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"An album on vinyl is a beautiful thing." Kate Bush talks about her love of vinyl

Kate Bush will be an ambassador for this year's Record Store Day in April

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The art of the happy accident: 5 times a mistake in the studio ended up being the best part of a track

We investigate how serendipity can be one of the greatest sources of musical inspiration

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How to set up your room for guitar recording success

From room acoustics to noise management, these are our top tips for preparing your space for recording

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James Bay's Dream Day: Meeting Guitar Legends

James Bay fulfills a dream by meeting musical icons Jimmy Page, Brian Harold May, and Tony Iommi at a Gibson guitars event. The power of music and persever...

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“Slap bass has that metallic sound, like a hammer. If you played bass with a pick it wouldn’t sound the same. Actually, I did that on Epic”: How Billy Gould crafted his driving bass tone on Faith No More’s biggest hits

Billy Gould’s funk bass leanings powered We Care A Lot and Epic by San Francisco rockers Faith No More

Guitar World

“WTF?”: Mark Ronson shares Paul McCartney’s F-bomb video reaction to being told that Foreigner aren’t in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The producer has enlisted Josh Homme, Chad Smith, Jack Black, Dave Grohl and Slash to help get the band inducted this year

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Welcome to Swift Notes: your weekly guide to the ever-expanding Taylor Swift multiverse

Join me in teasing apart Swift’s record-breaking, norm-shifting, joyously deranging and sometimes infuriating cultural influence in this new weekly newsletter

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Rapper Ja Rule cancels UK tour days before Wembley Arena gig as he is 'denied entry' to the country

The US star was due to start his UK tour in Cardiff on Friday before playing London on Saturday - but venues say the tour has now been cancelled

Evening Standard

Feel like your playing is stuck in a rut? You need to face up to your weak points – it will make you a more well-rounded guitarist

Overcoming plateaus in your guitar practice is about confronting the aspects of playing that you find difficult, and then finding a routine that works for you

Guitar World

“This is like an intro to something Metallica wrote in the 1980s”: 11-year-old guitar hero breaks the internet with his original metal riffs – performed in front of his fellow fifth-graders

Cole Parsons has shot to online stardom with his original, Randy Rhoads-channeling song, which even won the approval of Mötley Crüe

Guitar World

See Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong cover Nirvana in London, as Courtney Love joins him to perform Cheap Trick and Tom Petty classics

Love made a guest appearance on three songs

MusicRadar

“It’s heavy, it’s dynamic, it’s technical!” We got Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine to name the best song on each other’s classic 2005 album

Ahead of their Poisoned Ascendancy co-headliner, we asked Trivium to pick the best song on The Poison and Bullet For My Valentine to choose their favourite Ascendancy track

Metal Hammer

Tosin Abasi and Rick Beato love his playing. Now Josh Meader shows you how to solo over one of the most important chord progressions in jazz

The II-V-I progression is a fundamental classic of jazz guitar – Australian virtuoso Josh Meader has three great licks to dazzle your digits (and they might just blow your mind, too)

Guitar World

Beyoncé Just Broke Yet Another Record With Her Country Song "Texas Hold 'Em"

Texas show 'em how it's done.

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A tech explains how to change your electric guitar strings like a pro: "The method we're demonstrating here is the quickest, best for stability and easiest to de-string when it’s time"

"The lock-wrap method here will soon become second nature"

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“Technology’s moved on far too much to sell people things like this anymore”: Back in 1984, Ultravox’s Midge Ure dismissed the Minimoog as an “antique” and was embracing a digital synth future with the PPG Wave

“It’s actually an antique synthesizer now, 15 years old,” Ure says of his “very basic” Model D

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“As all popes do, they have their reign and then we continue forward”: What happened the night Ghost’s Papa Emeritus I passed the torch to Papa II onstage

Though we all expect Ghost to change singers between albums nowadays, the ascension of Papa Emeritus II was unprecedented at the time

MusicRadar

"Inhumanly fast arpeggios and chords requiring more than ten fingers to play": Kelly Moran duets with a Disklavier and goes beyond the "physical limits" of a human piano player on her new project

Moves in the Field finds the Warp Records artist pushing the boundaries of piano composition through the use of a self-playing Yamaha Disklavier

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Drake's Electrifying Performance: A Concert To Remember

Drake's recent concert wowed fans with a spectacular performance, showcasing his musical talent and leaving the audience in awe.

Beats Solo 4 tipped for a big audio upgrade

The next generation of Apple's popular Beats on-ear headphones could be arriving imminently with improved audio features

Guitar World

“People will write about how certain songs don’t have guitar in them, and I chuckle because it’s all guitar! It thrusts its hips the way nothing else can”: How Torres uses her Telecaster as a divining rod for strut and glitter

Torres isn’t interested in vintage gear – her pedalboard is kitted out to make her Fender sound like a synthesizer on her dance-guitar bops

MusicRadar

"Over time, Guitar Tricks has honed its content to be fun, engaging and motivating": Guitar Tricks review

Veteran online guitar tuition site continues to grow bigger and better with every passing year

Guitar World

“So proud!” Olivia Rodrigo is gigging a custom purple St. Vincent Goldie signature guitar – and the one-off Music Man has a story behind it

The singer-songwriter recently hit the road for her 2024 tour accompanied by one of the best-looking Goldie models to date

Guitar World

“Many people think I was doing it all on the Rickenbacker in the ’80s, but a lot of the clean arpeggio stuff was done on a Les Paul”: Johnny Marr on the most prized guitars in his collection – and why they might not be what you expect

From his bonkers nine-pickup Strat to the Les Paul he gifted to Noel Gallagher, The Smiths great has traced his entire career through the prism of his amazing collection of guitars. Why don’t all our guitar heroes do this?

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Tarja shares new single edit of Dark Star ahead of What Lies Beneath reissue

Finnish singer Tarja's 2010 album What Lies Beneath to be remastered and reissued with extra disc

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