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“They had already gone through a lot of guitar players, but there were only a few they liked. One of them was this kid, Zakk Wylde”: The guitarist who lost the coveted role to Zakk Wylde on what it was like to audition for Ozzy Osbourne

Guitar-synth master Amir Derakh was already well established in the industry when he got the once-in-a-lifetime call to become Ozzy's next guitarist...

Guitar World

“There was no master plan apart from we didn’t want to do the Thin Lizzy/Status Quo blues bendy thing”: Bruce Watson on the birth of Big Country, Stuart Adamson’s legacy and the secret to bagpipe guitar

Bruce Watson shares the guitar story of the Scottish rock stalwarts, the "Itch and Itch" amps so crucial to his tone, and how “Scotland’s answer to Jimi Hendrix” was the heart of Big Country's sound

Guitar World

“I made a deal, paid him in cash, and he died two months later. His last text to his daughter was, ‘I buried the money in the desert’”: Joe Bonamassa tells the story of the strangest guitar deal he ever did

The Bolin ’Burst is famed for its association with Deep Purple guitarist Tommy Bolin – but its route to Bonamassa was considerably less direct

Guitar World

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“I’d be there with bass pedals, a triple-neck guitar and keyboards, and Robert Plant would ask, ‘Can you sing, as well?’” How John Paul Jones became Led Zeppelin’s ultimate wingman

Armed with years of experience as a session bassist and arranger – having worked with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and the Rolling Stones – John Paul Jones could do it all

Guitar World

Taylor Swift Wedding Plans Hit With Furious Guest Drama After Single Invitee Claims She Was Denied A Plus-One

“Get off your high horse and stay home with your tissues,” a reader wrote.

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"I remember when I first heard Nevermind and I was like, 'OK, it's on'." Radiohead's Thom Yorke recalls the moment he realised Nirvana were going to change the world

Radiohead frontman on getting excited about new music and not obsessing over the past

Metal Hammer

“We’d been messing about with it for so long that we said, ‘Let’s stop thinking and let go of it’”: Sigur Rós, a discredited medieval poem and the end of Heaven and Earth

Labels have learned that post-rockers will do whatever they want. But did anyone expect a collaboration with a pagan master and a 70-piece stone instrument over an Icelandic myth?

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"The senseless, random act of violence against someone so full of life and innocence was mind-blowing, and I hated Los Angeles for a long time after that." How the murder of Henry Rollins' friend inspired two songs on Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty

The killing of roadie and documentarian Joe Cole remains unsolved 35 years on

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“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

MusicRadar

“Jon offered me the gig and I turned him down. It still amazes me how close I came to not following this path”: Roger Glover’s path to bass greatness with Deep Purple

Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple formed the holy trinity of hard rock that would ultimately induce heavy metal

Guitar World

“There was a native American reservation where single men would find comfort in a bottle of very cheap wine called Cracklin’ Rose. That wine became their woman. I had to write a song about that”: Neil Diamond on his classic hits and the art of songwriting

“There’s no great difference between me and Metallica”

MusicRadar

“We were going to open for the Descendents on a huge summer tour… and our singer decides he’s going to go do graduate school”: The rise and fall of Dag Nasty – and the making of a melodic hardcore classic

Brian Baker took a gamble. He used his college fund to buy a van, hit the road and pursued a life making hardcore punk, and with Can I Say, he had a different vision for its sound

Guitar World

“New S-styles from Ibanez? They company probably couldn’t believe its timing”: This week's hottest new guitar gear – including a pedal you can wear on your wrist (sort of)

New AZ models from Ibanez, a fresh baritone for Ed Sheeran, and the final piece of Misha Mansoor's Jackson Juggernaut jigsaw all headline this week's roundup

Guitar World

"There’s no magic formula at work here –this is an album full of simple but glorious pop-rock songs." How alt. rock godhead Bob Mould finally struck gold with Sugar's Copper Blue

Released in 1992, Sugar's debut album Copper Blue gave former Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould the commercial success he so richly deserved

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The Guardian - UK

Tim Dowling: the band shuns my new jokes. But telling the old ones proves even riskier

When my cat jokes are met with near silence, there’s only one thing for it …

The Guardian - UK

Boards of Canada: Inferno review – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointment

The Scottish electronic duo remain hugely influential – but their new album’s interrogation of religion is dubious, and the drum programming is worse still

MusicRadar

The song Bob Dylan called the greatest ever written: “I just held two notes down… it’s shivery, icy, almost like outer space kind of sound. Glen went crazy and said ‘We have to get that, we gotta put that on the fade’” - The story of Wichita Lineman

“When I heard it I cried”

International Business Times UK

Rob Base Dead at 59 After Cancer Battle: Inside the 'It Takes Two' Rapper's Rise to Hip-Hop Fame

Rob Base has died at 59 after a cancer battle, with fans revisiting the legacy of 'It Takes Two', his iconic 1988 hip-hop crossover hit

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Evening Standard

Iraina Mancini review: Brand new retro is a force to be reckoned with

4/5 Cult London fave Mancini unveils new songs at a sold-out Social which suggest big things to come

Newcastle Herald

'I'm getting better every day': Greg Bryce's road to recovery after brutal attack

A fundraising concert is being held on Sunday at Newcastle Racecourse for the popular musician, who survived a stabbing at Merewether in March.

MusicRadar

“I told them I was dying and they didn’t believe me. I could tell by the look on my doctor’s face that there was something very, very wrong with me”: Robert Smith on the madness and the magic of The Cure’s early days

The goth legends’ ‘Doom Trilogy’ was aptly named

The Independent UK

Drake smashes UK chart record with three new albums in top ten

The records are Drake’s first releases since his headline-making feud with US rapper Kendrick Lamar

Evening Standard

Drake lands seventh number one record and three simultaneous Top 10 albums

The Canadian musician released his three new albums – Iceman, Maid Of Honour and Habibti – all at once last Friday.

International Business Times UK

Zayn Malik Attacked: Angry Audience Member Throws Water Bottles At Singer Weeks After Hospitalisation

Zayn Malik was reportedly targeted by a bottle‑throwing audience member as he left a Q&A event in Kingston, only weeks after a serious undisclosed health scare.

The Independent UK

Phil Collins issues health update as music legend teases performing live again

The music legend has kept a low profile amid his health complications

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