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Slash announces blues album featuring Billy Gibbons, Paul Rodgers, Iggy Pop and more, launches video for cover of Killing Floor with Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler

Slash's all-star blues album Orgy Of The Damned will contain songs by Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Steppenwolf, Albert King, Peter Green, The Temptations and more

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“A rare opportunity to explore a unique side of his playing”: Slash hangs up his Les Paul for a 335 in the first taste of his solo blues album – a covers record featuring Brian Johnson, Billy Gibbons, Iggy Pop, Gary Clark Jr. and Demi Lovato

Orgy of the Damned is one of the most eagerly awaited guitar albums of the year, and its lead single – a cover of a Howlin' Wolf classic recorded with AC/DC's Brian Johnson – has been released

Guitar World

Juergen Teller, fashion's most divisive photographer: 'We're in the most uncertain times since World War II'

No photographer divides opinion like Juergen Teller. Not that he cares. He’s too busy shooting, getting naked and re-imagining how we see beauty. Joe Bromley goes in for a close-up

Evening Standard

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"There was a two-minute pause, then everybody broke out laughing. They thought I was doing a joke": What happened the night Jethro Tull beat Metallica to a Grammy Award

Prog rockers Jethro Tull pipped Metallica to win Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Recording award in 1989, and people are still talking about it

Metal Hammer

“We felt it was the right time to let someone else get creative enjoyment out of his perfectly kept studio guitars”: Gear from the late Iggy Pop and David Bowie guitarist Ricky Gardiner’s collection goes to auction

These were Gardiner’s go-to instruments in the studio, featuring on later Beggars Opera releases and his solo material, and they’ve been well looked after

MusicRadar

12 rock stars over 70 who are still delivering the goods

Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant and more are proving that age cannot wither them

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"If anyone tries to tell you that Max’s wasn't a drug den, then they are lying to cover their now-respectable asses": the story of the club that provided a safe haven for New York's creatives, freaks and weirdos

Home to the Velvet Underground, Warhol, Bowie and the New York Dolls, Max’s Kansas City was about so much more than just the music that was played there

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A musical tour of Berlin: from Wagner’s epic opera to techno raves

In our new series, we explore a city through its musical landmarks and songs. First stop, Germany’s hip, historic capital, home to trailblazing clubs and inspiration for Dietrich and Bowie

The Guardian - UK

“Us and them doesn’t exist any more”: How The Cult's Ian Astbury tried to break down genre barriers with his pre-Lollapalooza festival Gathering Of The Tribes, and claimed he got “ripped off” for his trouble

Don't tell Ian Astbury that Perry Farrell invented the concept of the genre-fluid alt. rock festival in the US

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I was like, ‘I ain’t been in another band, I ain’t done this for anybody else before'”: Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on the time he joined Iggy Pop’s band

The Arctic Monkeys man was behind the kit for Iggy's 2016 album Post Pop Depression

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‘We came away awestruck’: 13 writers on Europe’s hidden treasures, from Chagall in Kent to Rome’s secret Caravaggios

David Bowie’s Berlin bolthole and the world’s most stolen artwork in Ghent are among the cultural icons that our writers have long wished to visit

The Guardian - UK

"If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most understood album

Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience

Metal Hammer

I went, ‘Yeah, David Bowie, you’re a complete c*nt'... and that was the start of a 13-year relationship.” Film director Tim Pope on working with Bowie

The director was behind the lens on a number of promo clips and also filmed Bowie's 50th birthday bash

Louder

Game-changers, taste-makers and trend-setters: here are 2023's guitarists of the year

We tip our hats to the players that made 2023 such a defining year in guitar history – and whose achievements we'll be talking about in years to come

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France 24

Photographer Juergen Teller on life, death and baby making

German photographer Juergen Teller gives Eve Jackson a tour of his Paris show "I need to live" at the Grand Palais' massive temporary space in Paris. In the exhibition he displays around 800 works, including photos of Kim Kardashian, Victoria Beckham, Yves Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood, as well as…

Guitar World

“At four in the morning, I got a call from David Bowie. He said they needed a guitar player for Iggy Pop’s album”: As right-hand man for everyone from Mark Knopfler to Eric Clapton, ‘Session Man’ Phil Palmer more than earned his nickname

Armed with a Nocaster given to him by his uncle, the Kinks’ Dave Davies, Palmer became a go-to guitarist for some of music’s biggest names, landing an official role in Dire Straits – and narrowly missing out on playing Clapton’s MTV Unplugged set

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"I was always looking for something beautiful to grasp on to": Duff McKagan on love, God, and the truth of punk

Duff McKagan’s Lighthouse album might be a long way from the music he’s best known for with Guns N' Roses, but it still reflects the punk rocker in him

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“Steve Hogarth is a revelation among an impressive, if seemingly random, array of singers”: Trevor Horn’s Echoes – Ancient & Modern

Pop and prog tracks are presented in a dreamlike state in the follow-up to his 80s collection

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Music show: Ala.ni puts her own 'dark Disney' twist on the Christmas music genre

Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined in the studio by British singer-songwriter Ala.ni for a very festive edition of arts24. Ala.ni has just released the second instalment of her two-part Christmas EP "Christmas Vol.2", a mix of original tracks and covers such as Joni Mitchell’s "River". Her "dark Disney" vocals are…

The Independent UK

Hitchhiking Tom Waits was once picked up by ‘Nature Boy’ songwriter Eden Ahbez

‘It was a big thrill for me,’ US artist tells Iggy Pop in a rare radio appearance

Louder

“Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever

Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

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"He called Chad Smith 'drummer'. Like, 'Drummer, can you hit that on the up beat?' And this is Chad Smith!" Duff McKagan on what it’s like being in a band with punk rock don, Iggy Pop

The Guns N' Roses bassist has played on two Iggy Pop records, and now the former Stooges man has returned the favour

The Independent UK

Doncaster musician Skinny Pelembe: ‘Not everything needs to be such a woe-is-me thing’

Iggy Pop and Grace Jones are fans of his. Annabel Nugent speaks to multi-instrumentalist Doya Beardmore about his genre-hopping sound, leaving Gilles Peterson’s record label, and what real success looks like

The Guardian - UK

A clarinettist doing Munch’s Scream: Mats Bäcker’s best photograph

‘Martin Fröst is the world’s most famous clarinet player and he loves to be photographed. You could call him vain but, like the Beatles, he knows the importance of a strong image’

The Guardian - AU

From pop to classical to avant-garde: the 15 best Sydney Opera House shows to stream for free

The venue is releasing 50 archival films across the next two months, to celebrate its 50th year. Our editors and critics have selected the top picks

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