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“I look down, I see the empty pit, and I see a bass guitar against the wall. I said, ‘Right, I’m gonna show you guys what I’ve got’”: When a teenage Suzi Quatro laid down a marker by jamming with Jeff Beck and Cozy Powell

The bassist was determined to prove her worth, and the impromptu jam was the perfect platform to do it

Guitar World

“He was one of a kind”: Alabama guitar legend Wayne Perkins – who played with the Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, and Joni Mitchell – dies at 74

Perkins made his name as a Muscle Shoals session ace and would go on to have a storied career playing with the greats

Guitar World

“This ease of use is rare in such a small practice amp that covers so much tonal ground, and is the reason the Prism-Mini is worth considering as your desktop companion”: Laney Prism-Mini review

Laney targets the practice amp market with a versatile range of tones and effects, all in an easy-to-use, diminutive package

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“We opened the case, and I gave him the guitar. He grabbed the neck and said, ‘Oh yes, that's mine!’” Richie Sambora reunited with stolen Gibson Explorer after 40 years

Sambora bought his original 1976 Gibson Explorer in his late teens, and it was stolen from a warehouse back in 1985

Guitar World

"It's probably the heaviest thing I've written in terms of lyrics." Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz’s new band Blue Medusa release debut single Checkmate

The death metal vocalist makes a fresh start and teases that the heavy new song is also one of the “lightest” things her new band have been working on

Metal Hammer

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Alissa White-Gluz shares her new band, Neurosis make a shock comeback and Ice Nine Kills turn into Steel Panther: these are Metal Hammer's tracks of the week

Metal Hammer

"The first thing, Maurice walked in and said 'You're the guys who stole our song!' He was just joking – he said, 'Thanks for making us cool again!'”: Kevin O’Toole recalls the Bee Gees’ reaction to N-Trance’s ‘90s cover of Stayin’ Alive

The group also had a huge hit with rave anthem Set You Free

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“40 years later, I still get to do the thing I love the most. I truly have to pinch myself.” One of America's greatest alternative rock bands announce 40th anniversary tour

Greg Dulli's men in black are back

Louder

"We jokingly called the album Commercial Suicide while we were making it." Why one of the world's biggest rock bands had to go back to "ground zero" on their riskiest and darkest record

"Some reports said that it was a great record, but we should consider changing our name"

Louder

‘She sounded like the cosmos breathing’: David Byrne, Flying Lotus and more on the greatness of Alice Coltrane

The radical work of the musician and composer was dismissed by sexist critics and overshadowed by the legacy of her late husband John. But today, musical stars from Doja Cat to David Byrne all champion her experimental sound

The Guardian - UK

“Although most of the songs on those two albums aren't really aimed at my demographic, they're all so good that it's hard not to fall in love with them”: The Cure’s Robert Smith gushes over Olivia Rodrigo, and says that they’ve been in the studio together

Rodrigo, meanwhile, says that her new album is 70% done

MusicRadar

“The moment we started playing with it, we just laughed”: Viral duo Angine de Poitrine have become one of the most talked-about bands on the planet – and microtonal guitar has been the key to their unlikely success

The guitar/bass double-neck had extra frets sawn into place, and it’s helped them take the internet by storm

Guitar World

BTS: Arirang review – the world’s biggest pop band return with dumb fun and downright weirdness

Ending a hiatus that began in 2022, the septet recapture a distinctiveness that had been threatening to ebb away

The Guardian - UK

“I’d never met B.B. and thought he’d look at me like, ‘Who the hell are you?’ So I just froze”: Warren Haynes remembers B.B. King – from being in awe to playing with him

Haynes was one of the many guitar greats whose lives have been changed by B.B. King, and thanks to Joe Bonamassa, he got to pay tribute to him on the song he would have chosen himself

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Louder

Cool new prog you must hear from Crown Lands, Tarja, Ed O'Brien and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Ebony Buckle, Grice, Amulets and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

The Guardian - UK

Add to playlist: the sharply observed electro-twee of the Femcels and the week’s best new tracks

Following in the footsteps of Heavenly and Tiger Trap the duo’s high-tempo electroclash-indie-pop deftly explores young womanhood in 2020s London

MusicRadar

“People have told me they’ve heard it at weddings – with a guy singing it at the organ. Oh God! I can’t imagine what that was like”: Bryan Adams and the ballad that ate the world

The Groover from Vancouver’s record-breaking hit

Metal Hammer

“I wound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself”: Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview

The singer/multi-instrumentalist says he’s had 430 therapy sessions in the past 70 weeks and suggests that fathering a child with a woman outside of his marriage in 2024 is part of the reason why

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"Steven's happy we're doing this and thinks it'll be great fun." Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 tease first new/old music

Former Porcupine Tree alumni Colin Edwin and John Wesley will release a new version of Porcupine Tree's The Notsalgia Factory in April

Guitar World

“Out of an abundance of caution”: AC/DC’s Stevie Young admitted to hospital in Argentina

The band expects the rhythm guitarist to play at AC/DC’s Buenos Aires show on Monday night

Evening Standard

Dave Grohl says he had to ‘turn everything off’ after admitting to affair

The Foo Fighters singer admitted in September 2024 that he had fathered a child outside of his marriage.

The Independent UK

Dave Grohl says need for validation was like ‘a hungry ghost’

Rock band are returning with a new album and tour of North America

Evening Standard

Niall Horan on former bandmate Liam Payne’s death: ‘I didn’t think it was real’

The 32-year-old also recalled seeing Payne for the last time at a concert in Argentina.

The Guardian - UK

Huw Marc Bennett: Heol Las review – exhilarating Welsh folk injected with synths, sitars and surf rock

The multi-instrumentalist puts his magical spin on traditional Glamorgan tunes, fusing the past, present and future in a momentous third album

Louder

"Bringing the bass and drums down so you can't hear them makes the lead guitar sound fantastic. Jack White made a career out of it." The story of the ferocious classic that was inspired by Vietnam and set a template for punk

The Stooges' Search And Destroy began with James Williamson "goofing around making machine-gun sounds" but countless others adopted its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar

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