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February 28
- U2 play a surprise London rooftop gig
February 27
- Kanye West disses Radiohead on VH1 Storytellers
- 5 things we've learned about music this week
- Marshall announces Paul Weller signature amp
- The best of YouTube: #49
- U2 break down No Line On The Horizon formats
- 6 alternative versions of The Simpsons theme
- Kiss's Paul Stanley suffers art attack
- Dragonforce's Dave Mackintosh moves to Meinl cymbals
- Should injured guitarists play on regardless?
- Marshall's New Paul Weller Signature Amp: See it now
- EXCLUSIVE: Killers lawsuit attorneys speak
- MC Hammer reality show coming soon
- Wooden blocks used to control music
February 26
- Reunited Faith No More reveal their lineup
- 10 things you didn't know about Kings Of Leon
- 9 songs that should be on the Watchmen soundtrack
- Stewart Copeland's 6 career-shaping records
- Rick Rubin gets back on the hip-hop horse
- Calvin Harris wins NME award, still not invited to ceremony
- Oasis scoop Best British Band at NME Awards
- Eminem holds the key to 50 Cent's album release
February 25
- Watchmen composer says he's no "comic geek"
- Steven Adler gets his head drilled!
- TG's Solo Special On Sale NOW!
- Win a £5,000 Songwriting Course at ICMP Judged By Amy Macdonald!
- BFMV added to Sonisphere line-up...
- Get your hair cut by Josh Freese...
- INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SUMMIT: FIRST LINE UP REVEALED
- Could you see 100 bands in 100 nights?
- Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
- Behold the Antichrist!
- Starsailor record with Brandon Flowers, Ron Wood
- 21 musician Twitters you should be following
- Bono and The Edge set Spider-Man for Broadway bow
- Depeche Mode debut iTunes Pass service
February 24
- INXS didn't ditch JD Fortune
- Faith No More to reunite for European tour
- Beatles expert discusses unreleased Revolution 1
- 15 iPhone instruments in one app
- Students play interactive performance over Skype
- Interview: Iron Maiden on their enduring appeal
- Meinl Drum Festival goes international!
- Robert Smith blasts "idiot" Radiohead
- Prince covers The Beatles and The Stones at Oscar bash
February 23
- White Stripes make dramatic live return
- Unreleased Beatles Revolution 1 surfaces online
- Hammerfest line-up update...
- Spotify for iPhone shown in video
- 53% think Coldplay copied Joe Satriani
- Sonisphere Festival: More bands added
- Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto at the Academy Awards?
- Gibson kicks off 2009 Limited Run Series with Holy Explorer
- BLOG: Glastonbury 2009 is fossilised rock
- Now 'new Mac mini' appears in video
February 22
- U2's label leaked No Line On The Horizon
February 21
- BLOG: No Line On The Horizon is U2's finest hour
- Chickenfoot release hilarious promo
February 20
- 6 things we've learned about music this week
- Louie Bellson dies
- The best of YouTube: #48
- New Mac mini photo leaked?
- 10 reasons why Iron Maiden deserved their Brit Award
- R&B guitarist Snooks Eaglin dies
- We Welcome John Jorgenson
- 4 ways U2 could have plugged the leak
- 5 iPhone music-making apps we want to see
- Dr Dre, TI and Nas track leaks
- Hammer Of The Gods: Metal Hammer festival news
- Now The Killers 'admit' to copying Steve Vai
February 19
- Duff McKagan says Guns N' Roses reunion "could happen"
- The weirdest 'Beatles' band ever?
- 7 things you didn't know about Duffy
- Nintendo DSi to hit the UK in April
- BFMV and Opeth to rock new 16+ Hammerfest!
- INXS singer ditched, homeless, living in his car
- 10 ridiculously cool Steampunk guitars
- Paul Gilbert ‘Trashed’ By 12-Year Old
- Gibson Holy Explorer
- U2 - No Line On The Horizon
- Eagles Of Death Metal frontman strips for interview
- Prince Oscar party footage to appear online
- Rolling Stones tell Ronnie Wood, "Sober up...or else"
- 4 reasons why Coldplay didn't win a Brit Award
- Hip-hop's 10 greatest beats
February 18
- BLOG: Springsteen flips the bird to Oscars with Wrestler video
- 1 Songsmith remix that goes too far
- B4MV To Headline London Charity Gigs
- 5 Oscar nominated songs that deserved to win
- LIVE BLOG: Brit Awards 2009
- Stars Sign Unique Charity Guitar: Bid Now!
- Pink Floyd Tuition DVD Out Now
- Is Apple working on a netbook?
- "No Jimi Hendrix vodka for you!"
