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“That was the coolest thing about Eddie for me. That’s why nobody could ever touch him”: Slash explains why Eddie Van Halen was really a blues player at heart

Van Halen's boundary-pushing rock guitar style was defined by unprecedented fretboard acrobatics – but underneath all that was a humble bluesman, according to the GNR guitarist

Guitar World

“Their first couple of albums, theywere a good band. After that... boring.” AC/DC's late, no-nonsense leader Malcolm Young wasn't impressed by Led Zeppelin

“Most people, when they progress, they progress up their own a**es.” Malcolm Young, AC/DC, 1984

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“Man, could he play the guitar or what?” Stevie Ray Vaughan stuns David Letterman in newly uploaded footage of his Late Night show debut

The recently unearthed clip catches the guitar hero in the form of his life, three years sober and following the recording of his Grammy-winning album, In Step

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10 songs we want Sepultura to play before they retire

Sepultura might be retiring after 40 years, but we hope these 10 deep cuts make their way back into regular rotation before they go

Metal Hammer

“I feel like if I don’t approach it from a fun angle right now, I’ll just freak out!”: The Mars Volta’s Philo Tsoungui plays drums to Rush, LimeLight after hearing it for the first time

The German-born drummer happened to use Neil Peart signature sticks, despite never having heard the Rush song before

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“It is no longer an option to continue”: Queens of the Stone Age cancel tour dates as Josh Homme is rushed to emergency surgery

The band had been scheduled to perform a number of headline and festival shows across July

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“I’ve always missed being in Kiss, but if that meant being the Spaceman like Tommy, I wouldn’t want to do it”: Bruce Kulick was never invited to rejoin Kiss – and he's OK with that

Kulick was around for Kiss' under-appreciated no-makeup era, but when the band's first reunion fell through, he was never invited back

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“It’s got its own voice... I don’t think I’ve ever found something that speaks to me more than this one”: Is Vince Gill's '53 the greatest Telecaster on earth?

Vince Gill talks about his '53 white Tele

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“This one’s for anyone who has ever been gaslit to the point of breaking.” Listen to new Du Blonde single Blame, as they launch “a new era”

“I can’t be in here anymore without a full lobotomy”. Du Blonde is back!

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“Two stone-cold classics that provide effortless playability and iconic guitar tones at a pretty reasonable price”: Fender Player II Stratocaster & Telecaster review

Fender's best-selling Player Series guitars receive a much-awaited update, but is it revolutionary or evolutionary?

Guitar World

Coldplay Dominates U.K. Charts Post-Glastonbury Performance

Coldplay's chart success post-Glastonbury and the festival's impact on the U.K. music scene underscore the significance of live events in shaping artists' ...

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Pixar, Catholic shame, and urine-drinking podcast bros: the mixed-up rock of MJ Lenderman

Known for turns with hit US indie acts Wednesday and Waxahatchee, the singer-guitarist explains how his songs – full of sad sacks and losers – get to the heart of masculinity

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“Queens are gutted we aren't able to play for you.” Queens Of The Stone Age cancel European tour as Josh Homme returns to the United States for “emergency surgery”

QOTSA share “frustration and disappointment” after being forced to cancel eight European shows

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Grammy Museum to launch K-pop exhibit celebrating Hybe, featuring BTS, LE SSERAFIM artifacts

The Grammy Museum will soon launch its first full-floor K-pop exhibit as part of its ongoing initiative to explore the music, culture, technology, fandom and business behind Korean pop music

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“Sometimes, I take it off after the first 10 seconds, and other times, I listen to it to the end”: Metallica’s classic producer reveals up-and-down relationship with St Anger

Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets and …And Justice For All producer Flemming Rasmussen offers his assessment of Metallica’s controversial 2003 album

Guitar World

“If Mick Jagger held a gun to my head, telling me to play Satisfaction I'd have said, ‘Just shoot me’”: Joy Division hero Peter Hook looks back on his genre-defining legacy

As the respective legacies of Joy Division and New Order grow, year on year, Peter Hook continues to tread his individual path

Guitar World

“I’ve heard Jimmy Page liked my attention to detail. So do the work, kids – it pays off!” From Joe Perry to Sheryl Crow, Audley Freed has played with the greats – but nothing beats jamming with Jimmy as part of the Black Crowes

The Gov’t Mule, Joe Perry and Jakob Dylan collaborator has come a long way since starting out on a “magnetic” toy guitar

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New Public Service Broadcasting album The Last Flight tells the story of Amelia Earhart's last doomed flight

UK conceptualists Public Service Broadcasting will release new album The Last Flight in October

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"We're five mates who get on a plane on Friday, have fun shouting at some nice people on Saturday and come home on Sunday": The low-key, hit-free career-in-reverse of Cock Sparrer

Too punk for punk in the late 70s, Oi! elder statesmen in the early 80s, living-legend role models in the early 90s, Cock Sparrer never got credit for what they started

Louder

“It was alive and exciting and subversive.” Why Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones chose to work with Texan noise-punk weirdos Butthole Surfers, and what he found the two bands had in common

“I was expecting someone with mutton-chop sideburns and bellbottoms.” Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary on Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones

The Independent UK

Britney Spears swears off dating men amid reported split from boyfriend Paul Richard Soliz

‘Toxic’ singer declares she’s ‘single as f***’ after calling out boyfriend Paul Richard Soliz on Instagram

The Independent UK

Bebe Rexha unloads on fan who attempted to throw something at her on stage

Artist was injured by a fan-thrown object during a concert last year

Latin Times

Joaquina, the 20-year-old Venezuelan star who shined at Andrea Bocelli's 30-year anniversary concert

After becoming the youngest artist to win a Latin Grammy as the new best artist, the Miami resident singer-songwriter Joaquina makes history as the first Latina to sing at Bocelli's historic series of concerts.

Evening Standard

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