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“The creative tension helped here and there. At other times it did not help… it’s difficult to define”: Thijs van Leer reveals his only real regret as Focus roll on in their 55th year

He recalls breaking out of the Netherlands, his relationship with former guitarist Jan Akkerman, and the one album he’d like to remake

Louder

Roland just unveiled its V-Drums Quiet Design VQD106 kits, delivering “the lowest playing-noise in the history of electronic drum kits”

The electronic drums giant claims the VQD106 is 75% quieter than a regular electronic kit

MusicRadar

Terminally ill grandmother loses £140,000 to scammer pretending to be Ritchie Blackmore

The victim, who is suffering from cancer, went to school with the former Deep Purple guitarist

Louder

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Watch Paul McCartney play 'new' Beatles song Now And Then for the first time during marathon hit-stuffed set in Uruguay

37 songs. Another 14 during the soundcheck. And he's 82 years old

Louder

Oasis adds four new dates to North American leg of 2025 reunion tour

New dates in Mexico, the US and Canada have been announced

The Independent UK

Oasis add four more stadium shows to their summer 2025 North American tour due to "phenomenal demand"

Your chances of seeing Oasis in an American stadium next year just increased

Louder

“I went to his house one day, and he said, ‘What’s in my attic? Climb up there and have a look.’ He gave me the 12-string I used on Nights in White Satin”: How Justin Hayward ended up with Lonnie Donegan’s 12-string – before Donegan took it back

Decades later, the guitar would once again end up in Hayward's hands, this time for good

Guitar World

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“A historic collaboration”: Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe becomes Jackson’s first female signature artist with the launch of her groundbreaking new signature guitar

The metal trailblazer was announced as a Jackson artist earlier this year, and now she's been honored with a history-making signature model

Guitar World

“A source of comfort and strength for anyone who feels hurt, lost or alone”: Alt Blk Era release rocking new single Come On Outside

The sibling twosome will release new album Rave Immortal on January 24

Metal Hammer

“I don't think about technique at all now. I want people to hear my guitar tone and be confused about how I got it”: Yvette Young explains why she's rebooting her a solo career – and redefining her guitar playing along the way

Young is temporarily putting aside Covet to lean into different facets of her guitar playing, focusing less on virtuosity and more on melody-driven composition

Guitar World

“John Mayall’s ability to nurture blues guitar prodigies is comparable to Yoda’s knack for training hot Jedi prospects”: From Eric Clapton to Peter Green, Mick Taylor and more – a guide to blues legend John Mayall’s ’60s guitarists

The Bluesbreakers remained a unique force in British blues throughout the decade, thanks to its late leader’s unfailing ability to pick breathtaking bandmates

Guitar World

Coldplay, Moon Music review: Chris Martin mangles his metaphors on a suffocatingly banal album about love

The British pop-rock band’s latest effort torpedoes its intentions with some truly groan-inducing lyrics

The Independent UK

“Mike shows us an acoustic demo on cassette and plays it in the car. It’s what ends up being Drive. It was a great guitar line – I just needed to get the hell out of the way of it”: OG Incubus bassist Dirk Lance on how Drive taught him to stop overplaying

Alex Katunich’s busy slap and pop basslines fueled much of the band’s early output, but in a rare new interview, he explains how their biggest hit forced him to take a step back

Guitar World

“It’s not often we perform such intimate shows, so we’re really looking forward to this.” The Cure are recording an exclusive gig in London this month, and you could be there to see it

Find out how to get tickets to see The Cure live at special Radio 2 In Concert show

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“A tribute to the era that helped shape the modern steel-string acoustic”: Martin has introduced an all-new body shape that delivers dreadnought tones from a smaller build

In honor of the Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and 1930s that influenced the “Golden Era” acoustic boom, Martin has unveiled the O'ahu HG-28

Evening Standard

Coldplay - Moon Music album review: sonically all over the place

From soulless stadium bangers to off-beat takes on club music, Coldplay’s 10th album shape-shifts about as much as the planet it’s named after

Louder

“Gibby and Siouxsie Sioux were at my feet, wrestling around with a shotgun pointed at my head.” Butthole Surfers' guitarist Paul Leary looks back on the excitement of the first Lollapalooza tour

There's never a dull moment when Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes is around

Metal Hammer

“We might put an extra Slayer song into the set and learn a cover song or two”: Kerry King announces North American tour, releases Where I Reign music video

Slayer’s guitarist will bring his solo band across the US and Canada in the New Year

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“We embarked on a mission to craft the ultimate pedalboards that meet Greg's every need”: Jam Pedals teams up with Greg Koch for Koch Ness Monster signature multi-effects units

Celebrating 15 years of partnership, the stompbox specialist digs into its greatest hits for two deluxe effects units – with the Supreme a $2,190 featuring an onboard Wahcko wah

Metal Hammer

“I can just make music I like and it’ll **** off people I don’t like”: Zeal & Ardor on why metal gatekeeping is “funny” – plus Björk, Anthony Fantano, Mayhem and more

We tried to interview Zeal & Ardor mastermind Manuel Gagneux about gatekeeping. We ended up discussing Mayhem, Björk, Anthony Fantano and Mike Patton instead.

Metal Hammer

“My issues weren’t even with Limp Bizkit. They were with Fred.” Slipknot's Corey Taylor reflects on his 2000s feud with Fred Durst

Taylor looks back on one of his most famous beefs during an appearance on viral Youtube show Hot Ones

Guitar World

From “vicious” lines inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan to ice-cold leads in the style of Albert Collins, Philip Sayce channels the blues licks of the greats – and his masterclass will supercharge your pentatonic solos

The Canadian maestro is your instructor today, and for this lesson you're going to be digging deep for some Texas sizzle and red-hot pentatonic turnarounds

Evening Standard

Peter Andre dances with ex-cabinet minister during performance at Conservative Party conference

The singer joked the Tories had tried to “book Robbie Williams but he wouldn’t come” before launching into his set

Guitar World

“My Reverend feels sturdy. I don’t like when it feels like the guitar I’m playing is gonna break. Vintage guitars scare me!” Meet Hello Mary’s Helena Straight, the ’90s-inspired, time signature-twisting player whose guitar caught the Cure’s attention

We get the story on how the Big Apple alt-rock trio are evolving in real time, aided and abetted by a well-stocked pedalboard and Reeves Gabrels’ signature Reverend

Guitar World

“I sold 120 of them because I don’t have room for them anymore”: Mike Campbell says he's quit buying guitars, despite his continuing “obsession”

“At this point,” the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitar-slinger tells GW, “buying them is kind of pathetic”

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