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“Kirk Hammett gave me one of his Greenies. I’ve been having fun with that”: Alex Lifeson is taking a Metallica signature guitar on the road with him for Rush’s reunion

The gift from Kirk Hammett is about to make prog history

Guitar World

Lizzo Has Shut Down Accusations That She ‘Shaded’ Taylor Swift

Marie Claire

‘Bowie compared us to T Rex. Couldn’t get any better’: the Mekons on how they made Where Were You?

‘It’s about loneliness, really. It was the total opposite of that “It’s Friday night, let’s have sex” macho mentality that was in most rock music at the time’

The Guardian - UK

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: May 25, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Darkness, Foo Fighters, The Warning and more

Louder

"It's a song that we have not played for many, many years. No, it's not Alexander The Great..." Watch Iron Maiden dust off Seventh Son classic for the first time in 38 years at Greece show on fan-shot video

The band kicked off their 2026 Run For Your Lives dates at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens this weekend

Metal Hammer

"Bob Mould throttles his Stratocaster like he caught it breaking into his house." A reunited Sugar roll back the years with a deafening, joyous return to London

Sugar make their first UK appearances in more than 30 years – and suddenly it feels like 1994 again

Louder

“I couldn’t tell who it was. When he turned around, I went, ’Oh my God! That’s Jimmy Page!’” The words of encouragement a Led Zeppelin legend gave Gus G after he joined Ozzy Osbourne’s band

One minute you're getting your makeup on for a photo shoot with your new boss, the next your sitting down with Jimmy Page

Guitar World

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"I’ve suffered from panic disorders my entire life. I thought I was just losing my mind." How Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong wrote a game-changing three-minute classic in a basement surrounded by pizza boxes

Basket Case was not an overnight success –far from it

Louder

Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody

After three unlikely Top 10 albums in the 90s, the trio are back – and on the basis of this rapid-fire set, you hope they’ll stick around

The Guardian - UK

“I began writing a song in my head about the drudgery of being an astronaut. An entire verse fell out of my mind and onto the page”: The classic song that transformed Elton John into a global superstar

“Unfortunately, people identify it with David Bowie’s Space Oddity”

MusicRadar

“By using Sellotape I could make it play two preset rhythms at the same time, creating cool beats”: 50 years ago this summer, Jean-Michel Jarre began making the album that took electronic music global

'Dum da da da dem. Dum da da da dum.' You know the one…

MusicRadar

“You’re not going to get the perfect guitar just because it’s old and cool and original and worth money”: Eric Johnson tells us why vintage is not always best (even if he regrets selling his ’54 Strat)

The guitar-tone guru reflects on the instruments that have passed through his hands, and offers some advice for anyone shopping for a new guitar

Guitar World

“My first show was 10 days after Dave Grohl called me… I was out-of-body pretty much the whole time”: How Jason Falkner went from St. Vincent and Beck to a last-minute tour with Foo Fighters

When the veteran guitarist filled in for Pat Smear, he had to learn 23 songs in four days

Guitar World

Steely Dan’s The Royal Scam turns 50 this month – and it's a brilliant test of your hi-fi’s chops

Aja is considered the band’s sonic pinnacle, but its predecessor gives your system just as much of a challenge

What Hi-Fi?

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“I had a little too much Jack Daniels and went to sleep. Early the next morning, I woke up to Eric and George playing ukuleles at the foot of my bed”: The first time session pro George Terry met a Beatle

Terry was Clapton's guitarist in the 1970s, and through Slowhand he was able to meet a particularly famous face

Guitar World

“I didn’t know much about Rory until I went to music college. I fell in love with his style right away”: Meet Spencer Mackenzie, the Canadian blues-rock maestro covering Rory Gallagher and learning when to unleash his “ginormous” lead tone

Mackenzie says he’s learning all the time to control the dynamic between sweet and acoustic and "rip-your-face-off" drive sounds – and you can hear it on new album, Empty Chairs

Louder

"He stopped and said 'This is where the opera section comes in!' Then we went out to eat dinner." How Freddie Mercury's "fevered brain" conjured up Queen's greatest song

Queen's record company didn't want to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single, but history has proved them wrong several times

Guitar World

“Gary walked in and goes, ‘Alright, today’s the day.’ At the end, he came over, shook my hand, and goes, ‘Unbelievable job. I couldn’t ask for any better’”: The first time Rickey Medlocke played Lynyrd Skynyrd’s iconic Free Bird guitar solo

Medlocke rejoined Lynyrd Skynyrd as their new guitar player in the early 1990s, and one of his main responsibilities ever since has been to tackle Allen Collins’ legendary lead effort

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“It pissed Neil Peart off. He went back to his room and went, ‘F**k, f**k, f**k – I can’t say no to that guy!’” The one and only reason Rush’s R40 tour actually happened

The drummer had already decided to retire. But a wounded Alex Lifeson brought the only argument that made the classic line-up’s 2015 final road trip a reality

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane review – at 83, his gift for melody still astounds

From nostalgic returns to his Liverpool childhood to a crazed Glastonbury fantasia, these are songs written with real purpose and a master’s finesse

The Independent UK

Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane review: Charming and, in places, quite sexy for an octogenarian

4/5 Aided by producer wunderkind Andrew Watt, McCartney delivers some of his most personal and introspective songwriting in years, and makes amends for a few recent misfires

The Independent UK

Drake achieves unprecedented record as his three new albums top charts

The Canadian rapper is the first artist in the history of the Billboard charts to have his albums occupy the top three positions simultaneously

International Business Times UK

Taylor Swift, Lizzo 'Feud' Explained: Rapper Silences Trolls Over Claims She Talked Dirt on Travis Kelce's Fiancee

Lizzo has pushed back against fresh internet claims that she bad‑mouthed Taylor Swift, insisting she has never spoken ill of the pop star and pointing to a long track record of public support.

Bangkok Post

Let nationalism arise only in contest

The May 7 decision by the Cabinet to cancel MoU 44 was another disappointing setback in the twisted saga of struggle with Cambodia over land borders and overlapping maritime claims.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music

Editorial: The trumpeter, composer and band leader still towers over jazz because he treated reinvention not as a betrayal, but as necessary for its survival

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