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"You owe your guitar the chance to be its best": How to clean and polish your guitar frets a better way

We take a look at two different products that can help you get your frets gleaming and your guitar back to its best for smoother bends and clearer vibrato

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“They were trashy. They seemed genuine”: New York Dolls singer David Johansen dead at 75

The Dolls’ debut album inspired many bands - from the Sex Pistols to Guns N’ Roses

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“For the life of me I can’t think why we ended up taking our clothes off, but that’s how we recorded the track - prancing around naked!” Guitarist Tony Iommi recalls the madness of Black Sabbath

When Iommi's guitar went 'Boing!' a strange track was born

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“Glitter Gel Pen lyrics are the drunk girl at the party who tells you that you look like an Angel in the bathroom”: How Taylor Swift’s songwriting skilfully makes the personal universal

Taylor Swift deftly divides her songwriting between three separate voices. Here's how to spot them…

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The Brit Award results are in… already. Yup, AI just predicted all of 2025’s winners and losers

It’s the Brit Awards tonight, but why wait for some human ‘Academy’ to pick when science has got an app for that?

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Lizzo is back!… With a Prince/Keane/Ramones/Frank Sinatra mash-up?

Whatever the influences on her new track are, it’s safe to say that this is not the Lizzo comeback that you were expecting…

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“The SYN-20IR is the world’s most flexible, convenient, and tonally versatile all-tube amplifier head”: Steve Vai’s favourite amp brand Synergy unveils a 20W “preamp module platform” with onboard IRs

Swap preamp modules in and out and pair them with onboard American-style clean channel for a compact three-channel powerhouse for stage and studio

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“‘Would you like to tune your guitar?’ ‘Oh, no thanks, I’m trying to give up’”: The Tunerette is the healthy option for Clapton and Keef fans looking for that cigarette on the headstock look – and it tunes your guitar

And to think that some people find tuning their guitar to be a drag...

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Seiki Kato, president of Korg and the inspiration behind 1988's M1 smash has died, aged 67

As eldest son of Ksutomu Kato, Korg’s founder, Seiki joined at the company in 1980 and worked his way to the top

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“As soon as I played the demo I was just like ‘Yes! There he is!’ It was at the level of his old Erasure stuff, of Yazoo and his period of Depeche Mode": Producer Danny L Harle and Olly Alexander on their "extraordinary" collab with a synth-pop legend

“His musical point is so distilled in his music, and he’s the same in the way he talks,” says Harle. “He’s a man of few words”

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“It was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill to play these amazing iconic songs with the man who composed them”: The Black Crowes remember their live collab with Jimmy Page

Live At The Greek reissue includes 16 unreleased tracks

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“I am beyond blown away that this is now in my possession”: Joe Bonamassa is now the proud owner of the treble booster that blew a young Brian May’s mind and made Rory Gallagher’s Stratocaster sing

Gallagher's number one Dallas Rangemaster was up for auction. But the late Irish blues-rock icon's family kept it back and gifted it to Bonamassa

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Primus lift the lid on their search for a new drummer in new Youtube series

The Primus Interstellar Drum Derby is on Episode Two

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“The last piece of the puzzle has been developing a pedalboard that enable you to really focus on playing”: GigRig is now making pedalboards to create the ultimate integrated 'board and switching system – but they don't come cheap

Built for players looking for an integrated pedalboard with a switching system, GigRig's 'boards are available in three sizes, with single-tiered and two-tiered options

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“If you had told me I'd be part of the first all-female crew in space… I would have believed you”: Katy Perry is going to be blasted into space as part of an all-female Jeff Bezos rocket crew

We know that her last album wasn’t great, but do they really have to eject her from the planet?

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"Rush is one of the very few bands where they somehow had a friendship in there and they made it work financially”: Megadeth bassist David Ellefson on songwriting credits and their potential to upend bands

It was “always an issue” in Megadeth, he says

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“It was a mind-bender. Your brain tells you this isn’t supposed to work”: From unplayable rhythms to lost astronauts – the genius of David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes

"It’s childlike and melancholic in that children’s story way,” Bowie said

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“We're sisters, so we're blood. Our love is blood love and as different as we are – which we really are - we just plough through.”: Nancy Wilson talks Heart to mark the band’s 50th anniversary

Together with her sister and lead vocalist Ann, the duo fronted one the the 80s biggest soft rock hit machines

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“It is beautiful... it’s clean and it works great, and it does everything I need”: Steve Vai shows us just what’s needed to play ‘80s King Crimson as he offers tour of his custom-built BEAT rig

If the Fractal Axe-Fx III is doing the heavy lifting for the effects, Vai's indomitable tech, Doug MacArthur is the power behind the tone

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“Ozzy's tassels were touching me, so I don't know if that was something about the future, saying, 'You can do it, man'”: Billy Idol ponders Rock and Roll Hall of Fame membership and reveals a trio of new-album collabs

The Rebel Yell rocker is on the promo trail for a new single and his first album in over a decade

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“AI is not creating John's voice. John's voice existed on that cassette and we made the song around him”: Giles Martin explains why you’d be wrong to think ‘AI’ created Lennon's parts for The Beatles' Now and Then

Exclusive: Watch the track's co-producer demonstrate the machine learning technology behind the Fab Four's final single

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“This collection showcases a fascinating era of unique, experimental designs”: Gibson takes its Certified Vintage programme into ‘80s, releasing one-off prototypes including a super-lightweight S-style with a balsa core

Is it just us or are vintage guitars getting younger every day?

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Milk It: Two strands of Kurt Cobain’s hair expected to fetch thousands at new punk-themed auction

Plus GG Allin’s stained underpants...

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“I cannot in good conscience play”: Rhiannon Giddens cancels show at the Kennedy Center in protest at the “change in programming direction” following Donald Trump’s takeover

Her decision comes after Ben Folds recently resigned as Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra

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“You can look at like a thousand interviews where my dad says it, Gene says it, I say it, Nick says it. It’s, like, no”: The sons of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are recording together but won't be "Sons of KISS"

Don’t expect them to don makeup

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