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“I learned Irish history through Stiff Little Fingers and my worldview education through punk rock.” Guns N' Roses star Duff McKagan on the history lessons you don't learn in a school class room

Duff McKagan on the education he received from punk rock

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”Every time you go into the mainstream, I get really uncomfortable”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt declined to join an Abba tribute band at Eurovision this year

Opeth’s leader was approached to help celebrate 50 years of Abba’s 1974 Eurovision win, but turned the chance down

Metal Hammer

Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 2 review – some of Ye’s most jaded, degraded moments

The lyrics veer from nihilistic provocation to drunken messages to his ex-wife, and the music is equally erratic and confused

The Guardian - UK

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“No-one will ever have an amp on stage at the Sphere. They might have dummies, but they’re not on”: Trey Anastasio reveals why it’s impossible to play with onstage amps at the most advanced music venue in the world

In order to play the Sphere, The Edge ditched tube amps for amp sim pedals, and John Mayer has hidden his own amps away in wooden shipping creates. The Phish maestro explains why such workarounds are necessary for the state-of-the-art stage

Guitar World

Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose reach divorce settlement

They Achy Breaky Heart hit-maker said he could now ‘breathe a sigh of relief’

Evening Standard

This Viking folk version of Slipknot’s Wait And Bleed is the weirdest thing you’ll hear today

Nordic folk duo Nytt Land have released a shamanic take on Slipknot’s nu metal classic

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Pat Metheny called him “one of the brightest new talents on the instrument today” – and Dan Wilson’s remarkable phrasing will elevate your jazz guitar vocabulary no end

Wilson is a mind-blowing talent, and here he opens his box of tricks to share some licks that will improve your understanding of melodic minor modes

Guitar World

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“You’ve got a lot of great guitars but this one might take the cake”: Has Mark Morton just given us a glimpse of his upcoming signature Gibson Les Paul?

Two years after he signed with Gibson, the Lamb of God metal machine has seemingly teased his long-awaited signature model

Guitar World

“The last thing I wanted to make was a beautiful but soulless DADGAD album… I wanted bits of spit and sawdust, scuff notes here and there”: Jamie Dickson on the tragedy and joy of his acoustic folk debut – and a Martin deal that felt too good to be true

Withershins is required listening for anyone yearning for the fingerstyle folk heyday of Jansch et al, and for an anecdote to boilerplate DADGAD

Guitar World

“All the main food groups of electric guitar tone… The sounds are stellar”: Line 6 Catalyst CX 60 review

Get serious tonal DNA and features from this Helix-powered combo

Guitar World

Journey were ‘terrified’ about use of ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ in hit TV show

Song has been used in a number of memorable scenes in TV and film

The Independent UK

Trotting Ahead Of K-pop? South Korean Crooner Rivals BTS

Lim Young-woong may not have as many fans as BTS, but the trot singer is rivalling the global superstars, showing there's more to South Korean music than K-pop with his billions of streams and a sold-out stadium tour.

International Business Times

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers might have based their entire career on it": Steven Wilson's 20 favourite British rock albums

Porcupine Tree mainman, solo star and prog remix king Steven Wilson on 20 British albums that blew his mind

Louder

"If we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great": Pete Townshend addresses the future of The Who

It turns out there's a catch

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The Independent UK

Fred Again announces North America tour: How to get tickets

Fred Again will embark on tour days after the release of his new album, ‘ten days’

Metal Hammer

“Bring Me The Horizon? Who the **** is that?” Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith get his head around Oli Sykes' Sheffield shape-shifters

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer hears Bring Me The Horizon for the first time, attempts to play along to a metalcore anthem

Louder

“Raw and candid in its touching analysis of trauma, pain and love.” Beabadoobee bares her soul with the emotional intimacy of This Is How Tomorrow Moves

Beatrice Laus grows up on Rick Rubin-assisted third album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves

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“I only played the drums on that song”: Foo Fighters cover Tenacious D but Dave Grohl forgets the words

Seems like the D haven’t been cancelled after all...

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“Fingerpicking came from not having an amplifier. After dad forked out for the guitar, I didn't have the nerve to ask him for one”: Mark Knopfler says the lack of a guitar amp growing up helped him develop his now-iconic fingerpicking style

Sensitivity to his family’s finances – as well as an exchange involving his sister and a tennis racket – helped Knopfler on the way to crafting his legendary approach to the guitar

Metal Hammer

"I remember thinking, 'Good God, I'd love to front that band.'" Bruce Dickinson on the first time he saw Iron Maiden live - long before he became their singer

Bruce Dickinson was very impressed by what he saw in Camden Town that night

Guitar World

John Mayer plays a Telecaster, taps through a solo, and tackles some of Dead & Company’s final shows with only three fretting fingers following serious finger injury

Mayer was forced to alter his playing style after injuring the "team captain" of his fretting hand last week – and whatever he's been doing in the practice room has clearly worked wonders…

Guitar World

“The most powerful polyphonic octave generator ever”: Electro-Harmonix unveils the POG3, the latest generation of the trailblazing octave pedal beloved by Joe Satriani and Jack White

With an all-new chassis, features cribbed from EHX's greatest hits, and a $645 price tag, does this premium pedal mark a new era for the storied New York FX co?

The Guardian - AU

Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey on their new duo: ‘The party hasn’t started until the sax solo’

Fanning Dempsey National Park sounds like neither Powderfinger nor Something for Kate. Instead it’s an ode to the 70s and 80s

Louder

“Their love of Yes shines through once more… but their simpler arrangements are just as striking”: IZZ’s Collapse The Wave

Songs shorten and moods swing wildly on New Yorkers’ 10th album

The Guardian - UK

‘When The Sopranos used it, my phone blew up’: Journey on Don’t Stop Believin’

‘It’s a song that gives you permission to dream – and there are still a lot of smalltown girls and city boys wanting to get on a midnight train to anywhere’

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