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All rights reserved. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/modules/rss/news.xml.php Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:02:01 -0400 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:58:11 -0400 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/_img/logo_trans.png https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/modules/rss/news.xml.php 144 44 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/gene-simmons-says-ace-frehley-and-peter-criss-couldnt-handle-life-in-kiss-all-groups-of-people-are-a-business https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/gene-simmons-says-ace-frehley-and-peter-criss-couldnt-handle-life-in-kiss-all-groups-of-people-are-a-business Music News: "Peter's always considered himself a victim... instead of being grateful to be in one of the largest bands that has ever existed."]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rush-saw-some-of-themselves-in-angine-de-poitrine-but-the-duo-never-listened-to-it-much-instead-it-was-a-british-cult-band-that-shaped-them https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rush-saw-some-of-themselves-in-angine-de-poitrine-but-the-duo-never-listened-to-it-much-instead-it-was-a-british-cult-band-that-shaped-them Music News: "They had the most of our attention."]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:35:32 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/dave-mustaine-explains-what-megadeth-manager-got-wrong-about-risk-if-songs-were-sped-up-it-would-be-like-a-megadeth-record https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/dave-mustaine-explains-what-megadeth-manager-got-wrong-about-risk-if-songs-were-sped-up-it-would-be-like-a-megadeth-record Interviews: UG Exclusive: "But see, the other thing that was not taken into account was [that] we're not a singles band. We're a band that makes thrash metal."]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:53:58 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/a-queen-member-retired-in-total-silence-and-hasnt-spoken-publicly-in-almost-30-years https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/a-queen-member-retired-in-total-silence-and-hasnt-spoken-publicly-in-almost-30-years Trends: "We kinda mourn for John as well as Freddie in a sense because there ain't nobody quite like John on those four strings" ]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:54:03 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/retrospective/a-forgotten-classical-composer-called-francesco-zappa-had-frank-zappa-thinking-hed-suffer-the-same-fate-the-really-big-guys-will-be-the-ones-who-kissed-the-most-butt https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/retrospective/a-forgotten-classical-composer-called-francesco-zappa-had-frank-zappa-thinking-hed-suffer-the-same-fate-the-really-big-guys-will-be-the-ones-who-kissed-the-most-butt Retrospective: "That's the way the world works."]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:14:31 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/brann-dailor-on-mastodons-decision-to-go-on-record-about-fallout-with-brent-hinds-brent-was-not-there-to-defend-himself-so-i-was-on-the-fence-about-it https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/brann-dailor-on-mastodons-decision-to-go-on-record-about-fallout-with-brent-hinds-brent-was-not-there-to-defend-himself-so-i-was-on-the-fence-about-it Music News: "I don't think we threw him under the bus at all. And we didn't even touch the tip of the iceberg with that whole very complex relationship."]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:54:36 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/buffalo-springfields-real-breakup-story-wasnt-just-stills-vs-young-it-was-also-an-immigration-statute-that-deported-bruce-palmer-188111 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/buffalo-springfields-real-breakup-story-wasnt-just-stills-vs-young-it-was-also-an-immigration-statute-that-deported-bruce-palmer-188111 Features: At the Monterey Pop Festival, Bruce Palmer played bass for Buffalo Springfield while a federal drug statute had already made him legally inadmissible to the United States.]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:35:30 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/retrospective/how-jason-newsted-and-kirk-hammett-once-planned-to-form-a-blues-band-weve-already-got-quite-a-few-songs https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/retrospective/how-jason-newsted-and-kirk-hammett-once-planned-to-form-a-blues-band-weve-already-got-quite-a-few-songs Retrospective: "We're kind of trying to steal like, some Arc Angel ideas and stuff." ]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:06:05 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/stevie-ray-vaughan-played-on-bowies-biggest-album-then-walked-off-the-tour-days-before-it-started https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/stevie-ray-vaughan-played-on-bowies-biggest-album-then-walked-off-the-tour-days-before-it-started Trends: "He was turning the screw a little tighter, and Stevie hated to be controlled."]