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Did Britney Spears Slam Her Family: See Troubled Pop Star's Bizarre Instagram Post for Christmas

Britney Spears sparked backlash and support with a sarcastic post-Christmas Instagram message that fans believe slammed her family amid ongoing holiday tensions.

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“When we lost Jeff, his wife wrote to me and said, ‘I’m going to sell the guitars. They keep reminding me of him’”: John McLaughlin remembers gifting Jeff Beck the white Strat that featured on his seminal Wired record – and helped shape his guitar legacy

The iconic Strat was reportedly stolen at a later date

Guitar World

“I toured with Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was sober and he was a freak of nature. I couldn’t relate to his playing”: The Outlaws' Henry Paul on opening for The Rolling Stones, finding fame thanks to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and his one-of-one red Gretsch Falcon

The Gibson loyalist who’s served three stints with the Outlaws has been there, done that – played to stadium crowds, seen rock's greatest guitar heroes up close and witnessed prime-era Keith Moon debauchery

Guitar World

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‘Seeing all the work that goes into DIY scenes changed my life’: the bitterly optimistic indie-rock of Prewn

Like her forebears Fiona Apple and Giant Drag, Izzy Hagerup puts a distinctly twisty take on indie-rock, and is unafraid of dark emotional truths

The Guardian - UK

2026 is set to be the Year of Geese

COMMENT: The Brooklyn indie-rockers have been dubbed ‘Gen Z’s first great rock band’ following their incessantly raved-about fourth album ‘Getting Killed’. Louis Chilton explains what all the honking is about

The Independent UK

"This one song is worth more than most entire albums. Consider yourself lucky": Vinnie Vincent defends $200 price tag on new CD single

Former Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent lashes out at "emotionally disturbed trolls" who question his business model

Metal Hammer

"They're doing anything to try to destroy me": Graham Bonnet slams former bandmates over accusations of lip-synching

The Alcatrazz versus Alcatrazz debate continues to rage

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“I didn’t expect him to get busted in that bathroom. But his misfortune actually helped us. We couldn’t have asked for more of a buzz!”: How an unexpected arrest accidentally gave Limp Bizkit their big break

Metal Hammer

“We all adored BB, and he asked us to write something for him. But when we listened back to the demo we agreed we should keep it. Sorry, BB!”: The classic song that Whitesnake wrote for the King of the Blues – but didn’t give to him

And they later did the same thing with Tina Turner

MusicRadar

“It was me digging in and lightening up. Cheap Trick’s In Color was a big touchstone for that record”: His first band inspired Nirvana but sold no records. His next band finally gave him the success he deserved

How Bob Mould wrote Sugar’s classic 1992 grunge-era anthem Hoover Dam

Louder

Sir Paul McCartney in tree row with neighbour over plan to chop down sycamores at London home

Beatles legend wants to fell two protected trees at £10m North London home but wealthy investor raises objections

Evening Standard

“I was imprisoned wrongfully and sent away to the penitentiary for many, many years”: John Fogerty on the long struggle to own his songs again

“I’m just an adventurer, you know, like an explorer coming back to the homeland,” Creedence Clearwater Revival man explains

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“When Stevie called us, we had to tell him the party was over. We said, ‘We’ve just blown out Stevie Wonder!’” Stuart Zender on sessioning for Stevie Wonder and supplying the funk to Jamiroquai’s first three albums

After he quit Jamiroquai, Stuart Zender became an in-demand session bassist, jamming with Gorillaz, Stevie Wonder, and Amy Winehouse co-writer Mark Ronson

Guitar World

“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

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The Guardian - UK

‘Have sex to my own music? That sounds repugnant’: KT Tunstall’s honest playlist

The Scots singer thought Kim Wilde was cool and got talked into buying a Cocteau Twins record but which song gives her a slap in the face?

Guitar World

“I wasn’t credited with any songwriting. That was a pity. But I didn’t make a fuss. I figured Peter was still pretty fragile”: Snowy White on his uncredited role on Peter Green’s comeback LP and how David Gilmour introduced him to the Whammy pedal

The ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist toured the world with Roger Waters, played with Gary Moore, but now he’s retired from the stage, he admits he was never entirely comfortable with pop status

Metal Hammer

“The stupidest thing I could have done was put myself out as much as I did. I’ll never make that mistake again”: Inspired by astrology and personal tragedy, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan wrote his most personal song. He came to regret it

It was the emotional highlight of Tool’s 10,000 Days album

Guitar World

“I walked in and said, ‘Can I get that guitar, the one at the end there?’ He looked at the name on the credit card and then looked up at me”: Chrissie Hynde on the time she bought her own signature guitar off the shelf

Turns out having your own signature Fender Telecaster stocked in shops is pretty handy when you're caught without your own...

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‘Hardcore had a level of violence I was really interested in’: the thrash solos and beatdowns of False Reality

The band may be relatively new but its members have spent years steeped in the scene, giving them edge and an ear for tracks that rip through a room

Metal Hammer

The 10 best alt-metal and nu metal albums of 2025

Babymetal, Bloodywood and Sleep Token pulled influence from some esoteric places this year, and they lifted metal to new heights in the process

Louder

“Lemmy was very forceful and pushy because he took a lot of speed. He got the job because he elbowed everybody else out the way!” How Hawkwind made Silver Machine, and gained the respect of Dave Brock’s bank manager

It was only their second-ever single, but it made a massive impact – and Brock still doesn’t really know how it happened

Louder

“We all looked at each other and said, 'We gotta get out of here!’”: the story of the night a synth-pop sensation caused an LA riot featuring 200 police officers, helicopters, barricades, smashed windows and a queue that stretched on for 15 blocks

The story of the night that these electro-pop pioneers from Essex caused such carnage they made the US national news

Cinemablend

The Four-Word Response Simon Cowell Would Have If His Son Gave A Bad Singing Audition

Never would have expected anything less.

Metal Hammer

“We weren’t scared of grunge. We would see Dave Grohl wearing Sepultura t-shirts”: It was built on death metal – until three iconic bands helped turn this underground record company into the most influential metal label of the 90s

MusicRadar

“I remember asking if there was another way of expressing whether God was ‘just a slob like one of us’ but he insisted that line would grab people’s attention”: How a catchy and idiosyncratic track became a ’90s classic covered by Prince

"I knew that we were going to be hearing this for the rest of our lives”

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