Latest articles by Will Groves
Tributes paid to "Sultan of Twang", Duane Eddy, who has died aged 86
Rebel Rouser instrumentalist was massively influential founding father of rock 'n' roll
"Check your attic": Lost Lennon Help! guitar tipped to beat the current $2.4m Beatles auction record
Could it eclipse the $6m bill for Cobain's MTV unplugged acoustic?
Jacob Collier calls Rick Rubin's creative manifesto "absolutely false"
Musical polymath takes issue with bearded superproducer
"The biggest free music-making weekend of the year’: Learn to Play event returns for 2024
UK-wide extravaganza will offer 1000s of free taster lessons to players and singers
Win a residency at a top London studio and the chance to perform with Amy Winehouse's band
Hurry though - entries for this potential big break close this week
"I never intended the statement to mean 'Paul McCartney quits Beatles'... It was all a misunderstanding": The day the world learned the Fab Four were over
McCartney spilled the beans on this day in 1970
"I named it when I was drunk but I don't remember what the catalyst for that was!": Gibson reveals the Slash “Jessica” Les Paul Standard
Slash's go-to live weapon gets a faithful repro outing
"What a talent. What a character": Tributes to Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel star, who has died aged 73
World Party and The Waterboys star Karl Wallinger has died, aged 66
Waterboys' leader Mike Scott leads tributes, writing "You are one of the finest musicians I've ever known"
"Brit was Blackberry Smoke’s True North, the compass that instituted the ideology that will continue to guide this band": Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner dies, aged 57
Atlanta stalwart's death following cancer battle confirmed by band
The 'difficult' Police hit based on a 1980 Casiotone synth preset: "The first song written by AI," reckons Stewart Copeland
"Those little riffs that they had on them are really cool"
The redcoats are coming: Vox launches "extremely limited" British amp invasion
'Classic vintage red' livery coming to the Vox AC Custom range very soon
Four fab Beatles biopics are on the way: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr will each get a full Sam Mendes movie
Oscar-nominated Bond and American Beauty director aiming to "challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies"
"The one that Johnny gave me in 1994 was always one of my favourite guitars - it carries a lot of history": Gibson and Noel Gallagher reveal strictly-limited run of 20 hand-signed Les Paul Customs
All proceeds will go to the Teenage Charity Trust
The Paul McCartney Beatles song John Lennon hated: "He made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was, and it never could've been"
Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.”
"People are going for the sure shots": Music publishing giants and songwriters score big at Super Bowl 2024, with ad sync fees garnering millions
Billboard Pro sources put even the lowest sync fees at $150k each
"I don’t need some w**k award by some geriatric in a cowboy hat": Liam Gallagher is less than bothered about Oasis' Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination
Other, hopefully keener, 2024 nominees include Ozzy Osbourne, Sinead O’Connor, Jane’s Addiction, and A Tribe Called Quest
“All I want to do is keep doing this”: Taylor Swift makes Grammys history, as female-dominated awards also honour Boygenius, Miley Cyrus, SZA and Billie Eilish
Jack Antonff, accepting Producer award, says "Taylor Swift kicked that f***ing door open for me"
"Brother Wayne Kramer was the best man I’ve ever known": Tributes for MC5 co-founder Wayne Kramer, who has died aged 75
Tom Morello says he "basically invented punk rock music", while Jack White calls Kramer "definitely part of the solution"
"TikTok’s tactics are obvious: use its platform power to hurt vulnerable artists and try to intimidate us": Taylor Swift and The Beatles' label UMG goes to corporate war with "bully" TikTok, saying it will pull its entire catalogue
Universal Media Group accuses social media giant of - amongst other things - "sponsoring artist replacement by AI"
NAMM 2024 live report: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show - as it happened
All the hot new guitars, synths, drums and other products as they're announced
"F**k it – let's go do it": On this day in 1969, John Lennon gave the final green light to The Beatles' legendary rooftop performance
Celebrating an iconic gig on its anniversary: "Someone called from the police station saying, ‘You’ve got 10 minutes'... there was a whole chorus of toilets being flushed.”
Women in the music industry have had "their lives ruined and their careers destroyed by men who have never faced the consequences for their actions" finds scathing report
Misogyny is "endemic" and "the tip of the iceberg"
