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Wham!’s Last Christmas finally reaches Christmas No 1, 39 years after release

‘Mission accomplished!’ says Andrew Ridgeley, while Cher becomes oldest woman to score a UK Top 40 hit

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s mission accomplished’: Wham! secure Christmas No 1 with ‘Last Christmas’ as Sam Ryder lands No 2

Eighties pop duo landed the top spot on the Christmas charts 39 years after the song’s original release, following a battle between four other heavyweights including Mariah Carey and The Pogues

The Independent UK

“Sometimes there’ll be a weird, splatty noise that comes flying through the sound spectrum… children seem to really enjoy that”: Ed Wynne doesn’t know or care why Ozric Tentacles are reaching new heights

Ed Wynne is delighted to find that new Ozric Tentacles album Lotus Unfolding is making some sort of sense out of an accidental four-decade career

Louder

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"The melodies are mega... the songs'll blow your mind": Liam Gallagher and John Squire announce collaborative album, with debut single Just Another Rainbow coming next month

Louder

The 50 best albums of 2023, No 1 – Lankum: False Lankum

Wrangling Irish folk into expansive new territory, the group’s stunning harmonies lead us through delicate beauty and nightmarish cacophony

The Guardian - UK

Lankum’s Daragh Lynch on making the album of the year: ‘We finally nailed what we wanted to be’

Guardian writers have voted False Lankum 2023’s best record. The band’s guitarist explains how they overcame Covid, boredom and their ‘gruelling’ creative process

The Guardian - UK

Federal court revives child sexual exploitation lawsuit against Nirvana over ‘Nevermind’ naked baby album cover

Spencer Elden alleges that he has suffered ‘permanent harm’ in appearing naked as a 4-month-old on the cover of the 1991 album ‘Nevermind.’

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"Every viewing of child pornography is a repetition of the victim’s abuse": US court reinstates right of 'Nevermind baby' Spencer Elden to sue Nirvana over iconic album sleeve

The man who tried to sue Nirvana over the iconic image on the cover of Nevermind wins the right to continue his lawsuit

Metal Hammer

Digested Week: New York’s Christmas music is no fairytale for me

Give me Wham! and Wizzard over Perry Como and Frank Sinatra, and I’m also sad my children can’t be nativity donkeys

The Guardian - UK

“I had no idea he was coming. I was like, ‘This is the last song that I wanted to play’”: Joe Satriani recalls his first and only meeting with Eddie Van Halen – a surprise visit when he was tackling a tricky track in the studio

Satch was busy piecing together The Extremist and laboring over the jangly, 12-string sounds of a challenging song – then Eddie Van Halen walked in

Guitar World

“When you’re playing pop, you need to get the ego out of the way. You’re trying to elevate the song, rather than be heard as a guitar player”: The key to good pop guitar, says MUNA guitarist Josette Maskin, is to play less than you actually want to

Inspired by Jeff Beck and session legend Paul Jackson Jr, Josette Maskin explains how MUNA balances three guitar players, how they ended up using fuzz more than distortion, and why label boss Phoebe Bridgers is underrated as a guitarist

Guitar World

José Feliciano and Feliz Navidad: A Closer Look at The Most Popular Latino Christmas Ever

The song was published in 1970 and became a classic at Latino households during the holidays

Latin Times

How to design a 'glide and rise' lead synth patch

Creating an interesting synth lead for an arpeggiated hook in your track isn’t difficult. We just glide ’n’ rise!

MusicRadar

Bring Me The Horizon have parted ways with Jordan Fish: "We want to thank him for the musical journey he took with us"

Jordan Fish, who joined Bring Me The Horizon in 2012, is no longer in the band

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“Big jets moving, bombers, people in battle, distress, crying – the Vietnam War added a lot of darkness to his playing”: Kirk Hammett on how Jimi Hendrix’s guitar style helped birth metal and psychedelia

The Metallica man and Hendrix fan argues that the guitar icon's influence on metal is under-appreciated

Louder

“I want it to be a celebration of instrumental guitar in all its forms”: Meet Maebe, the British guitarist mashing up prog genres to build his ultimate wall of sound

Combining post-rock soundscapes, wonky math-rock riffs and melodic shred, Maebe’s Michael Astley-Brown is blazing a new instrumental trail

Guitar World

“At four in the morning, I got a call from David Bowie. He said they needed a guitar player for Iggy Pop’s album”: As right-hand man for everyone from Mark Knopfler to Eric Clapton, ‘Session Man’ Phil Palmer more than earned his nickname

Armed with a Nocaster given to him by his uncle, the Kinks’ Dave Davies, Palmer became a go-to guitarist for some of music’s biggest names, landing an official role in Dire Straits – and narrowly missing out on playing Clapton’s MTV Unplugged set

Evening Standard

Liam Gallagher and John Squire of the Stone Roses collaborating on an album? Be still my indie heart

I'm a fairweather indie kid but this has stirred my little shoegazing soul

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Make your guitar sing with this harmony-laden rock arrangement of classic Christmas carol, The First Noël, in the style of Steve Vai and Brian May

Wow the family with this special six-string take on the much-loved choral tune

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Kevin Jonas: A Proud Father Preserving Precious Moments with Family

Discover the beauty of family through this heartwarming picture of Kevin Jonas and his children, capturing a moment filled with love and happiness.

Evening Standard

The best Christmas albums of 2023 (and the worst), from Cher to Kate Rusby via Myleene Klass

Everyone tries a Christmas album sooner or later – but which of this year's offerings are any good?

The Guardian - UK

Blank space: how Taylor Swift – and an aching sense of loss – dominated music in 2023

Away from Swift’s joyous, record-breaking successes, the year’s most acclaimed albums were concerned with death and absence

Louder

"I was always looking for something beautiful to grasp on to": Duff McKagan on love, God, and the truth of punk

Duff McKagan’s Lighthouse album might be a long way from the music he’s best known for with Guns N' Roses, but it still reflects the punk rocker in him

Metal Hammer

"As metal staggered to its feet and limped out of the 80s, it was on the cusp of becoming stronger than ever before": How heavy metal got its mojo back

Big hair and bad spandex almost killed any credibility metal had in the 1980s. But metal not only survived, it also came back bigger and stronger than ever

Louder

The 10 best Keith Moon performances, by Kenney Jones

Kenney Jones replaced the irrepressible Keith Moon in The Who in 1978 – and these are performances by his predecessor he loves the most

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