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Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Turnstile, Rise Against and more than 150 other rock and metal bands have just been announced for Welcome To Rockville festival 2026

Florida’s largest rock, metal and punk festival will return to Daytona Beach in May

Metal Hammer

“I looked at the bass, Billie looked at me, and I picked it up. I thought, ‘Did I just become a bass player?’” Green Day’s Mike Dirnt looks back on his early bass days – as Epiphone launches signature version of his cult classic Grabber G-3

Dirnt has championed the oddball 1970s bass throughout his career. Now he's got his own signature Epiphone version

Guitar World

“I was tired of not having a great tone. I could never figure out why I don’t sound good. So I started to experiment with how I pick”: Great tone starts with the pick – just ask Steve Vai. Here’s how honing your picking can improve your tone for free

Unlock every pick color – from warmth and brightness to the secretive clarinet tone

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“These are the tracks people dream of being able to pick up and play”: New study names the most inspiring bands for aspiring guitarists – and The Beatles have been beaten to top spot

UK retailer guitarguitar studied the top 5,000 guitar tabs from Ultimate Guitar to see which artists are having the greatest influence on today's players

Guitar World

“Ringo used to say that the Beatles would have only made three albums if it wasn’t for Paul”: Giles Martin unpacks the upcoming remastered Beatles Anthology series

One of the greatest music documentaries of all time now has an all-new episode, as well as remastered picture and sound

MusicRadar

Musicians losing out on millions due to wrongly allocated UK royalties, new research finds

Regarding music played in UK nightclubs, more than £5.7m each year is allegedly allocated by performing rights societies to the wrong artists

The Guardian - UK

Pink Floyd share new stereo mix of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, presented for the first time as a single continuous piece of music

Pink Floyd will reissue their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, on various formats on December 12

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“This guitar represents a whole year of my life”: This insane Jaws guitar was made using thousands of tiny pieces of paper from Guitar World magazines – now it’s going up for auction

The intricately decorated Ibanez was featured in Guitar World back in 2013 after Trey Xavier spent hours putting it together

Guitar World

“Dua sings everything”: Dua Lipa’s live engineer reveals the special sonic sauce he uses to add the “pop shine” to her vocals on her Radical Optimism tour

“It allows me to maintain that precision, that fidelity on a vocal”

MusicRadar

“When I brought up the talk box, everybody in the band started laughing at me. But when it actually worked, it became an integral part of that hit song”: How Bon Jovi created their signature rock anthem – with a 'hit doctor' and a 'goofy' guitar effect

“When I was a teenager, Frampton Comes Alive was such a huge record"

MusicRadar

“I’m drifting, broken, shell shocked, just watching one foot fall in front of the other”: Gary Numan opens up about his brother’s sudden death

He is dedicating current UK tour to him

MusicRadar

What Fred again..’s tour and album launch can teach brands

Fred’s tour may be about music, but its lessons reach far beyond it.

Creative Bloq

"It’s about those times when you’ve got no feeling left or you just don’t care." The song that helped Linkin Park kiss goodbye to the nu metal era - and that got a new lease of life courtesy of one rap megastar

Few bands have two separate versions of one song celebrated equally as classics, but Linkin Park did that

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“I’m nervousof that guitar because it’s so expensive. I can barely look at it”: Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil on how you can shake the Earth with one finger, and why he fell in love with Kirk Hammett’s Greeny – even if he’s still Team Strat

With their 10th album, Futique, Biffy Clyro remind us exactly why they are one of the most important rock bands of the modern age

Guitar World

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“Our connection was so special, I would probably be able to feel him if he weren’t here anymore, and I don’t”: Wolfgang Van Halen details his spiritual struggle following the death of his father Eddie

The Mammoth singer/multi-instrumentalist says that losing his father left a “black hole” that made him question his spirituality

Guitar World

“I went to the Crossroads Festival when I was 7. I've been married to my Eric Clapton Strat since I was 13”: Meet NYC trio Tchotchke and their six-string hotshot Emily Tooraen – who caught the blues bug when she saw B.B. King and ZZ Top as a kid

They've toured with the The Gossip and The Makeup, play self-styled diva rock, and on their sophomore album, Playin' Dumb, Tchotchke are taking their '60s-indebted girl-group sound global. As Tooraen explains, it all goes back to the blues

Louder

Deep Purple announce UK tour with Mammoth

Rock's old guard collides with new on five-date tour

Louder

"The sound of an enduring rock'n'roll firm updating the business": The Rolling Stones' first album without Mick Taylor, now available in super deluxe form

Mick Taylor exits the Stones and fun times return

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"In 1985 Theatre Of Pain sounded flaccid and 40 years on it's still drooping": Mötley Crüe's third album gets an undeserved anniversary makeover

Theatre Of Pain: Still painful

Louder

"No question this will be the go-to event of the summer!" Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd announce Double Trouble Double Vision tour

Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner will hit the road with Six Gun Sally

The Independent UK

Queen legend Freddie Mercury immortalised on new collection of Royal Mint coins

Singer’s sister, Kashmira Bulsara, said that striking the first coin was an ‘emotional and proud moment’ for her

Guitar World

Guitarist Dave Burgess – of Tequila hit-makers the Champs – dies at 90

The pop culture phenomenon is said to have been written in just 15 minutes

Guitar World

“The six-string system never hooked my brain. With this guitar, none of the shapes work, so you have to think differently”: Jacob Collier taught me how to play his 5-string guitar – but I learned much more than just new shapes and tunings

A crash course in Collier's eye-opening 5-string guitar doubled as a deep-dive into his playing philosophy

MusicRadar

“Very worrying to see him so emotional”: Fans voice concerns after Gary Numan breaks down during Birmingham gig after hearing "worst news ever"

He says he’ll share more when he’s ready

Guitar World

“I was just too frightened – it was too big a moment with everyone looking at the guitar player. I couldn’t do it”: Paul McCartney was meant to be the Beatles’ lead guitarist – then stage fright led him to George Harrison

McCartney explains how Harrison became the band’s primary soloist in this exclusive extract from The Beatles Anthology

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