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“I think it's fairly impossible to be a guitarist without loving Steve Vai”: Nili Brosh names 10 guitarists who shaped her sound

The Ibanez-toting instrumental virtuoso shares her thoughts on “one of the best improvisers in the history of the instrument”, why Eddie Van Halen's rhythm playing is underrated and the shredder who “brought a new sound to the Shrapnel era”

Guitar World

Music Review: Neil Young caught in his 1970s prime with yet another 'lost' album, 'Chrome Dreams'

Neil Young is captured in his mid-1970s prime with “Chrome Dreams,” yet another “lost” album officially seeing the light of day as Young originally envisioned nearly half a century ago

The Independent UK

EarthQuaker Devices presents room, hall and plate reverbs in a innovative, compact format with the Ledges Tri-Dimensional Reverberation Machine

Three is the magic number when it comes to ambience, and a presets-loaded stompbox that can add subtle space or something more transcendent to your guitar tone

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"I’d be thinking, Behind this cocaine, either someone is dead, or someone is going to be killed": That time a Los Angeles drug dealer asked former Deep Purple vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes to look after five kilos of coke

"You’d trip over cocaine in my house there was so much of it”: for Glenn Hughes, the late '80s were a dark time

Louder

Epiphone Dave Mustaine Flying V Custom review – a metal-tailored V that virtually plays itself

MegaDave's signature 24-fret V reveals itself as a serious metal guitar at any price

Guitar World

Watch Marty Friedman nail the greatest solo in thrash metal history as he plays Tornado Of Souls with Megadeth at Wacken

Fan-shot footage offers a pit's eye view of a historic moment as Friedman rejoins Megadeth for a live cameo and blazes through his ripping lead from the Rust In Peace classic

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Beyoncé paid $100k to keep trains running an extra hour so fans could still get home

Start of pop star’s Washington DC concert was delayed by inclement weather

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“I'm gonna do this intro all over for you”: Kirk Hammett fluffs the intro to Nothing Else Matters at first show of Metallica's US tour

It's not the first time the Gibson and ESP signature artist has stumbled over the track's open-string heavy intro riff

Guitar World

Everyone from Charlie Christian to Yngwie Malmsteen has used arpeggios in their guitar solos – here's how you can do it, too

If the fingering and coordination can be tricky at first, the rewards from mastering arpeggios are great, allowing you to freestyle across a chord's notes while staying harmonically honest

Guitar World

John Lennon: "Somebody let off a firecracker onstage and every one of us looked at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.” – Why The Beatles retired from the stage

How death threats, disillusionment and the very real threat of onstage electrocution all fuelled The Fab Four’s decision to stop playing live…

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Malaysian music festival to take legal action against the 1975

Promoters of the event claim that Matty Healy’s onstage kiss with bandmate ‘tarnished’ the festival’s reputation and are calling on the musicians to acknowledge liability and provide compensation

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Plaques are great — but if only London had even more of them

Four years ago, the long and winding road finally ended up in Savile Row. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the final Beatles concert on the roof of No 3, my good friend David Rosen, of Pilcher Hershman (“space agent, not estate agent,” he’ll say, just in case you didn’t know),…

Evening Standard

Crazy On You: Watch Heart's explosive television debut on The Midnight Special in 1977

Witness Ann and Nancy Willson in electrifying form as Heart take to The Midnight Special stage in March 1977

Louder

‘We are back’: N-Dubz already making plans for follow-up to new album Timeless

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Rather than a reunion, it’s definitely a comeback’, N-Dubz member Tulisa tells the Standard after releasing their first album in 10 years

Evening Standard

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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett flubs intro to Nothing Else Matters in front of 80,000 people and recovers like a champ

“If it’s not good enough for myself, it’s not good enough for you!” says Hammett, as he and Greeny get over first night nerves and get restart the song

Louder

"Syd Barrett was absolutely unbelievable": Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on Pink Floyd's "very, very cool" early years and Syd Barrett's "futuristic vision"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page was hugely impressed by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd

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Quick! You can save £2500 on 5-star Cambridge Audio Edge kit

Cambridge Audio is selling older hi-fi units at knockdown prices. But stock won't last long...

Guitar World

John Petrucci and Zakk Wylde just shared the stage for the first time ever – and they shredded Black Label Society

The two wizards of metal finally locked fretboards – and epic beards – during Trooch's Guitar Universe camp

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"There’s a tape of us doing Black Sabbath covers. I hope that never surfaces, we were appalling." - Tinyfish come clean

The ‘world’s smallest prog band’, the south-eastern UK crew Tinyfish get curiouser and curiouser.

Guitar World

“I don't know whether we played it properly, but the audience loved it”: When Black Sabbath regularly covered Smoke on the Water – and unwittingly inspired Spinal Tap's Stonehenge

Sabbath's ill-fated Born Again tour featured comically oversized props “as big as the real Stonehenge”, onstage spills, and a crowd-pleasing hard-rock crossover

Guitar World

“Guitar geeks’ eyes pop out of their heads”: Introducing Nepco – the stunning indie guitar builds that ask, ‘What if Danelectro made Vs?’

Ratboys frontwoman Julia Steiner and Nepco builder Ian Williams have a shared love of all things Danelectro – as they tell us, it’s time to refine the guitar industry’s best-kept secret and take it in new directions

MusicRadar

Watch John Petrucci and Zakk Wylde jam onstage for the first time ever as they dial up the shred on BLS’s Suicide Messiah

A little bit of history was made this weekend at John Petrucci’s Guitar Universe 4.0

Metal Hammer

"If it's not good enough for myself, it's not good enough for you!": Watch Kirk Hammett botch the intro to Metallica's Nothing Else Matters at a recent show

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett messes up the introduction to Nothing Else Matters on the first night of the band's US tour

Metal Hammer

10 terrible thrash metal albums with one classic song

Metallica, Megadeth and Exodus all have some clangers in their catalogue – but at least these songs saved them from being total write-offs

Metal Hammer

"I can't do this": Watch Chad Kroeger halt Nickelback show due to "absolutely destroyed throat"

"I cannot, in good conscience, stand up here and sing these songs and have my voice crack and everything sound like ****" - Chad Kroeger

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