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“The song is about joy and possibilities and hope, and they have missed the point entirely”: Semisonic protest at Trump’s unauthorised use of their late '90s hit Closing Time

Song has been used to soundtrack images of officials handcuffing detainees

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The Wanted's Nathan Sykes says grief over Tom Parker's death made him 'put everything into perspective'

EXCLUSIVE The singer-songwriter is back with new solo music for the first time in eight years and says he has drawn on certain life lessons both good and bad

Evening Standard

“I saw something coming at me and was about to catch it, then it blew up about six feet in front of me. I went up in the air. I was totally out, unconscious on my back”: Steve Vai recalls his on-stage calamities with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake

“You can call this The Tale Of Two Davids!” Vai says

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This easy chord trick appears on classic songs by the Beatles, the Eagles, Paul Simon and Passenger – discover new sounds with familiar chord shapes by using a capo at the 7th fret

Why the 7th fret is the magic position for your guitar capo

Guitar World

“Instead of accepting the loss like the unbothered rap artist he often claims to be, he has sued his own record label in a misguided attempt to salve his wounds”: Universal Music hits back in Drake defamation case

Record company argues that Drake’s action “disregards the conventions of the diss track genre”

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Will Smith announces UK tour: ‘Can’t wait to see you guys’

He’ll be performing new tracks alongside his classic hits

The Independent UK

“Hendrix said, ‘Mike, I gotta quit. I want to form my own band.’” I said, ‘Then you’ve got to sing’”: Why Jimi Hendrix might never have started his solo career if it weren’t for Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews

The pedal guru tells Guitar World he convinced Jimi to go solo, and claims he saw Hendrix recording with a Big Muff

Guitar World

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Will Smith announces summer tour with dates in England and Wales

The Hollywood star is playing gigs in London, Scarborough, Cardiff, Manchester and Wolverhampton.

Evening Standard

“Absolutely wicked night!” Halsey went to see hardcore breakout stars Knocked Loose live last night

Noted metalcore fan Halsey has joined Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato in revealing they love a bit of Knocked Loose

Metal Hammer

“A lot of the misconceptions were created by Paul and Gene. They still say in interviews that they fired me, but I was never fired from Kiss”: Ace Frehley sets the record straight on his multiple departures from Kiss

Frehley has dispelled the decades-long rumors that he was fired from the legendary band

Guitar World

“It showcases a straightforward single-channel layout ideal for both clean tones and mild breakup tones”: Revv Amplification and Joey Landreth join forces for a signature take on the D25 tube combo with onboard virtual cabs/IRs

Landreth's D25 might be a single-channel affair with old-school aesthetics but with six onboard virtual cabs, MIDI connectivity and switchable 25W/5W power it is all about modern functionality

MusicRadar

Donna Kelce Praises Taylor Swift for Her iHeartRadio Awards in the Sweetest Instagram Post

Just sharing a little update about her son's totally normal, non-famous girlfriend.

Marie Claire

“That’s how I know that I’ve written a good song for myself - when I start crying”: How Adele's songwriting cleverly grabs our emotions

You might think the perfect pop song is built on vibrant production choices and bouncy positivity, but an analysis of the output of one of the biggest selling artists of all time would suggest otherwise

MusicRadar

“He would beat the crap out of the guitar. The result can best be described as Jackson Pollock trying to play like John Lee Hooker”: Aggressively bizarre, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica remains one of the craziest guitar-driven albums ever made

Dense as a rainforest and often hard to grasp, Captain Beefheart's best-known album is the poster boy of late-Sixties avant-garde rock

Guitar World

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The Independent UK

Lady Gaga tickets flogged for £30,000 minutes after Singapore tour presale opens

Pop star makes her only Asia stop in Singapore in May

MusicRadar

“Sets a new standard and dynamic and expressive drive pedals”: Xotic’s AC Booster v2 is a feature-packed but compact overdrive that promises amp-like touch sensitivity and dynamics

Now with a second footswitch for applying a clean boost, plus DIP switches for quick EQ adjustment, the AC Booster V2 could well be your pedalboard's hardest-working overdrive

Marie Claire

Taylor Swift Pairs a $16,380 'Reputation' Diamond Snake Necklace to Her $18,330 Cartier Watch

'Taylor's Version' truthers, it's time to start the countdown.

Guitar World

“I practice guitar ferociously”: Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty deploys Eddie Van Halen-style two-hand tapping on an Ibanez RG in unlikely guitar practice video

Even veteran guitarists have to keep their chops up

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“It was wonderful to hear that Paul McCartney loved my song”: How one man’s quest for musical perfection and the meaning of life resulted in a huge hit that Macca called the best song of 1979

"I wouldn’t rest until it was absolutely right”

Evening Standard

Paul Young says recovery following leg injury has ‘taken a long time’

Young noticed his leg ‘was in a slightly weird position’ after he slipped and fell on some steps.

MusicRadar

Serum 2 just dropped: one of the greatest soft synths of all time gets a massive update - and it's completely free for existing users

The sequel to Xfer Records' wildly popular synth plugin has finally been released after more than a decade of anticipation, bringing new synth engines, effects, a clip sequencer, built-in arpeggiator and much more to this legendary instrument

Guitar World

“This is going to merge into a very hot topic among guitar players”: Why John Mayer decided against ditching his tube amps for modelers for Dead & Company’s Sphere residency – despite the venue’s shortcomings

Mayer devised a workaround that would allow him to play his prized Dumble and Fender setup at the notoriously amp-unfriendly venue

Evening Standard

Mariah Carey's 'unimpressed' reaction during iHeartRadio Music Awards tribute goes viral

Maria Carey’s side-eye glance during iHeartRadio Music Awards tribute goes viral

Guitar World

“In the end, I did it too much – I was a one-trick pony! EVH brought that fire to the guitar”: He was an early two-hand tapping pioneer and one of John Mayall’s favorite guitarists,but Randy Resnick doesn’t consider himself an influential figure

After playing alongside Harvey Mandel, Resnick would go on to follow in the footsteps of Eric Clapton and Peter Green in blues legend John Mayall’s band – and win plaudits from Lee Ritenour and Ted Greene

Metal Hammer

“We thought we’d go really, really big from the very beginning”: Watch Dua Lipa cover AC/DC’s Highway To Hell during tour stop in Australia

Watch one of Britain’s biggest pop stars lay down a stunning rock vocal on the first night of her 2025 Radical Optimism tour

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