Sophie Lloyd picks out her five favourite guitar solos of all time
Guitar hero and YouTube sensation Sophie Lloyd picks out the solos that changed her life - featuring Guns N' Roses, Pink Floyd, Avenged Sevenfold and more
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Supertramp's Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? to get 50th anniversary reissues
Supertramp's classic 1974 album Crime Of The Century and 1975 release Crisis? What Crisis? to be reissued on vinyl
Celebrate Black Sabbath going Back To The Beginning by grabbing this exclusive Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt
Get ready for the biggest metal gig of all time by ordering this Blizzard Of Ozz tee that you won’t find anywhere else
BEAT share live clip of Neal And Jack And Me as they announce new live release
King Crimson-related quartet BEAT will release BEAT LIVE in September
Watch Judas Priest pay tribute to Black Sabbath with thunderous War Pigs cover
Judas Priest won’t be at Back To The Beginning this weekend, but that hasn’t stopped them from tipping their hats to heavy metal’s godfathers
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"Korn got ripped off a lot." Shavo on System Of A Down, nu metal, deathcore and more
Shavo Odadjian is back in the metal world after 20 years with Seven Hours After Violet - but how will he fare against reader questions?
Brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in July 2025
From the Bring Me The Horizon and Architects approved Amira Elfeky to Nordic folk metal songstress Sylvaine, nu metalcore stars Uncured and industrial metaller Harpy, these are the metal bands you need to hear in July 2025
"He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell
As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apart from his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts
Dead Daisies: John Corabi on singing BB King and those "billionaire's hobby" jibes
The Dead Daisies cover the blues greats on new album Lookin’ For Trouble
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The Goo Goo Dolls albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
Although the strength of the Goo Goo Dolls' songwriting has been frustratingly inconsistent, the band have shown moments of real class
“Intoxicating beauty remains; she enchants in any era”: Judy Dyble’s Darkness To Light
Clamshell collection assembles the original Fairport Convention singer’s trio of 21st-century career-reviving albums
How Ghost Of Perdition became the defining Opeth anthem
Opeth might've ditched the concept record idea for Ghost Reveries, but Ghost Of Perdition still tells a story
Barclay James Harvest probably wouldn’t have made North if Woolly Wolstenholme hadn’t died
John Lees didn’t want to write or sing any more songs. But he rediscovered an enjoyable process with the 21st-century line-up of his band, ending a 14-year wait for new music in 2013
Tech
Marshall turn up the volume on the portable speaker market with the all-new Middleton II
Marshall’s Middleton II gives has more than 30 hours of battery life and 360° True Stereophonic sound
Prime Day music deals
Amazon Prime Day is just around the corner, with the promise of four days of discounts. Here's our pick of the best early deals
Prime Day turntable deals 2025: All the early record player savings and must-look sales at Amazon and beyond
Amazon Prime Day is almost here, so if you're looking for a new record player, now is the perfect time to grab a bargain from Sony, Audio-Technica and more
Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones review
The latest iteration of Sony’s best-selling over-ear headphones feature arguably the best noise cancelling yet. Tuned by studio engineers, they sound pretty good too
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“Intoxicating beauty remains; she enchants in any era”: Judy Dyble’s Darkness To Light
Clamshell collection assembles the original Fairport Convention singer’s trio of 21st-century career-reviving albums
Frank Zappa’s unaired TV special Cheaper Than Cheep is a recovered gem
A nearly forgotten 1974 afternoon show, with an audience of 100 and a short-lived Mothers line-up, rises from the avant-prog titan’s basement
"If you're one of those self-satisfied old bores who thinks that music doesn't mean as much to younger generations as it does to you, you're flat-out wrong, and here's the proof." Olivia Rodrigo dazzles in the summer sun at BST Hyde Park
Olivia Rodrigo thrills on the opening night of London's BST Hyde Park festival
The Prodigy unleash chaos at Worthy Farm with the heaviest, most intense set of Glastonbury 2025
“I think we did Mr Flint proud”
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“At one point, he held up an inflatable doll with an erection, dressed like a bee." From orgasmic laugh yoga to shamanic drumming for Mother Earth, here’s what really happens at Glastonbury Festival beyond the music
I decided to try out every weird experience I could possibly find at Glasto, and I'll never look at the festival in the same way again
Prime Day Lego deals 2025
Amazon Prime Day is almost here - but before the big summer sales event kicks off, there are plenty of cut-price Lego sets available right now
Get an exclusive Marillion Afraid Of Sunlight t-shirt you can’t buy anywhere else, with Prog!
Prog has teamed up with Marillion to produce this exclusive t-shirt celebrating the 30th anniversary of Afraid Of Sunlight
How Dire Straits outsold everyone, hijacked MTV, and accidentally made a classic
Also in this issue: Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Mike Peters, Buckcherry, Adam Duritz, Battlesnake, Eureka Machines, H.E.A.T, Steve Lillywhite, Live Aid USA and more
