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Stage-diver at an early Nirvana gig – Charles Peterson’s best photograph

‘The energy at this show was chaotic. This guy scrambled to the top of the amplifier and leaped. I thought he was going to break his neck’

The Guardian - UK

“Part of a beautiful American tradition”: A music theory expert explains the country roots of Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ‘Em, and why it also owes a debt to the blues

The lead single from Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s forthcoming country album, goes under the musical microscope

MusicRadar

“It’s like Brian May walked over to his tone booth and just turned it up to 11!” Kirk Hammett names his favorite Queen song – and it’s a seriously deep cut

Metallica may have covered Stone Cold Crazy, but that’s not Hammett’s no. 1…

Guitar World

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"Everything we're doing right now is way different." What happened the day Linkin Park played a set at Grand Central Station

On what would have been Chester Bennington's 48th birthday, watch him and his fellow nu metal stars entertain a bustling terminal at America's most famous train station

Metal Hammer

“We did a Pepsi Challenge on the Klon!” Henry James of Robert Jon & The Wreck names his favorite pedals – and his no. 1 Klon clone

It's the return of Pedalpocalypse, “the Desert Island Discs for pedals”, with Henry James from Robert Jon & The Wreck and King Tree & The Earth Mothers on the three pedals he would take with him in the event of a future lockdown

Guitar World

Watch Glenn Tipton return to the stage with Judas Priest for the first time since last year’s Power Trip festival

Longtime Judas Priest player Glenn Tipton, who has Parkinson’s disease, has defied expectations that Power Trip would mark his last performance with the band

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“Absolutely mind-blowing”: Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith rips through the blues on a ‘55 Gibson Les Paul Custom previously owned by Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton

The early-years Black Beauty was reportedly Kossoff's first “real” guitar, and paved the way for the many Burst LPs that the Free great later became synonymous with

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“Every time I opened a music paper it said, ‘Johnny Marr – jingle jangle’. I'd just had enough”: How The Smiths defied expectations on their final album, Strangeways, Here We Come

Johnny Marr and Morrissey’s relationship may have crumbled during its creation, but The Smiths’ final album is regarded by many as their best

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"I wouldn’t be the singer, the artist, anything without it." New Years Day's Ash Costello on the Millennial goth post-hardcore masterpiece that changed her life

Without this classic 2003 record, New Years Day might not exist as we know them

Metal Hammer

Shakira Says Rumor She Discovered Gerard Piqué Allegedly Cheated Via Jam Jar Is "Not True"

Fans of outlandish celebrity gossip are deeply disappointed by this information.

Marie Claire

New Pallbearer single Where The Light Fades marks sonic shift to dark post-rock sound

US quartet Pallbearer will release their third album MInd Burns Alive in May

Metal Hammer

Pop! goes the curriculum: songs to inspire primary school children

Keir Starmer is on a personal mission to promote music to the under-11s. From rock’n’roll to Jonathan Richman, our writers suggest songs for an alternative schooling

The Guardian - UK

"The transition into what we’re doing now has been very strange.” How Halestorm, Slash and Ghost's Mary On A Cross unexpectedly helped Blackbriar become symphonic metal's new hopes

With a DIY ethos and a surprising selection of influences, Dutch mob Blackbriar might become the next big thing in symphonic metal

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“George Martin wasn’t going to leave his own studio, and Jeff never gave directions or said much, so there was nobody telling us what to do”: Listen to Wilbur Bascomb’s bassline on Jeff Beck’s Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

New York session bassist Wilbur Bascomb Jr. recorded on Jeff Beck’s 1976 version of this Charles Mingus ballad

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“My being fired was premature… We’d wrapped pre-production on Killers but I never got the chance to record”: Meet Dennis Stratton, the man who brought harmony guitars to Iron Maiden

Armed with a Les Paul Custom copy and an obscenely heavy old combo amp, Stratton only discovered metal when he joined the future giants – and left them the legacy of harmony guitar attack

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A dance remix of Disturbed’s Sound Of Silence cover has cracked the US dance charts, and it is the worst thing we’ve heard in a hot minute

If you want to hear David Draiman wailing about “silence” over an obnoxiously loud club beat, this is the remix for you…

Evening Standard

Danish popstar MØ on industry sexism, touring burn-out, and her "healthier" new album

The punk turned pop star gives us a tour of her home city of Copenhagen as she celebrates 10 years of her debut album No Mythologies To Follow

Guitar World

Al Di Meola, Steve Vai and Tosin Abasi are in awe of his technique – learn the signature style of Matteo Mancuso, the maestro of fingerstyle fusion shred

Mancuso's debut LP The Journey is a tour de force of technique and imagination. We take a look at how the young Italian virtuoso's approach can make you a better player now

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Madison Beer's Electrifying Concert Performance

Madison Beer's electrifying concert performance showcases her incredible talent and stage presence, leaving fans in awe. From powerful vocals to dynamic en...

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“It’s great when stuff like that breaks through”: Bruce Dickinson explains why he loves one of nu metal’s biggest, most “eccentric” bands

The Iron Maiden frontman expresses his admiration for one of the weirdest, yet most successful, metal bands of all time

Evening Standard

Bleachers at Kentish Town Forum review: Jack Antonoff brought energy – and sax solos – to a crowd-pleasing set

There were no shiny guests in sight here; instead, the focus was purely on Bleachers’ music

MusicRadar

6 of the most ridiculously large synth workstation plugins that can handle every part of a track: "This powerhouse of a synth has all of the sounds you need"

These beastly ROMplers provide all the music-making power one could ask for

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t say: what if we did this reggae style?’ The huge yet humble lives of unofficial band members

From Manic Street Preachers to Simple Minds, few bands are complete without their full-time touring players. They discuss the peaks and practicalities of life on the sidelines

Louder

“I was a wreck, physically and mentally. I wanted to cancel shows, split up the band, all these kind of things”: Aiming to make a “super-heavy record,” Opeth embraced the Mellotron and made Damnation instead

Mikael Åkerfeldt – who’d become band leader because no one else would do it – recalls the misery of making the landmark 2003 album which made him feel he could hold his own with the likes of Porcupine Tree

Metal Hammer

Lemmy's ashes to be 'enshrined' at Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles alongside launch of Motorhead Whiskey

Lemmy's favourite drinking den to house his ashes as LA's Rainbow announces tributes to late Motorhead frontman

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