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"He called me the night before he passed to tell me how much he loved it." Eric Clapton, Brian May, Billy Gibbons, Ronnie Wood guest on posthumous album from the late Steve Cropper

Watching The Tide, the forthcoming album from Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour, will feature a host of guitar legends

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"Sometimes the occasional fool would break out a knife." From defining a genre to wild generator parties and the 90s metal reunion everyone's waiting for, Kyuss legend John Garcia looks back on his life

From Kyuss to Hermano, Slo Burn and Unida, John Garcia helped define a genre. Just don't call him a stoner metal legend.

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Meet the $99 stompbox that’ll crush your bits – JHS expands its affordable 3 Series with three exotic effects for your pedalboard

JHS Pedals unveils a ring modulator, glitch delay and bit crusher that's priced for beginners, because an affordable pedal can be fun and a little weird too

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Aldous Harding: Train on the Island review – even whimsy-resistant listeners will love these lucid, luminous songs

Lyrics about naked owls and eating rocks might be irksome to some – but there’s no denying that the alt-rocker’s fifth album is beguiling, tightly written and richly melodic

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“We were just kids who didn’t know what ‘authentic’ metal was supposed to be”: Babymetal look back on the hate they endured amidst the viral success of breakout single Gimme Chocolate!!

The J-metal idols admit that some of the responses to their 2014 hit were “frightening”

Metal Hammer

“I did 40 tours with it, and never had a problem. It’s my favorite guitar on the planet”: The underrated metal guitar that Nervosa’s Prika Amaral swears by

The pointed axe solves her biggest issues with Flying Vs, and it’s been her trusted globetrotting companion for years

Guitar World

Three years in the making, Bastl Instruments’ quirky Kalimba is a fusion of traditional instrument design and state-of-the-art internals: “Treat it like an acoustic instrument, it will answer like one”

It might feel like a delicate physical instrument, but Bastl’s Kalimba is capable of some seriously impressive synth sounds

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"The drum machine we would want to use and own ourselves": Polyend Drums combines the best of analogue and digital

Drums is a hybrid analogue-digital drum machine "built for immediacy, depth and performance"

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"Immaculately crafted, played and produced, it's classic AOR with just enough grit to her voice to keep it interesting." Linda Perry puts her strengths and vulnerabilities on display for the world to see

Former 4 Non Blondes frontwoman and all-powerful pop songwriter Linda Perry goes solo

Louder

“A lot of Oasis-related gear has come up for sale... but there can’t be that many pre-CBS Strats that were owned by Noel”: Up close and personal with a '63 Strat and '70s Höfner Violin Bass with Oasis and Ocean Colour Scene connections

This 1963 Fender Stratocaster and 70s Höfner 500/1 violin bass guitar recently wentunder the hammer – and, as it turns out, these were Britrock unicorns for collectors

Guitar World

“I was a teenager, so it was just fun. Pretty soon I was getting millions of views – it was crazy”: Laura Cox was a teen guitar sensation. Now she’s throwing the blues-rock rulebook out the window – and finding herself in the process

From the smallest screen in our pockets to the stage and studio, can anyone stop the French garage-blues prodigy from taking her rock sound to the to the masses?

Guitar World

“Blackbox 2 is heir to its own portable sampler throne”: 1010music updates its sampling workstation with a better screen, onboard battery and USB audio streaming

Revamped Blackbox boasts better controls and new features resulting in a “more elegant” workflow

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"If you're partial to the glittering seam of music that runs from The Beatles through Jellyfish and a thousand others, then you're going to love this album." The Lemon Twigs fill a bumper bag of poptastic delight on Look For Your Mind!

Brian and Michael D’Addario continue to effortlessly pluck songs from the rock'n'roll ether

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"Lemmy said: 'I’ve got some friends in Texas. Do you need any weapons?'" After years of trauma, Corrosion Of Conformity are on the comeback trail - for the second time

Stoner-metal icons Corrosion Of Conformity are back in the groove

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"We recorded a river that flows nearby. Some of those sounds are played backwards." Six decades on from the hit that made him a legend, Arthur Brown's world continues to be crazy

On tour throughout 2026, The God Of Hellfire will be unveiling his upcoming album in full later in the year

Guitar World

“In the middle there's this mesh we call ‘the ancient form of weaving.’ Sometimes we cross accidentally!” Ronnie Wood explains his guitar dynamic with Keith Richards at launch for surprise new Rolling Stones album

The album's laundry list of star guest spots were top priority for the launch event Q&A, but arguably more interesting were the nuts-and-bolts insights into how the Stones have musically kept on, well, rolling, for well over 60 years

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“Built on the rhythmic and pitch drift of legendary drum machines”: Sonicware Deconstruct Minimal is a hardware groovebox designed for ‘hypnotic minimal grooves’

The battery-powered beat machine features sampled drums, a loop player and 303-inspired bass synth

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“This is quite a hard guitar to categorise – and perhaps Jacob Collier likes it that way... For the right player, though, it could be the key to experiencing guitar anew”: Taylor Jacob Collier GS Mini 5-String review

Compact, sweet-toned five-string, as quirky as its namesake

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Hear Slipknot’s Corey Taylor rage against social media on new Motionless In White single Playing God: “The internet has gotten worse and worse”

The furious track is taken from the metalcore quintet’s upcoming album Decades

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“Over the past 24 hours, I’ve received hundreds of messages about my current situation. So yes, it’s official: I’ve made the move”: Jared James Nichols switches to Marshall amps

The purveyor of Blues Power says his heart belongs to the sound of a cranked Plexi and Gibson guitars

Guitar World

“Without the added bends, this riff would sound a little stale and boring”: Spiritbox's Mike Stringer shows you how syncopated bends can add extra spice to your metal playing

Your 21st-century metal workshop is in session, as Stringer shows you how to play Spiritbox's Holy Roller

Guitar World

“I was like, ‘God, what do I do? If I sit behind the drums, it makes me sad. If I listen to music, it makes me sad’”: Dave Grohl on life in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's death – and how his switch to guitar and songwriting marked a new chapter

Fresh from the release of Foo Fighters' 12th album, Grohl has looked back on the origins of the multi-decade project that stemmed from intense grief

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"It's time to go. It’s like, you're Gwen Stefani. You don't need No Doubt. You're going to be amazing, right?”: What Linda Perry told Gwen Stefani as she channelled the star's negative energy into her explosive debut single

“I'm like going, ‘What is this girl waiting for?’ You know, like, what is the deal?”

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"I had to run out of the control room, and I found myself standing in the kitchen, sobbing away. James came into the kitchen in the same condition: he was sobbing too." The Metallica song that made both James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett cry

One Metallica song above all others had a profound effect on James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett

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“The whole thing was so exciting for me – to actually have control of my baby for the first time. I was very nervous, too – because you really wonder if you’re capable”: How Kate Bush created a classic single and became a completely self-sufficient auteur

“Singing it in an Irish accent, it comes across in a different way”

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