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"I love artists who have a rawness to their sound": Kit Grill thinks that "if you over-produce, you can lose the essence of what makes an idea great"

Kit Grill’s most recent release, Swimming in Honey concludes a journey of bold aural adventuring with the addition of vocals to the mix

“If I wanted to have a string sound, I had to change, unload and reload while I was playing, and that led to all kinds of problems”: Queen live keyboard player Spike Edney on ‘80s tech, streamlining his rig and using Freddie Mercury vocal samples

“If I wanted to have a string sound, I had to change, unload and reload while I was playing, and that led to all kinds of problems”: Queen live keyboard player Spike Edney on ‘80s tech, streamlining his rig and using Freddie Mercury vocal samples

“I suppose what I think is that Queen is quite a demanding musical adventure, and there are lots of things that can be done to make their sounds more realistic for the audience,” he says

Phish's Trey Anastasio: an exclusive guide to his creative process and live rig – only in the new Guitar World

Phish's Trey Anastasio: an exclusive guide to his creative process and live rig – only in the new Guitar World

Also starring High on Fire, Savatage, Fontaines D.C., Helmet, the Hooters (yes, the Hooters!), the Last Dinner Party and a review of Fender's 70th Anniversary Antigua Strat

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“It’s just so hideously sexist but it pretends to be a love song, but it’s really, really retrograde”: St Vincent brands John Mayer’s Daughters 'the worst song ever written'

"I hate it," says Annie Clark

“That song has a Led Zeppelin-meets-Frank-Zappa unison riff up front, but I tried to imagine what Krist Novoselic might play”: Fusion bass great Jimmy Haslip breaks down his 2001 project with Robben Ford and Vinnie Colaiuta

Jimmy Haslip is a lefty who plays a left-handed 6-string bass with the strings reversed

Dickey Betts helped to forge the sound not only of The Allman Brothers Band, but of blues-influenced Southern rock as we know it – and his playing is all about feel, timing and details

This video lesson has two studies for you, one a rhythm piece that requires a deft touch and Betts' exquisite sense of space and feel, the other a solo that's all about feel, timing and details

“We were playing in Germany the day Malcolm died. Itdawned on me that he was the reason I’mmaking a living from rockguitar. Ished atear onstage that night”: The Darkness’ Dan Hawkins on why Malcolm Young is one of rock’s most underrated guitarists

The Darkness rhythm man says he put the 10,000 hours in trying to match Malcolm riff for riff, chord for chord, but the unstoppable AC/DC guitarist's style is beyond most mortals

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“Nothing you are about to hear tonight was written after 1999!” Watch Slipknot kick off their anniversary tour by playing nothing but old school cuts - including two songs not played in almost 25 years

“Nothing you are about to hear tonight was written after 1999!” Watch Slipknot kick off their anniversary tour by playing nothing but old school cuts - including two songs not played in almost 25 years

Old school boiler suits and songs from the debut album era only?! This was a very special Slipknot show

K-pop star apologises for drunk driving on e-scooter

K-pop star apologises for drunk driving on e-scooter

The incident is the latest example of K-pop performers sometimes falling short of their squeaky-clean image

The Independent UK

“An open-tuned five-string guitar is unique and will clearly have niche appeal… but you just can’t help bashing out those classic Keith Richards riffs”: Newman 5 String review

“An open-tuned five-string guitar is unique and will clearly have niche appeal… but you just can’t help bashing out those classic Keith Richards riffs”: Newman 5 String review

A story that starts on a Rolling Stones USA tour in the early ’70s, Ted Newman’s distinctly shaped design is now being made here in the UK. But the first model is missing a string!

“Peter Green is tasked with filling the shoes of Clapton, the man referred to as God”: Tracking the phenomenal guitar lineage of John Mayall in 12 essential releases

“Peter Green is tasked with filling the shoes of Clapton, the man referred to as God”: Tracking the phenomenal guitar lineage of John Mayall in 12 essential releases

We trace the evolution of the six-string linchpin behind the British blues rock boom of the 1960s

“Across the course of his troubled and tragically short life, he left behind a back catalogue that is as insightful as it is utterly captivating”: The 5 essential Elliott Smith songs to start with

“Across the course of his troubled and tragically short life, he left behind a back catalogue that is as insightful as it is utterly captivating”: The 5 essential Elliott Smith songs to start with

A musical legacy that continues to inspire

10 bands that defined Wacken 2024

10 bands that defined Wacken 2024

From Accept's triumphant trad metal to the flamethrowing folk of Feuershwanz, these were the bands that ruled Wacken Festival 2024

Lauryn Hill and The Fugees abruptly cancel Miseducation US tour dates

Lauryn Hill and The Fugees abruptly cancel Miseducation US tour dates

Fans said it was ‘disheartening’ to be a fan of Hill

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“I just had to tell him, ‘You’ve outdone me, you bugger!’” Iron Maiden used to merely hint at their prog credentials… now they flaunt them

A selection of the NWOBHM veterans’ longest, deepest and weirdest tracks – and they weren’t all written by Steve Harris

"Angus Young may be a silver-topped 69-year-old, but he's still the blueprint of what a rock'n'roll guitarist should be": Back on the road with AC/DC

Given events surrounding AC/DC in recent years, anyone could be excused for thinking it was all over for one of rock’s greatest bands. But as long as there's a school uniform...

"We played eight shows and they were amazing. The kids followed us everywhere": The story of the album that should have turned Angel into stars

In 1976 Angel released On Earth As It Is In Heaven: It turned out be be a mixed blessing

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Elle King says she feels like a ‘different person’ months after drunk Grand Ole Opry performance

Footage of King’s Dolly Parton tribute went viral after she admitted to being ‘hammered’ on stage

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All the winners from the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards

Taylor Swift tonight became the most-awarded solo artist in VMAs history

“The culmination of years of experimentation by the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna bassist to find an instrument with superior electric tone”: Epiphone honours long-serving signature artist Jack Casady with fretless bass

From its semi-hollow build to its JCB-1 humbucker and impedance switch, here's a bass with mojo for an artist who is all mojo, and it's available for the first time as a fretless model

“A lot of the magic happens right around there”: Paul Gilbert had one of his guitars modded to just 20 frets so that he could play more pinch harmonics

Gilbert has been sharing his strategies for emulating the human voice on guitar but don't start pulling the frets out of your fingerboard just yet

“There was half a bass note that got chopped. That was my fault. Nobody noticed, though. I think I got away with it!”: Alan Parsons on engineering the side 2 medley on The Beatles’ Abbey Road

“Every day I walked up those famous Abbey Road steps and opened the door felt like I was stepping into a magic kingdom," he tells us. "There really is something very special about that building”

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'Winning Eurovision didn't change our lives,' claim Lordi

EXCLUSIVE Lead singer Mr Lordi also reveals he is a massive hoarder who has a second house to store his most prized possessions and personally knows the real Santa Claus

“Some of the most important and iconic instruments of the last 70 years”: Jim Irsay's world-famous collection is set to go on public display – showcasing iconic guitars played by Kurt Cobain, Jerry Garcia and David Gilmour

The best bits of Irsay's revered guitar collection will be around for one day only, at the grand opening of a year-long exhibit that will explore “how guitars have impacted popular music genres including jazz, country, folk, and especially rock and roll”

Ivan Cornejo: Rising Star In Regional Mexican Music Scene

Discover Ivan Cornejo's musical journey in regional Mexican music, blending traditional sounds with modern influences in his latest album 'Mirada.'

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