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Of The Highest Order

Following the release of recent 4K-rated album ORDER IN DECLINE, Canadian pop-punk superstars SUM 41 are keeping the good news coming as they join SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL as co-headliners! And that’s not all that’s been announced for the epic 2020 bill…

House Of Gold

GOLD KEY isolate themselves in a Welsh cottage to record their new album

The Man Behind The Myths

The legend of MOTÖRHEAD is one that was first forged 40 years ago with the release of their timeless albums OVERKILL and BOMBER. No one embodied that reputation more, though, than the band’s leader, LEMMY. A friend of the man born Ian Fraser Kilmister for the best part of three decades, Kerrang!’s Mörat celebrates the wit, charm and humour of a rock’n’roll lifer...

'I Used To Do A Lot Fucking Drugs… I Believed The Bullshit Myth Of Live Fast And Die Young'

Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins And The Coattail Riders

Loathing

COUNTERPARTS HAS ALWAYS SERVED AS BRENDAN MURPHY’S WAY OF DEALING WITH THE STRUGGLES HE’S ENCOUNTERED IN LIFE. WITH A NEW ALBUM SET FOR RELEASE, WE FIND OUT JUST HOW HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIMSELF AND HIS BAND HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS.

In Bloom

IT HASN’T BEEN AN EASY JOURNEY SO FAR FOR DREAM STATE AND CJ GILPIN, BUT WITHOUT THAT JOURNEY, THEIR NEW ALBUM ‘PRIMROSE PATH’ WOULDN’T BE THE PIECE OF ART IT IS. THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW FACING HER DEMONS HEAD-ON HAS HELPED TO PRODUCE ONE OF THE YEAR’S MOST COMPELLING DEBUTS.

Bending Rules Combining Bending & Tapping

For the final instalment of this series, Guthrie is looking at various ways to combine string bending with picking-hand tapping techniques, with some typically surprising results.

Soloing With 4th Intervals

John Wheatcroft continues his exploration of 4th intervals, putting them to work to create modern sounding lines that will turn heads at the jam session.

Fretboard Fluency

Martin Goulding brings you the second part in his series examining the Harmonic Minor scale, where he looks at its chords and all seven modes.

Rocco Zifarelli Video Masterclass

In the first instalment of this six-part video feature, Rocco Zifarelli demonstrates some smooth soloing over a fast-paced, blues fusion backing track. Jon Bishop is your guide.

Red Hot Blues! - Speed Up Your Blues With Flashy Fretting!

Always wanted to fly around the neck like your blues-rock heroes? Well, now you can get the ‘wow factor’ into your solos with Andy Saphir‘s 10 essential legato exercises and all-star legato speed jam.

Mixolydian Solo With Pentatonic Scales

More useful five-note scales that exist within Mixolydian with Shaun Baxter. This time creating Pentatonic scales from the 2nd note.

Show Me

’Show Me’ by Molly Hammar featuring Kim Cesarion is a gorgeous narration of a summer love story.

Matter Of Tact

Hailing from Germany and now residing in Brussels, the producer and DJ likes to dabble in a mix of urban and electronic music styles.

Elrow Town London 2019

The most weird, wonderful and magical show in underground music that is Elrow returned to the party capital of England for its 3rd edition of Elrow Town London, and they did not disappoint.

Alice Rowe Phase

‘Phase’ by Alice Rowe is the story of a girl rising up through the storm, not taking any nonsense anymore. You ain’t worth my time. Her sultry voice has a lovely mix of raspiness and sweetness. The slinky summery production allows your body to sway gently. You were just a phase, time to move on.

Rebekah

Birmingham-born musician Rebekah makes club music that combines distorted aggression with pristine sound design. Danny Turner casts an eye over the uncompromising producer’s Berlin-based studio

Extreme Effects

Effect processors are essential for all music makers, but if you’re just using them to mix or fix recording issues, you’re missing out on a vast world of sonic creativity. Let’s push those processors to the extremes and see how we can turn simple sounds into something unique. Let’s head down the rabbit hole...

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

A haunting search for peace of mind.

Novation Summit £1,899

With its aftertouch-enabled keyboard, juicy new features and twin Peaks, the new flagship from Novation sounds like a dream. Dan ‘JD73’ Goldman scales the Summit!

Still Out Of Sight

James Brown’s backing singer for 32 years, now Martha High has a bag of her own…

Joris Voorn

Globally recognised DJ/producer Joris Voorn is at the fulcrum of the Dutch dance scene with his instantly recognisable take on techno. Danny Turner peers into his plush Amsterdam studio, home to his forthcoming album

'When Otis Sang, We Had A Sense Of Destiny' An Audience With Booker T Jones

As he prepares to publish his fascinating life story, the funky Hammond maestro and key architect of the Stax soul sound talks Otis Redding, CSNY and why he’s still never seen a cricket match

Jacques Greene

The second album from Canadian producer Philippe Aubin-Dionne filters memories of club nights through a prism of emotive synths and ‘sampled’ production techniques. Si Truss found out more…

'How High's The Water, Bob?'

Fifty years ago, BOB DYLAN and JOHNNY CASH holed up for two days in Columbia’s fabled Studio A in Nashville. The sessions, never officially released until now, caught these two titans of American music at pivotal moments in their respective careers. With the release of Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol 15, the full story of this legendary summit can finally be told. Graeme Thomson examines the latest revelations from the Dylan archives, hearing tales of velvet suits, trips to the circus and nocturnal shenanigans at the Black Poodle in Printer’s Alley. “There was an incredible electricity,” says one eyewitness.

Bensley: Hard Times Ft. Emer Dineen

Genre-hopping RAM Records protégé Peter Bennett aka Bensley’s second album Muskoka is a grab-bag of different styles, from wonky breakbeat workouts to soundtrack-like synth soundscapes. Future Music caught up with the cunning Canadian at London’s Dairy Studios to find out how he created one of the album’s highlights, the jazzy, sax-laden DnB roller, Hard Times

The Who

Diamond Who-ha: rock legends’ late-life tour de force.

SPIRITED AWAY

It began with a childhood vision of heaven. After a lifetime’s exploration, it encompasses self-doubt, superlative sounds and, er, emotional yoga sessions. Gallic post-metal duo ALCEST‘s story is very much one-of-a-kind. Frontman NEIGE gets spiritual…

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

Sixteen months on from their Best British Breakthrough triumph at the 2018 Kerrang! Awards, debut album PRIMROSE PATH marks DREAM STATE’s first bid for global success. Having survived the worst that life has to offer, they show us around streets of their native South Wales to relive their mission of escape…

IT'S STILL NOTHING PERSONAL

Ten years on from the release of their career-defining record NOTHING PERSONAL, ALL TIME LOW are getting lost in stereo all over again by re-recording the album’s 12 songs for a very special anniversary edition…