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Myles Kennedy provides progress update on new album with Slash

Myles Kennedy says he just needs to find the time to lay down his vocals in the studio for the next Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators record.

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“Someone once said to me, ‘Why do you make solo records?’ And it’s like, ‘So I can play solos!’” Myles Kennedy on the blues-rock hero who shaped the way he plays, why he’s an accidental frontman, and what the power of the riff made him do

We’ve been saying it for years, but the man best known for his soaring vocals with Slash and Alter Bridge also happens to be one hell of a guitar player. On his new album, he busts out his riffs, his roar and his signature PRS

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“Grand Designs is inspiring – it highlights the human spirit”: Alter Bridge singer and certified Anglophile Myles Kennedy names his favourite British TV shows

You know about Myles Kennedy’s work with Alter Bridge and Slash. You probably don’t know about his love for quaint UK TV programmes, though.

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“There’s an unpredictability that I really appreciate with him. He doesn’t think like other guitar players”: Myles Kennedy reveals what he learned as a guitar player from working with Slash and Mark Tremonti

Any pro will tell you, the best way to improve as a musician is playing with great players. Kennedy, a collaborator of both Slash and Tremonti, would surely agree

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“I’m really, really stoked about where this one’s going. It’s gonna be cool.” Myles Kennedy talks new Slash and the Conspirators album

Hot off releasing blues album Orgy Of The Damned this year, Slash is diving back into his work with Alter Bridge man Myles Kennedy

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"Slash comes up to me and gives me a hug, and that was a moment that I will take to my grave." We asked Myles Kennedy to make us a playlist, and what he gave us is pure gold

From rock icons like Guns N' Roses and Queens Of The Stone Age to metal behemoths Gojira, it's safe to say Myles Kennedy knows his way around a riff

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“I don’t like brand-new guitars. I’ll see a new guitar and I’m like, ‘That’s gonna look good after I drag it across the driveway’”: Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy spills his tone (and drop tuning) secrets

Whatever you do, don’t lend Kennedy your brand-new 10 Top PRS, but do check out his new solo album, The Art of Letting Go, which he promises us is a “a rock ’n’ roll record – a lot of loud guitars”

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"Ultimately, you realise that people will forget about you": Myles Kennedy on being in three bands, how Jim Carrey changed his life, and why he worries about Billie Eilish

For some people, travelling life’s road is easy. For lifelong worrier Myles Kennedy it’s anything but

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“I feel like I’m not even making a record - I’m just tuning guitars!”: Myles Kennedy and Devin Townsend talk gear ahead of their joint tour

Devin’s advice: “Try the Evertune system”

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Myles Kennedy and Slash cooking up new music

Myles Kennedy and Slash are working on ideas for a new album but have to find the time to schedule it all in.

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“I was totally floored!”: Myles Kennedy hails the “genius” of his touring buddy Devin Townsend

And Devin says of Myles’ new album: “I’m in awe of it!”

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“That guy was hitting wrong notes with such authority that I just fell in love with it!”: Devin Townsend gives a troubled singer a much-needed boost

He also reckons that one famous guitarist was always out of tune

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“I went in there and I was like, ‘I need a really good fuzz.’ And they had this pedal there”: Myles Kennedy names the “secret sauce” stompbox he thinks every guitar player should own

The Alter Bridge icon used the sub-$200 octave fuzz pedal on his recent solo record

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Order your limited edition Myles Kennedy x Classic Rock bundle – featuring an exclusive piece of show backdrop!

There are only 200 worldwide, so get yours while you can!

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Starcrawler, Myles Kennedy, Beth Hart and five other possible headliners of Woodstock 2029

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The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week

From such stars as Dream Theater and Myles Kennedy to an array of up-and-coming talent, hear the best new music of the week – and vote for your favourite!

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"This album is a riff-filled inferno, the work of a master craftsman": Myles Kennedy is at the top of his game on colossal solo album The Art Of Letting Go

Riffs and sky-high choruses galore on Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy’s third solo record, The Art Of Letting Go

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After teasing a symphony of “cocks and vaginas and death” eight years ago, Devin Townsend is finally performing The Moth live with an orchestra

The prog metal maverick will host a one-night-only symphonic performance in the Netherlands next March

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Blues Pills, The Sheepdogs, X and five more rockabilly rebels from head to toe

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Myles Kennedy releases euphoric new single Nothing More To Gain

Myles Kennedy's third solo album The Art Of Letting Go will be released in October

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Terrorvision, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Those Damn Crows and more - vote for your favourite

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Myles Kennedy announces new solo album and world tour: Watch the video for Say What You Will now

Myles Kennedy's third solo album The Art Of Letting Go will be released via a bewildering array of colour vinyl variants

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“I’m funny with amps. I love Marshalls, but I also love old Fender Deluxes. Dumble built one for me just before he passed away. I think it was the last one he ever built”: With Strats, Magnatones, and plenty of all-star guests, Slash embraces the blues

Turning to spontaneity, and changing habits both gear and playing-wise, Slash's new record is a laid-back, charming tribute to an ever-lasting strain of guitar playing

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"Guns N' Roses are trying to make their own record and I'm working with them in that capacity": Slash reveals new material is underway

There is movement in the GNR camp, though don’t hold your breath

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“I love Alter Bridge, but more Myles Kennedy’s playing, rather than Mark Tremonti. Myles goes for the gross notes, which I really like”: Meet James Frankland, the classical-loving instrumentalist fusing Rachmaninoff and Guns N’ Roses

Frankland is taking influences from all across the musical spectrum to forge a sound that is all his own. He unpacks his journey from 13-year-old rookie to debut album, Fate’s Right Hand

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