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“Tell a musical story and develop it in a conversational way while carrying the song forward”: How to create memorable single-note themes in instrumental guitar music

Andy Wood shows us the power of placing one carefully considered note in front of the other, replacing the need for the human voice

Guitar World

Trove of Michael Jackson tapes discovered – but the world might never hear them

Tracks reportedly include a rap duet with LL Cool J and one on which Jackson hits out at the rumours about him in the media

The Independent UK

“I needed to have a bucket on the side of the stage because I was that sick”: Richie Kotzen on his worst-ever show, that time wildfires came for his guitar collection, and upsetting his mom by getting Purple Haze wrong

Kotzen checks in to talk first guitars, first songs, and to give his younger self a little friendly advice. Plus, why didn't he take any guitars as the fire got close?

Guitar World

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“All over the shop… The template for The Rutles is clearly there, and there’s a bridge between The Goons and Monty Python”: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s Still Barking

17 CDs and three DVDs provide everything you need to know about a counterculture band many have heard of, but fewer have listened to

Louder

Taylor Swift at 35: Her mega year in numbers — and what's coming from her next era

The Grammy-winning megastar celebrates her birthday in the same month as her Eras tour came to an end. Emma Loffhagen looks back on Taylor’s career-defining year of success

Evening Standard

Snoop Dogg has a spring in his step on his relentlessly interesting Dr Dre collaboration Missionary

5/5 Rapper and producer team up for the first time since their 1993 album ‘Doggystyle’

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift celebrates 'nicest birthday present' as she makes Billboard Music Awards history

‘This is like the nicest early birthday present you could have given me, so thank you very much,’ Taylor Swift said in a pre-recorded acceptance speech

Evening Standard

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Taylor Swift Closed Her Eras Tour On Top Of The World. Now What?

The nearly two-year-long, $2 billion Eras tour shattered records, made history and quite literally triggered earthquakes -- so what could Taylor Swift, the planet's biggest star, possibly do next?

International Business Times

Neil Young launches 107-minute Xmas playlist with accompanying cosy fireplace video

Neil Young knows who's been naughty and nice

Louder

Race for Christmas number one kicks off: Who are the contenders?

The winner of the biggest chart race of the year will be announced on BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart on December 20.

Evening Standard

U2’s Larry Mullen Jr on his dyscalculia: Counting bars is like climbing Everest

The Irish musician revealed that he cannot count or add because of the learning difficulty.

Evening Standard

Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks announce live album of classic-era Yes songs

Live - Perpetual Change will be released in March

Louder

Taylor Swift’s Sweet Gesture for Local Kansas City Hospital Goes Viral

It was rare, she was there.

Sports Illustrated

Taylor Swift adorably visited Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City just days after finishing the Eras Tour

The 14-time Grammy winner brightened some days at the Kansas City hospital.

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Taylor Swift Pairs a Festive Miu Miu Tartan Set With Winter's Reigning Boot Trend to Surprise Patients at a Children's Hospital

Her presence is a present.

The Independent UK

Country star Morgan Wallen admits to chucking a chair off the roof of a Nashville bar nearly hitting two cops

Country music star was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct after allegedly throwing a chair off a bar roof in April

MusicRadar

“One of the best guitar solos ever conceived - captured live on stage!”: Uncovering the truth about the Clapton classic that he called "wrong" but Eddie Van Halen loved

The real story of Cream’s Crossroads

Metal Hammer

"What technology has done to disrupt the music business in terms of not only how people listen to music but the value they place on it is defeating." Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor offers damning critique of the state of music in 2024

"Music feels largely relegated to something that happens in the background"

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The Independent UK

He’s bringing sexy Vlad: Justin Timberlake’s appearance at Transylvania festival sparks hilarious reactions

The ‘Sexy Back’ singer will be performing in Romania for the first time at the Electric Castle festival

Guitar World

“It blew my mind as a 12-year-old”: Dweezil Zappa shares the surprising beginner guitar lessons he learned from Eddie Van Halen

Zappa first met Van Halen when he was just 12 years old, and it wasn’t long before he was receiving lessons from the guitar god – on his legendary Frankenstein

Guitar World

“You could describe it as an early ‘boutique’ pedal company… but its products were made in a damp, rat-infested basement”: Loved by Nuno Bettencourt, Jeff Beck and Kurt Cobain, the ProCo Rat graduated from dank basements to the world’s biggest albums

How the Rat changed the world of distortion for guitarists of all stripes, from hard rockers and metalheads to jazz cats, too

MusicRadar

“This one is a prototype. We’re getting close to the finish line tho!”: Abasi Concepts set introduce an extended-range nylon-string to its lineup and Tosin Abasi got so excited with it he spilled his coffee

Tosin Abasi teases nylon-string version of the Larada 7-string and promises it is coming soon. Misha Mansoor wants one. We all do

Louder

The 10 best hip-hop albums of 2024

From Los Angeles to London, Belfast to Tampa, the hip-hop world has thrown up some of 2024's most thrilling, imaginative and essential releases

MusicRadar

“They spent hours building up hundreds of vocal tracks from single notes - then they ‘played’ a traditional mixing desk like a keyboard”: The pioneering techniques that brought static sounds to life

The extraordinary history of adding movement to flat sounds will inspire you to give your music direction and drive.

MusicRadar

“I had a £150 Behringer mixer and an iMac, and whenever I earned any money from music I’d buy a new piece of kit”: Bibio on how he made his biggest track - and why he's still using lo-fi recording techniques 15 years later

Stephen Wilkinson reveals how he recorded Lovers' Carvings - the song that paid for his five-figure Rupert Neve Designs console - using a budget set-up in a bedroom studio

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