2024 Year in Review
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“Those overdriven cowboy chords and stadium-conquering chorus hooks will be omnipresent throughout 2025”: When Oasis finally returned
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: The brothers gonna work it out... and they did. Cue the online meltdown for tickets as the Noel and Liam Gallagher get the Mancunion indie rock juggernaut back on the road

“His finest work since The Dark Side of the Moon”: How David Gilmour made a blockbuster comeback with Luck & Strange
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: The prog icon's mystical solo album was only the start of it – who could have predicted a collaboration with Body Count?

“Joe was great at making me comfortable – he’s such a nice guy”: When Matteo Mancuso jammed with Joe Bonamassa
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: The Sicilian guitar great joined the blues maestro for one of the year’s fieriest fretboard face-offs

“An end to 100 years of service to the music community”: Why the closure of Sam Ash marked the end of an era
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: One of America’s best-loved music stores went out of business this year

“Her weapon of choice is, in fact, 45 years older than she is”: The unstoppable rise of Grace Bowers
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: The teenager's meteoric success continues unabated as her frightening maturity yields magic from her trusty Gibson SG

“This is a historic collaboration”: How Diamond Rowe made history with Jackson Guitars
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: The Tetrarch guitarist launched a super-charged signature single-cut with the high-performance guitar brand

“Honest appreciation and devoted teamwork brought us to this special moment”: When Linkin Park returned
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: Back with a new lineup, the bit between their teeth, and a new album, Linkin Park begin a new era seven years after the death of Chester Bennington

The year Dave Navarro returned to Jane’s Addiction, got assaulted, and a fractious reunion fell apart
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: The Jane's Addiction reunion was going so well until it wasn't, when frontman Perry Farrell lost it on a feral Friday 13th in Boston, bringing the curtain down on one of alt-rock's greatest bands

“Historic for Gojira and metal”: Why the Olympics played an unlikely host for some of the biggest guitar moments of the year
By Amit Sharma published
2024 Year in Review: Mainstream metal, historic guitar partnerships and solos while Tom Cruise abseiled – sports and music collided this year, with spectacular results
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