NO SOONER HAD Oasis begun their Live ’25 reunion tour on July 4 when chatter started about a mystery guitar Noel Gallagher was wielding — a pretty cool-looking black Les Paul. Was it the fabled LP Cus

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AS PART OF the hugely successful pop group the Jonas Brothers, guitarist and singer Kevin Jonas has been in the limelight for 20 years, but his musical journey goes back way further than that; he’s be

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IF YOU’VE SEEN recent footage of Eric Steckel in action, you’ll probably have noticed that his take on the blues is an undeniably aggressive one. It’s a new thing for him, he tells GW, having started

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