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“Dylan asked, ‘What’s the least amount of notes you can play?’ I said, ‘I could play one.’ He goes, ‘Do that’”: Fred Tackett compares his gigs with Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Bob Seger, and recalls his friendship with Lowell George

The veteran session Strat-slinger who restarted Little Feat in the ‘80s discusses how he developed an essential studio skill, why brass is his main inspiration, and the best advice he ever heard

Guitar World

The perfect Easter playlist: Hidden stories behind Jesus songs

Once you're chocolated out this Easter, how about kicking back with some tunes featuring the word ‘Jesus’ in their titles? Especially because these lyrics often hide meanings that may surprise you...

Euronews

Record Store Day 2025: What releases should you be looking out for?

Here are our picks for the best Record Store Day releases for 2025.

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“Tom would say, ‘Play your guitar with a car key.’ It was very experimental”: Little Feat's Fred Tackett recalls Tom Waits' left-field approach to guitar playing – and his one-of-a-kind studio sessions

Aside from his role in Little Feat, Tackett has recorded with a remarkable list of artists from Bob Dylan to Joan Baez and Cher

Guitar World

"You can hear everything from Metallica to Nick Cave and Tom Waits." With Vice Grip, Parkway Drive went from metalcore stars to future festival headliners - and jumped out of a plane

How Vice Grip took Parkway Drive from metalcore heroes to future festival headliners

Metal Hammer

Metallica’s James Hetfield names who he deems the “master craftsman at lyrics” – and it’s not a metal musician

The Metallica man discusses all things lyric-writing during the latest Metallica Report podcast

Metal Hammer

From before he used the Elephant Man's spine for a marimba: Tom Waits' The Heart Of A Saturday Night still sounds smoky on anniversary coloured vinyl

Be-bop, beat and ballads

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Willie Nelson on his new album, cannabis cookbook, Kris Kristofferson and what makes a good song

Willie Nelson, who is 91, will release “Last Leaf on the Tree" on Friday, his second studio album this year

The Independent UK

"Assuredly switching through the gears as if they're all second nature to her": Beth Hart proves she's far more than a blues siren on You Still Got Me

Beth Hart delivers soul, swagger and Slash on album number eleven

Louder

"I hated Tom Waits at first." From Aretha Franklin to Gravediggaz, Julie Christmas makes us a soundtrack of her life

Unique noise/post-rock maverick Julie Christmas makes us a playlist and tells us the stories behind her picks

Metal Hammer

“I had, like, 18 whiskies”: The unhinged story of how jazz karaoke led to post-rock idol Julie Christmas waking up in bed with a tinned ham

The noise/post-rock maverick gives a bizarre anecdote about canned meat in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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“Still Laughed About It 20 Years Later”: 30 Times Kids Realized Their Dads Were Legendary

From the origins of the family dog to suspicious tales when dads were (gasp!) dating other women, this thread had it all. The post “Still Laughed About It 20 Years Later”: 30 Times Kids Realized Their Dads Were Legendary first appeared on Bored Panda.

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"It's the worst album in the history of mankind": This is the soundtrack of Al Jourgensen's life

Ministry linchpin Al Jourgensen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what happened when GG Allin threw up on him in an elevator in New York

Metal Hammer

He recorded with Bob Dylan, toured with Tom Waits and replaced Jimmie Vaughan: Duke Robillard is American blues guitar royalty

This lesson in Robillard's improvisational lead guitar style showcases his ability to incorporate melody in solos, and blend blues with jazz

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The What Hi-Fi? team on the first vinyl records they ever bought

As we celebrate Record Store Day 2024 today, team What Hi-Fi? recalls the first time they spent their own money on a vinyl record.

Total Film

An infamous 1970s TV interview may have inspired Heath Ledger's Joker - now it's the basis for a hit new horror movie

Late Night with the Devil's Jack Delroy and The Dark Knight's Joker have something in common

Guitar World

“Poverty accounted for many of my choices – I had this knockoff, fake Tele I used on Rain Dogs… It was awful but also beautiful”: Marc Ribot on recording Tom Waits classics with cheap gear, and why ‘How can I destroy it?’ is one of his session mantras

A session legend who has recorded with Tom Waits, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and many more, Ribot returns with a new solo album, Connection, and, musically, anything goes

The Guardian - US

Cookie Monster and Ohio senator make odd allies in shrinkflation complaint

Democratic senator Sherrod Brown endorsed the Sesame Street star’s complaint on products getting smaller as prices remain same

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All you need is love songs: 12 novelists pick their favourite romantic tracks

Writers who know a thing or two about matters of the heart on the love songs they adore – from Sondheim’s bittersweet portrait of a romance sceptic to Roberta Flack’s timeless expression of hope

Louder

“Isn’t it the best when you get into a band and they happen to have so much material to discover?” Yes’ Jon Davison fell in love with the Moody Blues by falling in love with John Lodge’s daughter

Singer has a soft spot for Tom Waits' melancholy first album and tree-hugger activities - and he’s in a band with his prog hero

The Guardian - UK

Early Life Forms ft Marc Ribot review – freewheeling guitar heroes wing it in style

Belgian guitarist Vitja Pauwels and his new band get it on with the Tom Waits collaborator – live and unrehearsed

The Independent UK

Hitchhiking Tom Waits was once picked up by ‘Nature Boy’ songwriter Eden Ahbez

‘It was a big thrill for me,’ US artist tells Iggy Pop in a rare radio appearance

The Independent UK

Nottingham newcomers Divorce: ‘We have a creative sexual tension between us’

The alt-country four-piece have become a staple on BBC 6 Music, with a patchwork sound that folds in The Beatles, The Carpenters, and Fiona Apple. On the cusp of their headline tour, the band decamp to the pub with Megan Graye to talk all things touring, songwriting – and the…

Chicago Sun-Times

Be the last leaf on the tree

Certain trees, such as oaks, hold onto their leaves through a little-understood quality known as marcescence.

The Guardian - AU

After my husband died, I struggled to listen to music – but now I find comfort in the songs he loved

Music was Margaret McNally and her husband’s shared love language. Two years after his death, she’s working through his playlist to keep his spirit alive

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