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Country Music's Evolution: Beyoncé, Post Malone, And Shaboozey

Explore the impact of Beyoncé, Shaboozey, and Post Malone on the evolving country music scene.

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“I'm continuing in directions I established in the Grateful Dead, but I was never satisfied with my studio work – this band has surpassed my wildest dreams”: When bass icon Phil Lesh went in search of a new sound

The late Grateful Dead anchor made his debut solo effort alongside guitarist Warren Haynes and lyricist Robert Hunter

Guitar World

McFly star Harry Judd's son Lockie, 3, rushed to hospital after 'traumatic' incident

The incident happened as the musician has been busy promoting McFly’s recent collaboration with Busted

Evening Standard

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“They didn’t understand how important image was – they started the thing about us being academic geeks. It really hurt us”: The Zombies on living large, inheriting the Beatles’ studio and staff, and being prisoners in a concert hall

Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent look back on finding fame in their teens and experiencing the highs and lows of the music industry over six decades

Louder

Paul Kelly: Fever Longing Still – an old-school variety show with old-school oomph

With his 29th album, the Melbourne songwriter goes back to basics – assembling a classic rock band who tumble through tracks of desire and devotion

The Guardian - AU

“Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it... See you later then”: Thom Yorke leaves stage after pro-Gaza protester interrupts show

Thom Yorke leaves stage when interrupted by protester in audience

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Beyoncé, Shaboozey and Post Malone topped country in 2024. How will Grammy voters respond?

Country music has become a dominant force, bleeding into pop music’s mainstream

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“I’ve had many other Strats – I’ve never found one better than that”: John Frusciante’s first-ever Fender signature guitar is here – and it’s a $20k Custom Shop replica of his iconic 1962 Stratocaster

Fender Master Builder Paul Waller has painstakingly recreated the Red Hot Chili Peppers icon’s legendary sunburst Strat, which features all the relic’d cosmetics and electronics upgrades of the original

Guitar World

"If I'd been a solo artist, I think I'd have laid on the floor and cried": In 1973, faced with bad reviews of their debut album, Queen turned to bad reviews of Led Zeppelin for comfort

Brian May and Roger Taylor go behind the scenes of the making of their debut album

Louder

“We knock on the door and he says, ‘Oh, you're the kid I heard about. Come in.’ The best part was he said, ‘Do you want to play tonight?’” How a 9-year-old Julian Lage ended up playing with Carlos Santana in front of 20,000 people

While Santana was touring the US with Jeff Beck, Lage turned up unannounced to meet his hero – and was invited onstage for a jam

Guitar World

“I started writing two-and-a-half years ago. So it’s not a reflection of Kiko leaving Megadeth, but of Kiko thinking about leaving Megadeth”: Kiko Loureiro on making his first new solo material since quitting one of metal’s biggest bands

The Brazilian virtuoso explains how he applied what he learned from Dave Mustaine to his own music, and how he came to terms with selling his guitars

Guitar World

Peter Perrett: The Cleansing review – a late-career triumph that dances in the face of death

Despite its themes of decline and mortality, the 72-year-old former Only Ones frontman is full of joie de vivre on this wise and empathetic record

The Guardian - UK

"Let's have some ****ing fun!" Watch rising metalcore stars Dying Wish bring riffs and circle pits to a church

Two-stepping in God’s house? It happened, thanks to Oregon’s most exciting metalcore export.

Metal Hammer

“It’s the most beautiful musical instrument that humans have constructed. It’s an impossibility, and truly an American invention”: Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, on why he put pedal steel guitar front and center on his latest release

Vernon reunited with pedal steel guitar master Greg Leisz – who previously worked with Eric Clapton, David Crosby, and Sheryl Crow – for his 2024 release SABLE

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The Cure’s first album in 16 years is gothic, gorgeous proof that no one does misery better

5/5 All these years later, rock’s foremost goth can still tap into teenage intensity on ‘Songs of a Lost World’

Guitar World

“Mick Fleetwood asked me to join the band, but I don’t think Stevie voted against me… I don’t play like Lindsey, but I was able to do the songs justice”: Mike Campbell on the challenge of joining Fleetwood Mac and what he learned from Tom Petty

He could always write songs, but spending all those years by Tom Petty's side taught Campbell a thing or two about fronting a band. He tells GW how these lessons are shaping the sound of the Dirty Knobs and what life was really like in Fleetwood Mac

Evening Standard

Radiohead's Thom Yorke walks off stage after being confronted by pro-Palestine protester in Australia

The British musician responded: ‘Come up here and say that. Right here, come on. Hop up on the fucking stage and say what you wanna say. ‘

The Guardian - UK

Fishing lines, mobile phones and Wirral wind: the oddly harmonious music of Ex-Easter Island Head

For 15 years, the Liverpool band have been making some of the boldest experiments in British music (around their day jobs). They explain why quietness and community are so important in a chaotic world

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Scissor Sisters to reunite for anniversary tour - including O2 show - after 12-year hiatus

Ana Matronic will not be part of the tour

Guitar World

“Over time, her arrangements became more creative and composed and could stand on their own as melodic instrumentals”: A pioneering protest singer, American folk legend Joan Baez draws on jazz and flamenco for her intricate picking patterns

Ever since the '60s, Joan Baez has delivered a message with her music, but she was never going to be a two-chord folkie with a bellyful of fire. Her sound takes from jazz and flamenco with picking patterns that are as good as a fingerprint

Metal Hammer

“They knew nothing about the deal”: Hard Rock Cafe wouldn’t give Tony Iommi’s guitar back – because the employee who bought it died

The guitar Iommi played on the first “four or five” Black Sabbath albums is still in the restaurant franchise’s possession

The Independent UK

Thom Yorke walks offstage after being confronted by pro-Palestine protester

British musician told the protester to ‘hop up on stage’ to make his remarks before walking off

Louder

"We'd get to America, and bang! Something happens. Got to get back on the plane and go home": Scott Gorham on Thin Lizzy's breakthrough, Phil Lynott, and why they always screwed up their US tours

1976 was a pivotal year for Thin Lizzy. Guitarist Scott Gorham, one half of the band’sclassic twin-guitar sound, takes a trip down memory lane

The Independent UK

Scissor Sisters on reunion tour: ‘We didn’t make sense anywhere else but the UK’

INTERVIEW: Exclusive: Twelve years after breaking up, the Noughties pop sensations are marking the anniversary of their debut album with a new tour. Louis Chilton speaks to Jake Shears, Babydaddy and Del Marquis about reforming, being embraced by the UK, and why they initially pushed back on ‘the gay thing’

Metal Hammer

Plan is in place for new Guns N' Roses music, says Duff McKagan

Guns N' Roses have been talking about a new album for some time – and now Duff tells fans to stay tuned

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