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“On a guitar, it's built so weird with that one string in the wrong position, and so everybody plays the same crap all the time”: Phish's Trey Anastasio thinks all guitar music sounds the same – so he radically switched up his songwriting process

Anastasio says that, in an effort to push compositional boundaries, he writes a lot of his guitar parts on piano

Guitar World

Download Festival 2026: Keanu Reeves and Cypress Hill join Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park in line-up

The John Wick and Matrix actor will perform with his band Dogstar at the UK’s biggest rock and metal event, joining hip-hop heavyweights Cypress Hill and a trio of blockbuster headliners

Evening Standard

Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park to headline Download 2026: over 90 bands confirmed for next year's lineup

Next year's Download lineup has officially been revealed and it's packing rock icons, nu metal legends and a lot more

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Grateful Dead's Donna Jean Godchaux Dies in Nashville After Cancer Battle

Donna Jean Godchaux, the only woman to perform full-time with the Grateful Dead, has died at 78 after a long battle with cancer. Her career spanned Muscle Shoals soul sessions to psychedelic rock stages.

International Business Times UK

John Lennon's Killer Mark David Chapman Denied Parole Again After Admitting He 'Wanted Fame'

Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered Beatles legend John Lennon, has been denied parole for the 14th time after admitting he killed Lennon to 'be famous'.

International Business Times UK

“A treasure trove of undiscovered harmonies”: She’s played with Bruno Mars and Jay-Z – now Ella Feingold’s signature string set brings her wild inverted tuning to the masses

The Grammy winner popularized the upside-down tuning in funk guitar and it has been a pillar of her sound. Now, her new La Bella string set makes it easier than ever to replicate

Guitar World

The Grammys invited all Latin Grammy voting members to the Recording Academy: Why it matters

In the last few years, the Grammy Awards have made a concerted effort to diversify its electorate

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Hilary Duff Sparks Fan Frenzy With Mysterious Countdown Ahead Of Music Comeback

Hilary Duff sets social media abuzz with a mysterious countdown and news of her long-awaited music comeback after nearly a decade away from the charts.

International Business Times UK

AC/DC announce 2026 tour with 21 new dates confirmed

AC/DC will hit up North and South America next year, with over 20 dates confirmed

Metal Hammer

“The meaning behind all of this is right in front of our faces, we’re just overlooking it”: Just what was the Radiohead Binary Code theory - and was there any truth in it?

Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band?

MusicRadar

“Do it yourself, keep it simple, don’t get overblown. You’ve done the Beatles, you’ve done A Day in the Life, you’ve done Sgt Pepper. Now come back to basics”: Paul McCartney on how he kickstarted his solo career in a remote Scottish farmhouse

With just a guitar and a four-track

MusicRadar

“Changing from active to passive was huge – I’d forget to change the batteries and have a meltdown pre-gig when my EMGs died”: Conjurer just dropped a modern sludge-metal classic – and they made it using custom guitars with satanic scale lengths

The UK progressive sludge-metallers are one of UK heavy music’s most potent forces. Dani Nightingale and Brady Deeprose break down their Carillion and Mozer guitars, and why they write material using Guitar Pro – then send the tabs to their fans

Guitar World

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 3, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Starbenders, Crobot, Dirty Blonde and more

Louder

Mick Jagger Turns Heads at Gala with Ex-Wife and Fiancée 44 Years Younger Than Him

Mick Jagger reunites with ex-wife Bianca Jagger and former partner Jerry Hall as he attends the British Museum Ball with fiancée Melanie Hamrick, 44 years his junior.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith honors Midwest roots with U. of Michigan music scholarship

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith is gifting a need-based music scholarship to the University of Michigan

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“We were never meant to be a professional band...it’s like, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?'" A politician's assassination, a motorbike ride and a gothic Western: the story of the song that crowned one of Europe's most unlikely star bands

Within Temptation had a breakthrough hit with Angels - even if they never planned it

International Business Times UK

Tate McRae Dragged For Alleged Lip Syncing — Fans Say They've Been 'Duped For Years'

Short clips from Tate McRae's 'Miss Possessive Tour' showing a microphone mishap have sparked claims she lip-synced; her interviews and tour footage show a choreography-heavy, arena-scale show, leaving the truth dependent on context.

MusicRadar

"This analogue synth will blow your mind": Behringer unveils SDS-3, a $249 clone of the classic Simmons drum synth

The SDS-3 was the precursor to Simmons' SDS-V, the pioneering and hexagonal electronic drum kit beloved by everyone from Prince to Duran Duran

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“I’d say, ‘How is your latest record, Jeff?’ And he’d go, ‘Oh, it's a lot of rubbish’”: Ritchie Blackmore on Jeff Beck’s imposter syndrome

Both guitarists revolutionized rock guitar – but Beck wasn’t always the biggest fan of his own work

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“I hadn’t stopped from ’62 till ’73 – on demand continuously. And walking away was hard… because I don’t exist if I don’t have a record in the charts”: The cosmic inspiration and bitter irony in one of John Lennon’s last and most poignant songs

After the turbulence and emotional trauma of his past, the song had a sense of reflection and calm

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“Every day, you’d go round the house and Johnny would play some riff sat having a spliff in his jimmy-jams. You’d be like, ‘That’s amazing. What’s that?’”: Mike Joyce remembers the early days of The Smiths

His memoir, The Drums, is out this week

The Guardian - UK

Ravyn Lenae review – art-school dreamer at ease with her own melancholy

The Chicago musician’s fans are delighted by her alt-R&B, but for all the adventurous new songs tonight’s show does not quite live up to its ambition

Guitar World

“In all the years I’ve been playing since I was a child, I don’t remember ever adjusting a tone knob. I’m not going to miss it”: Why Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe believes that tone knobs on guitars are overrated

The fast-rising metal guitar star released her very first signature model with Jackson last year – which also marked the first signature guitar model for a Black female heavy metal artist

MusicRadar

“We started with the drum beat and I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to do something kind of like The Way You Make Me Feel.' And I sat at the Wurly and I went, ‘duh-du-duhh’”: Olivia Dean on writing Man I Need and the Michael Jackson hit that helped to inspire it

“I just remember driving to and from the studio and I just played it again and again. And I was like, ‘OK, well if I can listen to this again and again, I think other people might want to”

Metal Hammer

Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025

Roping in hardcore, mathcore, doom, black metal, industrial, post-rock...Pupil Slicer do it all in style on new album Fleshwork

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