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“It was love at first sight. I broke up with Judy and chased Sharona for a year”: How The Knack wrote My Sharona, the one hit wonder to end all one hit wonders

New Wave megahit My Sharona was The Knack’s sole claim to fame – but what a claim to fame

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“A truly modern take on the high-powered super amp, full of clever design decisions and boasting features which open it up to all sorts of uses”: Blackstar St James 100 212

A 100-watt, 2x12, four-channel 'super amp' that weighs the same as a Deluxe Reverb?

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"The bass drum is a total bad-ass, while the potential for Aphex-style bleeps and mayhem is available": Cherry Audio KR-55C Software Drum Machine

Steppin’ Out with Cherry Audio’s post-punk beatbox that provides more than a few surprises

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Billy Joel postpones tour dates due to ‘medical condition’

The ‘Piano Man’ singer underwent a recent surgery, from which he is ‘expected to make a full recovery’

The Independent UK

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons is asking fans to be his personal assistant - but it’ll cost them $12k

The costly experience will be available to fans during his upcoming spring tour

The Independent UK

“It made me feel bad that I didn’t put it on the album”: From Pavement to Donna Summer, here are six more B-sides that became huge hits against the odds

Adding to the collection of songs that started out on the flip side of a single, but went on to become playlist staples

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‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh

The wild child ‘gabber pop’ rapper was booted off last year’s song contest. But his song Europapa eclipsed the winner’s – and he’s about to tour the world in his gigantic shoulder pads

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Reggae star, Cocoa Tea, dies aged 65

Jamaican singer-songwriter had been struggling with pneumonia in his final months, his wife said

The Independent UK

SampleRadar: 273 free funk keys samples

If you're no Herbie Hancock on the keyboard, don't despair - use these free samples instead

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“Being mostly a humbucker guy, it’s a really cool tonal change”: Warren Haynes’ transition from humbucker loyalist to P-90 fan is complete – with the launch of his signature Gibson Les Paul

The Gov't Mule guitar hero's newest signature has been a long time coming, and arrives after Haynes pivoted towards P-90 tones

Guitar World

Arturia releases 88-key version of the KeyLab mk3 MIDI controller keyboard with new fully-weighted hammer-action keybed

The French manufacturer's flagship MIDI keyboard gets an 88-key model with an "authentic piano feel" thanks to its Fatar TP/110 keybed

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Singer Billy Joel reschedules two UK shows due to medical condition

The shows were due to be the singer’s first performances in Liverpool and Edinburgh in more than 45 years.

Evening Standard

“I did a shred solo on his cover of Billie Jean. That’s controversial among the fans… but he loved it”: When Chris Cornell left Audioslave, he turned to Jeff Buckley’s guitar foil to make his mark

When Gary Lucas got the call to play guitar on Chris Cornell’s first post-Audioslave release, he was only supposed to be there for one day. But Cornell had other ideas…

Guitar World

“I didn’t know the solo was that iconic beforehand! It was only when I started seeing all the comments that I realized”: Shane Fontayne isn't “a Jimmy Page kind of player” – but he had to play the Stairway to Heaven solo… in front of Jimmy Page

As a member of the Kennedy Center house band, Fontayne – best known for his tenures with Bruce Springsteen and Lone Justice – played lead guitar on Heart's legendary cover of the none-more-iconic eight-minute epic

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“I said, ‘Are we sure we can write a song about death?’”: The story of Mike + The Mechanics' classic No.1 The Living Years

"If we’d got it wrong, it would’ve been very schmaltzy"

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"Have time apart, learn new skills, get new musical ideas and experiences… it’s been a healthy break”: The xx reveal their return to the studio in new social snap

Despite coming together on solo album collabs, this will be the band’s first group material since 2017

Metal Hammer

Order your exclusive Slaughter To Prevail, Jinjer, Electric Callboy, Bloodywood and Bambie Thug bundles, featuring limited edition t-shirts, longsleeves and spellbooks

Metal Hammer has teamed up with the New Heavy Class Of 2025 - Jinjer, Electric Callboy, Slaughter To Prevail, Bambie Thug and Bloodywood - for these special bundles featuring exclusive merch

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"If you watch the video, you can see Jimmy dribbling onstage, Robert not hitting the notes, and me miming, playing the air." Phil Collins' memories of Led Zeppelin's "dark, sulphurous" reunion for Live Aid are brutal, and spare no-one

The prospect of Led Zeppelin reforming to play Live Aid, the biggest music event of the 1980s, sparked great excitement. But their return to the stage on July 13, 1985 did not work out as anyone had planned

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“I remember thinking, ‘I’ll show them – they don’t realize they made a mistake.’ It’s not just the wins, it’s the determination you build from the losses”: Tommy Thayer’s junior high disappointment fired him up for success with Kiss

Kiss’ longest-serving Spaceman on sticking to the Les Paul when it wasn’t cool, the joy of discovering you’ve been playing something wrong for years, why he avoided ’80s-style playing, and what he’s doing next

Evening Standard

OPINION - London’s grassroots music venues need you now — and this is why

Last week The Last Dinner Party stood on stage at London’s O2, and in front of a global audience said that they wouldn’t exist without the UK’s incredible independent venues.

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“I played lots of rhythm guitar on it, and Freddie said, ‘No, no, no, no - it’s a piano song!’”: How Brian May had to fight to get himself heard on a Queen classic

May calls it “a massive Queen song”

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“I was told I can’t do a women’s tour because nobody will go see it. ‘Women don’t sell like men sell.’ Then I toured with Cher and we played for a million people”: Cyndi Lauper announces final dates on farewell tour

Valedictory run of shows winds up at the Hollywood Bowl on 30 August

Evening Standard

Sharon Van Etten at the Royal Albert Hall review: a stunning homecoming

4/5 With dry ice, gothic reimaginings of classic tracks and lashings of drama, this felt like the 44-year-old’s most complete performance yet

MusicRadar

“Gene Simmons is very down-to-earth, funny, and knowledgeable on almost any subject:” The Kiss legend wants you to be his assistant… but there’s a catch

Simmons is heading out on the road and one lucky fan per gig has the opportunity to get up close and personal. For a price...

Guitar World

“All the idiosyncrasies of the original but without the threat of total collapse”: LCD Soundsystem used a ‘one-of-a-kind’ vintage pedal to define their fuzz tones – and now it’s been recreated by EarthQuaker Devices

The Chelsea Low End Fuzz Driver is a close replica of James Murphy’s oddball vintage fuzz

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