Guardian Music — Last week was all about the bossanova backbeat, this week we're stalking robbers, moustache-twiddlers and the truly evilI think Pairubu had it right. The South American topic was limiting and we did end up heading down a road where the signposts larg... more info

Here Comes The Flood — London composer Matt Stevens explores the depths of guitar playing, building his layered instrumentals songs with loops, drums and samplers. When you work like that, changes are that you add just a bit too much, losing focus and clarity in the proc... more info

411 Mania — From Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Robert Fripp, Kevin Shields, and BB King to Patrick Ogle, Nicki Rose, Rusty Cooley, Tom Morello, Carlos Santana, and Dimebag Darrell, the 411Music Staffers discuss their choices for their Top 5 Favori... more info

Guardian Music — If Darth Vader was in a band, then this would be his chosen instrumentWhat is it? In our previous column, we looked at synthesisers that pretend to be guitars. Now we take a look at the keytar's evil 1980s twin-synthesisers pretending to be guitars. ... more info

Altsounds — SPECIAL WARM-UP SHOWS - Details Announced: Prior to their first live performances in the UK, The Humans with their special guest Robert F... more info

Rolling Stone — Ozzy Osbourne’s memoirs I Am Ozzy debuted at Number Two on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. Read about a unique Ozzy book signing and his reflections on Black Sabbath’s early days. Robert Fripp and Tool’s Adam Jones ... more info

Guardian Music — He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading nextWhen influential music website Pitchfork listed its 100 greatest albums of the 1970s –... more info

Guardian Music — An injury in a fire could have ended Django Reinhardt's career. Instead, he reinvented the jazz guitar and became a legend. Garth Cartwright celebrates the Gypsy king's centenaryA hundred years ago this month, a child was born in a Gypsy caravan at a... more info

All About Jazz — In conjunction with the upcoming 40th Anniversary of its original release (Oct 12, 1969) as a track on King Crimson's first album, entitled In the Court of the Crimson King, the iconic rock anthem "21st Century Schizoid Man" has been re-recorded and ... more info

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