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Linkin Park's Chester Bennington talks Dead By Sunrise
Linkin Park's Chester Bennington calls his new band Dead By Sunrise. But the singer-songwriter is quick to stress that the name isn't simply a slogan or a neat word grouping - it comes from a real-life struggle he's still trying to reconcile.
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Next week on MusicRadar: Riff Week
So what the hell is a riff anyway? There are numerous definitions out there, but most are along these lines: "a short rhythmic musical phrase which may be repeated often during a piece." Through the decades as folk begat blues, blues ...
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Competition: Win a Metallica limited-edition DVD box
Metallica are poised to release a live DVD entitled Francais Pour Une Nuit (translation: French For One Night) on 23 November, and MusicRadar has snagged a limited-edition box loaded with goodies for one lucky winner of our contest.
Filmed at ...
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MusicRadar Daily: Ringo recruits Paul, MTV graph, Little Gem amp
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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12 exceedingly good musical instrument cakes
With the weekend fast approaching and, inspired by Kate Steffens' Straight Outta Chocolate Cake collection (as featured on MusicRadar Daily via LA Weekly ) - "edible interpretations of album covers and musicians" – MusicRadar has ...
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MusicRadar Daily: Marshall Pudsey stack, DIY MIDI, Hucknall for Faces?
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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30 Seconds To Mars debut Kings And Queens video
Thirty Seconds To Mars have unveiled the video to Kings And Queens, the first single from their hotly anticipated new album, This Is War (to be released 7 December), and after one look all we can say is...Epic!
Directed by Bartholomew ...
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Aerosmith: WTF is really going on?
Aerosmith's recent dramas involving singer Steven Tyler are becoming music's newest drinking game: down a shot every time a band member says something about the trouble-plagued vocalist and you'll wind up smashed in no time.
At a book signing ...
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Bob Dylan gets all Christmas in Must Be Santa video
Only a guy named Robert Allen Zimmerman can get you in the Christmas Spirit in mid-November, but by George, that's just what Bob Dylan has done on his new album Christmas In The Heart.
Dylan even appears in the video to one of the songs, Must ...
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Santa Claus
MusicRadar Daily: Dancepants, toilet tracks, Roll Harris + Quo = Christmas
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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Weird instrument of the day: electronically modified didgeridoo
No, it's not Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It's Kyle Evans and his electronic didgeridoo.
Kyle Evans is a UK-based musician and electronic gizmo kind of guy. He's come up with all sorts of strange instruments and gadgets, and his latest ...
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Would Johnny Marr reform The Smiths for $1,000?
Johnny Marr is talking way too much. That's not exactly a problem - except for the fact that the two of us are riding the elevator in New York City's Warner Brothers Records building and he's already giving me answers to questions I'm due to ask in ...
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MusicRadar Daily: NME's LPs of the decade, outdated tech in hip-hop, DIY 2x4 bass
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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Alicia Keys debuts new songs for NYU students
Alicia Keys's fourth studio album, The Element Of Freedom, is due out 14 December, and the multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter debuted some of her new songs in an unlikely setting: New York University.
Backed by a four-piece ...
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The Beatles or The Stones? with The Cribs
Guitar legend Johnny Marr and his new Cribs bandmate Ryan Jarman sat down with MusicRadar in New York City the other day for an extended interview, which we will bring to you tomorrow.
During our ...
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MusicRadar Daily: Buckethead Les Paul, EastEnders remix, vintage synth trump cards
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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Duff McKagan: Them Crooked Vultures aren't a 'supergroup'
Duff McKagan is effusive in his praise of Them Crooked Vultures, the brand-new rock trio formed by drummer Dave Grohl, guitarist-vocalist Josh Homme and bassist John Paul Jones.
Sure, the three Vultures have stellar pedigrees (Grohl in Nirvana ...
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MusicRadar Daily: Apple Tablet patent?, beware fake Gibsons, top 10 pick squealers
Updated every weekday morning, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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Guitar World
Queen
Beatles unused Jim Dine album artwork for sale
Graphics for an album The Beatles never made, created by acclaimed Pop artist Jim Dine and commissioned by Capitol Records in 1968, is scheduled for auction on 17 November in Los Angeles.
The five works called Untitled (John, Paul, George, Ringo ...
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Mike Campbell on 30 years with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Mike Campbell admits that, of all the records he's made with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, the hardest to get right might be the upcoming Live Anthology - and he didn't even have to pick up his guitar for it.
"It was quite an ...
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MusicRadar Daily: RHCP announce gig, pig bone flutes, cool pedalboard accessories
Updated every weekday morning, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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30 Seconds To Mars post more teaser clips
Jared Leto declares 'War' © Tim Mosenfelder/Corbis
Thirty Seconds To Mars have released the next batch of teaser clips in anticipation of their upcoming album This Is War.
As we reported yesterday , each video contains a code that ...
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VIDEO: Steven Tyler tells Joe Perry he's not quitting Aerosmith
Steven Tyler surprised Joe Perry on stage last night (10 November) to tell him - and a NYC concert audience - that he was not leaving Aerosmith.
"I just want New York to know, I am not leaving Aerosmith," Tyler told the crowd at The ...
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MusicRadar Daily: Tyler 'not quitting Aerosmith', Mogwai trailer, THX-certified mic
Updated every weekday morning, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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MusicRadar Daily: Grohl "knew" Cobain destiny, Mogwai trailer, THX-certified mic
Updated every weekday morning, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: 30 Seconds To Mars talk This Is War
Jared Leto knows a thing or two about filmmaking, and he's putting it all to good use in promoting This Is War, the upcoming album from his band Thirty Seconds To Mars.
Teaser clips (featured below) are already appearing on YouTube. Apparently, ...
