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"More trucks, more drivers, more gasoline, more travel. And we've already seen a lot of bands canceling tours. You're gonna see a lot more, because I know where we're at": Avenged Sevenfold star says touring is now "almost impossible" for most bands

M. Shadows on the modern economic realities of touring, even for established acts

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“I discovered open tunings on the electric because of The Rolling Stones and Keith Richards. It opened up a whole new palette”: Meet Julian Taylor, the Canadian musical encyclopedia who plays a custom Tele called the ‘Barncaster’

Pathways finds the Canadian singer-songwriter welcoming soul, R&B, blues and folk into the mix and letting his guitar lead the way for the first time

Guitar World

The Cure’s new album could be out this summer, and Robert Smith has just detailed two songs set to appear on it

The Cure’s new album Songs Of A Lost World took 16 years to come out. Their next one may take just a few months.

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“The lowest on my list of things we’ve ever done”: M. Shadows names the Avenged Sevenfold song he considers a “throwaway”

“That’s not a great ballad. We’ve had much better ballads.”

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"Each time I'm about to play it, I take a deep breath and I exhale on that first note": 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Rush

Songs in the key of Lifeson

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Get strumming: The 22 essential beginner, blues and folk guitar chords every guitarist should learn first

Inspiration for every skill level

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"I looked at my bandmates and missed them already and I felt sad to see such joy in Neil’s face when we were down to the last few bars of our last song played together": Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee recall Rush's final live moments

Prog trio's surviving members look back at the band's 50-year career

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“The next time a musician says to you 'shall we try this a little more allegro?' you will know exactly what they mean”: The quick guide to the theory behind tempo and bpm

"The next time a musician says to you 'shall we try this a little more allegro?' you will know exactly what they mean"

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Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions: Cold Blows the Rain review – wild weather and maternal lullabies

Hayden’s traditional songs unfurl at a glacial pace, as heavy as the sodden moors at midnight

The Guardian - UK

‘We were strapped to this babbling circus’: Scissor Sisters on their reunion, rightwing reactionaries – and riotous origins

Jake Shears, Del Marquis and Babydaddy are reuniting as a trio to celebrate 20 years since their debut album. They talk electroclash, Elton John and connecting with the UK’s ‘weird’ energy

The Guardian - UK

Celebrating 50 Years Of Rush: an exclusive new interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Styx, Joe Satriani, The Doors, DeWolff, Sweet, Mark Tremonti, Metallica, Andy Fairweather Low, Tom Morello, Brothers Osborne, The Struts and more

Louder

How Jimmie Rodgers changed the face of popular music – and built a song franchise in the process

Nearly 100 years ago, Jimmie Rodgers wired a connection between the blues and country music with a guitar, some jokes and a yodel

Louder

Sabrina Carpenter Was Worried Releasing "Espresso" as a Summer Song Might Be a Mistake

"I had literally no idea that anyone would like it, but I liked it, and that was kind of all that mattered to me in that moment, and something I try to remember over and over again," she says of releasing the song when she did in spite of her…

Marie Claire

"It's adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall": Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes have recorded a song with Robbie Williams

Former Take That star Robbie Williams has confirmed the unlikely collaboration

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Wayne Osmond, Founding Member Of The Osmonds, Dies At 73

Learn about the life and musical contributions of Wayne Osmond, a founding member of The Osmonds, who passed away at 73 after a stroke.

The Independent UK

Wayne Osmond, singer and guitarist for The Osmonds, is dead at 73

Wayne Osmond, a singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-selling family act The Osmonds, has died

The Guardian - US

Wayne Osmond, member of the singing Osmond family, dies aged 73

Singer died at hospital after ‘massive stroke’, making him first of hugely successful US pop group to die

Evening Standard

Europe’s best music festivals in 2025 that are all within a four-hour flight from London

Fancy a sunnier alternative to Glastonbury? Check out these options from Norway to Malta, via Spain and France

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“We’re gonna be doing stuff we’ve never, ever done before”: Bruce Dickinson promises Iron Maiden’s 2025 tour will have a “setlist for the ages”

Bruce Dickinson wants us to expect big things from Iron Maiden’s Run For Your Lives tour this year

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30 essential acoustic guitar chords, with charts

Massively expand your musical vocabulary and songwriting options with these beautiful acoustic guitar chords

Guitar World

“Pop culture is inspiring Britons of all ages to rediscover the joy of music”: New study names the electric guitar as the UK’s most popular instrument of 2024 – and it’s because of a Netflix show from 2 years ago

Gear4Music crunched the numbers to see which instrument came out on top last year, and it has some interesting theories to explain the results

The Guardian - UK

Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares: Petula Clark’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Sixty years after Downtown made her the second British woman to top the US charts, we rate the best of Clark’s exhilarating, perfectly enunciated pop

Louder

Watch Rush, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Heart, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Chuck D and more jamming on Robert Johnson's blues classic Crossroads in 2013

That time Public Enemy's Chuck D and Run DMC's Daryl McDaniels fronted the ultimate rock supergroup

Guitar World

“The top-selling artist acoustics were Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and my guitar, which is insane”: How Orianthi shook up the industry with her signature gear, what she learned from Santana and Joe Bonamassa, and why she’s returning to Alice Cooper’s band

With a completely new rig for the Alice Cooper tour, the Aussie virtuoso explains how her approach will differ from Nita Strauss, why she’s donating the PRS guitars she’s playing on the road – and what to expect from her forthcoming Epiphone signature model

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"It’s a common misconception among the unconverted that the Grateful Dead’s music was characterised by aimless noodling, rather than by deftly deployed fretboard know-how": 5 songs guitarists need to hear by the Grateful Dead

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