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Dua Lipa Holds Court As UK's Glastonbury Festival Starts

British-Albanian pop sensation Dua Lipa was to headline the first night of the Glastonbury festival on Friday which has again drawn tens of thousands of fans.

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“We’ve made it feel like you're playing a tube amp”: Laney rolls out the Lionheart Foundry series – can these feature-packed solid-state combos compete with their tube-driven counterparts?

Laney reignites an age-old debate with portable, gig-ready two-channel combos with all the “the power, dynamism and response” of the original Lionheart, and footswitchable boosts

MusicRadar

“With a different hand at the controls, and an on-form Brian Johnson, it could have been a classic”: how AC/DC made an epic mis-step with Fly On The Wall

AC/DC‘s Fly On The Wall album was released on this day in 1985

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Sugababes review, Glastonbury 2024: Shoving them on West Holts was misguided at best, irresponsible at worst

Extreme overcrowding was easily avoidable, but at least on stage, the band are able to have a blast

The Independent UK

Seventeen make history as first K-pop band to perform at Glastonbury

South Korean 13-piece boyband take to Pyramid stage for ‘Glasteen’ in front of fanbase often overlooked by western festivals

The Guardian - UK

Marsha Ambrosius' new 'CASABLANCO' album is just what Dr. Dre ordered

Marsha Ambrosius was done with the demands required of a successful R&B star, including touring and music industry politics

The Independent UK

Kinky Friedman obituary

Caustic country singer and self-styled ‘Jewish cowboy’ whose songs provoked laughter and outrage

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“If you’re new to slide playing, try a higher string action until you get used to using it”: How to set up your guitar for slide

Lights, camera... High action? We explore that and more as we walk through what you Cooder, woulda, shoulda do when getting your guitar ready for the slide

Guitar World

The tritone substitution is a staple of jazz guitar that’s been used by the greats. Here’s how you can use it to quite literally jazz up your chord progressions

Tritone substitutions are jazz theory 101 – and you don't need a degree from Berklee to put them into practice

Guitar World

Seventeen at Glastonbury 2024 review: an unforgettable spectacular as the K-pop stars make history

The 13-piece boyband delivered slick moves and back-catalogue highlights to an adoring crowd

Evening Standard

“Big riff energy is in this kid’s blood – and he might even solo better than his dad…” June 2024 Guitar World editor’s picks

From all-star offspring to returning noise-rock icons, a punk trailblazer’s first album in 53 years and the future of blues, this month had it all

Guitar World

Cool new prog sounds from Alcest, Lesoir, Nick Magnus and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week

The week's best new prog music to check out from Kalandra, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, Nine Stones Close and more...

Louder

“Derek, you could play slide with a ham sandwich and make it sound good”: Watch Derek Trucks use a drumstick as a slide and still make his guitar sing

Most players have a preference for brass, glass, or maybe something ceramic, but the Tedeschi Trucks Band slide guitar maestro proved that anything goes when you've got the chops

MusicRadar

"We knew that something about it was really special, but we could not figure it out. Was it the key? Was it the verses?”: Producer and songwriter Dan Nigro on finding the gold in Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe!

“It's a song we wrestled with for a while. We laid down a demo, and the two of us felt like it wasn't right,” he says

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“These amps just breathe like a well-rounded tube amp, no matter what you throw at them”: Can solid-state amps compete with tubes? Laney thinks its Lionheart Foundry combos are up to the challenge

Affordable, giggable and lightweight, the 60W analog combos also boast impulse responses for easy recording

Metal Hammer

The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Tom Morello, Tribulation and Beast In Black are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Evening Standard

Girls Aloud have triumphant O2 Arena closing night after slashing ticket prices to only £21

The group was forced to offer 60% discounted tickets after struggling to fill seats

MusicRadar

“Now let’s check out the weird knob”: Shabat built Dweezil Zappa a new signature guitar and it is an HSS S-style “rock machine” like no other

Zappa's new guitar is a hotrodded Lynx with Lollar pickups, a Vega-Trem, and it has a weird but brilliant secret mode that sounds like an octaver. Watch him put it through its paces

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Evening Standard

Shania Twain: 'Playing the Glastonbury Legend’s slot? It’s a real holy s**t moment!"

From taking on the festival circuit’s biggest booking, to revealing news of a biopic ain the works, everything’s coming up Shania this summer.

Guitar World

“There’s no questioning the rock-solid protection it affords your guitar, or the efforts Fender has gone to to create a nicely priced case that offers a premium feel”: Fender F1225 Electric Guitar Gig Bag review

Fender’s nicely priced, top-of-the-line gig bag combines the best features of hard and soft cases

Louder

Motorpsycho announce Neigh!!, a collection of "songs that won’t fit on an album"

Norwegian psych/proggers Motorpsycho will release Neigh!!, a companion to last year's Yay! album, in August

Louder

“After almost 50 years, Hans Lundin is to be applauded for continuing to produce such rewarding music”: Kaipa’s Sommargryningsljus

Sole remaining founding member provides “summer dawn light” featuring entrancing vocals and an awe-inspiring line-up

Metal Hammer

“We were sleeping on the floor, stealing food, stealing bikes”: Metallica turned to “thieving” to survive the early ’80s, says James Hetfield

While recording at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Metallica had to “borrow [things] forever” to make ends meet

Marie Claire

Billy Ray Cyrus Shares the "Advice" He Takes From Daughter Noah Cyrus "When Times Are Tough"

The country singer is currently in the process of divorcing from wife Firerose.

MusicRadar

Away from the crowds, rare backstage footage shows Amy Winehouse covering a classic Beatles song at Glastonbury 2004

The then 20-year-old star performed a rearranged version of All My Loving in the year that she shared the bill with Paul McCartney

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