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“If something works there, it works everywhere”: Why Josh Homme prefers to write his songs on acoustic guitar first

Queens of the Stone Age have become the first band to play the Paris Catacombs for a new live film, and he says it shows how many of their biggest hits take their form

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“I wanted to come up with a hypnotic riff and had the Rolling Stones’ Miss You in mind”: Jared James Nichols on how Keith Richards and ZZ Top influenced one of his most memorable riffs – and what Eddie Kramer told him about songwriting

The fingerstyle blues-rock phenom shows us how open drone strings and simplicity can be used to write a riff that you can build a whole song around, just as he did on Honey Forgive Me

Guitar World

“They’ll go, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t tell you what to do.’ But then you hear the record later and you’re not on it! They took you off and there’s a saxophone solo on there instead”: Ace session guitarist Brent Mason reveals how he made it to the top

And he admits: "I've messed up a lot!"

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Billy Joel reveals he attempted suicide twice after betraying his best friend

‘I felt very, very guilty about it,’ singer-songwriter explained in new documentary

The Independent UK

“I was just like, ‘This is a sign, man, because this situation blows right now”: The moment that Andrew Watt dived into production – after starting out his career as a recording musician

From shredder to super producer, Watts looks back on the car-crash that forced him into production

Guitar World

“Bands change; people move on. But when everything Jonas Renkse touches turns to gold, the present and future will always outweigh the past”: Katatonia’s new era begins with Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State

Sweden’s melancholic masters successfully navigate recent choppy waters to deliver their lucky 13th album

Louder

Beyoncé review – a hugely enjoyable concert that adds a ferocious potency to Cowboy Carter

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, LondonThe big hits might be truncated to make way for her latest, country-inflected album – but seen live, these songs sound like a powerful act of protest

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Rita Ora releases new single Heat with music video shot on Miami beach

The 34-year-old released the track ahead of a performance at World Pride Music Festival in Washington DC.

Evening Standard

Tinie Tempah says nightlife crisis means ‘losing that physical connection’

The rapper is backing the Night Time Industries Association campaign called The Last Night Out.

Evening Standard

Belinda Carlisle announces release of new studio album

Once Upon A Time In California will feature 10 songs which aim to capture the ‘sounds of her youth’.

Evening Standard

“Will definitely please those who are a fan of the sound already, but standalone price is expensive”: Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus plugin review

The world’s most famous solid-state amp finally gets an official amp model for your DAW

MusicRadar

“It took me a few years to figure out that if you’re going to play Fender guitars, you play with Fender amps”: Ryan Hedgecock stuck to his own creative path, even when Lone Justice were torn apart

The country crossover pioneer’s desire to explore the “indigenous sound of LA” has never left him – and it’s bringing about a full-circle moment as he reactivates Parlor James and plans a hardcore cowpunk solo record

Guitar World

“I only asked them to play on my album because the record company thought a few well-known names would be a good selling point”: Snowy White tells the story of his 1994 collaboration with Gary Moore and David Gilmour

The album is packed with notable players who offer solos, slide, and plenty more, but the former Thin Lizzy man would have happily pushed on without them

Guitar World

“We had four guitarists, which was unheard of at that point”: Johnny Hickman on his pre-Cracker band, the Unforgiven, revisiting the Cracker catalog, and big, bone-headed riffs

Re-recording their catalog for the epic Alternative History, Cracker are taking control of their own story, and it's one that begins with a riff and their own Mick and Keef creative chemistry

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“I immediately heard the melody in my head. I just felt intuitively, ‘This is gonna be something’”: How Madonna created a dancefloor classic — with a sample that other artists could only dream of using

An intoxicating mash-up of ’70s disco, ’80s electropop and 2000s club music

The Guardian - UK

Lionel Richie review – larger-than-life legend delivers a lesson in charm

The perfectly ’tached singer rolls out some raw and funky versions of his hits, from Hello to Brick House to All Night Long, with a roaring-along crowd

The Guardian - AU

Jimmy Barnes: Defiant review – familiar but reliable territory from the indestructible rocker

If this album were any more 1990s, it would come with a Hawkeian cigar and a Rachel haircut

MusicRadar

"I loved it so much that I hunted down the synths he used": Ethel Cain's ethereal new song features a Yamaha DX7S heard on the Twin Peaks soundtrack

The singer-songwriter was inspired by a viral video of Twin Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he and Lynch dreamt up Laura Palmer's Theme

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“He says, ‘Isn’t this a great guitar? I bought it off some guy on the street for 350 bucks’”: How Lita Ford reacted when she came face-to-face with her stolen B.C. Rich Mockingbird – and the only amp she ever returned

The rock icon talks all things gear, like that time she lied about her age so she could earn money for an SG, Neal Moser's badass B.C. Rich custom jobs, and why she returned a Kerry King Marshall

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“They start the song and then they just… it feels like a run-on sentence to me. I can’t find the hook. I can’t find the chorus. It just keeps on going, and then it ends”: Barry Manilow says that songwriting has changed, but he won’t be changing with it

“Young people don’t write the way I was trained to write,” he believes

Guitar World

“I’d met Leslie West, and like a lot of guitar players, you couldn’t meet Leslie West and come out unscathed”: Martin Barre explains how the Mountain man influenced his most iconic solo on Jethro Tull’s Aqualung

The Jethro Tull legend says his meeting with the Mountain man left an indelible mark on him as a player

The Guardian - UK

The ones we love: all 16 of REM’s albums – ranked!

As their album Fables of the Reconstruction turns 40, we assess REM’s hugely varied discography, from mysterious masterpieces to commercial failures

MusicRadar

“It creates a tone that you can't find in Guitar Center”: Disiniblud on the self-built instruments, obscure Eurorack modules and marathon Ableton sessions behind their wildly imaginative self-titled debut

Guitars merge seamlessly with modular sketches on Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith's beautifully realised debut. Danny Turner finds out more about their "wordless" collaboration

MusicRadar

“Designed to be featherlight without compromising tone”: Kiesel debuts the Kyber – a customisable, super-shreddable and radically contoured electric guitar that weighs as little as 6lbs

Kiesel’s new design is all about the ergonomics, with the California high-performance brand offering every excuse for players to carry on up the Kyber's fingerboard

The Independent UK

Excitement builds among BTS fans for band’s reunion after military service

K-pop group’s debut anniversary celebrations have taken on a special significance this year

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