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“If you’re out of practice, a rosewood guitar can be guaranteed to throw every imperfection into sharp relief”: How your acoustic’s back and sides affect your guitar tone

Let's explore the absolutely controversy-free subject of tonewoods and acoustic tone, and maybe solve this debate once and for all

Guitar World

Fishbone are riding into the next dimension, but first they have a message for Donald Trump

Stockholm Syndrome, Fishbone’s first full-length album in more than twenty years, is available now

Louder

“I said, ‘You won’t get anywhere with that name!’ Then they went on to be one of the biggest bands in the world”: The heavy metal veteran who talked smack to Snow Patrol

Paradise Lost singer Nick Holmes once told future indie sensations Snow Patrol, to their faces, that they’d never hit the big time

Metal Hammer

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"It's okay to be a good-looking girl and to be able to sing your arse off": Lita Ford's upcoming shows might be a girl's night out, but boys are welcome too

Former Runaways guitarist Lita Ford gears up for shows with Vixen and at the top of a Welsh mountain

Louder

Liam Gallagher reassures ‘lovebirds’ at Oasis show after ‘snidey’ Coldplay kiss cam: ‘None of our business’

Rock star took a swipe at Chris Martin’s pop band after their jumbotron caught tech CEO Andy Byron in an embrace with his company’s head of HR

The Independent UK

Eamon Downes of Liquid Death Announcement Saddens Fans: Cause, Family and Legacy Remembered

Downes's passing leaves a significant void in the world of electronic music, particularly within the UK's rave and breakbeat scenes.

International Business Times UK

Billy Joel opens up about brain disorder diagnosis after cancelling tour dates: ‘My balance sucks’

The Piano Man singer, who announced in May he’d been diagnosed with the neurological condition normal pressure hydrocephalus, has spoken about its effects

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Home and Away spoilers: Has Remi gone MISSING?

Airs Thursday 31 July 2025 at 1:45pm on 5.

WhatToWatch

Slipknot's 25th anniversary re-release of their game-changing debut album includes a box set with 'blood-filled' vinyl and 40 previously-unreleased songs

Slipknot's six album box will feature 59 recordings including demos, live versions and rarities

Metal Hammer

Billy Joel breaks silence on health crisis admitting alcohol may have triggered brain issue

This comes after the 76-year old singer cancelled all his scheduled concerts, including a show in Edinburgh and Liverpool

Evening Standard

"It doesn't matter to us who you're mingling with, or tingling with." Oasis reference Coldplay's "kiss cam" controversy at their last-ever hometown show

Liam Gallagher assures Manchester crowd that Oasis won't be exposing any illicit affairs

Louder

Song of the summer 2025: writers pick their tracks of the season

There might not be a clear Espresso this season but Guardian writers have picked their most replayable songs of the summer, from Addison Rae to Jade

The Guardian - US

What to know about the CEO caught embracing an employee on the jumbtron at a Coldplay concert

A Coldplay concert moment has gone viral, leading to the resignation of a tech CEO

The Independent UK

“In the ’80s, everybody came out with a power ballad – and we had a great one. It was never a No.1 record, but it’s a song that defines that whole era”: How an incredibly unlucky band finally got a break with a soft rock classic

But was that song really about a nun who sells dope to school kids?

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"Las Vegas has always been such a main attraction for Def Leppard." Def Leppard announce 2026 Las Vegas residency

Yorkshire's biggest rock band announce 12 shows at Caesars Palace

Guitar World

“She gets on the intercom and says, ‘There's a boy from Australia here to see you.’ I hear him say, ‘Is he a fingerpicker?’” Tommy Emmanuel knocked on the door of his biggest guitar hero – and ended up jamming with him

The acoustic virtuoso took a pilgrimage to Nashville and swung by the house of his hero, and came away having learned a lesson he still holds close to this day

Metal Hammer

"The whole point was to put on a party with our mates and the music we loved." How Wacken became one of metal's biggest and most beloved festivals

Wacken Open Air returns this year with bands including Guns N' Roses, Papa Roach, Gojira, Machine Head and more

MusicRadar

“The groove was a kind of blues groove, and I think I drank a beer, because I wanted to have a kind of slurring sound in my voice”: Stevie Wonder reveals how he recorded the classic Moog synth bassline and “laidback” vocals on Boogie On Reggae Woman

Stevie also says that he’s working on a new “project”, Through The Eyes Of Wonder

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International Business Times UK

'Don't Tap the Glass' Drops: Why Did Tyler The Creator Go Against Industry Standard with a Monday Album Release?

Tyler, the Creator defies music release traditions with his raw, impulsive new album 'Don't Tap the Glass, unveiled on a rare Monday drop. We state the reasons why it works.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Oasis and the myth of the working class musician

“There’s room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill. If you want to be like the folks on the hill.”

Evening Standard

OPINION - London's big gigs are making big money but is this good for music?

Sadiq Khan has called London ‘the undisputed capital of music’ but are this summer’s huge gigs the full story?

The Guardian - UK

Urban cowboys, harmonica wizards and queer trailblazers: 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry, country music’s greatest institution

It started out as promo for an insurance company and ended up powering an entire industry. As the Opry strikes out for London, can it stay relevant for another century?

Louder

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 21, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Die Spitz, Castle Rat, Bobbie Dazzle and five other holy divers and divas

Louder

“Nothing I do is ironic. Irony is the last refuge of the scoundrel”: When Julian Cope immersed himself in the prog-pop world of Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators and Love

After leaving The Teardrop Explodes, he was on a mission – but on seeing him wearing nothing but a turtle shell on the cover of Fried, the world needed some convincing

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