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“I was infatuated with slide guitar. I’d use a comparable motion on my fretless by sliding up to the note”: Manning the world’s first production fretless bass, Rick Danko had to be laser-sharp in the Band

Along with Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones and Boz Burrell of Bad Company, Rick Danko was one of the earliest players to take fretless bass guitar into the mainstream

Guitar World

“Back then, he didn't know anything about electric guitar… It was like, ‘Don't worry Bob, I'll adjust the amp for you, it sounds great, don't worry’”: Robbie Robertson on Bob Dylan's rocky electric transition

Though he was playing to some of the biggest crowds of his career, Dylan hadn’t consistently performed electric band shows since his teens – and those gigs certainly weren’t to cheering (and jeering) masses

Guitar World

“When Jaco and I first worked together there was nobody I’d rather hang with. There was an appreciation, a joie de vivre, a spontaneity”: How Joni Mitchell combined with Jaco Pastorius to create her sophisticated jazz-infused masterpiece Coyote

The song emerged from the hedonism and chaos of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour

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"The whole song turned into kind of a guitar dialogue." Watch the historic footage of Robbie Robertson saving Eric Clapton before they go head-to-head in a duel for the ages

Captured by Martin Scorsese for the concert film The Last Waltz, Robbie Robertson and Eric Clapton's guitar duel is a standout moment from two standout careers

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Missed These? 8 Black Superhero Debut Comics Every Serious Collector Needs

The viability of modern Black superhero comic books is in a state of flux. Marvel has a few scant ongoing comic books with Black superhero leads. DC has had none since 2023’s I Am Batman ongoing series. This fact does not count limited series, mini-series, or one-shots, only Black-led ongoing…

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Who Are The Villains of 'Spider-Noir'? Breaking Down The Noir Variants

Here’s your guide to the noir-inspired villain variants in Spider-Noir, from Silvermane to the new Tombstone.

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‘Spider-Noir’ Ending, Explained: Does Ben Reilly Lose His Powers?

Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir wraps up its first season with a shocking twist.

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“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to write a song with just one chord?’ And in the restriction of writing with one chord I found a freedom that I’d never found before”: When Neil Diamond broke new ground with The Band’s Robbie Robertson

“That song had to stay on that one chord to maintain the tension of the whole thing”

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All the Spider-Man characters we know about in Spider-Noir

From Ben Reilly to Electro, here are all the Spider-Man characters we spotted in the Spider-Noir trailer

Total Film

Spider-Noir reviews, release date, cast, trailer, and everything to know about the live-action Spider-Man show

Everything you need to know about upcoming superhero TV show Spider-Noir

Total Film

My Favorite Concert Film Of All Time Turned 48 This Year, And I'm Pumped For My Annual Thanksgiving Day Rewatch

A final farewell from a phenomenal band.

Cinemablend

Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese’s cocaine-fuelled bromance is the basis of a bracing memoir

THE READING LIST: ‘Maybe the rock’n’roll lifestyle I had brought into Marty’s life was to blame for his plight,’ worries the late guitarist of The Band in this bracing account. Patrick Smith enjoys a window into their decades-long friendship

The Independent UK

Guitar dealer to the stars Norman Harris on George Harrison, Marty McFly and his secret stash

A new documentary reveals the man behind the unassuming shopfront, who sells instruments to the likes of Slash, Dave Grohl – and Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow

The Guardian - UK

Drowned in drink and lost in legend: The forgotten genius of The Band’s Richard Manuel

INTERVIEW: It’s hard to overstate the influence that The Band had on music, inspiring everyone from Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton to The Beatles and Elton John. Less talked about is the influence that singer-songwriter Richard Manuel had on The Band. Jim Farber speaks to the late musician’s contemporaries, and…

The Independent UK

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Guitar World

Played by everyone from Magic Sam and Otis Rush to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robbie Robertson, Noel Gallagher, and Robben Ford, the Riviera remains Epiphone's semi-hollow superstar

The Riviera played a crucial role in Epiphone's evolution through the New York jazz clubs of the 1920s, '50s electric blues, to today’s vibrant, diverse scene – and it might be the brand's GOAT

Guitar World

“I met Joe when he was 12. He picked up a vintage guitar in one store and they told him to leave. But someone said, ‘This guy called Norm will let you play his stuff’”: The unlikely rise of Norman’s Rare Guitars and the birth of the vintage guitar market

Just in time for a new Netflix doc, GW sits down with Norman Harris – owner of Tarzana, California’s iconic Norman’s Rare Guitars – to discuss 50 years of sales, his kinship with Joe Bonamassa, and what the future holds for the guitar institution

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"Their music is as aggressively and pretentiously dull as their choice of band name": The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters

For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio

The Independent UK

Struck down, struck gold: The curious history of the posthumous Oscar

OSCARS 2025: Heath Ledger, Peter Finch and Walt Disney are among the most famous stars to win Oscars after their deaths, something that is more common than you might at first think, writes Geoffrey Macnab

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Last surviving member of The Band Garth Hudson dead aged 87

After a career that saw his group churn out hits including ‘The Weight’, iconic multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson has died aged 87.

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Garth Hudson, one of the men who helped Bob Dylan go electric, has died

Keyboard player Garth Hudson, who also played with Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Roger Waters and more, has died aged 87

The Guardian - UK

Garth Hudson obituary

Innovative organist with the Band, the rock group who changed the way their contemporaries thought about music

The Independent UK

Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician, has died at age 87

Evening Standard

Last original member of The Band Garth Hudson dies aged 87

He was praised as a ‘musical genius and cornerstone of the group’s timeless sound’.

Louder

"A unique album, bursting with intelligence, creativity, and shining musicianship": Bob Dylan creates a watershed in the history of music with Blonde On Blonde

Blonde On Blonde is the album that saw Bob Dylan complete the transition from folk to rock artist

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All-New Venom #1 explained - Everything you need to know about the four potential mystery hosts, their new enemies, and the classic Venom host who's still in the picture

Everything you need to know about All-New Venom #1 and its big mystery

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