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“Sometimes you have to take the piss out of the nerdiness in yourself!” How Geddy Lee geeked up for his Big Beautiful Book of Bass

Rush icon planned to buy 12 instruments for his own enjoyment – but when his collection reached 250 he decided to justify the expense by writing a 600-page book (of which 408 were published)

Louder

‘People take the music industry way too seriously’: Meet Warmduscher, the UK’s most eccentric band

INTERVIEW: The ramshackle six-piece are back with their fifth (and best) album. Frontman Clams Baker Jr and bassist Ben Romans Hopcraft speak to Roisin O’Connor about culture clashes, patriotism, fashion week and Donald Trump

The Independent UK

The Latin Grammys are almost here for a 25th anniversary celebration

The 2024 Latin Grammy Awards are here and back in Miami

The Independent UK

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Latin Grammy 2024: Carlos Vives Celebrates as 'Person of the Year' in a Night Full of Emotions, Dance, Tears, and Lots of Colombia

The Colombian icon received a serenade with his own songs, from some of the biggest names in Latin music like Rubén Blades, Juan Luis Guerra, Luis Fonsi, Kany García, Gloria Estefan, Wisin and more

Latin Times

"People will become conditioned to artificial intelligence and learn to accept it": Kenny Wayne Shepherd on the spark of Stevie Ray Vaughan, smoking with Joe Bonamassa, and the dumb creep of AI

The second volume of US bluesman Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Dirt On My Diamonds series is out now

Louder

"I couldn’t believe no one had done a song about a white guy trying to be gangsta": The story of The Offspring's global smash Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

Inspired by a baseball-capped server at a dive-thru, the song brought the band a UK No.1 single, lifted them out of the doldrums and set them up for the next period of huge success

Metal Hammer

Who sings ‘Sonnet’, the song featured in the 2024 John Lewis Christmas advert?

Richard Ashcroft’s acoustic rendition of The Verve’s 1998 single ‘Sonnet’ features after the musician was announced as an opening act for Oasis’s 2025 reunion

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Dolly Parton's 'Smoky Mountain DNA' Album Celebrates Family Legacy

Dolly Parton's 'Smoky Mountain DNA' album delves into her family history through music, spanning generations and genres.

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"Thumping low-end that doesn’t muddy up, and all the throatiness that the real thing does so well": Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles '92 Dual Rec amp pedal review

Universal Audio's guitar rig take-over bid continues, and this time it's aiming for classic '90s Californian high-gain tone

Guitar World

The Worst Looks in the History of the Latin Grammys' Red Carpet

These are all the most controversial and "worst" outfits in Latin Grammys history, from Christina Aguilera's daring outfit from 2001 to the futuristic look Peso Pluma sported in 2023. Over the years, artists like Ivy Queen, Natalia Jiménez, and Mon Laferte have walked the red carpet with outfits that have…

Latin Times

Karol G Changes Controversial Lyric in '+57' After Public Pressure

Many considered the original verse inappropriate, interpreting it as if it was sexualizing minors

Latin Times

"A guitar that looks a million bucks and is sure to turn heads": Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Jimi Hendrix 'Love Drops' Flying V review

Your chance to grab a remake of a real rock icon with the Flying V once hand-decorated by Jimi Hendrix himself

MusicRadar

Dolly Parton sings her family's story on 'Smoky Mountain DNA.' She says it is her 'favorite album'

Dolly Parton’s musical story starts further back than most might expect — to the British Isles of the 1600s

The Independent UK

Roy Haynes obituary

Jazz drummer who played with Charlie Parker and John Coltrane and earned the nickname Snap Crackle for his crisp style

The Guardian - UK

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“We wanted to pay tribute to Grace Under Pressure by building off of my favorite guitar from that period”: Alex Lifeson celebrates 40 years of a Rush classic by launching a next-gen Sportscaster replica

The Lerxst Grace is inspired by Lifeson’s original Hentor Sportscaster, complete with a red finish, mirror pickguard and HSS pickup configuration

Guitar World

“We were opening for ZZ Top at Madison Square Garden. I told the guys, ‘I’ll go out there and blow for 60 seconds, then we’ll go into the first tune.’ I hit the first chord and my Marshall blew up”: Richie Sambora on Bon Jovi's nightmare arena debut

Reflecting on the experience decades later, Sambora said that – embarrassing as they are in the moment – mishaps like that are “what shape you as a pro”

MusicRadar

“I was totally floored!”: Myles Kennedy hails the “genius” of his touring buddy Devin Townsend

And Devin says of Myles’ new album: “I’m in awe of it!”

Metal Hammer

Tesseract announce expanded edition of latest album War Of Being, featuring new live tracks

The reissue comes with three songs recorded during the band’s blockbuster headline set at Radar Festival in July

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Epica release their second song in a month, tease even more music for 2025, will sleep when they’re dead

Are Epica the busiest band in symphonic metal? It certainly seems that way…

International Business Times

US Death Row Inmate Stages Jazz Protest For Release In London Court

Some of Britain's most notorious cases have been tried at London's Old Bailey, including those attracting the death penalty until the punishment was abolished in the 1960s.

Guitar World

“Every time I have the opportunity to play bass, if possible, I try to redo Taxman, Come Together... something in the Paul McCartney style”: Renowned session bassist Sean Hurley on taking inspiration from The Beatles bassist for a John Mayer session

Hurley aimed to build his Queen of California bass line around “the roots and flat sevenths” – taking a page from Macca's book

MusicRadar

“The human manifestation of the word ‘hip’... Always in the moment, always in this time, eternal and classic and at the same time totally nonchalant about it”: Jazz legend Roy Haynes dies aged 99

His career spanned eight decades

Metal Hammer

Imperial Triumphant continue to confound with new single Hotel Sphinx, announce 2025 album Goldstar

Tech-metal’s masked wackadoodles have released their second single of 2024, with more delirium to follow next year

MusicRadar

“Cliff was the strongest of the four of us emotionally”: Lars Ulrich on how Metallica recovered from the death of bassist Cliff Burton

And how they chose Cliff’s replacement among 60 candidates

Guitar World

“My first real gig with The Band was in front of 25,000 people and we had no real rehearsal… We just flew out to Dallas and opened for Crosby, Stills & Nash”: Jim Weider on replacing Robbie Robertson – and the ’52 Tele he got while working at a car wash

Woodstock native Jim Weider got a chance to prove his mettle in the mid-80s when he stepped up to replace Robbie Robertson in The Band. Here, he tells us his story – and how a ’52 Tele came along for the ride

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