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An iconic pairing: Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Tube Screamer resurfaces for sale – and sells immediately

The heavily worn overdrive pedal has changed hands once more after coming up for sale via Chicago Music Exchange

Guitar World

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Duff McKagan, Pretenders and more

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Louder

At last, Hyperion recordings are streamable. We pick some of the standouts

The British classical label is now part of Universal Music and its superb catalogue is being made available to stream. From Hildegard of Bingen to Hough, Hewitt and Hamelin, we look over some of the greatest recordings now available

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S Club shut down ‘nonsense’ reports Hannah Spearritt was excluded from reunion tour

Report in The Sun claimed singer was ‘blindsided’ by news five of the band’s members were reuniting without her

The Independent UK

Whitney Houston's estate announces second annual Legacy of Love Gala with BeBe Winans, Kim Burrell

This year would have been Whitney Houston would have turned 60, and a special celebration to raise money for a good cause is being planned for her birthday

The Independent UK

"We went there to have a whale of a time – a sex holiday, really. But it got out of hand": Billy Idol on the Thailand vacation that ended with a visit from the army

In 1989, Billy Idol desperately need a break from his troubles in Los Angeles, but things went from bad, to worse, and then to much, much worse

Louder

“Marty Friedman taught me to pick phrases that help tell the story. Resist the temptation to use your songs to show off your fastest licks”: Nita Strauss on how she stepped up her game for The Call of the Void

Nita Strauss can shred with the best of them, but her new solo album features ‘radio songs’ with guest-star vocalists – plus a showdown with mentor Marty Friedman

Guitar World

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John Wetton's An Extraordinary Life eight disc box set out in November

John Wetton's An Extraordinary Life box set features all six of Wetton's solo albums and two discs of unreleased material

Louder

9 times Nuno Bettencourt proved to be guitar's M.V.P.

The string-skipping, warp speed-shredding and hard-riffing virtuoso has been blowing minds since '89. Here are 9 highlights from his spectacular catalog with Extreme and beyond

Guitar World

Sinead O’Connor sent texts ‘laden with despair’ to Bob Geldof weeks before death

The Boomtown Rats frontman dedicated the band’s performance at Ireland’s Cavan Calling festival to the late singer.

The Independent UK

“Instead of the toy store, I wanted to go to the guitar store and play all the expensive guitars”: Steve Lukather shares his biggest gear hits and misses

The top sessioneer and Toto stringsman recounts his early six-string experiences, an epic deal on a rare Vox 12-string and why he hasn’t bought a guitar in 30 years…

Guitar World

Mac DeMarco review – an atypical celebration of an atypical album

Moving on from his sad-clown antics with a beguiling set of instrumentals and fan faves, strung together by Tom Waitsy banter, DeMarco is a magnetic performer

The Guardian - UK

"I just carried all this anger and horror." From his grandmother's experiences in Nazi Germany scarring his childhood to Godflesh being labelled the 'new Nirvana', Justin Broadrick is an extreme music icon like no other

Justin Broadrick's work has influenced everyone from Faith No More to Metallica, yet a recent diagnosis has finally helped him find himself.

Metal Hammer

Jared James Nichols is the wild man of modern blues-rock – let your solos loose with 6 of his most ferocious licks

In this exclusive lesson, the Epiphone signature artist teaches you 6 licks that will take your blues-rock solos into uncharted territory

Guitar World

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Paul Reed Smith: "They're gonna try to write guitar maker on my gravestone – I would want it to be 'a good family member'"

A heartwarming moment in a new interview captures more of the man behind the iconic guitar brand

The Guardian - UK

TV score composer and Betjeman collaborator Jim Parker dies aged 88

Bafta-winner wrote theme music for shows including Ground Force and made albums with poet laureate

Salon

Knowing about blood clots saves lives

Blood clots kill more Americans than breast cancer or car accidents. Here's what experts say are the warning signs

The Independent UK

Bob Geldof recalls last texts with Sinead O’Connor: ‘She was a very good friend of mine’

Singer and activist remembered fellow Irish artist during his performance Cavan Calling festival over the weekend

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Evening Standard

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: South Facing at Crystal Palace Bowl review - Britpop is fully back

The gig was peppered with the acerbic, deadpan good humour we’ve come to love from Oasis’s elder Gallagher brother

The Guardian - UK

‘Total Eclipse of the Heart is a work of naff genius’: Sister Bliss’s honest playlist

The Faithless synth queen is blown away by Kate Bush and would only do karaoke at gunpoint, but which power ballad does she grudgingly respect?

The Guardian - UK

A new start after 60: At 74, I go to a gig every night – and once went to 725 in a row

Roger Mairlot was working as a car mechanic and struggling to sleep at night when a chance encounter led him to start attending gigs. He plans to keep going ‘until I drop’

Louder

“It was an apex moment in the history of live rock’n’roll”: Tom Morello on the night that he teamed up with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder to perform an AC/DC cover

The trio got together to perform Highway To Hell in Melbourne in 2014, and the Rage Against The Machine was the man who made it happen

The Independent UK

Sinead O’Connor fans gather to sing Nothing Compares 2 U in Dublin tribute

The 56-year-old Irish singer died in London last week.

MusicRadar

9 pro songwriting tips for piano players: maximise your creativity at the keys

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, these tried and tested songwriting blueprints should help you create better music, and more of it

Guitar World

So close you can see his scallops: behold Yngwie Malmsteen’s chops in greater detail than ever before with this astonishing multi-cam footage of Far Beyond the Sun

The exclusive performance heralds the launch of MaestroClass, a new 10-song lesson series with TrueFire

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