Billy Gibbons remembers late ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard: “Frank didn’t mind being beardless. After all, he had the name”
“I was nervous. I said, ‘Hi, Keith. Ron Wood might have mentioned me…’” Nils Lofgren on the time he put his name forward to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones
Brandon Flowers says that every major label passed on Mr Brightside: “They would say, ‘When did you record this song again? What producer did you bring in?’ And it’s like, ‘No, that’s the same song. It’s exactly the same recording that you heard before’”
“It reacts to your playing every bit as well as premium pedals over three times the price”: Boss BD-2 Blues Driver review
“There’s not a night that passes when that doesn’t still sting”: When Skrillex shared with us his anger at having four years of his work stolen
Frank Beard, ZZ Top drummer, dies aged 77: “I made him jam for eight hours straight until his tongue just fell out. By the time we stopped, we both knew we had a band”
“We’re encouraged by the impact these measures are having”: McDonalds branch gets rid of teenage trouble by playing classical music
“People often crack jokes about that album. We had that dreadful picture on the cover with the three of us looking like the Bee Gees, and I’m thinking, ‘This is wrong’”: Carl Palmer on the disastrous album that led ELP to break up
Fancy recording an EP at the world-famous Real World Studios?: “Our goal is to find talent and provide the facilities and support to let them flourish in a way they wouldn’t be able to otherwise”
Behringer’s Daft Punk-approved, cult-classic MIDI controller has been reborn as the BCR32 – and now it’s a hardware sequencer too
“We would speak for about a year after he passed on – he was very, very present”: Twin Peaks and Dune’s Alicia Witt tells us how the late David Lynch guided her new album
“To completely ignore written music is to deny yourself acres of inspiration”: It’s time to finally learn music theory – Start here with our basic notation overview
“I don’t know how many times I’ve told you about swinging that thing”: Rob Thomas smacks his Matchbox Twenty bandmate with a mic stand
