“Endings create new beginnings, and even though it was a hard decision to make, I believe there is a bright musical journey ahead of me”: Floor Jansen has exited Nightwish
“You get the full blast of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and myself. This would always be the track that I would refer to as being The One”: Carl Palmer reveals his all-time greatest ELP song – and it’s not Fanfare!
“I never have had a shortage of riffs because I don’t place all the weight on them. I place it on the storytelling”: We enter the studio of soundtrack overlord Tyler Bates
“You have influenced more popular drummers in the last 30 years than any drummer I can think of”: Billy Corgan lavishes praise on Travis Barker
Justice confirmed as Grand Theft Auto VI soundtrack composers: electronic music duo get the Rockstar seal of approval
A new Blondie album, featuring Clem Burke’s final sessions, is coming out in early 2027: “Grounded in the present, shaped by who we are and how we’re living now”
“There is a lot riding on this one”: Fender’s overhauled American Professional line has officially dropped – Guitar World editors react
“Darrell died three weeks after we signed the contract. We’re finally doing what we planned to do – and I’m doing it for Darrell”: The battle to bring Dimebag’s guitar designs to life – the way he intended
16-year-old America’s Got Talent winner Nene Royal joins Avenged Sevenfold onstage: “They asked for me”
“I see so many people online doing it wrong. I still haven’t, to this day, seen anyone play the secret note that’s in that solo”: Europe’s John Norum on shredding with Yngwie, holding Greeny, and the secret note in his Final Countdown solo
“Can this $999 multi-scale seven-string strike fear in its opposition?”: Cort KX507MS Pale Moon review
“I said, ‘Dad, what you did with The Beatles was kind of amazing, wasn’t it?’ He looked at me and said, ‘Not as amazing as Brian Wilson’”: Giles Martin on the overwhelming talent of Brian Wilson
How to reamp synths and drum machines to build power and presence: “The whole thing has this real sense of space, a sense that something happened in a room and I recorded it, rather than some guy with a mouse”
“They advised us not to do the show. They said it would kill him”: Sharon Osbourne reveals Ozzy did Back to the Beginning against doctors’ advice
“It’s shocking and I was really depressed. Just the optics of it were just awful and I’m speechless”: Former Beach Boys star Al Jardine reveals his sadness over ex-bandmate Mike Love’s very public decline
