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Garth Hudson obituary

Innovative organist with the Band, the rock group who changed the way their contemporaries thought about music

The Guardian - UK

Garth Hudson, founder member of the Band and Bob Dylan collaborator, dies aged 87

Hudson was the last remaining member of the folk-rock group, releasing 10 studio albums with them and touring with Dylan in his newfound electric period

The Guardian - UK

Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician, has died at age 87

The Independent UK

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“Lightweight, portable, and incredibly powerful”: Orange launches “studio-grade and gig-ready” Baby Range – three affordable, compact heads that downsize classic Orange tones (and introduce some new ones, too)

NAMM 2025: The three amps are travel-friendly and offer versatile tone-sculpting features for the studio and the stage

Guitar World

Garth Hudson death: Last remaining member of The Band dies aged 87

Hudson was a talented multi-instrumentalist best known for playing keyboards and saxophone for The Band

The Independent UK

Kraftwerk to celebrate 50th anniversary of classic Autobahn album with reissues in March

Kraftwerk will release a new Dolby Atmos mix of Autobahn on Blu-ray and digitally, as well as their first official vinyl picture disc in March

Louder

“His work with Tygers of Pan Tang was by far my favorite of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal”: Tributes pour in for Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, Tygers of Pan Tang guitarist John Sykes

The hard rock guitar great passed away earlier this week after a battle with cancer

Guitar World

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“Witness fulfilled so many dreams… I was in doubt about where to go after that”: VOLA’s battle to find a direction for latest album Friend Of A Phantom

When their acclaimed third record became difficult to escape, guitarist and vocalist Asger Mygind knew what its follow-up needed to be – but had no idea how to make it happen

Louder

“I should have been dead that night!”: Ace Frehley looks back on Kiss' wild on-stage mishaps, including the trick that doctors warned could have left him in a wheelchair

Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley fell down many, many times...and once even almost died on stage

Metal Hammer

Legendary singer confirmed for Glasgow’s Summer Nights at The Bandstand

The line-up for this years event has been revealed

The National (Scotland)

Black Eyed Peas mysteriously cancel Las Vegas residency due to 'current circumstances'

The band’s shows were set for February, March, and May at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino

Evening Standard

“I got this guitar when I was 17 years old. In 2003 it was stolen from my house. I thought it was gone forever”: Deryck Whibley recovers long-lost Gibson guitar – just in time for Sum 41's final tour

Whibley asserts the importance of this guitar during the band's early days and describes how playing it again, decades later, felt like a true full-circle moment

Guitar World

“He and I played some sweet music together. He was a great musician”: Thin Lizzy legend Scott Gorham pays tribute to his former bandmate John Sykes

Sykes also starred for Whitesnake in the '80s

MusicRadar

"After shaking her hand, I went out and had like five cigarettes in a row just to calm myself down. I get starstruck easily": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on the time he met ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog and had dinner with her

Mikael Åkerfeldt looks back on the time he was starstruck after meeting fellow Swedish legend, Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA

Metal Hammer

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“Let's go back to the mid-'80s where dance music began”: Your guide to creating a classic house track from scratch

Produce an authentic-sounding house track with a dose of acid in 10 easy steps

Metal Hammer

“It was the most explosive diarrhoea you’ve ever seen in your entire life!” The ballad of Heriot’s Debbie Gough and the guitar shop window pooper

We’ve all had rough days at work, but walking up to your shop’s window and seeing it covered in faeces is a new level of nightmarish

Metal Hammer

“They were a gang!” The first band Metallica supported on tour didn’t think the thrashers had a chance in hell of making it big

“‘Do you see them in 10 years being the greatest thing since sliced bread?’ No, not a chance!”

Louder

"It's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and what it stands for": Lynyrd Skynyrd announce UK tour with Blackberry Smoke

Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd have also announced a Canadian tour with The Outlaws

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Louder

"I hadn’t heard of him, to be honest": Steve Jones on the return of the Sex Pistols and how new frontman Frank Carter joined the fun

When the Sex Pistols re-formed with three original members plus singer Frank Carter, they hadn’t sounded so vital in years. And there’s more to come

Metal Hammer

"A small subset of fans had a practice of showing up to gigs in Nazi regalia." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian on why supporting one iconic metal band was like "rock 'n' roll boot camp"

System Of A Down have a storied career, and Serj has spoken on one of the most challenging support slots the band experienced in their early days

MusicRadar

NAMM 2025: Roland's new VMH-S100 studio headphones have double-sided connectivity and come with a 3-month subscription to the Roland Cloud

Roland’s new offering not only looks the part but promises to be the ultimate studio all-rounder

Louder

“Our producer chopped down the songs to four minutes… the originals were much longer and stretched out”: King Crimson fan and Saxon vocalist Biff Byford narrowly missed out on being a prog musician

Twists of fate prevented him from following his original ambitions – but his band still use Robert Fripp’s music at sound checks

The Independent UK

LCD Soundsystem: The album that changed music – and sparked hipster culture

PLAYBACK : Twenty years on from the group’s genre-splicing debut album, Mark Beaumont talks to those who were there, from The Rapture to Hot Chip, about the most influential New York band of the Noughties

The Conversation

This K-pop band just made US Billboard history. Here’s how Stray Kids conquered the music world

A South Korean boy band you’ve probably never heard of recently made history by becoming the first act to debut at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 with each of its first six album chart entries. You read that right – the American Billboard charts.

Louder

"We could wear wigs and it would be cool instead of corny": Stryper frontman Michael Sweet lists 10 reasons why his life would be much easier if he was actually fronting a Stryper tribute band

Life isn't always easy leading the yellow and black attack

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