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“I like a standard-tuning guitar. If you can’t put your ideas across with that, you’re in trouble”: Justin Hawkins on why he’s not convinced by alternate tunings

Hawkins believes that E standard offers plenty of opportunity for expression

Guitar World

“Now it’s coming back and everyone is getting excited about it”: Liam Gallagher’s son thinks guitar music is only now making a return – and the Oasis reunion could be to thank

Gene Gallagher, of indie band Villanelle, says a new era of rock music is here

Guitar World

The sound of glorious pandemonium: Two nights with The Darkness in Ireland

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins and writer Pat Carty worked together as apprentice joiners in the 1990s: 30 years on, we put them together again

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“We can see this dividing opinion more than almost any guitar we’ve reviewed”: Atkin JH3001 review

What happens when charmingly bonkers rockstar Justin Hawkins is given free rein to design his own guitar? Guess what? He comes up with something charmingly bonkers!

Guitar World

“The importance of one clear voice playing the melodies and solos are things we take seriously”: Joe Satriani reveals how Satch/Vai’s onstage chemistry works – and why sometimes some songs are best left to Steve Vai

Satch says playing with Steve Vai is an opportunity to expand each other's material, but says maintaining one clear voice for melodies and solos is key

Guitar World

"Bringing a long-awaited rock 'n' roll flair to the world of soundbars": Marshall’s Heston 120 packs the latest tech into the style signature of its classic amp heads

It’s so retro that The Darkness have been resurrected to help roll it out

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“It is an absolute phenom for us to be able to present to you now our teenage aspirations in this song”: Joe Satriani and Steve Vai are living out their teenage dreams in the video for their new single featuring the ‘Voice of Rock’ Glenn Hughes

I Wanna Play My Guitar is a love-letter to the instrument from two maestros on top of their game

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“This song depicts all of the things Joe and I loved about pounding rock ‘n’ roll and the glorious guitar”: The SatchVai Band's second single is an ode to the instrument that made them famous – and it features Glenn Hughes on vocals

Guitar World and Guitar Player have an exclusive premiere of the '70s-flavored track, which arrives a month and change ahead of the band's first tour

Guitar World

“That was the first time I’d ever listened to one and gone, ‘What is that? I want to learn how to do that’”: Justin Hawkins is known for his rock chops – but a soul and reggae legend inspired him to break the rules

The Darkness singer on how Johnny Nash inspired him to broaden his musical horizon

Guitar World

“It’s getting ridiculous. We’re the last men standing, unless some new wave of rock comes along…” The rise, fall and resurrection of The Darkness, the band on a mission to save rock

As their new album Dreams On Toast proves, The Darkness are everything rock’n’roll should be in 2025

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The Darkness' Justin Hawkins doesn't regret mocking Liam Payne

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins has no regrets about mocking Liam Payne in a video before his death because he had no idea the tragic singer was struggling in private.

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Justin Hawkins was 'petrified' about playing at Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins was "petrified" about performing at the tribute concerts for Taylor Hawkins because of his band's close connection to the late Foo Fighters drummer.

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“Justin Hawkins has got a crazy brain. He kept giving me all of these great lines”: How The Darkness persuaded a Hollywood A-lister to appear on their new album

When The Darkness call, Hollywood picks up the phone

Louder

The Darkness’s Justin Hawkins: ‘People saw our new music video and assumed I was back on drugs’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Once one of the biggest bands on the planet, The Darkness are back with a new album and a change of direction. Justin Hawkins talks to Kate Solomon about why he thinks the music industry has never taken them seriously, how he no longer writes songs to…

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Louder

"When the storm clouds clear, the band’s innate pop sensibilities shine as brightly as ever": In a world of bread-and-butter rock bands, The Darkness remain the toast of the town

Grain expectations: Lowestoft legends The Darkness mix it up on eighth studio album Dreams On Toast

MusicRadar

“It was probably the first time I’d ever sort of listened to one and gone, ‘What is that? I want to learn how to do that!’”: How a soul and reggae legend introduced the Darkness' Justin Hawkins to diminished chords

The Darkness frontman says the late, great Johnny Nash dared to step outside of standard studio chord progressions and broadening a young Hawkins' musical vocabulary in the process

Louder

In these troubled times, what we really need is a honky tonk single from The Darkness tackling the issue of male flatulence during lovemaking

Hot On My Tail comes from Dreams On Toast, the new album from The Darkness

Louder

"Not just one of the best British rock albums of all time, but one of the best debut albums ever made": That time The Darkness added a riot of colour to a grey musical landscape

Two decades on and people still can't decide whether Permission To Land is parody, pastiche or perfection

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The Guardian - UK

The Darkness review – retro rockers are still in acrobatically high spirits

Fresh from Taylor Swift’s endorsement, Justin Hawkins and his hard-riffing band can still strut and peacock with the best – so it’s a shame about the bad sound mix

Louder

"We wade through sweet treacle every day, to make things for others to love": The Darkness ponder their place in the world on pumping new rock tune Walkin' Through Fire

Walkin' Through Fire is the fourth single to be plucked from The Darkness's upcoming eighth studio album Dreams On Toast

Louder

“It was carnage. We partied on the road, then I’d get home and start the party all over again. I thought, ‘If this carries on, I might die’”: The explosive story of The Darkness’ OTT hard rock masterpiece Permission To Land

How an unfashionable band from the UK defied the critics to become the biggest British hard rock stars of the mid-2000s

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The Stylistics and Shania Twain spread the love this Valentine's Day with new collab Yes, I Will

The Stylistics have released their first new song in more than 16 years, featuring none other than Shania Twain.

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Watch a stunned Justin Hawkins perform a song with The Darkness when he thought he was going to play laser tag instead

The Darkness’ frontman was the “unexpected star” on the latest episode of Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

Guitar World

“Friends texted me saying, ‘I wish Taylor Swift would dance to my music.’ I’m like, ‘Put a good song out and she actually might!’” Justin Hawkins on the Darkness going viral, the return of virtuosic playing – and why he finally switched from Les Pauls

The Darkness frontman details his journey to Friedman amps via a freaky Laney experience, the success of his musicology podcast series, and the jealousy his band have caused by crossing over to pop

Guitar World

“The way we think about guitar and what the instrument is supposed to do has changed”: Justin Hawkins explains why technically complex bands like Sleep Token and Polyphia are generating mass appeal

The Darkness frontman and social media commentator claims that there's a new appreciation for a certain brand of virtuosity that, in eras past, might have been perceived as “showing off”

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