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No, arpeggios aren’t just for jazz and shred solos – here are 5 ways you can use them to freshen up any style of guitar playing

Your riffs, rhythm parts and solos can all benefit from a minor 7 arpeggio injection

Guitar World

“I'm still slammed with orders. Each B-Bender is made with care and love, just like I did with the first one for Clarence White”: How Gene Parsons reinvented electric guitar playing with the B-Bender

He was the drummer for the Byrds, but Parsons is best known in guitar circles for pioneering the Parsons/White B-Bender, a mind-bending mechanical contraption that changed the face of country guitar playing and beyond, finding fame in the hands of Marty Stuart, Ricky Skaggs and Jimmy Page

Guitar World

“Dave Friedman has done it again”: Friedman unveils new Jake E. Lee signature amp head – and it combines 2 specific eras of classic rock tones

The 20-watt head – which has separate Plexi and JEL channels – is accompanied by a matching cab

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Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black Music,’ dies at 92

Avant, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, according to a family statement.

Chicago Sun-Times

Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black music’, dies aged 92

Producer and record executive was, according to Quincy Jones, the ‘silent architect of so many deals it would make your head spin’

The Guardian - US

Clarence Avant, ‘Godfather of Black Music' and benefactor of athletes and politicians, dies at 92

Clarence Avant, the manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as “The Godfather of Black Music,” has died

The Independent UK

Photo that solves Sgt Pepper McCartney mystery up for auction

Rumours that musician was not present for album photoshoot are proved false, say UK auctioneers

The Guardian - UK

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‘I was transformed’: the power of Brazilian jazz legend Bola Sete

The late guitarist, who would have just turned 100, blew the minds of Carlos Santana, John Fahey and more with his hypnotic technique and expansive creative vision

The Guardian - UK

"It’s so dope and so different... it really is the long-lost album": Corey Taylor says Slipknot's Look Outside Your Window album will finally be released in 2024, and admits that he's kinda to blame for the delay

On the shelf for 15 years, Slipknot's semi-mythical Look Outside Your Window album is coming out next year, says Corey Taylor

Metal Hammer

Could Ed Sheeran be releasing a new album next month?

Sheeran told fans at Minneapolis’s Bank Stadium: ‘Autumn is coming and I will see you soon’

Evening Standard

"Like wrestling an octopus": How to play bass like Les Claypool

Even if you're not playing double-stops tapped on a fretless 6-string bass there’s still a lot you can learn from Primus frontman Les Claypool. We asked him to break down some of his craziest basslines...

Guitar World

Derek Trucks has been tackling Beck’s Bolero in his own spectacular fashion – watch him nail Jeff Beck’s influential guitar tour de force

The slide virtuoso has been paying tribute to the late Stratocaster master with a string of sensational covers

Guitar World

Timbaland’s rap partner Magoo dies aged 50 as pals warn ‘time is short’

Timbaland’s rap partner Magoo has died aged 50.

Evening Standard

Megadeth's return to the UK for Bloodstock was far from perfect, but a riotous, career-spanning celebration all the same

Dave Mustaine needed a little help from the crowd on this one, but it all made for a hella fun, thrashing good time

Metal Hammer

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"He's not reinventing the wheel here, just venturing out of the wheelhouse": Bruce Dickinson: Tattooed Millionaire - Album Of The Week Club review

Brice Dickinson ventures out of his Iron Maiden-shaped comfort zone for debut solo album Tattooed Millionaire

Metal Hammer

“This motherf****r better know the song!” Watch Michael Bublé front Foo Fighters in San Francisco

Ladies and gentlemen, for one night only, the Bublé Fighters

Metal Hammer

Killswitch Engage's stunning Bloodstock headline set was a moment two decades in the making

Killswitch Engage made the most of their first outdoor UK festival headline set with buckets of bangers, a beefed up stage show and some brilliantly daft stage banter

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Billy Duffy and Ian Astbury resurrect Death Cult for 40th anniversary tour

The pre-Cult band will return to some of the UK venues they played in 1983

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The Independent UK

Pink fan who went into labour during concert names newborn son after pop star

Mother names newborn son ‘Aycen Hart’ after the ‘Raise Your Glass’ singer

The Guardian - UK

‘She spoke truth to power, always’: Sinéad O’Connor’s affinity with Black music – and liberation

The Irish musician expressed solidarity and an appreciation for Black music with gospel, rap and roots reggae recordings, which were often fuelled by her own experiences of marginalisation

Louder

"Do we have any Oasis fans in the house?": Liam Gallagher's triumphant Boardmasters headline set shows exactly why he has the upper hand on Noel

Who needs an Oasis reunion anyway?

MusicRadar

Classic interview - Giorgio Moroder: “If you want to make a good dance song, you still need the 303, an analogue drum machine and a Minimoog”

“The only way to get futuristic sounds was to use synthesizers”

MusicRadar

"It’s not to do with gear, it’s all to do with the way the brain sends signals to his fingers – that’s what makes Mark so special": the story of the classic Dire Straits song that's often imitated, but rarely mastered

Producer Muff Winwood on a masterful Mark Knopfler track

MusicRadar

Arturia MicroFreak v5 review

The eccentric digital synth gets some solid sampling capabilities. We go granular

The Independent UK

Myth-busting outtake photo from The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper shoot up for auction

Photo is part of a press release for the unreleased Beatles album ‘Sessions’ and could fetch up to £10,000

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