on their final North American tour, 'The Over and Out Tour,' featuring chart-topping hits and exclusive VIP...

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Watch Courtney Love sing Hole classic Celebrity Skin with Green Day's covers band The Coverups at London's iconic 100 Club

The London love-in between Courtney Love and Billie Joe Armstrong continues

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See Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong cover Nirvana in London, as Courtney Love joins him to perform Cheap Trick and Tom Petty classics

Love made a guest appearance on three songs

MusicRadar

Surprise! Courtney Love joined Green Day covers project The Coverups onstage for three songs in London last night

Hole star Courtney Love joined Billie Joe Armstrong & Co. for versions of songs by Cheap Trick and Tom Petty

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“He was an immortal badass”: the genius of Tom Petty, by the people who knew him best

Tom Petty’s daughters, ex-bandmates and peers look back on the life of an American legend

Broadcasting & Cable

Requiems for Roku, Sumner Redstone, Jon Stewart's Career, the Pac-12 ... and Possibly 'Spulu'

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' the country music condemned take David Bloom up on his big 'Americana' recommendation

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"He ended up moving to Hawaii and living in the jungle in a tent for two decades": Israel Nash on the stories that inspired new album Ozarkers

With his new album Israel Nash is following in the footsteps of the great songwriters for whom the American heartland is a rich inspiration, who re-told tales passed down generations

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"We've had sex a lot to HIM": Atreyu's Brandon Saller shares the 10 records that changed his life

From Misfits to HIM, In Flames to Traveling Wilburys, Atreyu vocalist Brandon Saller picks out the ten records that changed his life

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"Bella Donna had the formula for success: a singer from huge band, a top-notch producer, and a who's who of musicians": Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks

Featuring stellar duets with Tom Petty and Don Henley, Bella Donna established Stevie Nicks as a star in her own right, away from the Fleetwood Mac soap opera

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"The ones I love the best are the ones where he sounds like he's falling over drunk while he's playing": Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik on the soundtrack of his life

Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what happens when you spend half your studio budget on beer and speed

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"We're progressive people who grew up in a very conservative town. We're used to bridging the divide": Brothers Osborne's new album is a celebration of freedom and inclusiveness

Having weathered a few years of personal disclosures that might have derailed their career, Brothers Osborne are happily balancing who they’ve become with who they've always been

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The 5 George Harrison post-Beatles songs you need to hear: “I write lyrics and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together — that makes me"

Best of 2023: Freed from the creative confines of The Beatles, George Harrison set out to realise his true creative potential. Here are five of his finest works…

What Hi-Fi?

14 of the best Grand Theft Auto radio songs to test your headphones or hi-fi system

Radio stations are integral to immersing you into the whacky world of GTA. Here are some of the best tracks to be found across the virtual airwaves.

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Roger Waters pays tribute to "The Last DJ" Jim Ladd, takes potshot at his bosses at Sirius XM

Jim Ladd, the DJ inspiration for Tom Petty's The Last DJ and the voice of Roger Waters' Radio KAOS, has died at the age 75

The Independent UK

‘He lived for the music’: Jim Ladd, ‘The Last DJ’ who inspired Tom Petty song, dies aged 75

DJ who ‘never stopped caring’ was the inspiration for Tom Petty’s 2002 song and album, ‘The Last DJ’

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