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The 20 greatest bass solos of all time – from the fastest ‘lead bass guitarist’ to the only bass solo James Jamerson ever recorded

We count down moments of bass guitar genius from Tal Wilkenfeld, Flea, Victor Wooten, John Myung and many more

Guitar World

"Even now it can still get the tears running down my face": Paul Stanley - the soundtrack of my life

Paul Stanley picks his records, artists and gigs that of lasting significance, and reveals which Kiss album has "no balls"

Metal Hammer

"I saw one royalty cheque... and I never saw anything else from that point on": Edwyn Starr's raging classic War may have made his name, but it didn't make him rich

‘War! Huh! Yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!’: 10 words that entered the public consciousness in 1970 and have never left

Louder

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Things to do in Chicago through Jan. 10: The Mix

The Young Playwrights Festival, Smokey Robinson in concert, winter flower shows, and Handel’s “Messiah” at Symphony Center are among the highlights in the coming weeks.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘I used to sing in front of In-N-Out Burger’: Victoria Monét’s long road to pop stardom

The singer thought she had made it in 2010, until her band was abruptly dropped. Now she’s an in-demand songwriter with seven Grammy nominations for her debut solo album – what went right?

The Guardian - UK

“I am always able to come up with brand-new chords that no one has been stupid enough to sing over”: Page Hamilton on harmonic curiosity and the aggressive expansion of Helmet’s musical vocabulary

Hamilton discusses how drop tunings, NYC, fine art, Led Zep, the Bee Gees, Glenn Branca, jazz and soul all played their part in shaping Helmet's unique, uncompromising sound

MusicRadar

A ‘Wiz’ that hums because of the plentiful things it does

Bound for Broadway, an eye-popping and high-intensity revival of the Motown-flavored musical both exhilarates and exhausts.

Chicago Sun-Times

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“All these older blues players would come to Detroit to play local clubs. I was too young to get in, so I’d cut my hair short and glue a mustache on my face”: Tony Newton on playing with Gary Moore, Allan Holdsworth, and holding down the pocket at Motown

A blues, fusion, and studio veteran, Tony Newton is a low-end titan who has covered incredible stylistic ground over the decades, but to him, it's all about simplicity. He recalls the lessons James Jamerson taught him, his experiences playing with guitar legends John Lee Hooker and T-Bone Walker, and what…

Guitar World

6 best all-inclusive UK breaks to celebrate the New Year

To be wined and dined on New Year’s Eve and stew in a spa on New Year’s Day, check out the best packages to ring in 2024

The Independent UK

Rudolph Isley obituary

Flamboyant founder member of the Isley Brothers whose hits included This Old Heart of Mine and It’s Your Thing

The Guardian - UK

Katherine Anderson obituary

Singer with the Marvelettes, whose single Please Mr Postman was Motown Records’ first No 1

The Guardian - UK

Temptations, Four Tops on hand as CEO shares what's going on with Motown Museum's expansion plans

The CEO of the Motown Museum says full construction on the final phase of the Detroit facility's expansion will get underway in the spring of 2024

The Independent UK

Still erasing Black & female rockers

Rolling Stone founder's dismissal of artists worthy of rockstar status is a sad echo from a backwards past

Salon

“He likes first takes is what I learned from Stevie Wonder”: Watch session legend Dean Parks talk Innervisions, Steely Dan and Larry Carlton’s “magic” ES-335

The definition of guitar greatness is tracking live with Stevie Wonder and being asked mid-take to play a guitar solo on a fat-necked acoustic

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The Guardian - UK

Sunday with Nigella Lawson: ‘I spend much of the day pottering’

The writer and TV chef describes skipping breakfast, sipping a Campari in a hammock while reading, playing Motown to do the washing up and checking her phone in bed

Louder

"All the things that happen during any revolutionary time brings out the best music": Vintage Trouble's Ty Taylor is ready for the revolution

They’ve been off the radar for a while, but Vintage Trouble have returned with new album Heavy Hymnals, and this time their blazing rock’n’soul is fuelled by heartbreak, social commentary and racial injustice. Just don’t call it a comeback

Guitar World

Chris Rea is an underrated blues-pop force – his soulful slide playing is well worth investigating

Inspired by the blues greats, the UK singer-songwriter developed a melodic open E slide style that’s very much his own

Guitar World

For decades no-one even knew his name. This month, James Jamerson will have a street named after him

How James Jamerson became a bass guitar hero: with tributes from Jack Bruce, Suzi Quatro and Paul McCartney

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The Independent UK

‘His head swelled up to about five times normal size’: The horrific car crash that almost killed Stevie Wonder, 50 years on

Days after releasing ‘Innervisions’, Stevie Wonder narrowly escaped death. On the 50th anniversary of the car crash that nearly took the musician’s life, Martin Chilton chronicles that fateful day – and the road to recovery

The Guardian - UK

Billy Joel review – from unhip megastar to precision-tooled entertainment machine

The older, wiser piano man offers up a generous performance of Motown, doo-wop, Tin Pan Alley and, of course, those beautiful ballads

Tribune News Service

Carlos Santana talks about last year's collapse on stage: 'I just ran out of batteries'

DETROIT — The last time Carlos Santana played Pine Knob Music Theatre, things didn't go exactly as planned.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Real Housewives of Motown’ showcases the women who stood proudly in the shadows of hitmakers’ love

Latest musical at Black Ensemble Theater features some of Motown’s biggest hits.

The Guardian - UK

‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions

Not everyone finds it easy to listen to the Smiths now, but those early transmissions were utterly formative for this vital new band and their enraptured fans

Guitar World

The legend of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On is that James Jamerson was so drunk he played the bass lying down

And yep, most of us can’t play those basslines standing up and completely sober

The Independent UK

Famed R&B group The Spinners donate performance outfits to Motown Museum in Detroit

Henry Fambrough had a musical homecoming of sorts at “Hitsville U_S_A.”

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