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“I spent 10 hours a day for a month making that guitar… If it didn’t work out, it could have been a white Stratin Purple Rain”: Prince’s Cloud guitar builder Dave Rusan on how he made the iconic instrument – and the legal battles over his replicas

With Prince’s Cloud 3 guitar fetching nearly a million bucks in June, we speak to Rusan about working for a pop legend, using tools you’d find around the house to make a guitar for Purple Rain, and what fans can expect from his replicas

Guitar World

“Now I realize how little you really need to create good music when you just pick the right sounds - whether that’s on purpose or by accident”: How Darude created Sandstorm, the meme-worthy trance anthem named after a synth preset

Love it or hate it, Sandstorm’s relentless lead synth line must be one of the most recognizable melodies in dance music. Darude tells DJ Mag how the iconic track was made

MusicRadar

“We’re no longer able to balance our life responsibilities with giving you the standard of art that you deserve”: Metallic hardcore firebrands Ithaca announce break-up, final headline show

The London hardcore beloveds will host their own Cremation Party at O2 Academy Islington in February

Metal Hammer

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard drop new track Phantom Island and announce that they'll be heading out on tour with an orchestra

"We have an orchestra now haha"

Louder

“‘Where's Carlos?’ ‘He's in that room.’So my parents and I, we knock on the door, and he's, ‘Oh, you're the kid I heard about… do you want to play tonight?’”: How a 9-year-old guitar prodigy ended up jamming with Carlos Santana

Julian Lage recalls a “surreal” experience

MusicRadar

3 easy rock guitar solo licks you need to know

A quick power-up for beginner and intermediate players' rock soloing, with three ripping solo ideas based around the D minor pentatonic scale

Guitar World

“The Robert Cray gigs had me shaking so badly that I thought I’d faint… It was one of the pools I had to dive into or drown”: A non-shredder among metal guitarists, Katie Knipp took years to go electric – then scored a hit blues album

Inspired to explore blues by a choir singing Mozart, Knipp avoided asking advice from the big names she opened for – and even though it took 20 years, the G&L player has made it her own way

Guitar World

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“The tone EC achieved on that record has become one of the classic archetypes for how an electric guitarshould sound”: How Eric Clapton got his tone on John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers’ ‘Beano’ album

The ‘Beano’ album has become a benchmark for how a Les Paul ’Burst and a Marshall could sound together. But how Clapton got that tone is a little more complex than that...

Guitar World

“People say, ‘I never would have expected that to work.’ But we’re not just a gimmick – we want to create something new”: The Omnific’s two-bass line-up is a serious bid to redefine what the instrument can do

Australian trio’s second album The Law Of Augmenting Returns lays out their case for a rethink… they only wish Jaco Pastorius was alive to hear it

Metal Hammer

"Backcombed head and sloped shoulders above the dreck of indie/goth rock revivalists": Robert Smith charts his own grief and anxiety on The Cure's sombre Songs Of A Lost World

Louder

"There are always fears and doubts lurking, because you're opening yourself up in a completely raw way": Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell on his new album and its guests, songwriting, AI, algorithm bots and AIC's legacy

Jerry Cantrell's new solo album I Want Blood features members of Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Faith No More

Metal Hammer

Release Of New Single Featuring Late One Direction Star Postponed

The release of a new single featuring Liam Payne, the former One Direction singer who died earlier this month after falling from his Buenos Aires hotel room, has been postponed, a collaborator said on Tuesday.

International Business Times

"The album is very rejoicing, it's forward-thinking, it's very positive and celebratory": Ginger Wildheart on friendship, fans and the return of The Wildhearts

Two years on from their less than amicable split, The Wildhearts are back, re-energised, with a reconfigured line-up and live shows on the way

Metal Hammer

Liam Payne collaborator issues update on new song release

Collaborator Sam Pounds said he will postpone the release of ‘Do No Wrong’

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Tim "Herb" Alexander abruptly quits Primus after he "lost his passion for playing"

US prog metallers Primus's live date in the Dominican Republic will go ahead with Tool's Danny Carey filling in on drums

The Guardian - UK

Public Enemies: Kendrick vs Drake review – inside the beef that sent the world’s two greatest rap stars to war

Clearly neither rapper had anything to do with this deep dive into their famous feud – and it makes for a refreshing alternative to hip-hop hagiography

Louder

"We worked out a way for the whole world to tune in": King Crimson-affiliated act Beat announce global livestream of upcoming Los Angeles show

Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai and Danny Carey are currently on the road playing the music of 80s-era King Crimson

Latin Times

Mexican Journalist Says Luis Miguel Is Suffering From 'Grave' Health Issues

The iconic singer was forced to cancel his upcoming concerts in Mexico City after getting a serious case of pneumonia.

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The Independent UK

Posthumous music release from Liam Payne postponed, collaborator confirms

Do No Wrong had been set for release on Friday.

The Independent UK

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn lean into the quiet moments for their new album

Former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard turned to music to process the grief of losing a family member and the stress of having parents in and out of the hospital

Evening Standard

‘It’s frustrating’ that artists like Oasis have to fight alleged ticket touts

Shortly after the first tickets for the reunion of Liam and Noel Gallagher were released in August, resellers had listed them for thousands of pounds.

MusicRadar

"They just went in there and bang, bang, bang – three takes or so and nailed it”: Why Oasis’ Definitely Maybe was recorded twice

The Sawmills Studio team have shared memories of the sessions that became the band’s dynamite debut

Guitar World

“Conjuring nightmarish soundscapes through a sinister blend of distortion and synthesis”: Jack White's Third Man Hardware teams up with Eventide on Knife Drop – a sub-octave fuzz and analog synth powerhouse of a pedal

The Jack White-certified pedal is all about extreme experimentation – with dual octave control, precise filtering options, flexible expression pedal integration and an intuitive preset system

The Guardian - UK

Jack Jones obituary

US singer who enjoyed success in the 60s with easy-listening hits such as Wives and Lovers and The Love Boat theme song

MusicRadar

“A commanding new effects pedal that merges aggressive octave fuzz with earth-shaking analogue synth tones”: Third Man Hardware joins forces with Eventide for the Knife Drop – featuring Jack White’s presets, it’s designed for “sonic chaos”

This unholy union of octave-fuzz and analogue synth combines Third Man's radicalism with Eventide Audio's functionality, and might just be the wild card your pedalboard has been waiting for

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