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Harry Styles says he struggles to speak about former bandmate Liam Payne’s death

The singer’s new album is released on Friday.

Evening Standard

Selena Gomez Sweetly Reflected On Her Friendship With Taylor Swift And How They Both 'Ended Up With Good Dudes'

Bestie and relationship goals!

Cinemablend

“He was like, ‘Who's your favorite guitar player?’ I said, ‘Django Reinhardt.’ He’s like, ‘Wrong answer – go home!’”: The key Berklee lesson that kept giving to Big Thief's Buck Meek as he built his new solo album

The unorthodox virtuoso on sending live feeds to modules, keeping out of the way while his band do their thing, and how he learned that playing hard doesn’t necessarily mean heavy when you’re being recorded

Guitar World

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“Afterwards he sent David an invoice for $10,000. I don’t know if David actually paid him that much”: Tony Visconti on Dave Grohl’s “ludicrious” Bowie session fee

He guested on the Heathen album

MusicRadar

Harry Styles launches Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally pop-up shop in east London

Styles fans can listen to the album and pick up quirky merch including hoodies, hats, polos, clocks, socks, and totes at the Hackney store

Evening Standard

Selena Gomez emotionally reveals secret Taylor Swift song written about her

Former Disney Channel star also finally confirmed that Swift’s 2020 track ‘Dorothea’ was about her

The Independent UK

‘Compellingly knotty’ or ‘strange and shallow’: Critics divided over Harry Styles’ new album

It has been described by one publication as having ‘the emotional heft of a perfume advert’

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“He was horrified, saying, ‘Doug, your tone is atrocious!’”: Sideman to the stars Doug Rappoport reveals the classic rock icon who persuaded him to up his gear game

Rappoport was clocked for his budget gear – which didn’t quite fit the modus operandi of the ’70s legend

Guitar World

“I felt like I was being used. I’m not a puppet that you can put your hand up its ass and make do stuff”: The signature gear Josh Homme turned down

Before working with Peavey, Homme had been approached by another firm for a separate piece of signature gear – but it never came to be

Guitar World

“I would have loved to get together with Wolfgang”: Eddie Van Halen once asked Paul Gilbert to give Wolfgang a guitar lesson – here’s why it never happened

The Mr. Big virtuoso has been reflecting on his guitar teaching methods, and why he thinks it’s time to bring back the shred

Guitar World

“I wanted to recreate it, being lost in instrumentation and the musicality”: Harry Styles says that “hypnotic” electronic music by the likes of Floating Points and Jamie XX has influenced not only his new album, but also his marathon training

Kiss all the time. Disco, occasionally. is released on Friday

MusicRadar

“We set out to honour the soul of these iconic instruments while making them accessible to every kind of player”: Epiphone raises the bar for its acoustic guitar range with all-solid builds, rosewood fingerboards and affordable takes on Gibson classics

The Inspired By Gibson range comprises cutaway and non-cutaway Hummingbird and J-45s, and a very smart L-00, all with Fishman electronics and a serious build upgrade

MusicRadar

I spent the weekend testing the best guitar gear of the year at The Guitar Show in Birmingham – these are the 9 hottest products you can buy right now

I visited a sold-out UK Guitar Show to check out the latest and greatest from the wide world of guitar gear

Guitar World

“I said, ‘Just start again. It would be good for you.’ He persuaded me to stay. I never felt good about it”: Martin Barre tried to quit Jethro Tull in 1980, but Ian Anderson wouldn’t have it

Their musical partnership finally ended after 43 years – but the guitarist says he wanted to break it up decades earlier

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“For the past 30 years it has been the quintessential backline amplifier on stages and in studios around the world”: Fender celebrates three decades of the Hot Rod Deluxe with a stunning anniversary edition

The much-loved 40-watt combo gets a fancy looking textured 'Western' vinyl covering, classy and vintage '50s-style grille clothe – and a 12" Celestion Creamback under the hood

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This underrated gem from Prince is turning 20 – and every hi-fi fan should have it

If you need an excuse to visit your record store, this 20-year-old album from Prince should suffice

MusicRadar

“MTV in 1997 or 1998, suddenly they decided rock was out - it was replaced by rap… People were waving guns. Some people assert the CIA was involved... above my pay grade, but I saw it happen”: Billy Corgan says rock was “dialled down” in the late ’90s

He says rock stars don’t have “a voice in the culture”. Er...

Guitar World

“There was a big snowstorm. The governor asked him to postpone the show. He wouldn’t do it. He goes, ‘I told them I’m going to be here and I’m here’”: Joe Bonamassa on his friendship with the ultimate bluesman, B.B. King – and paying the ultimate tribute

B.B. King would have celebrated his 100th birthday in September last year. But when Joe Bonamassa discovered that the centenary was going almost unnoticed, he swung into action

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Metal Hammer

"I made my bed by leaving the band in 2010." The prog metal master who links Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold and The Beatles (but not Rush)

Mike Portnoy is one of metal's most revered drummers - and now he's back home in Dream Theater

Evening Standard

Harry Styles review round-up: ’No one can match his level of pizzazz’

The former One Direction star’s fourth album has received mixed reviews, with one reviewer describing it as ‘the funkiest existential crisis in pop’.

The Independent UK

Who are Huntr/X? The fictional KPop Demon Hunters band in line for an Oscar

Kpop Demon Hunters has become Netflix’s most-watched film of all time

MusicRadar

“Dolly said ‘Can you just make it, like, reds and greens and sparkles?’. I played as many notes as I could while the other hand was working the transposer. She was going, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s it. Whee!’”: Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter on his life as a session player

And how to make steel guitar not sound like steel guitar...

Metal Hammer

Watch Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale sing Black Sabbath covers at Geezer Butler and Paul Rodgers tribute show this week

Taylor sang Paranoid and Hale took on lead vocals for a version of Neon Knights, with Butler playing bass for both performances

Metal Hammer

"I'm on a pyre, a monk sentences me to death, and I will burn. Burn, burn, burn." Why you should probably go and see Powerwolf this week

German metallers Powerwolf gear up for their biggest ever UK show at Wembley on Saturday, and promise some surprises

The Guardian - UK

Harry Styles: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally review – nice all the time. Good, occasionally

The music on Styles’s new album is muted, subtle and pleasant – but from the title downwards, he has a real problem with words

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