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:02:39 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/jason-becker-recalls-bittersweet-meeting-with-eddie-van-halen-he-was-very-affectionate https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/jason-becker-recalls-bittersweet-meeting-with-eddie-van-halen-he-was-very-affectionate Interviews: UG Exclusive: "Eddie brought me a guitar, but he went in another room with my mom and cried and told her he felt stupid bringing it because I couldn't play."]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:59:11 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/it-was-indicative-of-his-character-marcus-king-says-you-immediately-knew-if-youd-be-friends-with-brent-hinds-to-king-he-was-a-brother https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/it-was-indicative-of-his-character-marcus-king-says-you-immediately-knew-if-youd-be-friends-with-brent-hinds-to-king-he-was-a-brother Music News: "We'd just sit outside, get really stoned, and nerd out about a solo or two."]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/aerosmith-lost-both-guitarists-at-their-peak-and-toured-for-years-with-replacements-most-fans-cant-name https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/aerosmith-lost-both-guitarists-at-their-peak-and-toured-for-years-with-replacements-most-fans-cant-name Trends: "We just had too much, too soon."]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:25:38 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alex-van-halen-says-sammy-hagar-is-a-complete-idiot-red-rocker-responds-truth-hurts https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alex-van-halen-says-sammy-hagar-is-a-complete-idiot-red-rocker-responds-truth-hurts Music News: The drummer dismissed The Red Rocker's view of Van Halen history, saying that he doesn't want to know what Hagar wrote in his memoir "Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock."]]> Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:35:37 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/an-obscure-lynyrd-skynyrd-song-angered-billie-joe-armstrong-he-wrote-american-idiot-as-a-response-187916 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/an-obscure-lynyrd-skynyrd-song-angered-billie-joe-armstrong-he-wrote-american-idiot-as-a-response-187916 Features: Among other things, the song claimed that "there is no Mercedes" among the true southerners. Funnily enough, Ronnie Van Zant's actual daily driver was a yellow 1954 Mercedes-Benz convertible, photographed for People in 1977.]]> Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:00:25 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/guitar_of_the_week/lindsey-buckingham-dropped-les-paul-strat-and-ovation-after-playing-the-rick-turner-model-1-for-30-minutes https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/guitar_of_the_week/lindsey-buckingham-dropped-les-paul-strat-and-ovation-after-playing-the-rick-turner-model-1-for-30-minutes Guitar Of The Week: A modified preamp boost drove the iconic distorted Strat tone on "Rumours" so hard it reportedly fried the power transformers in Buckingham's amps every 20 to 30 minutes of soloing, years before Rick Turner ever built him a guitar of his own.]]> Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:14:20 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/billy-duffy-on-how-bob-rock-left-the-cult-hanging-after-landmark-lp-because-of-metallicas-black-album-he-said-thats-only-gonna-take-a-couple-of-months https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/billy-duffy-on-how-bob-rock-left-the-cult-hanging-after-landmark-lp-because-of-metallicas-black-album-he-said-thats-only-gonna-take-a-couple-of-months Music News: "He said, 'Well, I've got Metallica. That's only gonna take a couple of months…' Well, 13 months later he finished the Metallica record and in the meantime we had to find another producer."]]> Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/tommy-thayer-confirms-kiss-is-recording-new-music-and-wants-to-make-an-event-out-of-it-kiss-may-have-stopped-touring-but-that-doesnt-mean-things-have-stopped-happening https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/tommy-thayer-confirms-kiss-is-recording-new-music-and-wants-to-make-an-event-out-of-it-kiss-may-have-stopped-touring-but-that-doesnt-mean-things-have-stopped-happening Music News: "There's still a lot going on and a lot of new things developing."]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:49:11 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/it-took-49-years-to-get-it-back-how-neil-young-lost-a-verse-of-cortez-the-killer-to-a-power-failure https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/it-took-49-years-to-get-it-back-how-neil-young-lost-a-verse-of-cortez-the-killer-to-a-power-failure Music News: One recording error erased an entire verse back in 1975. ]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:34:34 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/paul-mccartney-spent-9-days-in-a-tokyo-jail-and-he-still-calls-it-the-maddest-thing-he-ever-did https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/paul-mccartney-spent-9-days-in-a-tokyo-jail-and-he-still-calls-it-the-maddest-thing-he-ever-did Trends: "I still am hazy as to how that happened, but it did."]