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“They believed that if you learn the song or even hear it before you record it, it's going to sound rehearsed”: Kathy Sledge on why producers Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards didn’t play We Are Family to Sister Sledge right up until they recorded it

“They believed in spontaneity,” she says

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“He said, ‘Caleb, I like what you're doing. I've got all this work lined up for Jimmy Page, but he doesn't want to do it anymore’”: How Elton John and Hall & Oates guitarist Caleb Quaye inherited the Led Zeppelin legend’s studio work

Jimmy Page decided to quit his lucrative career as a session guitarist in favor of joining the Yardbirds, and Quaye was right on time to take his spot

Guitar World

Want to master funk guitar? You’d better familiarize yourself with ‘chanking’ and shell chords – two essentials of game-changing James Brown guitarist Jimmy Nolen

You can chank us later for this lesson in an approach that could revolutionise how you execute your rhythm guitar manoeuvres

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“Saluting 60 years of rock rebellion.” The Who’s 60th anniversary to be celebrated by special Royal Mail stamps set

The Royal Mail is issuing 12 special stamps in honour of The Who’s formation in 1964

Louder

Beyonce advised to ‘come into our world’ by Country Music Awards host following snub

Luke Bryan called the lack of recognition for Beyonce at the awards ‘tricky’

The Independent UK

“This all-original distortion circuit is a home run for fans of ’90s guitar tones”: JHS Hard Drive review

Josh Scott’s tribute to ’90s guitar tones brings us gain and lots of it, in a versatile stompbox that has Mesa/Marshall vibes, grungy grit, and EQ’ing options for those who like it scooped

Guitar World

“While creating our last album, we amassed a lot of our best material to date”: Sylosis surprise-release new EP The Path, featuring rising metalcore stars Heriot

Sylosis and Heriot have tag-teamed for a new song on a surprise EP, ahead of the pair touring Europe together in November and December

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“It's scary when you haven't played for quite a while and can't remember the riff to Seek & Destroy”: James Hetfield reflects on the anxieties he experienced after stepping away from the guitar for too long

Speaking to GW in 1996, the always-candid Hetfield recounted how Metallica's post-Black Album break left him “vegging”, and out of practice

Guitar World

Texan Who Destroyed $4k “Signed” Taylor Swift Guitar Breaks Silence, Explains Why He Did It

The smashing guitar act was just a “gag” and the crowd was “egging him on.” The post Texan Who Destroyed $4k “Signed” Taylor Swift Guitar Breaks Silence, Explains Why He Did It first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Pink Floyd ‘sell music rights’ for a colossal amount

Rock group are said to have handed over their name-and-likeness rights for reported deal

The Independent UK

“The creative tension helped here and there. At other times it did not help… it’s difficult to define”: Thijs van Leer reveals his only real regret as Focus roll on in their 55th year

He recalls breaking out of the Netherlands, his relationship with former guitarist Jan Akkerman, and the one album he’d like to remake

Louder

Roland just unveiled its V-Drums Quiet Design VQD106 kits, delivering “the lowest playing-noise in the history of electronic drum kits”

The electronic drums giant claims the VQD106 is 75% quieter than a regular electronic kit

MusicRadar

Terminally ill grandmother loses £140,000 to scammer pretending to be Ritchie Blackmore

The victim, who is suffering from cancer, went to school with the former Deep Purple guitarist

Louder

Watch Paul McCartney play 'new' Beatles song Now And Then for the first time during marathon hit-stuffed set in Uruguay

37 songs. Another 14 during the soundcheck. And he's 82 years old

Louder

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Oasis adds four new dates to North American leg of 2025 reunion tour

New dates in Mexico, the US and Canada have been announced

Louder

Oasis add four more stadium shows to their summer 2025 North American tour due to "phenomenal demand"

Your chances of seeing Oasis in an American stadium next year just increased

Guitar World

“I went to his house one day, and he said, ‘What’s in my attic? Climb up there and have a look.’ He gave me the 12-string I used on Nights in White Satin”: How Justin Hayward ended up with Lonnie Donegan’s 12-string – before Donegan took it back

Decades later, the guitar would once again end up in Hayward's hands, this time for good

Guitar World

“A historic collaboration”: Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe becomes Jackson’s first female signature artist with the launch of her groundbreaking new signature guitar

The metal trailblazer was announced as a Jackson artist earlier this year, and now she's been honored with a history-making signature model

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“A source of comfort and strength for anyone who feels hurt, lost or alone”: Alt Blk Era release rocking new single Come On Outside

The sibling twosome will release new album Rave Immortal on January 24

Guitar World

“I don't think about technique at all now. I want people to hear my guitar tone and be confused about how I got it”: Yvette Young explains why she's rebooting her a solo career – and redefining her guitar playing along the way

Young is temporarily putting aside Covet to lean into different facets of her guitar playing, focusing less on virtuosity and more on melody-driven composition

Guitar World

“John Mayall’s ability to nurture blues guitar prodigies is comparable to Yoda’s knack for training hot Jedi prospects”: From Eric Clapton to Peter Green, Mick Taylor and more – a guide to blues legend John Mayall’s ’60s guitarists

The Bluesbreakers remained a unique force in British blues throughout the decade, thanks to its late leader’s unfailing ability to pick breathtaking bandmates

The Independent UK

Coldplay, Moon Music review: Chris Martin mangles his metaphors on a suffocatingly banal album about love

The British pop-rock band’s latest effort torpedoes its intentions with some truly groan-inducing lyrics

Guitar World

“Mike shows us an acoustic demo on cassette and plays it in the car. It’s what ends up being Drive. It was a great guitar line – I just needed to get the hell out of the way of it”: OG Incubus bassist Dirk Lance on how Drive taught him to stop overplaying

Alex Katunich’s busy slap and pop basslines fueled much of the band’s early output, but in a rare new interview, he explains how their biggest hit forced him to take a step back

Louder

“It’s not often we perform such intimate shows, so we’re really looking forward to this.” The Cure are recording an exclusive gig in London this month, and you could be there to see it

Find out how to get tickets to see The Cure live at special Radio 2 In Concert show

Guitar World

“A tribute to the era that helped shape the modern steel-string acoustic”: Martin has introduced an all-new body shape that delivers dreadnought tones from a smaller build

In honor of the Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and 1930s that influenced the “Golden Era” acoustic boom, Martin has unveiled the O'ahu HG-28

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