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“I look up and he’s sitting right next to me. He was super-fascinated with the EBow”: Pop session great Michael Thompson on the time he recorded guitar for Michael Jackson – and the King of Pop walked in mid-session

Thompson reveals what it was like to work on two of Michael Jackson's biggest tracks

Guitar World

“Some of the phrases here are played at breakneck speed”: Grammy-winning virtuoso Ardeshir Farah is a nylon-string acoustic wizard who fuses Iranian and Western music – and his techniques will expand your solos’ horizons

Farah is a player who will comfortably blow your mind – this lesson is for moderate/advanced players looking to up their alternate-picking game, scalar knowledge, and rhythmic subdivisions

Guitar World

“It’s no wonder Eddie had so much fun playing this!” Joe Satriani tackles a wealth of Van Halen classics in the first footage from the Best of All Worlds tour

Satch took on no less than 15 EVH songs in a set that was laden with Van Halen

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Sleep Token add more dates to 2024 European tour

Vessel and the gang will be performing even more 'rituals' in Europe this winter!

Louder

“I wish I didn’t get paid. I wish I took a quarter point or something, ‘cause now I would be a rich man”: Slayer’s Kerry King on what he regrets about his solo on the Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Till Brooklyn

King reveals how he ended up playing on the Beastie Boys and Sum 41's records

Guitar World

“If you want to go to the studio and spend $2,000 a day, take that and buy a laptop and a sample library or tell AI what song you want to make”: As the Record Plant looks set to close, an engineer says “there is no money in the recording music business”

“There are less and less rock bands and you could record Taylor Swift in a vocal booth the size of a closet"

MusicRadar

Song of the summer 2024: writers pick their tracks of the season

From Sabrina Carpenter to Kendrick Lamar, Guardian writers pick out the songs that will be soundtracking their barbecues for the summer

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Stray Kids at BST Hyde Park: feel-good hits galore from K-pop's bright young things

Who needs footie anyway when you’ve got one of K-pop’s most exciting bands?

Evening Standard

“A lot of the music I’ve made has had the goal of achieving something similar to Yes”: Steve Howe was the middle ground between Moby and his punk-hating guitar teacher

Electronica, ambient and rock artist still listens to Close To The Edge once a month

Louder

‘I feel sorry for London bands’: Why England’s North West is guitar hero utopia

While their London counterparts are struggling, bands like Courteeners and Blossoms are thriving. Michael Hann speaks to the musicians, politicians, and industry figures about what makes this corner of the country so hospitable for burgeoning guitar groups looking to make a splash

The Independent UK

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Larkin Poe, Blues Pills, Joanne Shaw Taylor and five other future rock superstars

Louder

"When it comes down to chords, we don’t often spend much time talking about Brian May – until now": learn 4 from his Queen classics

A crazy little thing called Dsus4

MusicRadar

"Playing live to 100 million people. It gets to you at times": The chaotic story of the day Pink Floyd hired an oil rig to play Venice and the mayor lost his job

It was supposed to be just another Pink Floyd extravaganza. Nobody expected blackmail and a scandal that forced a city's mayor to resign

Louder

Lisa Of BLACKPINK Makes History With 'Rockstar' On Hot 100

Blackpink's Lisa makes history on the Billboard Hot 100 with 'Rockstar,' setting a new record for solo female K-pop artists.

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Taylor Swift Swallows Bug During Milan Concert On Eras Tour

Taylor Swift's bug mishap, unique mashup, and Travis Kelce's influence during her Eras Tour concert in Milan.

The Guardian - AU

Critic’s pick: Agung Mango, the genre-smashing rapper leaping through time and space

The Melbourne artist belongs to new wave of psychedelic Australian hip-hop – and his new album excavates his cultural lineage in profound, explosive ways

Louder

“This will possibly be the last band that I’m in”: legendary ex-Deep Purple man Glenn Hughes says his current group could be his last

Black Country Communion’s Glenn Hughes admits that his days of playing in bands could be coming to an end

The Guardian - UK

Stevie Nicks review – an emotional evening with rock’s great survivor

With that powerful voice, a hit-strewn back catalogue – plus some terrific between-song banter and a guest appearance by Harry Styles – this show is a moving testament to Nicks’ enduring musical legacy

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‘The classes just keep growing’: how K-pop dancing is taking off in the UK

As the music genre’s popularity rises, dance classes are springing up. The Guardian goes along to give it a try

Evening Standard

Princess Kate reveals to Adam Lambert that son George loves Queen after Jubilee performance

George is particularly fond of ‘We are the Champions’

The Guardian - UK

Put Sgt Pepper back in its sleeve – after 60 years, A Hard Day’s Night is still the Beatles at their joyful best

From its revolutionary first chord to its last bars, the Beatles’ overlooked third album transcends mere ‘pop’, says author Colin Fleming

Evening Standard

Shania Twain's guitarist Lindsay Ell reveals what it's really like to work with Queen of Country Pop

EXCLUSIVE The purple-haired musician also addresses those Glastonbury sound issues and lifts the lid on hanging out with Paloma Faith and Janelle Monáe backstage

Guitar World

“If you heard the first demo of that song you wouldn’t believe it!” How Led Zeppelin’s legendary multi-instrumentalist took flight with Them Crooked Vultures

Back in 2010 John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme joined forces in a bid to redefine heavy rock

Guitar World

“We’d all been struggling with the track – I remember Ralph MacDonald’s hands were bleeding!” Longtime David Letterman bassist Will Lee recalls his toughest recording date in NYC

The session took place in January 1975 at Secret Sound Studios on West 24th Street

Louder

“We’re basically like two guys running in a three-legged race, we’re tied together and that’s just how it is”: The Cult’s Billy Duffy on his relationship with frontman Ian Astbury

Rock's odd couple embark on a UK tour later this year...

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