Music

Jennifer Batten on stage. She is looking directly at her fretboard as she is playing and has vibrant pink in her hair.

“Every musical era finds a way to screw the artists – and they’ve succeeded yet again”: Jennifer Batten on the challenges musicians face today

[L-R] Johnny Marr and We Will Rock You the musical

“We’re supposed to go along with the idea that they’re good”: Johnny Marr takes aim at We Will Rock You and other jukebox musicals

[L-R] Phil Manzanera, Kanye West and Jay-Z

Phil Manzanera’s feature on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s No Church In The Wild earned him more than “the entire 50 years” he was in Roxy Music

Adrian Bellow (left) and Steve Van (right). Both have electric guitars in hand and are on stage.

Adrian Belew forms supergroup with Steve Vai, Tony Levin, and Danny Carey to perform King Crimson music with Robert Fripp’s blessing

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix

“It felt like breaking out of jail”: Why Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Jimi Hendrix cover allowed him to follow his heart

Nuno Bettencourt on stage

“It’s like you play the show – before you play the show. It doesn’t work”: Why Nuno Bettencourt doesn’t warm up before shows anymore

Kirk Hammett

“People say a lot of things have changed about me since I got that guitar”: Kirk Hammett on how acquiring Greeny has transformed him as a player

Adrian Smith

“I was really in pain, but I pulled it off”: Adrian Smith recalls the iconic Iron Maiden solo he recorded “extremely hungover”

Alex Lifeson performing live

“For a little while I thought it’d be good to get back out on tour. And then I thought… ‘Nah, not really’”: Alex Lifeson says he’s “not interested” in touring with Rush

Lita Ford of the Runaways performing onstage

“The fact that they thought about a female in their band, I thought was pretty cool”: Lita Ford explains how she almost became Led Zeppelin’s bassist

Steve Harley performing onstage

Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel dies at 73

Chris Buck

Chris Buck has been sent “hate mail” for appearing in Total Guitar’s Greatest Blues Guitarists list

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