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Including The Darkness, The Wildhearts, Rose Tattoo and five other masters of rock'n'roll reality

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“Add a dash of smokin’ style to your tuning game”: Keef and Clapton fans, rejoice – Tunerette honors the heyday of rock ‘n’ roll with a clip-on tuner that looks like a cigarette

Beat the smoking ban while emulating true rock star moves with this tricky tuner

Guitar World

R&B Pioneer Angie Stone Dies In Alabama Highway Crash

Remembering Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated R&B singer, and her lasting legacy in the music world.

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Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World: Neil Young to play free concert in Ukraine

Details to be announced soon...

MusicRadar

“We hear you, and I swear we’re working on it”: SoundCloud responds to online criticism that its compression algorithm is ‘destroying transients’

The music streaming platform commented on the discourse, and revealed that it's aware that some info ‘gets lost along the way’

MusicRadar

“I can perform a screaming guitar solo while comfortably holding a conversation with an engineer, even though the beast seems to be screaming out”: Prog legend Steve Hackett explains how he conjures power without volume

The Genesis alumnus and prog trailblazer reveals what's on his pedalboard and explains the need for dynamics and the “delinquent” sounds

Guitar World

“Wanna sing with me?” Phil X and Richie Sambora team up as two eras of Bon Jovi combine to perform Livin’ on a Prayer at LA benefit concert

The guitarist who helped write the classic song – and the man who later replaced him in the band – came together to raise funds in the wake of the LA wildfires

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“It was embarrassing”: Metallica’s …And Justice For All pushed bass players “to the back” in the 1990s, claims thrash legend

Testament and ex-Death man Steve Di Giorgio claims Metallica’s bass-free classic forced the instrument into the background for years afterwards

Metal Hammer

aespa at Wembley Arena review: the future of K-pop

4/5 aespa don’t spare the maximalist fun at their spectacular London show

Evening Standard

“Gary’s approach to soloing was like placing a brick on a car’s gas pedal. Like SRV and Jimi Hendrix, he had infinite passion and musical ideas”: Joe Bonamassa explains the expressive soloing secrets of his hero Gary Moore

No Moore, no Bonamassa, says Joe, as he puts together four blazing solo ideas inspired by the late blues-rock force of nature

Guitar World

The Flower Kings announce new album and a European tour with Neal Morse & The Resonance

Swedish prog rockers The Flower Kings will release their latest album LOVE in May

Louder

“I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players

MusicRadar

Deacon Blue and Kaiser Chiefs to headline outdoor festival

DEACON Blue and the Kaiser Chiefs are just some of the big names who will play at an outdoor festival in Aberdeen this summer ...

The National (Scotland)

“On Footloose, and Love Will Follow, I also use it. I do my impersonation of a guitarist”: How session veteran Nathan East managed to make his bass sound like a guitar on these Kenny Loggins hits

East discloses the nifty technique that bassists can use in lieu of adding actual guitars to a track

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“Some of the guys in the band are like, ‘**** that, we’ll never play it!’” Watch Slipknot play one of their deepest cuts for the first time ever in Melbourne on Friday night

Metal's resident nine-piece went deep into the rarities bin for their set at Knotfest Melbourne last week

The Guardian - UK

‘We spent £100,000 doing a gig in a scout hut!’ The Beta Band on debt, disastrous decisions – and their defiant comeback

Fiercely original and stunning live, they should have been massive – but they imploded. As the Scots return, they relive disowning their debut album, blowing Top of the Pops – and getting shocks off their battery-powered illuminated suits

The Independent UK

Jennifer Hudson leads tributes after R&B singer Angie Stone killed in car crash

The Grammy-nominated singer died in a horrific crash as she traveled from a performance on Saturday

Metal Hammer

“V is coming”: Ghost tease new era with Las Vegas billboard and mysterious livestream

The occult rockers continue the build-up to “new” vocalist Papa V Perpetua’s debut

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‘I can spit hot fire on Baby Got Back’: Sterling K Brown’s honest playlist

The star of new thriller Paradise loves musicals and feels mild shame at enjoying Vengaboys. But which star made him realise he could sing?

Metal Hammer

“It’s such a good party trick – ‘So you think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!’” Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson argues King Crimson are the gateway from metal to prog

Norwegian multi-instrumentalist explains what the genres have in common, buying a synth just to learn one Pink Floyd song, and discovering musical airplane engines via his wife

The Guardian - US

Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg and Queen Latifah honor Quincy Jones at Oscars

Prolific musician, producer and film score composer died in November at age of 91

The Independent UK

Mick Jagger drops unexpected Bob Dylan revelation at Oscars

Rolling Stones frontman got candid while presenting award

Marie Claire

Ariana Grande Teases a New Album Drop on Oscars Red Carpet: "Keep Your Eyes Peeled"

"The next step is...It means it must come out."

Louder

"I'd like to think that everything people think about me is a misconception": An interview with the New York Dolls' David Johansen

Our 2011 interview with the late David Johansen finds him talking about Arthur Kane, Johnny Thunders and dancing backwards in high heels

Louder

Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland dead at 77

The death of Joey Molland, the last-surviving member of Badfinger's most famous lineup, has been confirmed

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