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:31:40 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/an-unbelievable-ferocious-guitar-hook-why-living-colours-cult-of-personality-still-resonates-with-rock-fans https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/an-unbelievable-ferocious-guitar-hook-why-living-colours-cult-of-personality-still-resonates-with-rock-fans Music News: "You had all the elements you need for a great song, and it's a great way to kick off an album."]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:16:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/journey-singer-makes-remark-about-stepping-back-after-band-performs-with-steve-perry-lookalike-thats-the-band-right-there https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/journey-singer-makes-remark-about-stepping-back-after-band-performs-with-steve-perry-lookalike-thats-the-band-right-there Music News: Hugo Valenti, who's long fronted the Journey cover band Voyage, was introduced as a "dear friend" at two recent Japan shows.]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:33:51 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/roger-daltrey-goes-on-record-about-the-whos-reunion-with-zak-starkey-one-year-after-acrimonious-firing-hes-not-keith-moon-but-hes-come-very-close https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/roger-daltrey-goes-on-record-about-the-whos-reunion-with-zak-starkey-one-year-after-acrimonious-firing-hes-not-keith-moon-but-hes-come-very-close Music News: "We did a rehearsal recently, and Zak was the drummer."]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:13:31 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/tab_spotlight/the-real-challenge-of-the-offsprings-come-out-and-play-is-palm-muting-one-shared-amp-means-nowhere-to-hide https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/tab_spotlight/the-real-challenge-of-the-offsprings-come-out-and-play-is-palm-muting-one-shared-amp-means-nowhere-to-hide Tab Spotlight: The song's most-quoted line has nothing to do with gang violence. Dexter Holland traced it to an impatient wait for lab equipment to cool during his molecular biology PhD. The riff itself needs no drop tuning at all.]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:13:36 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/43-years-ago-today-phil-lynott-played-the-real-last-thin-lizzy-show-and-it-wasnt-the-one-billed-as-the-farewell https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/43-years-ago-today-phil-lynott-played-the-real-last-thin-lizzy-show-and-it-wasnt-the-one-billed-as-the-farewell Trends: "All I could think about was, 'Man, I wonder if we could shorten up this fuckin' set and get the hell offa here.'"]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:34:19 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/hearts-label-released-their-album-against-their-will-so-the-band-re-recorded-it-on-their-own-terms https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/hearts-label-released-their-album-against-their-will-so-the-band-re-recorded-it-on-their-own-terms Trends: "Don't get into show business."]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:05:23 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/after-leaving-deep-purple-tommy-bolin-created-private-eyes-unfortunately-he-never-got-to-build-on-it-188327 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/after-leaving-deep-purple-tommy-bolin-created-private-eyes-unfortunately-he-never-got-to-build-on-it-188327 Features: "'Teaser' was great on its own merit. But 'Private Eyes' is more in one direction."]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:32:27 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/79-years-ago-today-thin-lizzys-first-guitarist-was-born-and-he-wrote-the-riff-that-made-them-famous-before-walking-away https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/79-years-ago-today-thin-lizzys-first-guitarist-was-born-and-he-wrote-the-riff-that-made-them-famous-before-walking-away Trends: "I didn't have the willpower to stop. If I had two or three whiskeys, I was anybody's, you know?"]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:10:08 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/58-years-ago-today-george-harrison-filled-ringos-drum-kit-with-flowers-and-the-beatles-were-a-band-again https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/58-years-ago-today-george-harrison-filled-ringos-drum-kit-with-flowers-and-the-beatles-were-a-band-again Trends: "I felt good about myself again, we'd got through that little crisis, and it was great."]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:40:00 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/you-dont-feed-our-bands-we-dont-go-on-gene-simmons-on-standing-up-for-rush-when-they-toured-together https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/you-dont-feed-our-bands-we-dont-go-on-gene-simmons-on-standing-up-for-rush-when-they-toured-together Music News: "I remember, I think it was Geddy who came into our dressing room as we're putting on makeup..." ]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:15:39 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/the-beatles-manager-signed-away-90-of-their-own-merchandise-the-mistake-cost-them-a-fortune https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/trends/the-beatles-manager-signed-away-90-of-their-own-merchandise-the-mistake-cost-them-a-fortune Trends: "We got screwed for millions."]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:58:11 -0400