- Nikki Sixx apologies to fan for bottle-throwing incident
- Tinted Windows: a 'supergroup'… featuring Hanson
- Corey Trivium Slams The Grammys: "They Don't Get Metal"
- Coldplay to beat recession with free live album
- Kanye West's Heartless covered by The Fray
February 17
- Steve Lukather talks Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp
- Josh Freese will join your band for $75,000
- Metallica to release career-spanning 'box set'
- Elton John to work on sci-fi/horror period drama
- Portishead ask fans: how should we sell our music?
- Video: Jane's Addiction rock LA club with blazing set
- March issue of RHYTHM on sale NOW: Stewart Copeland
- CM Special 34 - Sampling
- Portishead need your help
- Roland 303, 909 and 808 in one iPhone app
- Blur latest act to sell song/soul for ad campaign
- Kanye West records "best hip-hop beat" for Jay-Z
- Dial 909! technoBox brings 303, 808 and 909 emulations to iPhone
- NIN reunite with Jane's Addiction, plot tour
- Phone becomes boombox with 'music jacket'
February 16
- Alex Lifeson says Rush won't make 'concept' album
- Morrissey may retire in five years
- Satriani vs Coldplay: MusicRadar's opinion
- Boston's Tom Scholz goes after fan website
- Bid on a Gibson ES-335 signed by the stars
- Coldplay have 2008's best selling album
- 4 juicy Brit Awards 2009 rumours
- The White Stripes to play live again
- A week of booze, sex and drugs in music
- MusicRadar's bold 2009 Brit predictions
- Piano key tie gets reinvented as a washboard
- Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls blogs
- U2's No Line On The Horizon leaks
February 15
- Simon & Garfunkel reunite in New York City
February 14
- Adam Sandler covers Neil Young's Like A Hurricane
February 13
- Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx spits at female fan
- The best of YouTube: #47
- Peter Gabriel pulls out of the Oscars
- Exclusive video: See the £30k PRS Paul's 28 guitar here!
- Durban Guerrilla Part 8: Year Of The Relic
- Ozzfest goes the way of Langerado, the dodo
- Bernard Butler wins Brits producer award
- Guitar shop disguises itself as an amplifier
- February issue of on sale NOW: The 100 Most Influential Drummers Ever!
- They Did It All For The Nookie: Limp Bizkit reform, announce Download festival appearance
February 12
- RHCP drummer Chad Smith on the band's hiatus
- U2 to play the Letterman show for 5 nights
- 'Rapper' Joaquin Phoenix makes bizarre Letterman appearance
- The 10 top lovemaking songs revealed
- Wes Borland rejoins Limp Bizkit
- Musician's deluxe CD includes private gig in your kitchen
- Parker announces Fly Mojo MIDI guitar
- Tama Starclassic now available in Lars Ulrich Magnetic Orange finish
- Eminem, Dre and 50 Cent set sales record
- Chris Cornell's band to perform own show during tour
- Want to rock Glastonbury 2010?
- Live drum tracks made to order via the web
February 11
- Video exclusive: Joe Satriani unveils his JSX 50 Peavey amp
- Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer team up for a show
- The Beatles made their first album 46 years ago today
- The £100 guitar challenge '09 is on
- Teenage Cancer Trust announces 2009 Royal Albert Hall lineup
- Stir it up: Bob Marley beer on the way
- Ted 'Mr Loverman' Nugent's top 10 Valentine's songs
- 'Chameleon Guitar' can emulate any tone
- Kee Marcello tours with Washburn and Randall
- Snoop Dogg leaves label, doesn't do a Radiohead
February 10
- Thom Yorke picks his top 5 Bleep tunes
- Drum therapy could cure the sick
- Deadmau5 launches iPhone mixing app
- Why Leo Fender is our favourite Grammy winner
- Death Cab For Cutie vs Auto-Tune
- It’s official: drumming is good for you
- Computer Music 136 – The Right Synth For The Job / Hütkins CM on the DVD
- WIN Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 and eight EZXs!
- The Killers not performing with Pet Shop Boys
- Springsteen to do Hyde Park not Glastonbury
- iPhone ambience
- Massive 'British Music Experience' To Open In London Next Month
- Watch a MacBook become a tablet in two minutes
- Green Day unveil graffiti artwork
- Slipknot, The Prodigy and Mötley Crüe headline Download 2009
- Blink 182 Are Back! New Album And Tour Planned
February 9
- Auto-Tune coming to iPhone
- Blink 182 Reunite
- Chris 'Daddy' Dave Trio to perform at Charlie Wright's
- Barack Obama swearing sampled for song
- Axl On Slash: "One Of Us Will Die Before A G'N'R Reunion Happens..."
- 4 things we've learned about music this weekend
- Gene Krupa celebrated at centenary concert with Richard Pite on drums
- Prince to put Radiohead cover back online?
- Blink 182 reform!
