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“He said, ‘Yeah, you know, it’s kind of harder to play that way’, but he just loved the way it sounded”: Eric Johnson on why pick choice and picking style are fundamental to your playing – and how his favourite jazz player got his sound by using his thumb

Your guitar pick, the material it's made from and how you use it are "the beginning of the whole thing," says the Texan virtuoso

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“He’s not doing any of the lead work he’s known for. He came up with 10 tracks of textures and atmospheres”: His main band went on indefinite hiatus. Now this cult prog guitarist has enlisted Alex Lifeson and Peter Frampton for an all-star solo album

Tiles guitarist Chris Herin returns with Hiding in Plain Sight, a poignant, brilliant album inspired by his father's battle with dementia

Guitar World

"He started trying to play chords on it and he said ‘Malcolm! Bob! What’s wrong with this instrument? It only plays one note at a time!’": Dissecting the musical magic of Superstition, the song Stevie Wonder just couldn’t let go

“He played it to Motown, and they said, 'No way is Jeff Beck getting this song, it's too good’”

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Kanye West ‘offered £11m to play Wireless’ before UK entry blocked

Rapper, who had been due to headline London festival for three days, has been denied entry to the UK

The Independent UK

"Their record label couldn't figure out whether they were the next Poison or the first Guns N' Roses." The story of Jetboy, the band who could have saved glam metal but didn't

Jetboy had the hooks, but record company indecision, an overdose and an unlikely haircut hampered their rise

Louder

“We’re back to being the opening act – a difficult pill to swallow. But I see a great opportunity”: Textures pioneered djent but never received full credit. Can their comeback album secure their achievements?

They split up in 2017, feeling they’d been overshadowed by the djent bands they’d inspired. Much to their own surprise, they’ve returned with Genotype – a rewritten ending to the story they began with 2016’s Phenotype

Louder

Ray Stevens Broken Neck Shock Sparks Fear — What Happened to the Country Legend?

Country music legend Ray Stevens, 87, is recovering at home after a broken neck from a fall in Nashville, days before his new album release

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Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

In 1989, an up-and-coming band called Nirvana played in Chicago. Aadam Jacobs was there

The Independent UK

"There are certain signature sounds that come directly from his playing – not from the equipment, but from him." New Rush drummer Anika Nilles reveals her thoughts on Neil Peart's playing

Anika Nilles will make her touring debut with Rush in Los Angeles in July

Louder

Justin Bieber Health Fears: Hailey's Husband Being Watched 24/7 Amid Concerns He Won't Make it to Coachella Sober

Justin Bieber is set to perform at Coachella amid concerns about his sobriety. Learn about his journey and commitment to staying sober.

International Business Times UK

How to watch 'Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy' online – stream three-part doc from anywhere

Epic three-part MJ doc with access to insiders. Here's how to watch "Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy" online for free, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

Tom’s Guide

Wireless Festival sparks fresh fury after Kanye West ban as fans brand cancellation ‘performative nonsense’

The backlash comes after Kanye West was blocked from entering the UK, forcing the three-day London festival to be scrapped entirely

Evening Standard

Harry Styles reveals Meltdown festival line-up including Royal Festival Hall gig

The event will be held at the Southbank Centre in London this summer

Evening Standard

“Guitars haven’t changed that much in the last 50 years. We’re about to change that”: Guitar Center is setting up its own in-house guitar brand – and it’s asking players for their help

Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto says the retailer is going to build “the best guitar that has ever been made”

Guitar World

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Pet Shop Boys review: 'No hits' show is a concept primed to underwhelm

3/5 They have titled their five-night run of shows at the Electric Ballroom Obscure, as they concentrate on everything but the pop smashes... which does leave it lacking something

Guitar World

“I was playing baseball in the backyard when I heard Eruption. That afternoon I decided what my life would be”: How recording in Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 Studios inspired Alter Bridge to make their most riff-heavy statement yet

The latest album from Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy finds Alter Bridge going full-throttle in EVH’s studio

MusicRadar

Wireless Festival cancelled and tickets refunded after UK Government blocks Kanye West’s entry

Ye’s controversial comments come back to haunt him as UK entry is blocked causing Wireless Festival to pull the plug this summer

Latin Times

Daddy Yankee Becomes First Reggaeton Artist Honored as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year

Daddy Yankee, the Puerto Rican star widely credited with helping take reggaeton from the streets of San Juan to the center of global pop culture, has been named the Latin Recording Academy's 2026 Person of the Year, becoming the first reggaeton artist to receive the honor.

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“I don’t have any favorite guitarists from the ’90s. I wasn’t following those trends”: He wrote some of the defining anthems of the decade with Smash Mouth. Now Greg Camp is focusing on his Nashville punk-rock supergroup

Camp started out as a drummer before EVH made him realize the advantages of guitar. The young Carson Daly helped make his band famous. Now he’s powering forward with supergroup The Defiant’s second album

Guitar World

“My student tricked me into getting an Instagram”: The off-hand advice from a student that helped kickstart Yvette Young’s career

The virtuoso may now be one of the most recognizable guitarists on social media, but Young admits she was initially reluctant to share her chops online

MusicRadar

“Six room sizes, a gated reverb patch and a reverse reverb patch for your consideration”: Catalinbread launches compact reverb pedal with inspired by the Neil Young and Daft Punk-approved Alesis Microverb

The '90s cult classic studio reverb is reimagined as an 8-mode stompbox with an very useful Mix knob and pre-delay

Guitar World

“After his funeral, me and my buddy snuck into his house and took the guitar”: Pepper Keenan got his first guitar after a tragic accident

The Down and Corrosion of Conformity guitarist has looked back at the unlikely origins of his career in rock

Cinemablend

Kanye West's Controversial Festival Concerts Canceled After UK Government Bans Rapper From Country

That's one way to stop a concert.

MusicRadar

“I absolutely hate synthesizers. They're really bad - horrible. I can take their existence from a live point of view now, but if they didn't exist, I'd be delighted”: The surprising music theory that underpinned a Talk Talk classic

Mark Hollis’ masterpiece became an anthem of self-determination, but it was far from an overnight success

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Stop The Clowning! A Rhode Island Wedding Planner Just Debunked A Massive Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Rumor

Well, there goes that wild dream.

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