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“The last thing you want is people just deferring to you”: He may have been around for nearly 60 years, but David Gilmour’s return to form was inevitable. Here’s why

While the ex Pink Floyd leader is a world-class guitarist and vocalist, his attitude to family, social issues and collaborations make him even bigger than that

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“I spent a lot of shows in the beginning wondering if he was upset”: John Mayer opens up on his early Dead & Company insecurities – and learning to share the stage with his hero, Bob Weir

The Grateful Dead icon, who passed away in January, became one of Mayer's closest collaborators during the latter years of his career

Guitar World

Taylor Swift named global artist of the year for fourth time in a row

The singer secured the accolade for a sixth time following the release of her 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl

The Independent UK

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"People falling on top of each other, beer flying everywhere, somebody jumped off the balcony. I get kicked, I fall to the ground, someone picks me up. It was beautiful chaos." Ho99o9 vocalist Yeti Bones picks the albums that changed his life

From the "black metal version of hip hop", to original shock rocker Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sepultura and the Mr. Bungle track that "gets him horny" these are Yeti Bones' all-time favourites

Metal Hammer

“My main memory is thinking if I stood still for too long, I’d get hit with a beer can”: Thundercat on getting his start with hardcore punk legends Suicidal Tendencies – and how that developed his bass chops

Thundercat may best be known as a funk and R&B-oriented bassist – yet, he got his start in thrash metal and hardcore punk

Guitar World

Chuck Negron obituary

Singer with a powerful four-octave range whose hits with Three Dog Night included Joy to the World

The Guardian - UK

“You can have a great amp but if the speaker sucks it won’t sound good”: Sylosis' Josh Middleton on the most important link in your signal chain – and how a remarkable find from Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood helped him nail Andy Sneap’s tone

The secret to great tone? Don't forget the speaker cabinet matters, too

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“There were times we were just checking in on him to see if he was alive”: this grunge band did everything they could to try and keep their singer on the straight and narrow whilst making their third album, but it wasn’t enough

The grunge stars who made their experimental record in the face of one of the most harrowing periods of their career

Louder

"He walked into my bedroom, and he says, Darling, I think this is a hit." How a disco legend and a hotshot Texan blues guitarist helped resurrect David Bowie's career

"Rock and roll is a business and David wasn’t selling any records in America"

Louder

RAYE review, Co-Op Live Manchester – Just give her the Bond theme now

5/5 Ambitious, thrilling show asserts the UK pop artist as one of the greats, as she traces her lineage through jazz, blues, dance and R&B

The Independent UK

“Something groundbreaking for our fans”: Iron Maiden turn only 2026 UK show into its own festival, including acts featuring band’s former members

Stray, Maiden United, Airforce and more will open the metal titans’ newly expanded two-day event

Metal Hammer

“I love the sound of acoustics and electrics, which is why I try to merge the two… I prefer bigger textures”: How Pavey Ark are reinventing acoustic guitar with pedals, fake nails and a $60 nylon-string that holds its own in any company

Neil Thomas’ adventurous playing and ear for unorthodox tuning finds the English collective exist between two worlds of traditional and neo-folk

Guitar World

Raye ‘devastated’ as fans denied entry to Paris gig after ‘Ticketmaster error’

The 28-year-old singer-songwriter took to X to address the incident.

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift’s ‘Opalite’ Becomes Center of Creative Rights Debate After Accusation from Singer

“No one becomes a billionaire without stealing.”

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"A triumphant first all-analog pedal from Strymon, which will inject your rig with some impressively usable and versatile drive tones": Strymon Fairfax Class A Output Stage Drive pedal review

Strymon's unexpected departure from its usual DSP-led design is a recreation of Randy Bachman's Garnet Herzog – and the result is something rather stellar

Louder

"We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair – the cavalry is coming!" Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band announce Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour

Springsteen's tour will promote the No Kings movement's protests against President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band to launch 'Land of Hope and Dreams' US tour next month

Bruce Springsteen brings his political message back to U.S. arenas with a new run of shows

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"We have been talking about a Thor’s hammer that shoots fire or flashes." Viking metal's biggest band are taking cues from Iron Maiden for their next album

Amon Amarth have big plans when it comes to album 13 and the impending European tour

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Paramore’s Hayley Williams will appear on the new album by Failure, the best alt-rock band who never got their dues

The trio’s seventh album, Location Lost, comes out in April

Louder

“It’s not cute and it’s not nice. I was afflicted. I never conquered it, but I dealt with it”: Prog guitar icon’s struggle with shyness brought him to music and made him a success

His world changed when he realised that playing in bands meant he’d never have to dance

Guitar World

“Gene and Paul came back to the studio with their jaws on the floor. Gene said, ‘No-one has ever turned down Kiss’“: The glam-rock guitarist who accidentally turned down Kiss

Punky Meadows, best known as the guitarist for glam-rock outfit Angel, sets the record straight on auditioning for Kiss, being chosen on the spot, but never actually making the band…

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“Those first two days we got along like brothers, but then after we did the album thing, it was like, ‘This isn’t happening’”: How the gift of a divisive Rolling Stones album scuppered the chance of a collaboration between Nile Rodgers and John Mayer

Rodgers believes that the 1967 record in question is "the most underrated rock and roll album of all time”

Louder

Songwriter Billy Steinberg, who wrote monster hits for Heart, Pat Benatar, The Bangles, Madonna, The Pretenders and more, dead at 75

Songwriting legend Billy Steinberg passed away in Los Angeles on February 16

The Independent UK

British folk icon Labi Siffre, 80, announces first new album in 28 years

Kanye West, Eminem and Jay-Z are just a few of the artists who have sampled Siffre’s songs over the years

Louder

Thurston Moore and underground rock legend Kramer announce album They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza, "a prayer to the war-torn souls of the families of Palestine continually decimated by the brutality of genocide"

Alternative / experimental music legends share first single from collaborative album dedicated to the children of Gaza

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