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“It started off sounding a bit like Prince. I wanted to hear something in my mix so I cut the snare and it changed the whole mood of the track": How George Michael accidentally created the ‘80s smash that inspired Taylor Swift on The Life of a Showgirl

“It ended up, in my mind, being the most original-sounding thing on the album,” he later said

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‘It’s like having a button that makes the audience go nuts’: Deep Purple on Smoke on the Water

‘We went to see Frank Zappa at Montreux casino. But someone fired a flare gun into the ceiling and – whoosh! The whole building went up in flames’

The Guardian - UK

"I downloaded it two years ago and it changed my life - it's one of my favourite synths": Rudimental reveal their favourite plugins for drum 'n' bass production

Rudimental's Piers Aggett and Kesi Dryden appear on the Tape Notes podcast to discuss the software that's shaped their soulful, radio-friendly DnB

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“They just kept on coming in and borrowing my equipment”: Kiss’ controversial live album, Alive!, didn’t just borrow its title from Peter Frampton – it also features some of his gear

The two artists were working in Electric Ladyland Studios at the same time, and Paul Stanley and co couldn’t resist tapping into their hero’s gear collection

Guitar World

“Decided to pick up my 9-string beast”: Journey’s Neal Schon shreds on a one-of-a-kind 9-string Ibanez

The Journey guitar hero has taken the Ibanez Custom Shop model for a spin across a series of Instagram videos

Guitar World

Chappell Roan: what time is she playing Reading, and what's the setlist?

The super graphic ultra modern girl will be headlining one of the UK’s biggest festivals this week

Evening Standard

So there's a Sleep Token tribute band now and it honestly looks like great fun

Watch a video from Sleep Broken's performance in Milton Keynes this past weekend. What would Vessel make of this?!

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“I don't know what the odds are, but last night the ghost of Eddie Van Halen visited me at my hotel room”: David Lee Roth trolls Sammy Hagar over his ‘ghost of Eddie Van Halen’ claims

The Red Rocker claims his former bandmate’s ghost showed him a lick in a dream, and he used it to write his latest single. Now Roth says he’s been paid a visit, too

Guitar World

Khruangbin at Gunnersbury Park review: has there ever been a chiller band?

4/5 Few players master their instrument or move in step with it as symbiotically as the Texas band, who brought their big hits to Gunnersbury Park

Evening Standard

“People may not realise how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him”: Yoko and Sean Ono Lennon announce new Lennon box set

Power To The People covers early New York years

MusicRadar

What happened to Alex Lloyd? His Australian Story episode is a tremendous act of bravery

Celebrity culture remains frighteningly inhumane, but the episode about the singer of the 2001 elegiac hit Amazing is a heartening reminder of how far we’ve come since the 2000s

The Guardian - AU

Noel Gallagher ‘writing new Oasis songs’ as fans beg for comeback album following reunion triumph

Insiders claim Noel’s creativity has been ‘supercharged’ by the reunion tour

Evening Standard

“The albums hadn’t been doing well. We weren’t doing great. Suddenly we kind of surprised people”: Dave Davies on how You Really Got Me saved The Kinks, those Jimmy Page rumors – and what he really thought of Van Halen’s cover

The guitarist who paved the way for rock and metal distortion breaks down the truths and myths of the groundbreaking 1964 hit

Guitar World

Bad Omens announce 2025 European tour - including their biggest UK shows ever

One of metalcore's fastest-rising bands will return to the UK and Europe this winter

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“I was thinking, ‘Why does it sound different when I play the Mississippi Queen intro, as compared to when he does it?’” Jared James Nichols on why playing behind and ahead of the beat are the key to great blues guitar

Taking what he learned from Leslie West, Eric Clapton and Paul Kossoff, Jared James Nichols shows us just how to work the pocket and give our playing the personality it needs

MusicRadar

“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

Louder

"On this album are the feelings I don't get to express when I'm writing arock'n'roll record": Cormac Neeson on California Irish, his dreamy concoction of folk, blues rock and Americana

The Answer frontman Cormac Neeson on California Irish, the new band inspired by his parents' cassette tapes

The Independent UK

There hasn’t been a Song of the Summer for 2025 – does that matter?

IN FOCUS: This year – for the first time in a while – a ubiquitous Summer Banger has failed to materialise. Ellie Muir looks into why there’s no defining sound for our dog days in 2025, and whether it says anything about the cultural mood right now

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The Guardian - UK

‘I got a nosebleed in minutes!’ How the Wedding Present’s indie banger classics inspired a musical

They lit up the 80s and 90s with abrasive tracks that were like kitchen-sink dramas. But can the Wedding Present’s acerbic songs work on stage? We meet the team making it happen – and the ‘rock god’ who penned the hits

Louder

David Lee Roth mocks "esteemed colleague" Sammy Hagar's claim to have been visited by Eddie Van Halen's ghost

We await the Red Rocker's response

Ditching smart speakers for bookshelf speakers has transformed my music listening

Even the best Sonos is no match for Bowers & Wilkins speakers and a Marantz amp

Cinemablend

That Time Billie Eilish's Brother Attended Taylor Swift's Birthday Party And Did 'Something Cringey'

It's her party, she can laugh if she wants to.

Guitar World

“I lost everything – the only thing I held onto was my Fender Jazz Bass”: How Tommy Shannon broke a 7-year cycle of jail and halfway houses to record his most famous bassline with Stevie Ray Vaughan

Shannon played an Olympic White 1962 Jazz Bass tuned down a half-step to match Vaughan's Eb tuning

Guitar World

“I’m the kind of guy that never says never. I don’t hate Paul or Gene. We’re rock and roll brothers”: Ace Frehley sets the record straight on where things stand with Kiss

Frehley discusses why he’s not appearing at any of the band’s upcoming events – and on his often complicated relationship with Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons

Louder

“I thought he was taking the piss”: The time Ozzy Osbourne planned to beat up Frank Zappa

The story of the unlikely love-in between Frank Zappa and Black Sabbath

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