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“An instrument that actually solves the problems holding guitarists back”: Ibanez and Bernth team up for a classy high-performance signature electric that makes you play “faster” and “cleaner”

Is this the guitar that makes you a better player? The Austrian virtuoso believes it will, and it’s got multi-voice signature Fishmans that give you more core tones than you have days in the week

Guitar World

Annie Haslam to team up with Renaissance founder Jim McCarty for US live shows

Annie Haslam and JimMcCarty will present The History Of Renaissance live shows in the US in November

Louder

“We were trying to do the perfect crossover between a Telecaster and a Les Paul. I love both”: Mikey Demus on making a Manson signature guitar that suits him down to a T

Artist guitars have played a big part in the long-running history of Manson Guitar Works. We catch up with Mikey Demus to discuss his latest collaboration

Guitar World

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Eurovision to decide whether Israel can take part in 2026 contest as calls mount for its exclusion

Eurovision Song Contest organizers say member countries will vote in November about whether Israel can participate in the musical extravaganza next year, as calls have mounted for the country to be excluded over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

The Independent UK

Sprints All That Is Over review: one of Ireland’s most thrilling bands are reborn with one of 2025's best records

Sprints have evolved into confident, fully formed masters of their craft

Louder

Hear Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne team up on cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs

Proceeds from the all-Brummie collab will go to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s

Metal Hammer

“Usually I’ve done the demos on my laptop, which can be a bit creatively stifling. You can get lost in the sauce trying to program the drums properly and kinda lose that itch”: Wolfgang Van Halen says he’s taking more chances on his new Mammoth album

“Some of these songs couldn’t have existed on a prior album,' he says

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“The record company thought I was mad – but sometimes you sign acts to make money, and sometimes you sign acts to make music”: The making of Enya's Orinoco Flow, the unexpected No. 1 hit that created a New Age superstar

In memory of Enya's longtime producer Nicky Ryan, we take a backwards glance at the ethereal earworm that launched her career

MusicRadar

Another day, yet another Frank Zappa reissue - and this one's glorious

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention's landmark album One Size Fits All, reissued with extra bells, whistles, kitchen sink, etc

Louder

‘I just want to shake my tail feather’: how KeiyaA shut out the noise to make one of the year’s best albums

The pressure of besting her self-released debut – and becoming a public figure – made the US vocalist spiral. Remembering who she was inspired her phenomenal second LP, a comparison-defying odyssey of jazz, pop and club music

The Guardian - UK

Review: What kind of a monster would you have to be not to like Ronnie Wood's Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025?

Honest Ron’s finest moments, starring the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, the Faces, Chrissie Hynde and more

Louder

Cat on the Road to Findout by Yusuf/Cat Stevens review – fame, faith and charity

The enigmatic singer-songwriter on pop stardom, becoming a Muslim and returning to the stage decades later

The Guardian - UK

“A truly virtuosic and deeply musical homage to King Crimson’s legacy – hugely entertaining”: BEAT LIVE captures the joy of Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey reviving and evolving the 80s

The quartet’s relaxed yet enthusiastic approach means they never sound indulgent as they segue between pachyderm-impersonating dissonance and languorous ambience

Louder

"Deranged and spooky and full of unexpected songs about sexual peccadillos and the sound of milk bottles clanking": The dark humour and unexpected musical twists and turns of Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway still startle 50 years on

One of the great prog albums of its era, expanded, plus a live show

Louder

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“Marvel again at the ridiculous ambition of the young musicians who came up with this. It gave Peter Gabriel little option but to leave the band”: Genesis’ 50th anniversary edition of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is even better than the Rael thing

With its many component parts and forward-thinking modernism, their most celebrated yet debated album finally receives the release it deserves

The Independent UK

Album reviews: Mariah Carey, Perrie and Sprints

On her first album in seven years, Mariah Carey stays in her lane of glitzy, nicely overwrought pop on her first album, while pop star Perrie delivers an impressive debut and Irish rock band Sprints return with an excellent second record

The Independent UK

Olivia Dean review, The Art of Loving: De-complicating and de-escalating romance with playful generosity

5/5 Dean’s appealing message about dropping the games and relaxing into kindness runs through every song on this record, from beginning to end

Louder

Bruce Springsteen's band weren't prepared for his now-famous anti-Trump speech in Manchester

Apart from The Boss, only two people knew what was coming

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Ace Frehley cancels show on doctor's orders after studio fall

The former Kiss guitarist will be 75 years old in April

The Independent UK

Bruce Springsteen says Donald Trump should be ‘consigned to the trash heap of history’

The President described the rock legend as ‘highly overrated’ earlier this year

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift to discuss forthcoming album on late night shows

The Life Of A Showgirl is Swift’s first album since she announced in May she had regained control over her back catalogue.

The Guardian - UK

European broadcasters to vote on expelling Israel from Eurovision 2026

European Broadcasting Union says vote required after several nations threaten potential boycott

The Guardian - UK

Sonny Curtis obituary

Singer and guitarist in the Crickets who wrote hundreds of songs, including I Fought the Law, covered by the Clash

The Independent UK

Q&A: Mariah Carey enters ‘the era of me’ with her first album in 7 years

Mariah Carey is releasing her 16th studio album, “Here for It All,” marking a new chapter in her career

Guitar World

“I looked at the page and I went, ‘John, you’ve written a classic – a song like the greats; Lennon and McCartney or Bob Dylan’”: John Fogerty recalls the moment he wrote one of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s most iconic tracks

In a recent interview with Rick Beato, Fogerty discussed his songwriting process, and how being discharged from the National Guard inspired him to write his calling card

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