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“Let’s go nefew!”: Snoop Dogg’s biopic is flying high with young star to step into the rapper’s sneakers
By Daniel Griffiths published
After years of planning, it’s all systems ‘yo’ at Universal Pictures

Gibson has just unveiled a new Les Paul like no other
By Jonathan Horsley published
It’s a Les Paul, sure, and with a bookmatched AAA flame maple top, too. Only this one is reimagined as a parlour-sized acoustic guitar

Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr on that time he took Duane Allman’s '57 Goldtop to a Metallica show
By Jonathan Horsley published
Starr's first Metallica show was in 1989. His second was in 2019, and involved two of the most iconic Les Pauls of all time, and it was the day he learned Hetfield sounds the same through a Princeton

“He's making up lies”: Did Sharon Osbourne just boot a band off the Black Sabbath megagig?
By Daniel Griffiths published
A new interview with Sharon Osbourne reveals that she had to give one act the boot. And fans have been quick to speculate as to who’s out of favour

"A tape delay plugin that finally sounds like the real thing": Heritage Audio takes on the legendary Echoplex with its TAPEoPLEX plugin
By Matt Mullen published
Favoured by Brian May, Jimmy Page and Joe Satriani, the Echoplex is one of history's most iconic effects units

Omar recalls the unusual reason why his first attempt to record with Stevie Wonder came to nothing
By Ben Rogerson published
“So that was the end of that session,” he remembers

“You’re used to Ozzy running around, but he won’t be doing that”: Tony Iommi's "fear” ahead of Ozzy’s farewell show
By Paul Elliott published
The guitarist insists that this is "absolutely the end" for Ozzy and for Sabbath

"I was just, like, shocked:” Scooter Braun says he didn’t see the Taylor Swift feud coming
By Daniel Griffiths published
"When I bought Big Machine, I thought I was going to work with all the artists on Big Machine. I thought it was going to be an exciting thing.”
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