- Metallica and Linkin Park to headline UK leg of Sonisphere
- Hot Off The Press: Nearly 50,000 copies of Guitarist burn in lorry on M5
- Jazz soundtrack for Welsh Neanderthals
- LIVE BLOG: The 2009 Grammy awards
February 7
- U2's new video Get On Your Boots
February 6
- BCR Performer
- FIRST TEST: Steinberg Cubase 5
- Computer Music's first hands-on with Cubase 5
- The best of YouTube: #46 – Grammys special!
- Friday Giveaway: Win The Only Ones back catalogue
- Oasis' Falling Down remix is 22 minutes long
- 39 geeky Grammy facts
- 'Laser guitar' could teach you to play
February 5
- MusicRadar's fearless Grammy Awards predictions
- Joe Satriani's lawyer: "We hope Joe's song wins at Grammys"
- Satriani's Lawyers Dog Coldplay
- Taye Drums unveils StudioBirch
- Cardboard PC promises sustainable computing
- A7X Guitar Tuition DVD Out Now!
- Deaf jam: first rock gig for the hearing-impaired
- Bulb Sound Speaker: a speaker in a light bulb
- Kenny Aronoff takes you behind the scenes at last month's Obama Inauguration concert
- Kid smashes 80 Guitar Hero controllers, world record
- N.E.R.D. to headline UK "action sports" festival
- Hammer Smashed Face voted 'Greatest Death Metal Song Of All Time'
- 17-inch MacBook Pro delayed
- Blur to headline T In The Park, Oxegen
- Michael Jackson and Rihanna hit by lawsuit
- Beastie Boys mark 20 years of Paul's Boutique
- Iron Maiden: The Movie!
- The Cramps' Lux Interior dies
- White Lies cover Kanye West
February 4
- Van Halen ready to record with Roth
- The E Street Band were on tape at Super Bowl
- eBay of the day: 867-5309/Jenny phone number
- Queen version of SingStar on the way
- Robert Plant: Led Zep reunion would "disappoint"
- Emphasizer is EQ's "cheeky younger brother"
- Coldplay call Satriani lawsuit "ridiculous"
- See inside the new Orange Tiny Terror Hard Wired Edition
- FabFilter Twin 2: simpler and more powerful
- Spinal Tap, Van Halen Prepare For The Studio...
- Will lawsuit force Coldplay to duck Grammys?
- James Blunt songwriter is new Epic president
- Columbia Records wants to nurture young talent
- Stone Free: Queensryche guitarist quits
- FIRST TEST: GarageBand '09 Artist Lessons
- BLOG: Guitar Hero hype is out of control
- James Taylor honoured at Radio 2 folk awards
- B.B King Comes Out Of Retirement To Tour UK!
- U2 rumours cause inflation
- Eminem's Relapse album to feature Elton John?
- Langerado '09 cancelled, hit by "dismal economy"
- Billy Sheehan grabs Billy Gibbons for album
- Glasvegas scoop Xfm New Music Award
- Rush's Alex Lifeson: "My 3 best solos"
February 3
- Did Bruce Springsteen copy a KISS song?
- Springsteen, Phish, Beastie Boys, NIN to headline Bonnaroo 2009
- The T-Pain Auto-Tune effect explained once and for all
- In Guitarist issue 312, on sale now…
- Christian Bale is the world's newest hip-hop star
- BC Rich Double Neck Bitch
- My Chemical Romance begin 'raw' new album
- Spinal Tap are back in the studio
- Nas joins Eminem, 50 Cent on Dr Dre album
- Elton John iPod features 250 crystals
- Marshall Counterfeit Warning
- ICMP Introduces New Songwriting Course
- Mr Big Reunion Confirmed
- Glastonbury 2009 sells out
- The Decemberists to play unreleased LP at SXSW
- New iMacs to be quad-core?
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- Erykah Badu gives birth on Twitter
- Pearl Jam's McCready lobbies for restroom rights
February 2
- Mr Big to reunite for Japanese tour
- Phish fans furious at Live Nation ticket jam
- Kanye West plans Glow In The Dark tour book
- Keith Moon honoured with London plaque...
- Bloc Party announce 'Bloctober' UK tour
- Jeff Beck unveils Gibson Les Paul Oxblood
- Sabian buries 100 cymbals, embraces a legend
- Vai To Reveal 'Alien' Secrets At London Guitar Show!
- AAS Strum Electric GS-1: authentic guitar from a MIDI keyboard?
- Facelift scoops 'Best In Show' at NAMM 09
- Bruce Springsteen proves it all night at the Super Bowl
- Gary Barlow voted greatest British songwriter
- Tommy Lee's chopper forced to land...
- 10 most expensive gigs of 2008
- DJ Hero game confirmed by Activision
- Brian Eno bans Coldplay's Chris Martin from studio
- New Prince website now streaming three more new songs
- Keith Moon honoured with blue plaque
- The Killers added to Benicàssim 2009 lineup