Nick Cracknell

Welsh metal stars Bullet for my Valentine have been forced to cancel the remaining US dates of their Taste of Chaos tour due to a family illness.

A new report says school kids are influenced by gender when they pick a musical instrument to learn - which is apparently why girls don't play the guitar and boys don't play the flute.

Cedella Marley Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, died at her Miami home on Tuesday aged 81.

Ska-punk stalwarts Less Than Jake and The Subways are headlining NASS '08, the country's biggest action sports and music event, at the Bath and West Showground this June.

It's the question that bugs every guitarist each time they pick up their axe - how do I write the next 'Smoke On The Water' or 'Purple Haze'?

Seymour Duncan is offering guitarists (and bassists) the chance to win prizes in an exclusive contest on YouTube from 1st May.

Guitars, girls and rock stars... are all part of the awesome Paradise City event taking place in London tomorrow night!

Arena rockers Def Leppard are to release their comeback single Nine Lives exclusively through video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

British string makers Rotosound are celebrating 50 years in business with a huge redesign.

Rock titans Rage Against The Machine, The Killers and Metallica are the headlining acts at this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals from 22nd to 24th August.

Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has dismissed reports that the band will split up following its current European tour.

Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland announced the band's split then lashed out at his drummer for protesting!

Queen plan to Rock The Cosmos with a four month world tour heralding in their first studio album in 13 years.

The Godfather of Grunge Neil Young is to headline a unique new UK festival...

One of central London's most legendary rock venues the Astoria will be pulled down to make way for a bigger tube station.

KISS axeman Paul Stanley reckons modern bands are "useless" and rock and roll is "in a pathetic state."

Eddie Van Halen, and thus the band Van Halen, has decided to take a month off touring to deal with an undisclosed illness. This means the postponement of seventeen US dates.

Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society is headlining a 48-hour maelstrom of rock and metal at Hard Rock Hell's Dragon's Ball in North Wales this December...

The Punk and Metal fraternity is stepping out in style on 30th March to support new Bristol Rock School...

Portsmouth’s Nevada Music site is now up and running. The same generous folk who gave TG a signed Ibanez Steve Vai Jem7V to give away a few ishes back, Nevada Music’s newly launched website cost over £100,000 to develop and is fast becoming THE reliable source for online guitar shopping.

TG has teamed up with Revolver Entertainment to give away five copies of the acclaimed new documentary on late Nirvana guitarist Kurt Cobain.