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When is National Album Day 2024 and what is on offer?

Day celebrates the love of LPs and listening to a piece of work all the way through

Evening Standard

Beatles documentary charting The Fab Four's first visit to the US is headed to Disney+ next month

Produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by David Tedeschi, Beatles '64 explores the band's American debut - and will include never-before-seen footage

Louder

“Probably the broadest, most accessible guitar mag in the world... It has been an absolute privilege”: Total Guitar to close after 30 years in print

It was once the biggest-selling guitar magazine in Europe. Now Total Guitar is set to close after its latest issue. Here’s what its first and last editors have to say...

Guitar World

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“I wanted to sound like Jimi Hendrix on his first album. It was good to have that there for a while”: Brian May reveals the off-the-wall Red Special mod from his pre-Queen days that he ended up removing

The wild electronics upgrade didn't last for very long, but it can be heard on some of May's earliest pre-Queen recordings

Guitar World

Devin Townsend shares video for new single, the uplifting "simple song" Gratitude

Devin Townsend will release his latest album PowerNerd, the first of a new trilogy of releases, in October

Metal Hammer

Billboard Latin Music Week 2024: What to Expect and Who Will Participate

Billboard Latin Music Week kicks off this Monday and runs until Sunday, when Telemundo will air the Awards Gala.

Latin Times

“I wrote that riff on the Fender six-string bass. I saw Peter Green with Fleetwood Mac pick one up. I thought, ‘I’m gonna get one’”: Joe Perry on how he ditched his Les Pauls and Strats to write an Aerosmith classic

Perry had been eyeing the Fender Bass VI for quite some time – which turned out to be the perfect instrument to write 1976's Back in the Saddle

Guitar World

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Why royal commentators have been calling out a strange link between Taylor Swift and Prince Harry

Marie Claire

“The nuclear option”: Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit sue Universal over “millions” in unpaid royalties

Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit sue Universal Music Group over unpaid royalties

MusicRadar

“The British Invasion brought awareness to the music, but not the culture. They were great guitarists, but they weren’t as good as Robert Johnson”: Jontavious Willis has become one of acoustic blues’ most exciting voices – just don’t say he’s the future

Straight out of West Georgia with stories to tell and songs to sing, Willis tells us why he the time is now for acoustic blues and how the British Invasion brought good and bad for the art form

Guitar World

“Then on-air, is where it gets nuts”: How Prince’s final, legendary guitar performance on SNL was saved by a quick-thinking audio engineer

His 8-minute medley from 2014 is considered one of the greatest musical spots in the show’s history

MusicRadar

“It never existed before, at least to my knowledge”: Jacob Collier’s custom five-string Taylor – which paved the way for his game-changing Strandberg – has been launched as his latest signature guitar

A six-string version of the uniquely shaped acoustic has also been made available for those wanting something a little more familiar

Guitar World

How the UK Attorney General found himself at centre of Taylor Swift’s police escort row

The government’s top lawyer was engulfed in ‘Swiftgate’ probe after he reportedly intervened in the pop star’s security

The Independent UK

He was a ’60s blues firebrand straight out of the “Surrey delta”, before he switched to the Strat and mastered a touch that has never been rivalled –here’s how Jeff Beck forever reshaped the way guitarists think about ‘feel’

From faux slide lines and whammy bar manipulation to fingerstyle phraseology and harmonics, learn the key tricks of Jeff Beck’s incredible lead playing

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“When you follow this path, all roads lead to one man: Alexander Dumble”: Ian Moore on Dumble's inspiring legacy, the “snake oil” around the iconic amp-maker – and his own quest to design the perfect amp

If the perfect tone doesn't exist then why are we still search for it? As Austin powerhouse Ian Moore sees it, "the journey is the destination"

Guitar World

“I was truly terrified. In the first few months, I was on the same stage as every one of my heroes: Mike Bloomfield, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix”: Martin Barre explains why his early days with Jethro Tull were a trial by fire

Jethro Tull went on tour with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge right after Barre joined the band

Latin Times

Gloria Trevi Remembers Her Daughter with a Heartfelt Message: Ana Dalay Would Have Been 25 Years Old

After a heartbreaking and brief time together, Gloria Trevi lovingly remembers her first daughter, who passed away shortly after being born.

MusicRadar

“So I met her, and her dad was from down the road from me in Penarth! As she sang, I remember just thinking, wow”: Bass legend Pino Palladino on getting an unexpected call from Rick Rubin to play on an album by a “young British artist”

“She’s a good laugh, Adele,” he says

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"This band has opened my eyes to my potential." Formed of former Fever 333 members and backed by ex-Bring Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish, House Of Protection are making a special kind of racket

Blending metal, hardcore, drum 'n' bass and hip hop, House Of Protection are a breath of fresh air for heavy music

Louder

"We are really excited to be doing what we love the most which is playing live with fire in our belly": Skunk Anansie announce UK headline tour for 2025

Skunk Anansie share details of their 2025 UK headline tour

The Guardian - UK

Salford Lads Club: historic youth centre battles to keep doors open

Building opened in 1904 and featured on Smiths album sleeve needs ‘urgent cash injection’ as grant income falls

Evening Standard

What is the Limp Bizkit fraud lawsuit? Allegations the band are owed $200m by music corporation

The 00s nu-metal band claims Universal Music Group fraudulently concealed music royalties from them for years

Guitar World

“I was broke and working in a car wash, and saw an ad in the paper for a ’52 Telecaster. I went to the guy’s place – it turned out to be Norm from Norman’s Rare Guitars”: The Band's Jim Weider on how he bagged his career-defining Fender Telecaster

After spending years searching for his dream '52 Telecaster, Weider describes how he finally managed to get his hands on the one that would accompany him throughout his illustrious career

Metal Hammer

"It felt like I’d known her forever." Symphonic metal icons Sharon den Adel and Tarja Turunen on hearing each other's bands Within Temptation and Nightwish for the first time

The Within Temptation frontwoman and former Nightwish singer would eventually team up for a blockbuster single

Metal Hammer

The Offspring announce 2025 UK headline tour

Pop punk legends The Offspring will hit the UK next year!

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