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Joe Biden calls Beyoncé ‘Britney’ before confusing her with Taylor Swift

President Biden made the confused comments during the annual White House turkey pardon

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift fans share safety horror claims about Brazil show

Pop star’s first Brazil concert saw the death of a 23-year-old fan who suffered a cardiac arrest after falling ill at the show

The Independent UK

6 endearing things we learned about Taylor Swift from Travis Kelce’s Wall Street Journal interview

Duets at bonfires? Insider help for the meeting?

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Why Taylor Swift is skipping Travis Kelce’s Monday game

‘This is the last thing I ever thought would happen when we decided to bring this tour to Brazil,’ singer said after tragic passing of Ana Clara Benevides Machado before her Friday concert in Rio De Janeiro

The Independent UK

It looks like The Rolling Stones are about to announce their first batch of Hackney Diamonds tour dates

The Rolling Stones are dropping cryptic hints online that their return to the road is imminent

Louder

“I had the same punk-rock attack that Duff had. I wouldn’t be afraid to say I stole some of his stuff”: How Tommy Stinson survived the making of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy

Tommy Stinson replaced Duff McKagan in 1998, but being the bassist in Guns N’ Roses takes work – a lot of it

Guitar World

‘I’m a broken man putting the puzzle back together’: country star Jelly Roll on prison, addiction and redemption

The singer-songwriter is up for a best new artist Grammy at the age of 38, having broken a cycle of jail time and drug use. He explains his newfound joy – and survivor’s guilt

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Polyend’s Play+ introduces four synth engines, turning the sample and MIDI machine into a fully-fledged groovebox

Now you can furnish your beats with analogue-style and FM sounds, and there’s multitrack USB audio streaming, too

MusicRadar

“He may be lauded by some as a genius, but without this team’s heavy lifting, these pieces might fail”: Frank Zappa’s Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary Edition

Five-disc, 88-track set proves his music lasts - even if many of his lyrics don’t

Louder

George Brown obituary

Kool & the Gang drummer and co-writer of hits including Celebration, Ladies Night and Jungle Boogie

The Guardian - UK

Reading and Leeds Festival: everything we know, from tickets to headliners

Festival season still stretches out before us. Here’s everything to know about one of August’s most legendary offerings

Evening Standard

“I was so frustrated that I kicked my amp – the speaker busted, leaving me with this weird buzzing sound. I didn’t know it then, but I helped create the sound of punk-rock guitar”: How an Italian immigrant shaped the sound of US punk to come in the 1960s

Known as the godfather of punk guitar, The Standells’ Tony Valentino was one of the first guitarists to use Vox amps, and, in a fit of rage, created a guitar tone that would be emulated the world over

Guitar World

"Someone said that I sounded like the damned howling in Hades": Geddy Lee on why Rush shunned their record label and management's wishes that they'd become the next Led Zeppelin or Bad Company

Rush "always agreed that the very idea of compromise was offensive" says Geddy Lee

Louder

Taylor Swift Appeared To Pay Respect To The Young Fan Who Died At Her Show In Emotional Eras Tour Surprise Song Set

Taylor Swift appeared to give an emotional tribute to the 23-year-old who died at her show, as the Eras Tour resumed after being postponed.

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The Independent UK

A 2023 gift guide that will strike a chord: 10 ideas for the music lover in your life

From the obsessive record collector to the casual listener

Louder

“We are turning the amps on... This will be Songs For Fighting!" U2 on the “unreasonable” guitar-heavy record they want to make next

Looking to come back with a bang, the next U2 album will be approached "with some petrol and some matches" according to frontman Bono

Guitar World

“I don’t want to hinder any of the band’s plans”: Kiko Loureiro announces his departure from Megadeth after 9 years – and his successor may already be in place

Is Teemu Mäntysaari, the young star currently filling in for Loureiro, set to take the mantle full-time? Or is a past player poised to make a sensational return?

Evening Standard

The Streets at Alexandra Palace review: a lesson in charming chaos from garage's everygeezer

Mike Skinner was on top form for the final show of his UK tour

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“Please tell me that’s the new Epiphone headstock in general”: The Epiphone Greeny Les Paul is nearly here – and guitarists are losing their minds over the headstock

Kirk Hammett and Cesar Gueikian have both teased the new model, offering glimpses of a build that looks much more faithful to Gibson’s own design

MusicRadar

We thought Line 6 Helix Native was too pricey, but with 50% off this Black Friday we're eating our words

Affordable studio-grade guitar tones for your DAW are just a click away

Metal Hammer

“'Cocaine buffet?' they would say. 'Just help yourself'”: Gene Simmons, Dave Grohl and The Darkness make surreal cameo appearances in singer/songwriter James Blunt's outrageous 'non-memoir' Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story

A number of high profile rock stars pop up for memorable appearances in James Blunt's new 'non-memoir', which may be the most entertaining book ever written by any musician

The Independent UK

Father of Taylor Swift fan who died at Brazil show speaks out

Ana Clara Benevides died from a cardiac arrest after falling sick at Swift’s first Eras Tour show in Brazil on Friday

MusicRadar

Mariah Carey shows that she can still hit the vocal heights in Billboard Music Awards performance of All I Want For Christmas Is You, a song she says she started writing “on a little DX7 or Casio keyboard”

It's only November, but we may have already have hit 'peak Christmas'

Guitar World

“I’ve gotten comments like ‘a guitar’s not supposed to do that’, but where’s the rulebook? Just because something is wild doesn’t mean people shouldn’t enjoy it”: Syncatto’s Charlie Robbins is pushing the boundaries of technique beyond belief

From crafting presets for Neural DSP to convincing the internet that his warp-speed selective picking riffs aren’t fake, the Syncatto mastermind is a technical and tonal trendsetter. He reveals how drum rudiments shaped his playing, and the secret to his trademark biting clean tone

The Guardian - UK

‘Mick Jagger was surprisingly hard-working’: the all-star life of synth whiz Wally Badarou

His reputation for futurist pop got him work with everyone from Grace Jones and Talking Heads to Foreigner – now the French keyboardist is reissuing a soundtrack for a yoga DVD that became a Balearic classic

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