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Bon Jovi's The Circle reviewed
Judging by some early notices, you'd think that on The Circle, Bon Jovi's 11th studio album, the Jersey boys have committed some unpardonable sin along the lines of Sonic Youth employing standard tunings or Trent Reznor getting all La Vida Loca ...
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"I'm just a guitar player"
Issue 321 of Guitarist magazine published a huge tribute feature to Les Paul, who died 13 August 2009. Spanning his early life, musical and technical achievements, they explored the legacy left by The Wizard Of Waukesha. A little under six ...
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Mick Taylor
MusicRadar Daily: 3-day Jarvis Cocker gallery gig, Them Crooked Vultures stream, lost Stooges tracks
Updated every weekday morning, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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Steven Tyler quits Aerosmith
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry said today that singer Steven Tyler has quit the band. This comes after a concert by the group in Abu Dhabi.
"Steven quit as far as I can tell," Perry told the Las Vegas Sun. Speaking from his home in ...
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Midge Ure launches website for new artists
PRESS RELEASE: Live 8 legend Midge Ure is launching a new revolutionary campaign – but this time his appeal is for a fair deal for new and independent artists. Tunited is a groundbreaking new independent music website which will assist new and ...
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MusicRadar Daily: Disney World sound design, Morrisey bottled, Elvis hair auctioned
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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AC/DC fans to band: Change your freakin' setlist!
AC/DC have long been a band that resists change - and it's worked out well for them. Until now. A group of devout fans are demanding that AC/DC change its setlist.
Apparently, the Black Ice tour has featured the same songs in the same order ...
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Zakk Wylde on his Ozzy split, his health and the future
Zakk Wylde is on a roll. The man known for reducing concert stages across the world to splinters with his blazing acts of guitar heroics is riffing alright, but it's not what you'd expect. He's acting out Seinfeld shows. Many of them. He must ...
MusicRadar Daily: U2's Berlin wall, 99 albums mash-up, rock 'n' roll cakes
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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VIDEO: Pearl Jam as Devo? Believe it!
We know...you still think of Pearl Jam as that uber-serious, non-party band. Certainly not the kind of jokesters who'd dress up like Devo, right?
Wrong-o.
At the conclusion of the group's 41-song, three-hour-and-35-minute set(!) last weekend ...
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Pete Wentz: 'Fall Out Boy aren't breaking up'
Pete Wentz finds it "odd and slightly amusing" that his band, Fall Out Boy, is issuing a greatest hits collection.
After all, it's been only four years since the Illinois-based foursome released their major-label debut, the ...
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MusicRadar Daily: Bono 'teaches' Jay-Z, Guitar toilet seats, No Doubt sue over their Band Hero likenesses
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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EMI sues BlueBeat.com over Beatles digital downloads
The Beatles' catalogue is still available for free streaming and digital download purchase on BlueBeat.com - despite the fact that EMI is now suing the US-based website.
EMI, which distributes The Beatles' recordings via an agreement with ...
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Dave Grohl: Greatest Hits feels like an "obituary"
The Foo Fighters' Greatest Hits was released this week, but the band's frontman, guitarist and singer Dave Grohl, doesn't sound too thrilled about it, likening it to "an obituary."
In an interview with The BBC, Grohl revealed that the ...
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WTF? VIDEO: Weezer and...Kenny G?
Weezer and Kenny G together on the same stage makes us certain of one thing: the apocalypse is indeed upon us.
'Tis true. The king of easy-listening sax schmaltz joined Rivers Cuomo and co during a taping of AOL Sessions for an otherwise ...
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VIDEO: Zakk Wylde's Epiphone Graveyard Disciple guitar in action
Zakk Wylde officially unveiled his new Epiphone Graveyard Disciple guitar in New York City this past weekend, and he gave MusicRadar an exclusive look and listen to his latest - and craziest - creation.
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Slash "wanted to get Jack White" on his solo album
With the speculation about special guests continuing in earnest, Slash revealed to MusicRadar that the one artist he couldn't pin down to play on his forthcoming solo album was The White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather star Jack White. ...
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The Beatles' remasters released on apple flash drive
It isn't quite the 'Beatles back catalogue available digitally' news that fans of the band have been waiting for, but the Fab Four are at least taking their first steps into the world of noughts and ones with the limited edition release of a 16GB ...
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MusicRadar Daily: new Beatles song, KOL's clothing line, Lego synths
Updated every weekday at 10am, MusicRadar Daily is our regular serving of the most popular features, weirdest gear, coolest blogs, hottest videos and all-round coolest music-making links from around the net, as found by the team and the ...
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Neil Peart says Rush are poised for "reinvention"
Neil Peart has taken to his website to discuss to state of Rush. According to the acclaimed drummer, the band will convene in Los Angeles very soon to discuss their next recording, the follow-up to 2007's Snakes & Arrows.
"We learned ...
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BLOG: Classic Rock Awards 2009
"It's quite an experience to be in a room packed with almost every one of your heroes" said Joe Bonamassa in accepting the Breakthrough gong at last night's Classic Rock Awards. It's a sentiment we have to admit to sharing. On arrival ...
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Ronnie Wood
Jeff Beck
Win £1000 worth of Yamaha music gear!
Yamaha has unveiled a new online resource for anyone serious about playing and producing music. Yamaha Download features artist interviews, news, reviews and tutorials, and by signing up (and voting – more on that in a sec) you'll get the ...
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The Beatles or The Stones? with Zakk Wylde
Zakk Wylde sprawls his massive frame on the couch in his Manhattan hotel suite and gulps coffee. This is his second cup since I've been in the room, and the guitarist will have several more during the course of our interview.
"Caffeine's ...
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MusicRadar Daily: albums of the decade, heavy metal design, Sonic Fabric
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