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"I made it about the sexual cry of love." How The Rolling Stones and a dancer from Hot Gossip inspired one of Billy Idol's greatest hits

The story behind one of the most memorable rock anthems of the '80s

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Billie Eilish has opened up about feeling 'outed' on the red carpet

'The whole world suddenly decided who I was, and I didn’t get to say anything or control any of it.'

Marie Claire

Regurgitator: Invader review – the new stuff is as good as the old stuff

The Australian band are back on form with one of their finest albums, showing that they still have more than enough new tricks to keep things interesting

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Taylor Swift “Wants a Happy Ending” with Travis Kelce, and Hopes “He Doesn’t Get Freaked Out About the Fame”

The couple just returned from a private couples’ getaway with friends Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper.

Marie Claire

“Two glowing hot 12AX7 preamp tubes, running at the proper high voltage, are this pedal’s beating heart”: Friedman unleashes the IR-D, a twin-channel boutique fire-breather inspired by a modded JTM45

The IR-D preamp pedal takes those Friedman's high-end amp sounds and puts them in a tube-driven pedal, with dual boosts, onboard IRs, MIDI control and effects loop

MusicRadar

"Who could have guessed that a band that hide behind masks would be so mysterious?" Everything you need to know about Slipknot's chaotic year - and what comes next

We take a deep dive into the wild last twelve months in the world of Slipknot

Metal Hammer

"Sometimes we entertain the idea of having a producer working with us… but in our band, we are each other’s Rick Rubin": Justice on keeping production in house for new album Hyperdrama

Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé lift the lid on their creative process in a new interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe

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“Quincy said, ‘Ritenour, this is Q. You gotta get down here right now!’”: Lee Ritenour reveals all about his top secret mission to save George Benson’s Give Me The Night solo

After an unfortunate recording accident in the analogue tape days, Quincy Jones needed an 11th hour rescue job and duly made a late night call to the only player who could help

MusicRadar

Taylor Swift's former teacher just made some very interesting comments about her

Marie Claire

John Mayer and Kenny Wayne Shepherd are two of the biggest names in modern blues – and boy, do they know how to introduce a guitar solo

Learn how to phrase spellbending blues intro licks in the style of Kenny Wayne Shepherd and John Mayer

Guitar World

“Ace Frehley is very good at creating a song within a song when it comes to solos, and I've always thought along those lines”: Rock City Machine Co. went from KISS Army to KISS collaborators. Now they're going it alone.

Ryan Cook and Jeremy Asbrock have worked with Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons, but say it’s time for them to stand on their own, er, four feet...

Guitar World

“Metal guitars have more bite, but they lose some of the meat on the attack. Les Pauls are very meaty – there’s a big chunk of tonal range there”: Why a baritone Les Paul is proving the perfect prog metal weapon for Wheel’s James Lascelles

Upcoming third album, Charismatic Leaders, kickstarts a new era for the Finnish prog-metallers with a sound that’s stubbornly traditional but powerfully progressive

Guitar World

“Plenty of great functionality to make your life easier and assuage any fears of signal or battery loss”: Boss WL-50 review

We put Boss’ pedalboard-friendly wireless guitar system to the test, seeing how it holds up to some stiff competition

Guitar World

“I never learned any barre chords... all I’ve ever learned was ‘oompah oompah’. It drove me to either give up guitar or start writing music”: Josh Homme reveals how learning polka as a kid developed his off-kilter guitar playing style

Josh Homme reveals how learning polka in childhood gave way to his off-kilter guitar playing style

Guitar World

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“I use pedals for timbral changes on guitar – it’s like a horn where your breath affects the tone”: Meet Ava Mendoza the punk-reared jazz guitar maverick turning breath work to fretwork

Echolocation is the sound of a player reared on punk taking what you might call jazz into a new place

MusicRadar

“If you think your addiction to synths and studio gear is out of control, imagine being in Depeche Mode”: We'd forgotten quite how much of the band's gear Alan Wilder shifted in his legendary auction, and just how many bargains were up for grabs

An Oberheim and Minimoog went for a song, but it was a Martin Gore guitar and E-mu sampler that stole the show

The Guardian - UK

‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour

As Taylor Swift tops $1bn in tour revenue, musicians playing smaller venues are facing pitiful fees and frequent losses. Should the state step in to save our live music scene?

Guitar World

“Dad would never touch the gunk that had built up on the fingerboard. He told me, ‘The dirt keeps the funk’”: Inside the sound and style of Motown master James Jamerson

Five top low-enders with links to the bass great dissect the James Jamerson style

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Moody Blues founding member Mike Pinder dead at 82

Keyboard player Mike Pinder had been the last surviving founding member of the band

Guitar World

“I instinctively dislike ‘try hard’ musicians. I pretty much learned my bass rudiments from Led Zeppelin II”: Why Squarepusher is an artist in a vast left-field league of his own

You may or may not know Squarepusher (aka Tom Jenkinson), but chances are he doesn’t care to know you

MusicRadar

Music theory you can use: How to create a chord progression from any melody

12 easy steps to harmonising in your DAW

Metal Hammer

"OU frequently sound like they’ve beamed in from the 25th century." Devin Townsend-approved Chinese metallers OU take prog metal into strange new worlds on II: Frailty

Hailing from Beijing and sounding like they come from outer space, China's OU are pushing boundaries with new album II: Frailty

Louder

"At 78-years old, he's lost none of his chops and remains in fine voice." David Gilmour's The Piper Calls - the first review

David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

Louder

Watch Kelly Clarkson sing Heart's Crazy On You with Nancy Wilson on guitar while Ann Wilson looks on

Ann and Nancy Wilson appeared on the Kelly Clarkson show and told the sordid story behind Barracuda

Louder

Cyril Davies was a grumpy, balding panel beater who "drank bourbon like a fish": He also inspired a generation of rock musicians – and has been all but airbrushed out of history

What do The Kinks, Stones and The Who all have in common? For one thing, a harmonica-playing bluesman nicknamed 'Squirrel'

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