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“I thought Billy was the coolest guitarist I’d ever heard, and that opinion hasn’t changed in 50 years”: Add some Texas blues sizzle to your lead playing with this lesson in Billy Gibbons' sweet soloing style

This lesson is the ZZ Top content you need to stay cool while bringing the heat. It will develop your sense of pacing and blues phrasing, and give you a chance to let some pinch harmonics fly off the fingerboard

Guitar World

Taylor Swift Was Caught on Camera Reminding a Security Guard to Say "Please"

The interaction took place at Travis Kelce's latest game.

Marie Claire

“I used an SG Junior and it would never stay in tune. Felix had this old beat-up Junior and said, ‘Try this thing,’ and I never gave it back’”: Leslie West on giving his Gibson Les Paul Junior to Pete Townshend after tracking three songs with The Who

West met Townshend when The Who recruited him to play lead guitar on several tracks for their 1971 album Who’s Next

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Are you a sampling genius? Win $10,000 and have your track released on Ninja Tune with Tracklib's Sample Breakdown competition

To celebrate the launch of the competition, Tracklib have broken down the most iconic electronic music sample of each year since 1990 in a new video

MusicRadar

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds at the O2 review: less rock show and more rapturous, compassionate communion

4/5 All were welcome in the grand cathedral of St Nick

Evening Standard

“We’d be on the phone and he goes, ‘It’s too metal. I gotta get it on pop radio! Use the small amp, not so much distortion’”: Steve Lukather on how Quincy Jones saved Michael Jackson’s Beat It from becoming a metal track

Jackson wanted a rock track for Thriller – and Lukather says Jones had to step in to stop the song from entering fully fledged metal territory

Guitar World

‘Grief is giving me this beautiful, deepening understanding’: Phil Elverum on loss, new love and his landmarks of US indie

His wife died, he became a single parent and his next marriage swiftly ended. After these trials, the hugely acclaimed singer-songwriter explains why he’s turning outward to consider the world around him

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‘Almost like imprisonment’: the shocking truth about life for boybands in their ‘golden era’

Mobbed, groped, overworked, paid a pittance and given little time off … ahead of a major TV series about boybands, former members of 5ive and 911 reveal what success was really like for many

The Guardian - UK

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey announces new UK solo tour

The singer promises a mix of acoustic and semi-acoustic performances of The Who classics, solo hits, and rare gems, plus, the chance to ask him your burning questions during a live Q&A

Evening Standard

Lead singer of legendary band coming to Glasgow on special solo tour

THE lead singer of a legendary band is coming to Glasgow on a special solo tour...

The National (Scotland)

All the headliners for BST Hyde Park 2025 as Olivia Rodrigo to kick off summer festival

The central London event which starts today takes place over several weekends

Evening Standard

“There was some madman running around inside the hall with a meat cleaver, chopping into people!”: How Angus Young remembered AC/DC’s scariest gig

In an Aussie pub it was like the Wild West

MusicRadar

“Gonna make sure the block gets lifted man, hit my squad up early this am”: Tyler, The Creator gets copyright strikes lifted so fans can discuss new album

Chromakopia World Tour also confirmed for next year

MusicRadar

‘James Brown kept cutting our stage time’ – how the Stylistics made You Make Me Feel Brand New

‘The first time we opened for James Brown, we got 20 minutes on stage. Then when he heard the crowd response, he cut it to 15. By the end of the tour, he’d cut us back to five’

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“Somebody needs to occasionally slap Rick Rubin”: Pete Townshend criticises producer’s mixed messages about creativity

He says creativity is “about everybody”

Guitar World

“No one has ever played these instruments live other than Gary”: Gary Rossington’s ‘Free Bird’ Les Paul/SG will be loaned out for a series of A-list gigs – and Blackberry Smoke have already used it for a Lynyrd Skynyrd medley

The Chicago Music Exchange is working with Rossington’s family to help put the iconic guitar in the hands of big-name players, in a new initiative that aims to honor the late Southern rock icon’s legacy

Louder

"This will be the best damn tour of 2025." Papa Roach announce huge US tour with Rise Against and Underoath

This month's Metal Hammer cover stars Papa Roach will mark 25 years of Infest next year by teaming up with Rise Against and Underoath for a trek across the States

The Independent UK

The Latin Grammys return to Miami for their 25th anniversary. Here's what to know

Latin music has taken the world by storm

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Gary Barlow – the inadvertent icon of ‘hun culture’

IN FOCUS: The Take That singer is currently enjoying a whole load of ‘nice days out’ on his new ITV travel show. It’s the latest step in his reinvention as the accidental king of memes, says Katie Rosseinsky

Guitar World

“Jimi Hendrix was my superhero, and so I threw a bit of his style into the bassline”: How a young Bootsy Collins took the James Brown bass chair to its busiest level on this Bootsy-fied recut from 1970’s Sex Machine

The first version of the song was recorded in October 1968 with Charles ‘Sweets’ Sherrell on bass

Guitar World

“Lots of what I play, I wouldn't know how to describe it… I’m following my nose all the time. It’s a process of instinct and desire”: Meet Lazy Day’s Tilly Scantlebury – the UK guitarist-producer summoning sparkling indie tones from secondhand setups

North London songwriter-producer embraces focus on rhythm, open tuning, Tubescreamer clones and following their instincts on debut album Open The Door

MusicRadar

“The first time we played together it was stunning!”: The words of John Bonham in the forthcoming Led Zeppelin documentary

Becoming Led Zeppelin is due in May 2025

Louder

Sendelica to headline Welsh prog/psych show in London in April

Sendelica, The CSides Project and Z Machine will play a Sunday afternoon show at London's Camden Club on April 13

The Independent UK

BBC viewers make same LL Cool J demand after uplifting Breakfast interview

Rapper got comfortable as he put his feet up on the BBC Breakfast coffee table

Guitar World

“This is why we want to show up at NAMM”: Marshall is returning to NAMM for the first time in 5 years – and has teased some blockbuster launches

After previously hinting that digital amps, modeling software and other advancements were in the works, Marshall is now set to embark on an all-new chapter when NAMM 2025 kicks off

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