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“I can’t play jigs or reels or any of that traditional Irish stuff, but I have got a good ear for blues, the tonality of it”: 3 ways to supercharge your lead guitar playing like Rory Gallagher

Improve your blues with this lesson on the Irish rocker's style

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"A standout year for female artists": But Taylor Swift didn’t bag Spotify Wrapped’s most streamed song of 2024

The all-important year-end figures, released today, show that another artist snagged the song of the year

MusicRadar

“Dismissed by some as too lightweight, time has reframed it as a pivotal album musically and historically”: Marillion’s This Strange Engine Deluxe Edition

Marking an and and a beginning for the band, this extended version of the 1997 original states its case as an elegant outlier in their catalogue

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“After you’ve caressed them with Stairway To Heaven, now you’re going to disturb them!”: How Jimmy Page constructed the perfect Led Zeppelin album

“We were crafting albums for the album market,” Page said

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The end of an Eras tour approaches, marking a bittersweet moment for Taylor Swift fans

The global phenomenon that is Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is coming to an end after the popstar performed more than 150 shows across five continents over nearly two years

The Independent UK

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”: Nils Frahm hits out at genre snobbery

“Most of the classical venues have a very arrogant attitude towards pop music, which is what I’m considered to be by most of them”

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Vote for the best metal song of 2024

From Judas Priest to Poppy, Spiritbox, Ghost and beyond, 2024 has offered some great new metal tunes. But now we need your help deciding the best of the best

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Meet the dongle nightmare that’ll get your original iPod working with your M4 Mac

Attention hipsters. Still rocking Apple’s first ever 5Gb iPod from 2001? We've got some great news

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“At almost eight minutes long, it's pretty brave for the record company to pick it as a single!” The Wildhearts return with epic new single Failure Is The Mother Of Success, about “getting back on your feet after things have gone wrong”

"A new chapter in Wildhearts history – new music, new line-up, new label, new focus...”

Louder

Spotify Wrapped: Taylor Swift is music app's most-played artist in 2024 with 26.6 billion streams

Taylor Swift tops Spotify Wrapped list for second year in a row, followed by The Weekend, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish

Evening Standard

Is music nostalgia really dead as new acts out-ticket established artists?

New gig-going research shows that passion for older acts is being outpaced by music’s increasingly active social stars

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“What do you say when you meet Vernon Reid by chance at the Memphis airport and he suggests you swap signature guitars? You say, ‘Yes sir, coming right up’”: Jack White and Vernon Reid exchange signature guitars after serendipitous airport encounter

Reid received one of White's TripleCaster Telecasters, while White got his hands on a customized Reverend Vernon Reid Signature Totem Series guitar

Guitar World

“Gene Simmons used a Grabber for a reason – because they play like nothing else on earth”: Epiphone Grabber Bass review

With its classic looks and budget-friendly price tag, is the revived Grabber still as iconic?

Guitar World

Bob Vylan. Alt Blk Era, Kid Bookie, Spider among nominees for Best Alternative Music Act at MOBO Awards 2025

Native James and Hak Baker complete the nominations in the Best Alternative Music Act category at the 2025 MOBO Awards, to be staged in Newcastle on February 18

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The Independent UK

Spotify Wrapped 2024 is here, and Taylor Swift is once again the platform's most-streamed artist

’Tis the season to unpack Spotify Wrapped

MusicRadar

“I feel like because I did not make it, I must be cheating”: Is using commercially available samples in a track really that much of a problem?

“There's no such thing as cheating. Just make music you like and stop following rules.”

Metal Hammer

"Often mesmerising, sometimes strange but never less than compelling." Sleep Token show London why they've become metal's biggest success story in over two decades

The mysterious masked metallers put on a dazzling second show at a packed-out London O2

Evening Standard

Bjorn Ulvaeus issues verdict on Donald Trump and Theresa May using Abba’s music

He said Abba has ‘never allowed our music to be used for party political reasons’.

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The busiest band in metal? One day before Slipknot support tour, Bleed From Within announce next album Zenith, release single In Place Of Your Halo

The prolific aggressors have also remixed recent track Hands Of Sin, now featuring Sylosis frontman Josh Middleton

Guitar World

“We wanted to carry the torch of the guitar duo – Friedman/Becker, Gilbert/Bouillet – and pay homage to the golden era of shred guitar”: YouTube virtuosos Pete & Vinnie Play started with Racer X covers – now they’ve released their own classic shred single

After meeting at college and building up 150,000 followers online, the duo are stepping into the ‘real’ world as No Writer with help from Kiko Louriero’s producer and the master they studied under

Guitar World

Using arpeggios to imply dominant 9th chords in your solos sounds complicated – but Jim Oblon can explain all, and it might be the secret sauce your improvised leads are waiting for

Understanding the chord shape and the theory behind it is easier than you might think, and it offers another strategy for navigating the fretboard on the fly

Metal Hammer

Start your neck warmups now: UK metalcore hellraisers Heriot announce biggest-ever headline tour

One of this country’s best up-and-coming metal bands will hit the road in April

Guitar World

“I always liked bluegrass a lot because the tempo is a lot closer to a NOFX beat”: Meet the Bad Ups, the Philadelphia punks inspired by country-and-western, reggae and Chet Atkins

The Philly punks kick down the walls of genre orthodoxy on their debut album Life of Sin, complementing their powerchord assault with new-wave vibes, acoustic guitar, and licks Chet Atkins taught 'em

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan ignores deadline to questions over Taylor Swift's VVIP security

The mayor was asked to respond to queries about the megastar’s police protection by November 6 - but has still not replied, and has not said why

The Independent UK

The most mispronounced words of 2024 include one of the biggest songs of the year and a Dune actor

Kamala Harris also made the list

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