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“We face our amps backwards so that they can be as loud as possible. Feedback is really important to us”: DIIV are reimagining shoegaze with cheap pedals, communal gear and all-encompassing distortion

With pedalboards crowded with dirt boxes, samplers and amps cranked, DIIV are steering shoegaze into bold new soundscapes

Guitar World

“It was more than a guitar, it was a statement. The Rampage became an icon of Seattle’s grunge rock sound”: The G&L Rampage – the guitar beloved by Jerry Cantrell – is officially making a return

The rebooted Rampage 24, due later this year, will revive one of grunge's most influential instruments

Guitar World

“We were playing to people who didn't care if we fell over and died.” The Cure might be recognised now as one of the world's most iconic and influential bands, but that wasn't always the case

The path to rock superstardom can be long and winding

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“I’m a 42-year-old man”: M. Shadows slams old record label for trying to create Avenged Sevenfold “viral Tiktok moment”

Avenged Sevenfold’s singer has torn the state of modern major labels to shreds in a new interview

Metal Hammer

Taylor Swift Is Too Busy Cooking with Boyfriend Travis Kelce to Care About Matty Healy Getting Engaged

And, you know, selling out stadiums all over the globe and writing hit songs and…

Marie Claire

“I love $200 guitars! They’re easier to play and their pickups are very responsive to my style”: Meet Sebastiside, the Colombian virtuoso making waves with budget guitars – and a ground-breaking rhythm technique

After ditching shred to focus on rhythm playing, the progressive metal guitarist has developed an innovative “hybrid rasgueado” technique

Guitar World

Taylor Swift's UK base is this £3.3 million cottage near Soho Farmhouse

A far cry from the Travelodge

Marie Claire

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The 1975’s Matty Healy and Model Gabbriette Bechtel Announce Engagement After Less Than a Year of Dating

The news comes only two months after the release of Healy’s ex Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” a good chunk of which was reportedly inspired by him and their brief romance this time last year.

Marie Claire

Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi is making a solo album: “I’ve got a lot of stuff written”

The Black Sabbath guitarist hasn’t released a record under his own name since 2005

Metal Hammer

Doja Cat review – bombastic show of strength from pop’s great contrarian

The chameleonic rapper and singer plays it both cocky and cute as she squares up to the crowd and bravely ditches some of her biggest hits

The Guardian - UK

"Whether it’s scuttling, crunching, or throwing off showers of incandescent sparks, there’s a giddy, genreless joy to it all." Maverick vocalist Julie Christmas stuns on bold new album Ridiculous And Full Of Blood

Former Made Out Of Babies and Battle Of Mice vocalist Julie Christmas offers a bizarre, bold new vision on new album Ridiculous And Full Of Blood

Metal Hammer

“It’s not about playing whatever the lowest note available is. You have to consider melody, rhythm and harmony”: Listen to John Paul Jones’ isolated bass on Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On

Recorded in 1969 when John Paul Jones was just 23, Ramble On stands apart from the rocked-out blues songs that dominate Led Zeppelin II

Guitar World

Françoise Hardy, French singing legend and pop icon, dies at 80

Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died

The Independent UK

"Do you mind if I wear this as a laugh?" The true story of the night that 25,000 thick British TV viewers thought Manic Street Preachers had started supporting Irish terrorists

Manic Street Preachers' June 1994 performance on Top Of The Pops was one of the more memorable moments in the show's history

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Metal singer records vocals in the studio, screams so loud the cops come

Garrett Russell from metalcore bunch Silent Planet has one hell of a set of pipes on him

Guitar World

“He refused to play the bass with his thumb. He thought it was an insult to the instrument”: Marcus Miller reveals why Anthony Jackson started putting him forward for sessions

The Independent UK

Oasis reunion rumours reignited as seat ‘reserved for Noel Gallagher’ spotted at Liam’s show

Sign comes amid increasing speculation following band’s social media activity

The Guardian - UK

Multiple bands pull out of Download festival over Barclays’ Israel ties

Acts including Speed, Scowl and Ithaca voice opposition to Barclaycard sponsorship over financial services provided to defence companies

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Watch Iggy Pop perform The Stooges classics at California's No Values Festival

Iggy Pop performs The Stooges' songs for the first time in over two decades with Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Nick Zinner, Chavez' Matt Sweeney and more on stage at California’s No Values Festival

The Guardian - UK

Françoise Hardy obituary

Icon of 60s music who sang of love as a source of ‘wretched, profound, endless questioning’

Guitar World

“Technical bass players might be able to spell it out in print, but if the pocket isn’t there, it’s just dots on paper”: The Meters’ George Porter Jr on surviving Hurricane Katrina, the subtleties of New Orleans funk and his unusual slap style

According to George Porter Jr., his job as a bassist is to tie the groove and the rhythm together

Evening Standard

Françoise Hardy’s 7 best songs: from La Question to Tous les garçons et les filles

The French music icon was at the forefront of the yé-yé movement, and had a profound influence on rock ’n’ roll

Guitar World

“He took the lighter fluid, squirted it on the guitar and set it on fire. That might be the first relic’d guitar – and you can thank Seymour Duncan for that”: That time Adrian Belew DIY aged his Strat with a screwdriver, spray paint and motor oil

Belew bought a brown sunburst Strat to take on tour with Frank Zappa – but it wasn't deemed fit for purpose until going through a drastic cosmetic overhaul

The Guardian - UK

It’s a Hard Life for band changing their name after objection from easyGroup

British indie band no longer known as Easy Life after saying they did not have money to defend lawsuit

Louder

Haze detail new album The Water's Edge

Sheffield prog/folk veterans Haze will release their first album for four years, The Water's Edge, in July...

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