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“I didn’t need all the extra crap. Just give me a single-P-90 guitar and a Tube Screamer and I’m ready to play the Royal Albert Hall”: Jared James Nichols on why he took the Klon off his pedalboard and what players get wrong about drive pedals

Not everyone is expanding their pedalboards. Nichols explains why he prefers to keep it simple – and to leave the super-rare high-value pedalboard gold at home

MusicRadar

"The only reason you look in the rearview mirror is to see how cool you look going forward." This is what happened when Metallica's Lars Ulrich interviewed one of his heroes, Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris

In 1996, the leaders of two of the biggest metal bands on the planet sat down to discuss their respective journeys in music

Metal Hammer

“The Stratocaster has been around for 70 years and it’s perfect. Now we come along and say, ‘You’re wrong!’ They don’t like it”: True Temperament wants to disrupt an industry built on heritage, but do its necks actually fix the guitar’s biggest flaw?

Crooked frets, designed to solve the instrument’s biggest intonation issues, have won over some big-name players (even if they’re keeping quiet about it). Is it a revolution or just a fad?

Guitar World

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The eye-watering numbers behind BTS’s marathon comeback tour

The comeback, estimated to generate more than $1bn in revenue, will mark the K-pop boyband’s first full tour since before Covid-19 disrupted the live music industry worldwide, Shahana Yasmin reports

The Independent UK

Peter Gabriel announces physical release of live albums In The Big Room and Live At WOMAD 82

Peter Gabriel will release live albums In The Big Room in March and Live At WOMAD 82 in May

Louder

“Tools to name the weird and wonderful chords you may encounter on the fretboard”: Demystifying chord names, starting with a Hendrix and SRV favorite, the maj9

A little knowledge with naming conventions goes a long way to understanding complex chords and how they might sound

Guitar World

“I'm playing the same thing over and over for an hour, sweating and exhausted”: When Keith Urban and Dann Huff got heated over a guitar solo

The two first started working together in 2002 – and Huff tested Urban’s patience with an hour-long solo session

Guitar World

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BTS Confirms Global 2026 Comeback With New Album and Record-Breaking 79-Date World Tour

BTS officially ends a four-year hiatus with a new album on 20 March 2026 and a massive global tour spanning 34 cities across five continents.

International Business Times UK

“It was so surreal. Have we done anything that would create such a horrible atmosphere that a fan would take their own lives? Are we responsible for that?”: Rob Halford recalls Judas Priest’s darkest days – on trial after two fans died in a suicide pact

“We couldn’t understand it. It didn’t make sense”

MusicRadar

“It’s the worst thing you can imagine – a song written by the rhythm section. I have to fit a guitar part over this?” How Rush made Grammy-nominated instrumental YYZ

When Alex Lifeson got back from a journey his bandmates presented him with a jam piece that finally gelled when they added Morse code to the intro

Louder

"Someone spat at our saxophone player, so Tim kicked this guy in the mouth – absolutely perfectly in time to the music": A brief history of Cardiacs, the UK's most adored detested band

Cardiacs defied classification for decades, but new album LSD – finished five years after the death of creative lynchpin Tim Smith – was widely hailed as one of the best albums of 2025

Louder

"The song means as much today as it did then - kids trying to break out of their town to find something to do": Influenced by Aleister Crowley and toothache, the song that introduced new wave still strikes a chord

The Sex Pistols weren't the only authority-baiting band to storm the charts in 1977

Louder

Zach Bryan was gifted Bob Weir’s guitar days before Grateful Dead co-founder’s death

Country star honored the late musician and songwriter on Instagram, writing, ‘We will all miss you’

The Independent UK

BTS to play two shows at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as part of a huge comeback tour

How to get tickets and when they go on sale as K-pop supergroup return

Evening Standard

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“We play three to four hours a night or more. I study in real time, 100 gigs a year. That's a great deal of practice”: Bob Weir's 6 principles of rhythm guitar

Often overlooked in guitar circles when compared to Grateful Dead bandmate Jerry Garcia, Weir was a brilliant rhythm player who blended jazz, folk, country, blues, and rockabilly influences into a style that any guitarist would do well to study

Cinemablend

Teyana Taylor Explains Why She Won't 'Abandon' Kanye West Despite Controversies

The actress spoke out about Kanye West.

The Independent UK

Full list of dates and cities for BTS World Tour 2026 – and how to get tickets

It will be the group’s first tour since its members returned from South Korea's mandatory military service

Guitar World

“You guys are funny. Imagine playing Little Wing on a guitar that isn’t a Strat…” After leaving Suhr, Mateus Asato sets the record straight on Fender rumors

Asato announced his departure from Suhr just one week ago – and is scheduled to release his debut album in the coming weeks

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The Independent UK

BTS announce first world tour since returning from mandatory military service: See the dates

The BTS comeback is upon us

Louder

"My god, we were such impatient boys." How a David Bowie screw-up and some dramatic miming on British TV helped Queen secure their first hit single

The story behind Queen's first Top 10 single

Cinemablend

Forget Taylor Swift’s Wedding Plans, What Is Mr Beast Planning With Fiancèe Thea?

The YouTube sensation opens up about his wedding.

MusicRadar

“Because it’s that ‘just right’ size. It fits so many players, across so many different styles of playing”: Taylor expands Gold Label Series and refreshes flagship acoustic with a trio of game-changing features

NAMM 2026: Taylor’s Next Generation Grand Auditorium cutaways are updated with scalloped V-Class bracing, Action Control Necks and the all-new Claria pickup and preamp system

International Business Times UK

Louis Tomlinson Breaks Silence on His New Project With Zayn Malik And Life After Liam Payne

Louis Tomlinson opens up about his upcoming project with Zayn Malik, navigating life after Liam Payne's death, and entering a defining new chapter in his solo career.

MusicRadar

“The SG that I had at the Ozzy gig, that guitar needed a louder pickup but I still wanted that true-to-life guitar sound that I like”: Slash and Seymour Duncan dial up the raunch with the Guns N’ Roses legend’s signature 3.0 humbuckers

NAMM 2026: Hand-wired in Santa Barbara, they're not just for Les Pauls or SGs. Slash has one in his BC Rich Mockingbird – and they'd work a treat in a hotrodded S-style

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Kick off your 2026 in style with our list of the 7 best test tracks getting us through January

New year, new tunes

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